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Don’t Pay $599, Get an Apple Mac Mini M2 (2023) for $499 Shipped – This Week Only

The Apple Mac Mini M2 (2023) is powerful enough for most tasks as well as some light gaming, and you can get one for $499 shipped, this week only, originally $599. Yes, the Mac Mini M2 also works with up to two displays, thanks to its dual Thunderbolt 4 ports. Product page.

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Apple 2023 Mac Mini Desktop Computer M2 chip with 8‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU, 8GB Unified Memory,...

Apple 2023 Mac Mini Desktop Computer M2 chip with 8‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU, 8GB Unified Memory,…

SUPERCHARGED BY M2 — Get more done faster with a next-generation chip. From rich presentations to immersive gaming, M2 flies through work and play….
CONNECT WHAT YOU WANT — Mac mini with the M2 chip has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit…
SIMPLY COMPATIBLE — All your go-to apps run lightning fast on your Mac mini desktop, from Microsoft 365 to Adobe Creative Cloud to Zoom. And over…

In addition to to the dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, you also get two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, a Gigabit Ethernet port with a 10GB option, an upgraded headphone jack to support high-impedance headphones, Wi-Fi 6E for up to 2x faster throughput than before, as well as Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. Not familiar with macOS? There’s also this Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 alternative to the Mac Mini.

With incredible capabilities and a wide array of connectivity in its compact design, Mac mini is used in so many places, in so many different ways. Today, we’re excited to take it even further with M2. Bringing even more performance and a lower starting price, Mac mini with M2 is a tremendous value,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

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Apple Watch Ultra Prototype with Black Ceramic Back Leaked in FCC Filing

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An Apple Watch Ultra prototype with a black ceramic back casing was recently leaked in an FCC filing, and it would complement the Space Black MacBook Pro perfectly. One thing to keep in mind is that Apple needs to send prototypes to the FCC months in advance of a product release, and a gold iPhone X was also uncovered in the past, but never released.

This filing may hint at an Apple Watch 3 Ultra with a black ceramic back casing next year. We expect the Apple Watch Ultra 2 successor to feature either an improved S9 SiP or completely new chip, an even brighter LTPO OLED display, and additional modular watch faces. In any case, expect the Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 to be announced some time during September 2024.

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Apple Watch Ultra 2 [GPS + Cellular 49mm] Smartwatch with Rugged Titanium Case & Indigo Alpine Loop...

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CARBON NEUTRAL — Apple Watch Ultra 2 paired with the latest Alpine Loop or Trail Loop is carbon neutral. Learn more about Apple’s commitment to…
WHY APPLE WATCH ULTRA 2 — Rugged, capable, and built to meet the demands of endurance athletes, outdoor adventurers, and water sport enthusiasts —…
EXTREMELY RUGGED, INCREDIBLY CAPABLE — 49mm corrosion-resistant titanium case. Large Digital Crown and Customizable Action button for instant…

This year we’ve made our most rugged and capable Apple Watch even better. Apple Watch Ultra 2 is our most advanced Apple Watch, with great performance and feature updates. It’s perfect for anyone who wants our biggest, brightest display, longest battery life, and best GPS of any Apple Watch, all in a stunning design,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.

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Jackson Chung

A technology, gadget and video game enthusiast that loves covering the latest industry news. Favorite trade show? Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Don’t Pay $329, Get a 9th Gen Apple iPad 64GB with A13 Bionic for $229.99 Shipped

The 9th Gen Apple iPad 64GB is powerful enough for most users, and you can get one for $229.99 shipped ahead of Black Friday, originally $329. Featuring the A13 Bionic chip, which offers a 20 percent performance boost over the previous generation, enabling users to seamlessly run advanced apps and games. Product page.

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Apple iPad (9th Generation): with A13 Bionic chip, 10.2-inch Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi, 12MP front/8MP...

Apple iPad (9th Generation): with A13 Bionic chip, 10.2-inch Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi, 12MP front/8MP…

WHY IPAD — All the essentials in the most affordable iPad, with a beautiful 10.2-inch Retina display, powerful A13 Bionic chip, and an Ultra Wide…
IPADOS + APPS — iPadOS makes iPad more productive, intuitive, and versatile. With iPadOS, run multiple apps at once, use Apple Pencil to write in…
FAST WI-FI CONNECTIVITY — Fast Wi-Fi keeps you connected at home, work, school, or wherever you go with your iPad.

Its 10.2-inch Retina display makes use of the upgraded ambient light sensor to enable True Tone, which adjusts screen content to the color temperature of a room. This makes images appear more natural and provides users with a more comfortable viewing experience in all lighting environments. You’ll still need a Synchron Switch to control the iPad using only your mind.

With the powerful A13 Bionic, more engaging video calls with Center Stage, and double the storage, the new iPad delivers advanced capabilities, versatility, and simplicity at an incredible value,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing.

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Jackson Chung

A technology, gadget and video game enthusiast that loves covering the latest industry news. Favorite trade show? Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Apple Releases Stop-Motion ‘Fuzzy Feelings’ Holiday Short Film Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Apple has just released their ‘Fuzzy Feelings’ holiday short film, which was shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max and at least partially edited on an M2 MacBook Air. The message it hopes to convey is that creativity has the power to change the way we see each other, and the world.

Sometimes, all you need is to see things through a new lens to really discover the meaning of the holidays. ‘Fuzzy Feelings’ is centered around a young woman who is an office worker by day and stop-motion artist by night. It switches between live-action and stop-motion imagery, as viewers see her process challenges at work through the stop motion film. For those wondering exactly how it was created, Apple also released a behind-the-scenes featurette (below).

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Bill Smith

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CT Scans Reveal the Inner Workings of Fake Apple AirPods

CT scans performed by Jon Bruner on an industrial machine show the inner workings of fake Apple AirPods and reveal why most of them sound so tinny. The main issue appears to be the companies making these knockoffs have never used a pair of AirPods, so they have nothing to base their sound off of, resulting in audio quality that sounds like something from the 1990s.

The fake AirPods pack a lot less electronic components, all of which are connected by wires and not flexible PCBs. It’s safe to say that you won’t find wires like this in any modern mobile Apple product. You can also add a lack of magnets, use of lower-quality plastic, and smaller batteries to the laundry list of issues too.

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Apple AirPods (3rd Generation) Wireless Ear Buds, Bluetooth Headphones, Personalized Spatial Audio, Sweat...

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PERSONALIZED SPATIAL AUDIO — With sound that suits your unique ear shape along with dynamic head tracking, AirPods (3rd generation) deliver an…
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A POWERFUL CASE — Recharge your AirPods with the portable Lightning Charging Case for power throughout the day, wherever you go.

The world is full of counterfeit Apple products. We CT scanned two fake AirPods and compared them to the real thing… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/VFWvAwUrox
— Jon Bruner (@JonBruner) November 7, 2023

The soldering isn’t very good in the fakes, either; you can see a few globs of solder splattered inside the enclosure,” said Bruner.

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Bill Smith

When it comes to cars, video games or geek culture, Bill is an expert of those and more. If not writing, Bill can be found traveling the world.

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User Orders iPhone 15 Pro Max Directly from Apple, Receives Android Knockoff Instead

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When someone orders an iPhone 15 Pro Max directly from Apple UK, the last thing they’d expect to receive is a knockoff, but that is exactly what happened to one Reddit user. After opening the box, a screen protector was discovered to already installed on the handset, which could mean it was a return or refurbished unit.

There were two other things that stood out, with the first being a non-OLED screen and the strange ‘chin’ at the bottom. One the device was turned on, he was greeted with a setup process reminiscent of those found on Android devices. Skipping past that setup process, Edmard found Facebook, Youtube and Tiktok already installed. Some theorize that an employee at a distribution center may have swapped out the original box with this fake device even before it reached the courier, with all original shipping labels intact.

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Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP...

Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP…

WHY IPAD — Colorfully reimagined and more versatile than ever, iPad is great for the things you do every day. With an all-screen design, 10.9-inch…
IPADOS + APPS — iPadOS makes iPad more productive, intuitive, and versatile. With iPadOS, run multiple apps at once, use Apple Pencil to write in…
FAST WI-FI CONNECTIVITY — Wi-Fi 6 gives you fast access to your files, uploads, and downloads, and lets you seamlessly stream your favorite shows.

Then I thought it might be at the supplier end? What’s crazy to me is that the whole delivery was trackable through the apple website and the tracking number on the box and everything matched so the process wasn’t broken at all from apple’s side either. Very interesting,” said the original poster.

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Jackson Chung

A technology, gadget and video game enthusiast that loves covering the latest industry news. Favorite trade show? Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Apple MacBook Pro Lineup Gets Refreshed with M3 Chips, Includes New Space Black Color

It’s official, the Apple MacBook Pro lineup has just gotten an M3 chip refresh. Set for release on November 7th, the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max are the first personal computer chips built using Taiwan Semiconductor’s industry-leading 3-nanometer technology.

All three chips deliver the biggest leap forward in graphics architecture ever for Apple silicon, thanks to a breakthrough technology called Dynamic Caching. This enables the GPU to allocate local hardware memory in real time so only the exact amount needed is used for each task, thus dramatically increasing GPU utilization and performance for the most demanding applications. The base 14″ MacBook Pro M3 starts at just $1,599 USD and is 60 percent faster than the 13‑inch M1 MacBook Pro.

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Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP...

Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP…

WHY IPAD — Colorfully reimagined and more versatile than ever, iPad is great for the things you do every day. With an all-screen design, 10.9-inch…
IPADOS + APPS — iPadOS makes iPad more productive, intuitive, and versatile. With iPadOS, run multiple apps at once, use Apple Pencil to write in…
FAST WI-FI CONNECTIVITY — Wi-Fi 6 gives you fast access to your files, uploads, and downloads, and lets you seamlessly stream your favorite shows.

There is nothing quite like MacBook Pro. With the remarkable power-efficient performance of Apple silicon, up to 22 hours of battery life, a stunning Liquid Retina XDR display, and advanced connectivity, MacBook Pro empowers users to do their life’s best work. With the next generation of M3 chips, we’re raising the bar yet again for what a pro laptop can do,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering.

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Jackson Chung

A technology, gadget and video game enthusiast that loves covering the latest industry news. Favorite trade show? Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Apple Introduces New 24-inch iMac with 4.5K Retina Display and M3 Processor

You’ve seen the touchscreen iMac prototype from 1999, and now check out the new 24-inch iMac with a stunning 4.5K Retina display with 11.3 million pixels and over a billion colors, along with the M3 processor. The 3nm M3 has an 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, and support for up to 24GB of unified memory.

For those looking to game with the 24-inch iMac, you’ll be happy to know that its next-gen GPU supports hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, while a 16-core Neural Engine offers blazing machine learning as well as video performance. You also get an industry-leading camera, speakers, mics, and optional Touch ID functionality. Available for pre-order today in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, or silver colors (some only available for 10-core GPU model), priced from $1,299 USD. Want to try before you buy? It will be available in Apple Stores and authorized resellers starting November 7th.

We’re excited to give iMac a big boost in performance with the M3 chip. Millions of users absolutely love iMac for its stunning design and expansive 24-inch, 4.5K Retina display that’s the perfect size to spread out with all their favorite apps and get things done. And now M3 brings even more speed to everything users do, whether multitasking, creating captivating images and videos, working on a business plan, or playing their favorite games,” said John Ternus, Apple’s Senior VP of Hardware Engineering.

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How Apple Shot the ‘Scary Fast’ Event with the iPhone 15 Pro Max

Apple fans may not know that the ‘Scary Fast’ event last night was actually shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, albeit with expensive, professional-grade studio equipment. The smartphone’s ProRes, Apple Log, and USB-C, along with its low-light capabilities, most certainly helped.

The team used multiple iPhone 15 Pro Max devices to capture the footage and then utilized the integration between iPhone 15 Pro, the Blackmagic Camera app, and Tentacle Sync to showcase the true power of the Apple ecosystem. USB-C provides data transfer with speeds of up to 10Gbps with a compatible USB 3 cable, which enables ProRes video recording directly to an external SSD drive. Jon Carr, an Apple Pro Workflow video specialist whose credits include Top Gun: Maverick and Terminator: Dark Fate, helped advise the production.

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We were able to get the same complex shots with iPhone 15 Pro Max. It’s amazing to see that the quality from a device that is so small and so portable can rival a large $20,000 camera,” said Brian Oakes, Documentary Film Director.

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Jackson Chung

A technology, gadget and video game enthusiast that loves covering the latest industry news. Favorite trade show? Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Sonic Dream Team and Disney Dreamlight Valley Set to Arrive on Apple Arcade in December

Apple Arcade is set to get a bevy of new games, including Sonic Dream Team and Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition, starting on November 3rd with Knotwords+. Sports fans will appreciate the NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition update on November 23rd, as City Edition uniforms will be added, as well as eight more Greatest Players athletes.

Set for release on December 5, Sonic Dream Team is basically a 3D action platformer that follows Doctor Eggman who has discovered The Reverie, which is a mysteirous device with the power to manifest dreams in the real world. Sonic and friends must navigate twisted dreamscapes and rescue their friends to put a stop to Doctor Eggman’s quest for world domination. Players command six dynamic playable characters: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Cream, and Rouge, each with unique abilities.

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Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP...

Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP…

WHY IPAD — Colorfully reimagined and more versatile than ever, iPad is great for the things you do every day. With an all-screen design, 10.9-inch…
IPADOS + APPS — iPadOS makes iPad more productive, intuitive, and versatile. With iPadOS, run multiple apps at once, use Apple Pencil to write in…
FAST WI-FI CONNECTIVITY — Wi-Fi 6 gives you fast access to your files, uploads, and downloads, and lets you seamlessly stream your favorite shows.

Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition, arriving on December 5, combines a life simulation and adventure game into one. It features familiar Disney and Pixar characters that players use to uncover enchanting stories, while working to restore Dreamlight Valley from the Forgetting. a mysterious force that has descended on the Valley. Other new Apple Arcade games include Turmoil+ (Dec. 5), Puzzle & Dragons Story (Dec. 5), Delicious – Miracle of Life+ (Nov. 24), Downwell+ (Nov. 17) and Football Manager 2024 Touch (Nov. 6).

We’ve added nearly 60 new games to Apple Arcade this year, and subscribers and their families have been loving the breadth and depth of the catalog with hits like Hello Kitty Island Adventure, NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition, TMNT Splintered Fate, Cypher 007, and so many others. To wrap up a great year of new games for Arcade players, we’ve saved some of the best for last and will be launching Football Manager 2024 Touch, Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition, Sonic Dream Team, and Puzzle & Dragons Story,” said Alex Rofman, Apple’s senior director of Apple Arcade.

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