Estab. December 28, 1995

The daily Mac news site that ran from 1995 to 2009 is publishing again.

13,749 archived items by two writers, every one of them here, and 18 new this month, each with its sources.

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A close crop of a Mac screen showing a blue newsletter page titled Olives Al Fresco, with a photo of olive focaccia selected by drag handles and three Visual Intelligence buttons beside it: Ask Siri, Image Search and Look Up Nutrition.

macOS 27.2 Beta 1 is Out--Build 26B5086k Two Days After Golden Gate, 27.1 Skipped for the iPhone Duo, and the Two Delayed Apple Intelligence Features Still Unconfirmed

September 21, 2026 · 9 sources

2026

Apple Marked the 2019 21.5-inch iMac Vintage--The Last Small Intel iMac Gets Repairs Only While Parts Last and Stops at macOS Sequoia, While the $1,499 M4 iMac Waits for a Reported M6

September 2026 · 10 sources

2026

macOS Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8 are Out--More Than 150 Security Fixes Each, No New Features, and the First Update the Intel Macs Get Without Golden Gate

September 2026 · 10 sources

Sep 15, 2026macOS 27 Golden Gate is Out--Apple Silicon Only, Rosetta 2's Last Full Release, and a Siri AI Beta With Usage LimitsMac OS
Sep 15, 2026Apple Announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max--2nm A20 Pro, Variable-Aperture Camera, $100 More, from $1,199, Arriving September 18Apple hardware
Sep 15, 2026Apple Announced the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone--7.6-Inch Inner Display, Touch ID, $1,999, Availability October 23Apple hardware
Sep 15, 2026Apple Introduced the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro--$899 and $1,699, the First 2nm Mac, Shipping September 22Apple hardware
Sep 15, 2026Apple Announced AirPods 5 with Open-Ear Noise Cancellation--Both Models Get ANC on the H2 Chip, $129 and $149, in Stores September 18Peripherals
Sep 9, 2026Apple's "Surprise and Shine" Event is Today--iPhone 18 Pro, a Folding iPhone, and John Ternus's First KeynoteEvents
Sep 9, 2026Apple Q3 Financials--$109.4 Billion Revenue, Up 16%, on Record iPhone, Mac and ServicesApple business
Sep 9, 2026Commentary--The Ternus Era Begins With a Hardware Engineer in the Big Chair, and That's the PointEditorial
Sep 9, 2026WARNING--CrashStealer Poses as Apple's CrashReporter; SHub Fakes a Security Update. Both Want Your KeychainSecurity
Sep 9, 2026macOS 27 Golden Gate Ships Next Week--Apple Silicon Only, Rosetta's Last Full Release, and the Siri RewriteMac OS
Sep 9, 2026Tip--Your Intel Mac After Golden Gate: Three Realistic Options, and the One We RecommendTips
Sep 9, 2026First Look--Game Porting Toolkit 4 Beta: Metal 4, Agent Skills, and a Real Frame-Rate Bump for Windows Games on the MacReviews
Sep 9, 2026First Look--macOS 27 Golden Gate Public Beta: The New Siri Is Good at Trivia and Bad at Finding Your FilesReviews
Sep 9, 2026From the Dark Side--Windows 11 Gets Its September Patch; the Movable Taskbar Is Still in the Insider BuildsDark Side
Sep 9, 2026Apple Introduced the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra--Up to 36 CPU Cores, 80 GPU Cores, 512GB, Shipping September 22Apple hardware

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1997–98

Good news on the retail front!

July 1997

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1999–2004

AirPort Extreme.

January 2003

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2004–09

Griffin Ships New iPod FireWire Cables--Dock400 and Dock800 Models

March 2005 · Bill Fox

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2010–13

Hands-On Report: Apple Thunderbolt-FireWire Adapter--How fast is it?

August 2012 · Bill Fox

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On this day in 2007: Brief Hands-On Report--iToner 1.0.2 is Out · Everything from September 21

Then and now

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1999–2004

Mac OS X PB at Macs Only!

September 2000

2026

macOS 27.2 Beta 1 is Out--Build 26B5086k Two Days After Golden Gate, 27.1 Skipped for the iPhone Duo, and the Two Delayed Apple Intelligence Features Still Unconfirmed

September 2026 · 9 sources

The Mac OS X Public Beta on the editors' iMac and Power Mac G4 in September 2000; the first macOS 27.2 developer beta, two days after Golden Gate shipped, in September 2026.

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Macs Only! was Bill Fox’s daily Mac news site, established December 28, 1995 and published through 2013, with Dana Baggett as Ace Reporter from 1999. The archive here, 13,749 items across 128 monthly pages, was recovered from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, parsed into a database and sorted into eighteen categories. In 2026 the site is publishing again, in the same voice, with every new item citing its sources.

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