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Apple reportedly planning new MacBook Air design with MagSafe charging

Apple is reportedly working on a new design for its MacBook Air that will include the return of MagSafe charging. Bloomberg News reports that the updated MacBook Air may appear later this year or in 2022, and is designed to be thinner and lighter than the existing model. Apple may make the MacBook Air smaller… Read more

Linux has been ported to Apple computers with the M1 chip. Ubuntu works but lacks GPU acceleration

Corellium, an American ARM-based device virtualization startup, has launched one of its Linux distributions on the latest Apple Mac Mini. This is no mean feat, which is only the first step to conveniently installing Ubuntu and other system variants. Of course, the solution can also be used in other Apple computers with this system, i.e…. Read more

Mac and Big Sur, bug with the screensaver starting at random

A number of users complain of a nuisance drawback: on new Macs – but the problem seems more than the operating system – the screensaver starts randomly and does not allow the resumption of activities of Andrea Bai published on 20 January 2021 , at 13 : 01 in the Apple channel macOS Apple Recent… Read more

Qualcomm prepares an alternative to Apple's M1 chip: ARM for everyone

A new Qualcomm chip for Windows systems on ARM, Snapdragon SC model 8280, confirms the general interest of the sector towards solutions that are based on ARM architecture to better balance power and consumption by Paolo Corsini published 20 January 2021 , at 10: 21 in the Processors channel Apple MacBook Qualcomm Snapdragon Windows Intel… Read more

Linux is Finally on Apple M1…Kind Of.

Home News (Image credit: Future) Half of the reason to buy a Mac is to get native support for macOS, but that doesn’t mean Mac owners don’t also suffer from the grass-is-greener syndrome. While Apple’s operating system is known for being casual friendly and is also the OS system people who grew up on its… Read more

VLC updated for Apple M1, now works natively on Apple Silicon

The famous media player has been updated on macOS introducing native support for Apple Silicon processors, and therefore also for Apple M1 of Nino Grasso published on 19 January 2021 , at 19: 41 in the Apple channel VLC Apple macOS The answer from part of the developers on the arrival of the first systems… Read more

Some Mac with Apple M1 processor are experiencing a bug regarding the screensaver

by Jordi Bercial Ago 45 minutes ago … It seems that some users of their new Mac computers with Apple M1 processor are experiencing problems related to the system screensaver , a bug that consists in that a screensaver, which may or may not be the one we have configured, even if we do not… Read more

Apple M1: VLC Media Player runs natively on ARM Macs

New Macs with Apple chips can now get a native version of VLC Media Player: The open source project is stored in a separate ARM 64 Version 3.0. 12. 1 available for download for macOS – parallel to the new version 3.0. 12 for Intel Macs. The video player is likely to appear as a… Read more

Flexgate: Apple extends exchange program

Already in January 2019 Hardwareluxx reported on the so-called “stage light effect”, which could occur with the MacBook Pro from the year 2016. With the “stage lighting effect” it looks as if there are isolated spotlights on the underside of the display, similar to a theater stage. This effect is caused by a defect in… Read more

MacBook and iPad production in Vietnam: Factory comes for $ 270 million

Apple will in future rely on Vietnam as the second central production location in Asia. According to reports from last autumn, the efforts are now taking shape. The Group’s main contract manufacturer, the Taiwanese producer Foxconn alias Hon Hai Precision Industry, will build a large factory for a total of 270 million US dollars. Foxconn… Read more

New Intel boss wants to compete again with “lifestyle company” Apple

The freshly baked new Intel boss does not want to be stolen from the bread in Apple’s processor business. In an address to employees reported by the Oregonian local newspaper in the US state, Patrick P. Gelsinger said his company had to deliver “better products” to the PC ecosystem as “every possible thing a lifestyle… Read more

VLC now runs natively on M1 Macs

The latest update to ubiquitous open-source media player VLC is here, and it comes with native support for Apple silicon Mac computers — the new versions of the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air, and the Mac mini with Apple’s own M1 processor. VLC 3.0.12 also includes some visual tweaks to bring it further in line… Read more

“Flexgate”: MacBook Pro is being repaired by Apple for some time

In the case of certain problems with the backlight, Apple wants to repair the display of the MacBook Pro for a longer period of time free of charge: The manufacturer has its “service program for the display backlight of the 13 “- MacBook Pro” extended at the weekend from four to five years after the… Read more

Apple blocks the use of some mobile applications from the iOS platform on computers with the Apple M1 chip

With the premiere of the macOS Big Sur system and the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini computers equipped with Apple M1 chips, a novelty important for the entire ecosystem debuted. It is a function that allows you to run applications designed for smartphones and tablets running iOS and iPadOS on these devices. As… Read more

Apple extends repair program for MacBook Pro 13 with display problems

Some MacBook Pro models 13 sold between 2016 and the 2018 may have screen backlight problems: Apple has started a replacement campaign in 2019, and these days it has decided to extend it by Andrea Bai published 18 January 2021 , at 10: 41 in the Apple channel Apple MacBook Apple has decided to extend… Read more