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  • Apple Product identifiers have leaked every Mac release through 2026

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    Dear Apple,

    the 11” MBAir was the closest I’ve ever come to liking a laptop. I was hopeful that a 12” MacBook would be that sweetest of things but having firmed up my financing, you canned it. Please revive the 12” MacBook with A series chip. Guaranteed sale.

    Yours,

    Me
    kiowawaSturmiTRAGargonaut

  • Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor

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    C’mon 12” MacBook…
    mainyehcMisterKitright_said_fredToroidalmattinozmbenz1962jidolibertyandfreeAlex1NTRAG

  • Craig Federighi says macOS would ruin what makes the iPad special

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    My clamouring for a more MacOS-like iPadOS is exactly that. I do not want the iPad to actually run macOS, I want iPadOS to become way more capable (iPadOS 26 seems very much to hit most of my pain points but we’ll see when I’m actually a daily user this autumn) and I’d want it to be more open and powerful (actual non-Apple browsers, macOS level apps but designed for iPad, etc). 

    That said, Jason Snell had a fantastic suggestion a year or two ago: it runs iPadOS when gadding about town as a tablet but transforms into a macOS device when hooked up to an external display. Talk about overhead! But man, what a device that would be…
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Valve's Steam gaming client is finally getting an Apple Silicon native upgrade

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    apple4thewin said:
    Hopefully that means Apple works with Steam to make a temporary Game Porting Toolkit native mod until developers decide to update their applications.
    OMG that would be wonderful! I don’t see the business case from Apple’s end, though. I imagine they’re somewhere between unconcerned to gleefully embracing that Mac gaming should pass through the App Store and leave residues in their pockets… 
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamargonaut

  • How the new iPadOS 26 UI moving closer to Mac is a giant productivity boost

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    thedba said:
    Here are my “on a napkin” calculations.
    An iPad Pro 13” = $1299
    Smart keyboard w/trackpad = $319
    Total: $1618

    OTOH MacBook Air = $999
    MacBook Air 15” (you know productivity) = $1199

    Does anyone really think that folks arguing for “productivity” and “real work” are going to start buying iPads by the truckload because of this?
    Absolutely correct! However, I detest laptops and love my iPad. Despite it never quite living up to my hopes.

    iPadOS 26 should come close but I’d need the software to allow more Mac-like behaviours (e.g. a non-Safari browser, desktop equivalent) for it to genuinely be my mobile computing go-to.

    I’d given up all hope that the iPad would ever grow up. Now there’s a glimmer… but I’ve fallen for that before. I’m deep in the iPad rabbit hole so I suppose I just have to wait it out. I have a 16” MBPro which will remain my main portable computing device for a while yet.

    Hope springs eternal…
    thtwilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam