A surprising bit of news this week was that Apple doubled the base memory on the M2 and M3 MacBook Air. Before this week, if you bought the entry-level model, you got 8GB. That has now increased to 16. I’m sure this is entirely…
Continue reading →The M4 MacBook Pro
Hooray! The new M4 MacBook Pro is here. The case design is the same in both 14- and 16-inch variants, with support for the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips with increased CPU/GPU performance. It’s nice to see Apple improving on the built-in camera,…
Continue reading →The New Mac mini & iMac Lineup
This week, Apple introduced a wave of M4 Macs, bringing some exciting updates. New iMacs The M4-powered iMacs come in refreshed colors: orange, blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, and silver, each with matching accessories. Apple’s design flexibility shows, though it makes the grayscale of other…
Continue reading →Mail Sorting with Apple Intelligence
With the release of iOS 18.2 Beta 1, we’re getting our first look at Apple Intelligence-based inbox sorting in Mail. In this video I share how it work and my initial impressions.
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Testing NotebookLM
Here are some of my early tests using NotebookLM, Google’s new tool that lets me create an AI-assisted podcast based on the data I feed it. … This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Mac Power Users 768: Getting Intentional with Chris Bailey
Author Chris Bailey joins Mac Power Users to discuss his simple tech stack and interesting automation to tie it all together. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: NetSuite: The leading integrated cloud business software suite. 1Password: So much more than a…
Listen & read notes →iA Writer Improvements
For reasons unknown, I took about a year off from using iA Writer and recently rediscovered it. They’ve made a lot of improvements. For example, you can import text into your document, and iA Writer will track that as imported text. This works well…
Continue reading →New Macs Coming Next Week
Apple is teasing an “exciting week of announcements” starting Monday. If you’ve been holding off on buying a new Mac, next week might be an expensive one. We’re expecting the M4 iterations of the MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and iMac, which have been anticipated…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for October 25, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Phase 2 of Apple Intelligence, two interesting interviews with Apple executives, Perplexity’s Mac app, and a feel-good music track from Roy Hargrove.
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I’m Still Digging Kagi
I just paid my monthly Kagi subscription and I’m reminded of how much I like this web search service. If you’re unfamiliar with it, Kagi is a search engine with no advertising. I’ve used it in place of Google search for most of this year, and…
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