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Samsung announces 1,600-nit tandem OLED panels for next-gen laptops
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (198+ words) Notebookcheck Samsung Display has just begun mass-producing the industry's first mass-produced laptop OLED panels certified under VESA's new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 standard, with Lenovo, Asus, Dell and MSI already preparing laptops based on the technology. The new VESA certification requires…...
Apple scrapped plans for a Mac Pro with twice the performance of its Ultra chips
8+ min ago (350+ words) Apple canceled plans for high-end Mac Pro chips due to costs and weak demand, leaving the Mac Studio as its top professional desktop. Apple designed chips that would have doubled the performance of its Ultra processors for the Mac Pro,…...
AppleCare+ Sees Increase In Price
7+ hour ago (166+ words) ilounge.com Plans for AppleCare One have seen an increase in value as the yearly and monthly prices for plans of AppleCare+ for iPads and Macs have seen an increase. Plans for AppleCare One remain priced at $19.99 monthly. AppleCare One,…...
Apple had planned a Mac Pro 'Extreme' plus a surprising return to Intel chips – report
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (546+ words) Stuff / News / Apple had planned a Mac Pro ‘Extreme’ plus a surprising return to Intel chips – report This spring Apple announced it was discontinuing the Mac Pro line, which was traditionally the most powerful offering for a good while. However,…...
Apple developed the Extreme chips, which are more powerful than the Ultra chips, but never released them
16+ hour, 16+ min ago (141+ words) Apple had originally developed the M2 Extreme and M3 Extreme chips for the Mac Pro, but ultimately decided not to release them. This was reported Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman. He first wrote about these plans back in 2022, and has now mentioned them…...
Apple Extreme Chip for Mac Pro Scrapped Despite Being Most Powerful Processors Ever Engineered
9+ hour, 9+ min ago (306+ words) Technetbook Apple Extreme Chip for Mac Pro Scrapped Despite Being Most Powerful Processors Ever Engineered Apple reportedly engineered the most powerful processor in its history but chose to never release it. The company was developing a line of Extreme chips…...
Samsung's new OLED panel for laptops achieves a peak brightness of 1,600 nits
12+ hour, 47+ min ago (291+ words) Samsung Display has begun mass production of a new OLED panel for laptops, which is the world's first to receive VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification. The new model is built on tandem OLED technology, which uses two organic light-emitting layers…...
Apple 'Extreme' Mac chips were too good for this RAM-starved world
9+ hour, 45+ min ago (295+ words) Apple ‘Extreme’ Mac chips were too good for this RAM-starved world Macworld Take a trip back four years to June 7, 2022, when Apple announced the M2 chip at WWDC 2022 It was the base model of the M2, but reports leading up to its…...
The Mac Pro could have had a very different future
9+ hour, 16+ min ago (256+ words) The very first Macs based on Apple Silicon debuted in November 2020. However, the Mac Pro, Apple’s high-end tower Mac, didn’t get its Apple Silicon upgrade until almost three years later. When it finally made its debut at WWDC 2023, it featured…...
Americans' $800 Laptop Budgets Are Colliding With a $1,600 Reality, PCMag Survey Finds
9+ hour, 28+ min ago (765+ words) The surging costs of memory and storage are bad news for back-to-school laptop shoppers and tech consumers generally. Our recent poll shows a disconnect between expectations and actual prices. I'm the Executive Editor, Features & Special Projects at PCMag.com. I…...