Macs Only!

House voice, 2026 to 2026. 44 bylined items.

Everything by Macs Only!

• Oct 19, 2026iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Slipped to January 25 in Half an Hour--Apple Calls the Demand "Nothing Short of Extraordinary," Its Stores Expect No Walk-In Stock on October 23, and the Price Stays $1,999 to $3,199Apple hardware2026
• Oct 18, 2026Mac Shipments Fell 11 Percent in Q3 2026 While Apple's PC Market Share Rose--IDC Counts 5.9 Million Macs and a 9.5 Percent Share, Omdia 6.8 Million, in a PC Market Down 20 Percent on Memory Prices, With Apple's Own Number Due November 2Apple business2026
• Oct 17, 2026Apple Published "Minions," a Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Macs--Six Apple Researchers Cut Ten-Hour Inference Queues to Minutes With the Macs Already on the Network, and Say Training Is NextLearning2026
• Oct 16, 2026Apple's October 28 Launch Experience--Bloomberg Says Media Are Invited to Los Angeles for the Touch-Screen OLED MacBook Pro, an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, and an OLED iPad mini, and a Reported November 6 Store DateEvents2026
• Oct 15, 2026Apple Marked the 12-inch MacBook (2017) Obsolete--The Two-Pound Notebook Gets No Apple Repairs but a Battery, Stops at macOS Ventura, and Nothing Under 13 Inches Has Replaced It Since 2019Apple hardware2026
• Oct 14, 2026Apple Announced Apple HomeView--A 7-Inch Siri AI Home Hub on an A18 Chip That Recognizes Six Faces, Tabletop or Wall-Mounted at $299 Either Way, Shipping November 13Apple hardware2026
• Oct 13, 2026Office 2021 for Mac Support Ends October 13, 2026--Microsoft Says No Extension and No More Security Fixes, and the Way Out Is $179.99 Once or $99.99 a YearSoftware2026
• Oct 13, 2026Apple Announced the Apple TV 4K (4th Generation)--A19 Chip, Siri AI, Far-Field Microphones and a Siri Remote Find My Can Locate, One 128GB Model at $299 After a Start at $129 in 2022, Shipping November 13Apple hardware2026
• Oct 12, 2026Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5930--25 ppm in Black and Color, AirPrint and a macOS 27 Driver for $399.99Peripherals2026
• Oct 11, 2026Apple Q4 2026 Financials Preview--Guidance of 9 to 11 Percent Growth Means $111.7 to $113.7 Billion, Macs and iPhones in Short Supply, and the First Report Under John TernusApple business2026
• Oct 10, 2026Game--Transport Fever 3 for Mac, $49.99 the Same Day as the PC, and It Needs an M2 Pro and 16GBGames2026
• Oct 9, 2026From the Dark Side--Windows 11 26H2 is a 174KB Switch, and Microsoft Sets October 13 as the End of Updates for 24H2 Home and ProDark Side2026
• Oct 8, 2026Wi-Fi 8 Routers Are on Sale--TP-Link's Archer 8 Ultra and ASUS's ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Arrive Ahead of a Standard Due in 2028, and Apple Lists No Mac With Wi-Fi 8Internet2026
• Oct 7, 2026Tip--Replace Time Capsule Backups in macOS 27Tips2026
• Oct 6, 2026WARNING--Parallels Desktop CVE-2026-90894 Gives Any Local User Root on a Mac; the Fix Is in Version 27, Which Intel Macs Cannot InstallSecurity2026
• Oct 5, 2026Logic Pro 12.4 is Out--One New Key Command Option, 53 Fixes and Changes Including Four Crash Fixes, and Apple Pages That Name Three Different macOS FloorsSoftware2026
• Oct 4, 2026OLED Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Reported for October or November--Gurman Says Apple Is Testing It on macOS 27.2 With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips, Above the Models Apple Sells From $1,999Apple hardware2026
• Oct 3, 2026macOS 27.0.1 is Out--Build 26A434, 3.3GB of Unnamed Bug Fixes and One Platform SSO Fix, While Tahoe 26.7.1 and Sequoia 15.8.1 Patch an Exploited CoreGraphics BugMac OS2026
• Sep 29, 2026Game--Age of Empires II The Viking Sagas for Mac, $19.99 on Steam September 22 per FeralGames2026
• Sep 28, 2026MacBook Neo at Six Months--$699 After the June 25 Price Rise, a Record $10.4 Billion Mac Quarter, macOS 27, and a 12GB A19 Pro Model Reported for 2027Apple hardware2026
• Sep 27, 2026Siri AI Reviews--David Pogue's 125 Tests, Ars Technica, Six Colors and 9to5Mac Agree the macOS 27 Siri Beta Works, and Name What It Still Will Not DoMac OS2026
• Sep 26, 2026Opera 136 is Out--Chromium 152, Extension Side Panels, a macOS 26 Traffic-Light Fix, and a Floor That Moves With Google'sInternet2026
• Sep 25, 2026Tip--Resize iPhone Mirroring in macOS 27Tips2026
• Sep 24, 2026Free Apple iPhone Duo Developer Videos--Six Tech Talks, Two Group Labs, Forum Q&As on September 23 and the Xcode 27.1 BetaLearning2026
• Sep 23, 2026M6 and M5 Ultra Geekbench 7 Results--Apple's Claims Hold Up, the $6,799 36-Core Mac Studio Leads the M3 Ultra by 35 Percent, and the M6 Pro Score Is Likely FakeApple hardware2026
• Sep 22, 2026Tip--macOS 27 Golden Gate's First-Week Problems and Their FixesTips2026
• Sep 21, 2026macOS 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 UnconfirmedMac OS2026
• Sep 20, 2026Apple 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 M6Apple hardware2026
• Sep 19, 2026macOS 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 GateMac OS2026
• 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 OS2026
• 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 hardware2026
• Sep 15, 2026Apple Announced the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone--7.6-Inch Inner Display, Touch ID, $1,999, Availability October 23Apple hardware2026
• Sep 15, 2026Apple Introduced the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro--$899 and $1,699, the First 2nm Mac, Shipping September 22Apple hardware2026
• 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 18Peripherals2026
• Sep 9, 2026Apple's "Surprise and Shine" Event is Today--iPhone 18 Pro, a Folding iPhone, and John Ternus's First KeynoteEvents2026
• Sep 9, 2026Apple Q3 Financials--$109.4 Billion Revenue, Up 16%, on Record iPhone, Mac and ServicesApple business2026
• Sep 9, 2026Commentary--The Ternus Era Begins With a Hardware Engineer in the Big Chair, and That's the PointEditorial2026
• Sep 9, 2026WARNING--CrashStealer Poses as Apple's CrashReporter; SHub Fakes a Security Update. Both Want Your KeychainSecurity2026
• Sep 9, 2026macOS 27 Golden Gate Ships Next Week--Apple Silicon Only, Rosetta's Last Full Release, and the Siri RewriteMac OS2026
• Sep 9, 2026Tip--Your Intel Mac After Golden Gate: Three Realistic Options, and the One We RecommendTips2026
• Sep 9, 2026First Look--Game Porting Toolkit 4 Beta: Metal 4, Agent Skills, and a Real Frame-Rate Bump for Windows Games on the MacReviews2026
• Sep 9, 2026First Look--macOS 27 Golden Gate Public Beta: The New Siri Is Good at Trivia and Bad at Finding Your FilesReviews2026
• Sep 9, 2026From the Dark Side--Windows 11 Gets Its September Patch; the Movable Taskbar Is Still in the Insider BuildsDark Side2026
• 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 hardware2026