Proton VPN Launches Native Apple TV App, Adds Vision Pro Support Proton today released its native Apple TV app, allowing users to access VPN services directly on their Apple TV following tvOS 17’s introduction of built-in VPN support last year. The company has also announced compatibility with Apple Vision Pro. The new tvOS app enables users to connect to ProtonVPN’s network of over 8,500 servers across 112 …

Apple Updates Base 14-Inch MacBook Pro With M4 Chip, 16GB of RAM, Extra Thunderbolt Port, Space Black, and More Alongside higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, Apple today announced a handful of upgrades for the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, including the standard M4 chip, a minimum of 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, an additional Thunderbolt port, a Space Black color option, and more. In the base 14-inch MacBook …

Apple Announces MacBook Pro Models With M4 Pro and M4 Max Chips, Thunderbolt 5 Support, and More Apple today announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, alongside a new entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M4 chip. The new M4 Pro and M4 Max machines come with a minimum of 24GB of Unified Memory as standard, up from 18GB in the previous models. Both models feature three Thunderbolt 5 por…

Apple Announces M4 Max Chip: Up to 16-Core CPU, Up to 40-Core GPU, Up to 128GB of RAM, and More Apple today announced the M4 Max chip alongside new MacBook Pro models—its most advanced and powerful Apple silicon chip to date. Like the M4 chip introduced in the iPad Pro and the M4 Pro chip unveiled yesterday in the redesigned Mac mini, the M4 Max chips are fabricated with TSMC’s enhanced 3nm (N3E) process. Apple’s senior vice president of …

Apple Announces MacBook Air Now Starts With Increased 16GB of RAM With No Price Increase Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from 8GB previously. This change applies to the 13-inch model with the M2 chip, the 13-inch model with the M3 chip, and the 15-inch model with the M3 chip. In the U.S., the MacBook Air lineup continues to start at $999, so the…

Apple Shares 17-Minute Video Announcement and Ad for the New MacBook Pros and M4 Chip Apple today shared a 17-minute announcement video on YouTube for the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, which feature M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chip options, Thunderbolt 5 support for higher-end configurations, and more. To learn more, read our coverage of Apple’s announcements for the base 14-inch MacBook Pro and the higher-end 14-inch …

Apple Expected to Unveil New MacBook Pros Today With These Features Apple promised three Mac-related product announcements this week, and it has delivered on two of them so far with the new iMac on Monday and the redesigned Mac mini on Tuesday. The final announcement today is expected to be updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. Below, we outline what to expect from th…

Mac Mini vs. Mac Studio Buyer’s Guide: 25+ Differences Compared In 2023, Apple updated the Mac Studio with the M2 Max and ‌M2‌ Ultra chips. Apple has now refreshed the Mac mini with the M4 and M4 Pro chips, meaning that the ‌Mac Studio‌ faces a formidable competitor that offers “Pro” capabilities at a substantially lower price point. There are now two desktop Macs and four Apple silicon chip options for us…

Samsung Considers Dropping Iconic ‘Galaxy’ Brand for Flagship Phones Samsung is considering introducing a new premium smartphone brand that would exist alongside or even replace its iconic “Galaxy” branding, according to Korean publication E-Today. The potential rebranding initiative reportedly aims to differentiate Samsung’s high-end devices from its budget offerings. Currently, the company’s broad use of “Gala…

Apple’s USB-C AirPods Max Hit New Low Price on Amazon Alongside Steep Discounts on Apple Pencil Pro and More Amazon this week has a few solid deals on popular Apple accessories, including the Apple Pencil Pro, M4 iPad Pro Magic Keyboards, and MagSafe Charger. There’s also a new best-ever price on the Orange AirPods Max with USB-C at $62 off, available only on Amazon. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a l…

Apple to Start Providing Summaries of User Reviews in App Store Apple has reportedly designed a new AI-based system that will summarize reviews in the App Store to highlight the most common customer feedback for users before they download an app. According an unlisted App Store article seen by 9to5Mac, AI-generated summaries will appear on app product pages alongside existing elements like descriptions and …

GitHub Brings Copilot to Xcode Popular AI coding tool Copilot is now available for Xcode as part of a public preview, GitHub announced today. Apple developers can use Copilot for coding assistance directly in Xcode, which GitHub says will help developers boost productivity, speed up development, and enhance their overall coding experience. GitHub Copilot for Xcode offers mul…

Google Chrome Browser for Desktop Gains New Performance Controls The Memory Saver feature in the Chrome browser for desktop now features three different modes, including Standard, Balanced, and Advanced. Memory Saver is aimed at speeding up browser performance by limiting the memory that inactive tabs are using. Standard mode deactivates tabs based on your computer’s needs, while Balanced mode considers both…

Final Cut Pro to Gain ‘Transcribe to Caption’ AI Feature In today’s Mac mini announcement video, Apple showed off some new capabilities that are coming to the Final Cut Pro video editing software in the future. Final Cut Pro will soon incorporate AI for generating captions for videos without having to use additional software. Current versions of Final Cut Pro allow you to import captions from another…

M4 Pro Mac Mini Supports Up to Three 6K Displays With the M4 Pro chip, the Mac mini is able to support up to three 6K displays at 60Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI, an improvement over the previous M2 Pro model. The ‌M2‌ Pro version of the ‌Mac mini‌ also supported three displays, but it could run only two at 6K 60Hz resolution and one at 4K 60Hz resolution. Apple’s M4 Pro chip alternatively sup…

M4 Mac Mini is Apple’s First Carbon Neutral Mac With the launch of the M4 Mac mini, Apple says it has reached a milestone in its overarching environmental goal of total carbon neutrality by 2030. The Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon neutral Mac to date, and it joins the carbon neutral Series 10 Apple Watch models. The ‌Mac mini‌ is made from more than 50 percent recycled content overall, inc…

New Mac Mini Provides Two Clues About RAM in Upcoming MacBook Pros Apple today introduced a redesigned Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro chip options, and the computer provides two clues about RAM amounts for the next 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, which are expected to be announced tomorrow. First, just like the new iMac, the base-model Mac mini with the M4 chip starts with 16GB of RAM, which is double the…

Apple Releases New AirPods 4 Firmware Apple today released a new firmware update for all AirPods 4 models. The ‌AirPods 4‌ firmware has a build number of 7B19, up from the previous 7A304 firmware that came out in September. There is no word yet on what’s included in the new ‌AirPods 4‌ firmware, but it is available for both the standard ‌AirPods 4‌ and the ‌AirPods 4‌ with ANC. Thi…

M4 Mac Mini’s Power Button Has New Bottom Location The M4 Mac mini has an overhauled design that adds more ports in a slimmed down package, and to make everything fit, Apple needed a new place for the power button. As it turns out, the power button for the device is located on the bottom, so as Mr. Macintosh pointed out, you’ll need to tip the Mac mini up in order to turn it on (or off, using t…

Apple Now Selling Thunderbolt 5 Cable for M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Pro The M4 Pro version of the Mac mini that Apple introduced today uses the latest Thunderbolt 5 technology with transfer speeds of up to 120Gb/s, which means Apple is selling a new Thunderbolt 5 cable to go along with it. Priced at $69, the new 1 meter Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable supports Thunderbolt 5 data transfers at the maximum speed, but it is al…