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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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 businessMacs Only!2026
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 NextLearningMacs Only!2026
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 DateEventsMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 YearSoftwareMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
Oct 12, 2026Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5930--25 ppm in Black and Color, AirPrint and a macOS 27 Driver for $399.99PeripheralsMacs Only!2026
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 businessMacs Only!2026
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Oct 10, 2026Game--Transport Fever 3 for Mac, $49.99 the Same Day as the PC, and It Needs an M2 Pro and 16GBGamesMacs Only!2026
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 SideMacs Only!2026
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 8InternetMacs Only!2026
Oct 7, 2026Tip--Replace Time Capsule Backups in macOS 27TipsMacs Only!2026
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 InstallSecurityMacs Only!2026
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 FloorsSoftwareMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 OSMacs Only!2026
Sep 29, 2026Game--Age of Empires II The Viking Sagas for Mac, $19.99 on Steam September 22 per FeralGamesMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 OSMacs Only!2026
Sep 26, 2026Opera 136 is Out--Chromium 152, Extension Side Panels, a macOS 26 Traffic-Light Fix, and a Floor That Moves With Google'sInternetMacs Only!2026
Sep 25, 2026Tip--Resize iPhone Mirroring in macOS 27TipsMacs Only!2026
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 BetaLearningMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
Sep 22, 2026Tip--macOS 27 Golden Gate's First-Week Problems and Their FixesTipsMacs Only!2026
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 OSMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 OSMacs Only!2026
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 OSMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
Sep 15, 2026Apple Announced the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone--7.6-Inch Inner Display, Touch ID, $1,999, Availability October 23Apple hardwareMacs Only!2026
Sep 15, 2026Apple Introduced the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro--$899 and $1,699, the First 2nm Mac, Shipping September 22Apple hardwareMacs Only!2026
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 18PeripheralsMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026Apple's "Surprise and Shine" Event is Today--iPhone 18 Pro, a Folding iPhone, and John Ternus's First KeynoteEventsMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026Apple Q3 Financials--$109.4 Billion Revenue, Up 16%, on Record iPhone, Mac and ServicesApple businessMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026Commentary--The Ternus Era Begins With a Hardware Engineer in the Big Chair, and That's the PointEditorialMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026WARNING--CrashStealer Poses as Apple's CrashReporter; SHub Fakes a Security Update. Both Want Your KeychainSecurityMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026macOS 27 Golden Gate Ships Next Week--Apple Silicon Only, Rosetta's Last Full Release, and the Siri RewriteMac OSMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026Tip--Your Intel Mac After Golden Gate: Three Realistic Options, and the One We RecommendTipsMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026First Look--Game Porting Toolkit 4 Beta: Metal 4, Agent Skills, and a Real Frame-Rate Bump for Windows Games on the MacReviewsMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026First Look--macOS 27 Golden Gate Public Beta: The New Siri Is Good at Trivia and Bad at Finding Your FilesReviewsMacs Only!2026
Sep 9, 2026From the Dark Side--Windows 11 Gets Its September Patch; the Movable Taskbar Is Still in the Insider BuildsDark SideMacs Only!2026
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 hardwareMacs Only!2026
Jun 20, 2013New Mac Pro "Cylinder" rises from the Cube's Ashes?Apple hardwareBill Fox2010–13
Apr 29, 2013EVGA GEFORCE GTX 680 Graphics Card in an Early 2008 Mac Pro--How fast is it?ReviewsBill Fox2010–13
Aug 14, 2012Hands-On Report: Apple Thunderbolt-FireWire Adapter--How fast is it?ReviewsBill Fox2010–13
May 14, 2012Hands-On Review: Mac OS X 10.7.4 LionReviewsBill Fox2010–13
Oct 19, 2011The Mac is Back: All-time record quarterly Mac sales for Apple's 2011 Q4Apple businessBill Fox2010–13
Oct 5, 2011Steve Jobs passed away today at the age of 56 (Updated)Apple businessBill Fox2010–13