macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
… Even some Apple Silicon Macs will miss out on some of the new Apple Intelligence features Apple demonstrated during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote today. …
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20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
… This transition worked well enough that Apple essentially handled the Intel-to-Apple-Silicon switch the exact same way. Apple would also take advantage of the fact that its computers would use the same hardware as other PCs. …
iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don't drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads
… And the more capable local models Apple announced have even more restrictive system requirements. They need a newer Apple Silicon chip and at least 12GB of RAM, which means they’ll only work on the iPhone 17 Pro, the iPhone Air, the recently introduced M4 iPad Air, or the M4 or M5 iPad Pro. …
Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
… For “more sophisticated” questions, your device will contact cloud-based models, again co-developed by Apple and Google: a general-use model called AFM 3 Cloud, an image-generation model called ADM 3 Cloud, and an advanced model called AFM 3 Cloud Pro for “agentic tool use and complex reasoning.” T… …
Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
… Typically abbreviated as ABL, it’s a component within AGESA that initializes the hardware prior to the OS loading. …
Nvidia RTX Spark comes to Windows PCs with Arm CPU, RTX GPU, and unified memory
… Rumors and leaked specs via VideoCardz suggested that Nvidia was working on two distinct pieces of silicon, one codenamed “N1X” and one codenamed “N1.” Both chips would come in two different flavors—one with all CPU and GPU cores fully enabled and one with some defective cores disabled, a process c… …
Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens
… The much larger Gemma 4 31B on Apple’s M4 silicon gets a 2.5x speed boost with MTP. The company suggests users will find it easier to run the 26B MoE and 31B Dense models on consumer hardware, and mobile devices will enjoy improved battery life when running E2B and E4B models. …
Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT
… I already knew the basic beats of this story: the origins of Silicon Valley, the establishment of the ARPANet, the creation of Xerox PARC, the founding of Apple, its near-collapse, and Jobs leaving the company to launch NeXT. …
Mac mini starting price goes up to $799, may be hard to get for "months"
… The system’s cost had been falling in the Apple Silicon era—first to $699 for the Apple M1 version, then to $599 for the M2 version. …
Which Macs are suffering from shortages—and where are things getting worse?
… Cook attributes the desktop shortages in part to demand from AI enthusiasts running models locally on Mac hardware—Apple Silicon’s low power usage, good performance, and unified memory pool accessible by both the CPU and GPU have made them popular among these buyers. …