Category: personalcomputing

A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today

[ad_1] And even though the MacBook Pro is Apple’s premium notebook line, the only ports you’ll find on it are USB-C and a headphone jack. There aren’t any memory card slots that pro users actually need, and you can forget about HDMI and Ethernet. Apple expects you to rely on dongles entirely. Meanwhile, Windows PC […]

New Mac Pro, iPadOS, and iTunes isn’t dead yet

[ad_1] Can we borrow $37,000?Apple finally reveals the new Mac Pro Surprise — the successor to that beautifully designed trashcan that Apple introduced in 2013 is here, and it looks a lot like the old cheese-grater-style tower. There’s a new Intel Xeon processor on board that has up to 28 cores, and it supports up […]

Apple’s new Files app makes iPads better laptop replacements

[ad_1] Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, spent some time on stage extolling the virtues of a download manager for Safari, but little has been said so far about this revamped approach to file management. Not everyone will find it immediately useful, but the change should certainly come in handy for people tempted to […]

Watch Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote in under seven minutes

[ad_1] To say Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote was jam-packed would be an understatement. Apple offered its usual previews of the next versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, but it also broke some new ground. The iPad now has its own operating system, for starters. There were also meaningful updates to the HomePod and a […]

‘Unprecedented’ 3D magnetic interactions could change computing

[ad_1] In a paper published today in Nature Materials, a team led by University of Glasgow physicists describe how they were able to pass information from a series of tiny magnets arranged on an ultra-thin film to magnets on a second film below. This new form of magnetic interaction makes a formerly two-dimensional phenomenon three […]

iTunes isn’t dead

[ad_1] Even Apple knew it. The intro to the iTunes portion of today’s keynote was a tongue-in-cheek bit about adding Calendar, Mail and Safari inside the desktop app. “One thing we hear over and over: Can iTunes do even more?” quipped vice president of software Craig Federighi. The current version of iTunes (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget) Once […]

Apple’s revamped Mac Pro uses new Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs

[ad_1] The GPU is also defined by how well it works in groups. Infinity Fabric Link tech offers a speedy (84GB/s) connection with other GPUs. You can spring for a Radeon Pro Vega II Duo that stuffs two GPUs into one enclosure, and the Mac Pro supports two of those. If you absolutely need as […]

The new iPad Files app is actually useful for managing files

[ad_1] Apple is making the iPad more powerful with the new iPadOS, and a lot of these fresh features are all about productivity. The Files app is getting a huge upgrade, complete with zip and unzip features, local storage, a new Column View, folder-sharing through iCloud Drive and support for SMB file sharing. Plus, for […]

Coherence lets any developer create persistent online games

[ad_1] It’ll plug in to existing game engines, starting with Unity, and should launch in early 2020. Alpha and beta tests are slated for later in 2019. This is an ambitious concept, and there aren’t guarantees it will work as well as planned. Coherence’s pedigree might give it a fighting chance, mind you. Company chief […]