The current design is nearing five years old. It’s also not at all a secret that Apple is working on a redesign for its MacBook Pro lineup.

Despite those facts though, there’s still one compelling argument to be made about buying one today – even with bigger changes right around the horizon.

First things first, when I say – I specifically mean the base model with M5, not the M5 Pro or M5 Max models. With those, unless you really need the compute now,

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Juggling loads of alarms in the Clock app can be annoying. aims to fix this, by dynamically adjusting your alarms based on your schedule, rather than having fixed times.

Instead of having to constantly toggle a dozen plus alarms over and over again, lets you build templates. For example,

Internal Mac storage upgrades are expensive, often causing users to resort to external media when possible. That also has its own problems of sometimes compromising on speed or reliability. aims to bridge that gap, by bringing incredible performance to external drives for your Mac.

Announced at CES 2026 earlier this year, the supports up to 80Gbps over USB 4 v2.0. This means it’s useful for not only SSDs, but also other M.2 cards, like AI accelerators and networking cards

This story is part of 9to5Mac’s series celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary.

Apple often likes to say that it isn’t a nostalgic company, but they’ve gone all out to celebrate their 50th birthday . The company recently opened an exhibition on campus displaying some of their most iconic products from over the years alongside photographs of memorable moments. There’s even a large screen that plays iconic ads and keynote

Last month, Apple acquired a popular Final Cut Pro plugin maker : MotionVFX. It isn’t clear what this acquisition will turn into, but based on the fact that it quickly followed the launch of Apple Creator Studio , it’s highly plausible that Apple will integrate its templates, effects, and other offerings as a perk of Apple Creator Studio.

While that on its own is interesting, I think the implication behind it is far more worth talking about.

As someone who’s been following Apple for quite some

I’ve had the for a month, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to use. The Neo has been one of the more exciting new Apple products in a while. It gives you insane value, amazing build quality, and great performance, especially for the price. But to get the price down to $599, Apple had to make some compromises. To elevate my experience a bit, I added a few budget-friendly accessories that I think anyone can add to their MacBook Neo setup

Now , new Apple Card users can receive a boosted 5% cash back on groceries for their first 6 months of card membership. This is considerably higher value than the typical 1-2% cash back you’d receive on groceries.

Apple has been running this offer in a targeted capacity for at least a month, but there hasn’t yet been a publicly available link. Now, there is: you can .

This allows new users to earn 5% cash back on groceries purchased with both the physical titanium

Earlier this year, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed that astronauts on the Artemis II mission would be allowed to ”fly with the latest smartphones.” Now, has reported what it took to make that happen.

Right now, there are four iPhones 17 Pro Max zipping towards the moon at about 25,000 mph.

And although this is not the first time an iPhone has been on a space mission, Artemis II marks the first time NASA has given each crew member an iPhone so they can take

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My use of my iPhone has somewhat evolved over the years. I used to want to replicate everything that