Is Walmart’s $499 M1 MacBook Air too good to be true?
If you’re shopping for a new MacBook or looking to buy one for a student or parent, you’ll find a few MacBook deals to save a few bucks, sometimes hundreds off MSRP. But there’s one…
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Roman Loyola
UI design chief exits Apple to head up Meta’s new design studio
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that a key Apple executive is leaving the company (no, it’s not Tim Cook). Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s user interface design team, is leaving Apple Park in Cupertino for the…
This hidden iOS 26 setting lets you turn off Apple Wallet ads
Perhaps you noticed that over the past several months, Apple has been placing ads throughout its iPhone apps and alerts. It’s most prominent when you visit the App Store, but another place ads have recently…
Is Walmart’s $549 M1 MacBook Air too good to be true?
If you’re shopping for a MacBook Air this holiday season, you’ll find a few MacBook deals to save a few bucks, sometimes up to $250. But there’s one laptop for sale by a prominent retailer…
2026 Mac Studio: Specs, processor, release, price
The Mac Studio was originally released in 2022 and has been updated twice since then. However, a report in late 2025 claimed that Apple had “largely written off” the Mac Pro and considers the Mac…
Tim Cook is going to retire at some point, but probably not next year
Tim Cook celebrated a birthday on November 1. He’s 65 years old. Cook has been Apple’s CEO for 14 years–the longest tenured Apple CEO–and has been with the company for 27 years. That’s a lot…
The Mac Pro is essentially dead
If you’re the type of power user who’s been keeping an eye on the next Mac Pro upgrade, it’s time to make other plans. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the Mac Pro is basically dead,…
2026 Mac mini: Everything we know so far
2026 Mac mini: In summary The current M4 and M4 Pro Mac mini were released in November 2024. A report states that Apple is planning an M5 update in 2026. No design changes are expected.…
This Mac user converted an old iMac into a Studio Display–here’s how
There are thousands of old aluminum iMacs sitting around the world, doing nothing (the one in Macworld’s Podcast studio comes to mind, replaced by a newer M4 iMac). A lot of those old iMacs have…
Report: Paid subscription for MLS on Apple TV to end in 2026
In 2022, Apple and Major League Soccer agreed to a big deal that made Apple TV the streaming provider for all of the league’s matches (local broadcasters still offered games on network TV). However, those…