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Apple introduced two new chips on Tuesday alongside the refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio, and the company is not being subtle about it. The press release calls M6 an extraordinary leap and describes M5 Ultra as staggering, while the Mac Studio it powers gets billed as the most powerful Mac ever built, which of...

Apple upgraded the Mac mini line today for the first time in two years, and a lot has changed since the M4 model landed in October 2024. Memory prices have surged thanks to the AI boom, and you can see exactly where that lands on the Apple.ca configurator page. Using iPhone in Canada's price history...

Apple has surprised everyone today with all-new Mac Studio desktop, powered by the new M5 Max and M5 Ultra processors. The flagship workstation brings major upgrades to graphics and on-device artificial intelligence capabilities while keeping the same compact footprint. This release came alongside a refresh to the Mac mini, now with M6 and M5 Pro...

Apple announced a new Mac mini on Tuesday with M6 chip and one with M5 Pro (skipping M5). Pre-orders are open now, with the desktop arriving September 22. The news comes on the heels of a rumoured Mac mini refresh reported by Mark Gurman last night, and yup the reporting was right again. The Canadian...

Apple is getting ready to refresh the Mac mini for the first time in nearly two years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, citing unnamed people familiar with the plans. The new desktop could show up as soon as the coming days, which would put it ahead of the September iPhone event. The people who spoke...

Apple is lining up refreshed 24-inch iMacs with an M6 chip and new colour options before the end of the year, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Gurman says the new machines are likely updated versions of the current 24-inch model, swapping in the base M6 for today's M4 and...

OpenAI has launched a new Apple Messages plugin for Mac, allowing ChatGPT to interact directly with your messages. The feature lets users search through their message history, summarize past conversations, draft replies, and send texts directly from their desktop. The plugin is currently available for desktop users on ChatGPT Work and Codex. Users can install...

Apple is struggling with severe stock shortages for its most popular Mac, the MacBook Air, as an industrywide memory crunch continues to squeeze the tech giant's supply chain. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the supply bottlenecks that previously restricted lower-volume devices like the Mac mini and Mac Studio have now spread to the MacBook Air....

Google has added voice input to the Gemini app for macOS, letting you talk to it from inside whatever window you happen to be working in rather than switching over to a separate app. The way it works is you long-press the Fn key and start talking. By default that gives you dictation, but a...

Apple is getting ready to refresh nearly every Mac it sells over the next couple of years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The push comes as Mac sales climb for a third straight year, helped by a growing crowd of users who lean on the machines for demanding AI work. The updates are going to...

Apple has quietly updated its AppleCare+ protection plans, introducing price increases that specifically target Canadian Mac and iPad buyers. The price changes first surfaced in the U.S. as first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last week. A closer look and Canadian customers are also facing these prices increases as well. After AppleCare+ went up in...

Artificial intelligence is starting to do more than just answer questions. These days, AI agents can handle chores for you like shopping online or updating your accounts. The catch has always been security, because handing your login details over to a machine is a risky move. Now, Toronto-based 1Password has built a way around that...