While we were very confident beforehand that we wouldn’t be seeing a larger iMac this week, there are still plenty of people waiting impatiently for at least a new 27-inch iMac. Many are hoping for 30-inch, 32-inch, or even bigger.

But while I do still think that’s in the works, the launch of the M4 Mac mini relieves a lot of the time pressure, for a couple of reasons …

I’m a laptop guy through and through

a nice video of Apple’s Los Angeles hands-on showroom event on Wednesday, which let creators get their first hands on with the new M4-powered Mac product lineup.

You can see size comparisons with the next to the old Mac mini, and even the Apple TV. colors (and nano-texture screen coating) were also on display. Apple also had demos setup showing Final Cut Pro running on the new …

Rather than invite press to a traditional event format with a live-streamed video,

Following an exclusive launch in the US in February, Apple began the international expansion of Vision Pro in June . Now the company is ready to bring Apple Vision Pro to even more countries, as the company has just announced another expansion for next month.

Apple’s marketing chief Greg Joswiak confirmed the news . According to him, Apple Vision Pro will be launched in South Korea and the United Arab Emirates on November 15, just a week after the launch of the new M4 Macs.

“Apple Vision Pro is

GitHub this week announced an important update coming for developers working on a Mac. That’s because the first preview of GitHub Copilot for Apple’s Xcode is now available, so developers can try out the new AI-based feature to improve their workflow.

For those unfamiliar, is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster with suggestions and requests for specific commands. Developers can ask Copilot for help using the command line and even generate a description of changes in a pull request.

GitHub Copilot was already available

Apple this week released macOS Sequoia 15.1 , which is the first update to enable Apple Intelligence tools on the Mac. However, thanks to Parallels Desktop, you can also use some of these tools in Windows apps too.

As noted by Parallels in a , users who have a Windows virtual machine running on a Mac with macOS 15.1 or later can take advantage of Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools even in Windows apps. With Writing Tools, users can proofread and rewrite texts, making them more

The latest MacBook Pro laptops are here powered by the new M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max Apple Silicon. In addition to more powerful and efficient CPUs/GPUs, these MacBook Pro machines have longer battery life, Thunderbolt 5 (with M4 Pro/Max chips), a nano-texture display option, a new webcam, and more. Read on for an in-depth look at what’s new with the M4 MacBook Pro vs M3 MacBook Pro lineup plus a buyer’

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Move over, Siri. OpenAI is bringing its advanced voice feature for ChatGPT to the Mac and Windows starting today.

ChatGPT for Mac already included an optional, conversational method of interacting with the large language model. The more natural version of talking with ChatGPT (an improved voice and the ability to pause when you speak) was only available on ChatGPT mobile apps , however.

The good news for Mac users is that ChatGPT and Siri can happily coexist on the Mac together.

In fact, Apple Intelligence brings improvements to Siri including