Apple revamps how you buy a Mac online, removes preconfigured options

Apple has updated its website with changes to the checkout flow when buying a new Mac. Previously, the Apple Online Store would show you a range of preconfigured options with specific processors, RAM, and storage configurations, before letting you dive into the granular configurator.

With this week’s revamp, however, those preconfigured options have been removed…

The change was spotted by users on as well . It applies to the checkout experience for all of Apple’s Mac models, desktop and laptop alike.

Here’s how

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Here’s my one Apple Watch feature request for watchOS 27

Apple Watch certainly feels like a rather mature platform at this point. Software wise, there isn’t usually a ton I’d like to see – though there probably is a lot of potential for the to serve as an AI wearable. Nonetheless, there is one nifty software upgrade I’d really like to see them add to the .

One of the standout features about the is the fact that it has an Action Button. I really appreciate having it, mainly to open the workouts app in a pinch.

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Why 2026 should be the year you take control of your privacy with Incogni

This is about the time of year when most people’s enthusiasm for their New Year’s resolutions starts to wear off. Gym visits decline, diets get less strict, and those screen time goals we set with much determination have likely already been broken.

But if you are one of those who decided 2026 will be the year you take control of your online privacy, then keeping a resolution has never been simpler …

Data brokers sell your personal data every day of the year. They can purchase data

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Apple @ Work: Apple’s bet on local AI was right, but our management tools will need to evolve

, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple .

For the last decade, the technology industry has been obsessed with the cloud. The assumption was that

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This week’s top stories: AirTag 2, blockbuster Apple acquisition, more

Welcome to 9to5Mac’s top stories of the week, where we recap the biggest news in the Apple world every Saturday. This week, we have AirTag 2, a blockbuster Apple acquisition, and iOS 26.3 beta testing continues. Plus, our usual slate of new podcast episodes, opinion pieces, and much more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories.

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Someone turned Apple’s most annoying bugs into a scoreboard of wasted human time

A new website takes Apple’s most persistent software bugs and reframes them as a hilarious scoreboard, using intentionally over-the-top math to estimate how many collective human hours they’ve supposedly wasted over the years.

describes itself as:

“A satirical website documenting how much time humanity wastes because of bugs that Apple seemingly loves so much that they keep them around forever.”

Currently, the site lists 16 bugs, with the oldest one (Finder Forgets Window Sizes) dating back to 2001

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Open Source LLM

PSA: OpenAI will remove several models from ChatGPT next month

From time to time, OpenAI removes older models from ChatGPT’s model picker, as users become accustomed to newer ones. Here are the models being retired on February 13.

Last August, when OpenAI released GPT-5 , it removed GPT-4o from ChatGPT’s model picker without much (or any) warning.

This caused a huge and immediate backlash, as many users had grown accustomed to the tone and behavior of GPT-4o, which many defined as warmer and friendlier than GPT-


Apple Creator Studio gets its own Instagram account

Apple is apparently pushing to turn its newly launched creative bundle into a brand of its own. Here are the details.

To mark the launch of Apple Creator Studio , Apple hosted an invite-only, multi-day event this week in Los Angeles, bringing together creators from around the world to showcase its new bundle of creative apps.

Now, Apple has launched on Instagram, where it will likely highlight projects made with Apple Creator Studio apps.

The account currently has a single pinned post, featuring the same promo video


As users look for TikTok alternatives, UpScrolled downloads surge on the App Store

Over the last few days, went from a relatively unknown app to the top of the App Store, as users flocked away from TikTok. Here are the details.

A few days ago, the years-long saga involving the future of TikTok in the US finally reached a conclusion , as a U.S.-based joint venture now runs the app.

This transition, however, hasn’t been smooth, with users experiencing a wave of technical glitches and service disruptions over the last week.

This, alongside


iOS 26.2’s new Reminders feature is exactly what I’ve wanted for years

We’re getting close to the launch of iOS 26.3, but one of my favorite Apple features of late is a new Reminders addition in iOS 26.2 that has proven exactly what I’ve wanted for years.

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