Does the new style look familiar to you? Even though they talk about a “Glass UI”, there are many Aqua-themed visual cues in WWDC this year, especially to the intro for the new macOS. This year the transition in the presentation started as a Sequoia wallpaper, with a water droplet morphing the visuals before ultimately […]
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First covered yesterday by Marko Zivkovic of AppleInsider.com, it appears as though some Intel Macs will be dropped from the list of supported models while the absolute latest generation of intel Macs will continue onto this new update. The report cites “anonymous people familiar with the matter.” This topic was also covered on 9to5Mac just […]
With the annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) ’25 less than a month away, we anticipate the release of multiple new versions of existing Apple OSes including the successor to Sequoia, macOS 16. While much is still under wraps, there are some known additions coming to this new macOS which are noteworthy in and of […]
We’re halfway through may and this year’s World Wide Developer Conference at Apple is set to kick off in roughly a month, and the latest update dropped for the Apple Developer app contains new WWDC ’25 stickers. As rumors circulate online about what’s potentially on the horizon between devices and operating systems, one thing has […]
After spending roughly a month and a half in beta, macOS 15.5 Sequoia is now available for everyone to download who is currently already on macOS 15 as well as anyone wishing up upgrade with a supported or OCLP capable Mac. Keep in mind if you’re running an unsupported Mac with Sequoia on OCLP, the […]
Earlier this week on April 2nd, Apple seeded the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas, shortly after sending out the finalized version of iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4. Both updates brought a massive list of security fixes, which makes it a strongly recommended up date if you haven’t already updated your device. This topic was […]
macOS 15.4 is now out and available for all Macs running macOS Sequoia, for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Since this update covers such a long list of vulnerabilities, it’s strongly recommended you update to this right now. Apple covered the entire list in detail on their site. We also covered new features featured in […]
Every year at Apple’s WWDC in June, the event covers a swathe of topics focusing mainly on the major changes to their operating systems. There are times they’ll announce new products alongside, but mainly this keynote (or rather, sets of keynotes) are aimed for developers. WWDC also acts as a proverbial “state of the union” […]
This week at Apple we see a set of updates across the line for the different OSes, as well as some new features in places like Apple Music Classical, as well as the newer AirPods Max and Airpods 4. In a previous article done on March 10th, Low End Mac covered the iOS 18.4 / […]
Some early adopters of the new Sky Blue M4 MacBook Air are saying the color looks a bit much like Silver, only looking like Sky Blue under certain lighting conditions. While I’ll agree the color is on the lighter side, when putting Sky Blue right up against Silver you can see a difference. The difference […]
Last an article was posted sharing the M3 Ultra benchmarks for the new Early 2025 Mac Studio, showing just how powerful Apple’s new flagship chip really is. Below are benchmarks for the $1999 M4 Max Mac Studio with 14-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, and 36 GB of RAM, Comparisons are also made against the M3 Ultra […]
Today the M4 MacBook Air, 2025 Mac Studio, M3 iPad Air, and 11th-Gen iPad were made available to customers around the world along with their respective device accessories. Apple also released some Apple Watch accessories and the new USB-C to MagSafe 3 charging cable in Sky Blue, too. Today, a brand new 15″ M4 MacBook […]
Does anyone else remember that old classic macOS app which had a set of googly eyes just sitting in the menu bar following the direction of the mouse cursor? Well as it turns out, there’s a modern version of this app which does practically the exact same thing. This app sits in your menu bar […]
You might be thinking the Sky Blue color, right? While this new color changes the entire aura of the MacBook Air and gives it a very desirable appearance, the design change is actually a lot more nuanced and can be hard to spot unless pointed out. First pointed out by iCulture.nl, “Apple finally fixes the […]
Earlier this week on March 4th, Apple came out with public betas across a variety of their OSes, including: iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and macOS. Covered earlier this week by 9to5mac, Public Beta 3 is now available for those OSes. You may sign up for the beta software on Apple’s Beta Software Program site. By consenting […]
With the release of the new M3 Ultra Apple Silicon chip there is a new proverbial “king” of Mac performance/specs, as this chip is aimed at the professional market and features the highest specs in the Mac lineup in Early 2025. While new product performance is often touted and contrasted against old products during launch […]
The ARM transition as well as new devices are not off topic at Low End Mac. It impacts the future of Apple, as the platform moves through its fourth hardware architecture with Macs. It will make Intel Macs and old iPhones low end sooner than you might like, but sooner or later the ARM Macs […]
Spooky.. powerful is what it is. At the time of writing this article, the M4 Pro/Max are the fastest CPUs in the Mac lineup, no questions asked. Let’s.. put this into perspective: A 2019 ‘Pro with the 28-core Xeon W-3275M cost $12,999 USD brand new from Apple. Then there’s the new M4 Mini for $599. […]
You just might have to do a double-take if you see one of these in person. Coming in at a remarkable 5″ by 5″ by 2″ (12.7/12.7/5.0 cm), the third-generation Apple Silicon-based Mac mini resembles a footprint akin to an Apple TV 4K. This is a brand new design for the Mac mini, the first […]