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• The M1 Ultra debuts

  Posted on March 14, 2022 at 02:42 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Keeping to schedule, Apple drops the next shoe in its master plan to get all its products running on its own, proprietary, silicon.

  It’s been about 18 months since Apple announced the original M1 system on a chip (SOC), introduced several products based on it, and laid out its plan to transition to its own silicon in roughly two years.

  At its spring event last week, the company took its next step in that transition and went so far as to tease the last shoe. Perhaps “tease” is the wrong word because the company came right out and said it — the last brick in the wall will be a transition of the insanely expensive Mac Pro to Apple silicon.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.11.0 (2022-03-14).

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• Is there a Mac in your future?

  Posted on November 8, 2021 at 02:42 CST by Silvia Eckert • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Silvia Eckert

  With the new MacBook Pro, Apple takes another step toward its own chip future, leaving Intel behind.

  Apple’s event on Monday, October 18, showcased its new MacBook Pro laptops — an all-new 14-inch model and an update to the 16-inch model. But the real news is the new Apple silicon inside, the M1 “Pro” for the 14-inch model and the M1 “Max” for the 16-inch.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.43.0 (2021-11-08).

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• How Apple silicon might hurt Windows

  Posted on December 13, 2020 at 21:15 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums
  

  APPLE NEWS

  By Will Fastie

  With the introduction of its M1 chip on Macs, Apple might well have triggered one of the greatest disruptions in the PC industry since the ’90s.

  Just the other day, I was catching up with an old friend, Jeffrey Tarter, founder of the influential SoftLetter publication. While we were reminiscing, Jeff opined that he had become bored by tech.

  I knew instantly what he meant; we’d both come up through the exciting birth and maturation of the PC industry — a time when it seemed as though something new and revolutionary was appearing every 12 minutes. We lamented that the once exceptional pace of innovation seemed to have been lost somewhere along the way.

  Until recently, that is.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.49.0 (2020-12-14).

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