Apple engender a heap of tidings , and it can be hard to keep up . If your mind was on other things this week , our roundup of Apple - related headlines will bestow you up to date .
Third time’s the charm
Is that it for 2020 ? Are there really no more Apple events to write about ? Say it ai n’t so , Tim !
This hebdomad saw Apple play virtual horde to the reality ’s medium for the third metre this fall , after its Time Flies event in September ( watches and pad of paper ) and Hi , Speed in October ( phones and speaker system ) . The November issue , taggedOne More Thing , was all about Macs ; in fact it heralded , in Samuel Nyberg ’s view , thebiggest Mac shift in 15 class .
It was all about the M1 chip , the first publicly available Apple Silicon processor . This buffalo chip , in one form or another , come along in three firebrand - new Macs : theMacBook Air , theMac mini , and theMacBook Pro . All look position to break all old records for processing power , and the laptop promise amazing improvements in barrage life .
We ’ll publish reviews of these exciting new machines as shortly as we can get sample distribution in our labs . But there ’s good deal to read about in the meantime : we discuss , for example , how salutary Apple ’s M1 chip is reallyand we cover onstartling benchmark resultsshowing that the M1 - equipped MacBook Air M1 pulsate the Mac Pro . Like I said , powerful .
We ’re also writing elaborated comparisons of the new Macs with their immediate ( Intel - based ) predecessor . We ’ve already doneMac mini ( M1 ) vs Mac mini ( Intel)andMacBook Air ( M1 ) vs MacBook Air ( Intel ) .
The novel auto are already available to pre - ordination and will hit the shops next week . Here’swhere to buy them at the expert monetary value .
News in brief
get ’s get the bad newsworthiness out the way now : the new Macs are stilllimited to 720p webcams(although Apple says the superior processor have in mind icon lineament will be better ) , andaren’t compatible with eGPUs .
Will Windows run on Apple Silicon ? Parallels and VMwarepromise a result .
Apple hassuspended businesswith Pegatron , after the iPhone supplier was found to have offend the Supplier Code of Conduct . It allegedly allowed student workers to mold overtime , then falsify paperwork to insure this up .
Things had been calculate unspoilt for Apple in its hellishly protracted dispute with Epic Games , after a judgeaccused Epic of lying . unluckily that same judge has now prove every bit sceptical with regards to Apple ’s arguments , and has thrown outall but one of its degree . The company is now left with a simple case of breach of contract .
Apple has announcednew versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro(without the X , letter of the alphabet fans ) for those M1 Macs we mentioned in the first place . Microsoft has announced thatOffice is quick for M1too .
Apple had previously warned customers that the new MagSafe chargers can leave a stigma on leather iPhone 12 suit . But this calendar week the company went one comfortably : showing the likely damagein the prescribed production picture taking . Full marks for transparence !
Bugs & problems
macOS Big Sur in conclusion roam out this week , and there were , predictably , lots of problems . Instead of talking about all of them one by one , why do n’t I just guide you at ourmacOS update troubleshootingarticle , which covers them all . For the summons itself , readHow to install macOS Big Sur .
A recall has been announce onfaulty AirPods Pro . If your active noise cancellation is n’t work or if you’re able to hear a greaves sound , Apple will fix them .
Apple haspatched a zero - day holethat was being used to attack iPhone users in the wild . The update is strongly recommended if you have n’t already got it .
The rumour mill
Which Macs will get the M1 processor next?We weigh up the likely selection .
The iPhone SE 3won’t be with us until autumn 2021 , accord to Ming - Chi Kuo ; that ’s a wait of 18 month after the launching of its ( extremely regarded ) precursor . I suspect the wandering launching docket of the SE line reflects Apple ’s generalambivalence towards budget product .
References to the AirPods Studio and AirTags have beenspotted in iOS 14.3 . We ’ve also seen a leaked photo of anAirTag supplement , which lead us to incorrectly assume the equipment would be launched at the 10 November event .
Leaked photoshave also revealed the ( possible ) design of the third - gen AirPods . They ’re a piece big and debauchee .
It ’s very early days , but we ’re starting to get an idea of the change to expect from theiPhone 13 . The latest story says at least two of the four fresh French telephone will haveLTPO screen , an energy - effective engineering science that can improve battery lifetime by 15 % . They will also havemuch better camerasthanks to an raise extremist - wide aperture size .
And that ’s it for this hebdomad . Stay Appley !
