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These three improvements could turn M4 MacBook Air into my dream laptop

While the MacBook Pro is the place to go for the latest and greatest tech, I’ve always been drawn to the for one key reason: portability. There’s just something really nice about the thinness and lightness of the , one that makes me willing to compromise on miniLED, ProMotion, additional ports, and so on.

The isn’t a perfect computer by any means, but there are some simple upgrades that I’d like to see Apple make with the M4 MacBook Air this year.

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AMD Ryzen AI Max 395+ Mini PC: GMK Announces Strix Halo-Powered Compact System

At CES, AMD unleashed the much awaited Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" APUs with mammoth iGPUs, up to a whopping 40 CUs for the Radeon 8060S. These chips are powerful enough to not require discrete graphics at all, making them ideal for mini PCs, which lack the physical room for dedicated graphics. GMK appears to be among the first to announce a mini PC with the top-end Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, although any further details are under wraps as of
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M4 Ultra Reportedly Planned For Apple’s Mac Studio In The First Half Of 2025, But The Chipset Hinted Not To Be A Part Of The Upcoming Mac Pro

Apple is done announcing the M4, M4 Pro, and the M4 Max last year when it introduced a host of Macs, but its M4 Ultra was always expected to launch later for the company’s more powerful machines, the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro. Thanks to the latest update, we learn that the company’s most powerful chipset will be unveiled in the first half of this year, which only means that the launch of its workstations is imminent. However, while the report states

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Apple’s next-gen iPad 11 will likely use the A17 Pro chip

According to , the next generation entry-level iPad will sport the A17 Pro chip. We always expected the 11 to support the Apple Intelligence feature set, though it was unclear which chip Apple would end up putting in the lower-end device.

It’s long been stated that the first generation N3B process, used in the A17 and M3 series of chips, wasn’t going too well for Apple. The process was very costly, had relatively low yields, and


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Thunderbolt 5 dock with MXM graphics, M.2 SSD slot, lots of I/O debuts at CES – J5Create's device offers RTX 3060 and RX 7600M variants for about $1,400

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J5Create unveiled an upcoming Thunderbolt 5 dock at CES . This particular product stood apart by offering both an MXM graphics card built into it and an M.2 slot for an SSD, plus a good selection of high-speed I/O (via Tweakers ).

The JTD5174 dock has two variants: one fitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop card, and the other with an AMD Radeon RX 7600

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Apple’s Entry-Level iPad 11 To Receive Major A17 Pro Chipset Upgrade, Making It More Than Capable Of Running Generative AI Features

It was the first time in many years that Apple skipped an annual launch of its low-cost tablet in 2024, likely because it wanted to equip the iPad 11 with hardware that would be capable of tackling a multitude of tasks and unveiling it too early potentially meant that it would cannibalize other devices. Now that we are about to touch January 15, we have stumbled across some exciting news concerning the iPad 10 successor, particularly its chipset upgrade, claiming that the slate will feature an A

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MAXSUN Launches B850 And B860 Motherboards For AMD & Intel CPUs, Coming In With Compact Design & Several Features

MAXSUN unveils the AMD B850 series for Ryzen 9000 CPUs and the Intel B860 series for Arrow Lake processors under various lineups. MAXSUN Debuts Terminator, eSport, and Challenger 800-series AMD & Intel Motherboards, Featuring Compact Form Factors MAXSUN, a board partner of Intel and AMD, has unveiled its brand-new lineups for Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Zen 5 desktop processors today. For AMD Ryzen 9000 and 7000 chips, it launched the

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(PR) Morse Micro Intros New World-Beating Wi-Fi SoC - Smallest, Fastest & Farthest-Reaching

Morse Micro, the world's leading provider of Wi-Fi HaLow chips based on the IEEE 802.11ah specification, has announced the launch of its highly anticipated second-generation MM8108 System-on-Chip (SoC). Building on the success of the first-generation MM6108 SoC, the MM8108 offers even better performance in all key areas of range, throughput, and power efficiency while also reducing the cost, effort, and
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Apple @ Work: It’s time for Apple to make certification exams free

, 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 .

Apple has spent years carving out a space in the enterprise as a great PC alternative. With IT


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TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips — yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs

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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters that TSMC has started producing chips at its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, using its 4nm-class process technology. This marks the first time such a cutting-edge production node has been manufactured in the United States. The confirmation from a high-ranking official comes months after the first unofficial information emerged that the fab was mass-producing chips for Apple.

"For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making

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