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B&H Photo today has returned the 512GB 16-inch MacBook Pro to its lowest price of $2,099.00, down from $2,399.00. We've seen this price a few times this year, and it's the current best price you'll find for a new 16-inch MacBook Pro among the major Apple resellers online. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with B&H Photo. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small...

Apple offers a wide selection of options when it comes to the MacBook line. As of 2024, this includes the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air, 13-inch and 15-inch M3 ‌MacBook Air‌, and 14-inch and 16-inch M4 MacBook Pro. As a general rule of thumb, this guide is mainly focused on the older ‌MacBook Air‌ and MacBook Pro models, although we have included a few early deals on the newest versions. ‌MacBook...

YouTubers have got their hands on the new MacBook Air and first impressions of the notebook are largely positive. Key new features include faster processors and graphics, a scissor switch Magic Keyboard, and a lower starting price of $999. The new MacBook Air features Intel's latest 10th-generation Core processors, including up to a 1.2GHz quad-core Core i7 with Turbo Boost speeds...

B&H Photo and Amazon have begun discounting Apple's Mac mini from 2018, following the recent launch of a refreshed model this week. The only change in the 2020 Mac mini is that the new models come with double the storage capacity for the standard configurations. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a...

With the launch of a new MacBook Air yesterday, we're seeing new all-time-low discounts on the previous-generation 2019 MacBook Air this morning. The sales we've rounded up below can be found at B&H Photo, which is providing deals for both 128GB and 256GB 2019 MacBook Air models. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may...

Slack is today rolling out a redesign of its team chat app for desktop that aims to make navigating the platform's various menus and options simpler and more intuitive. First up, the Slack sidebar is about to become a lot more flexible for users on paid Slack plans. You can now group together channels, apps, and direct messages into nested, collapsible sections using a simple drag-and-drop...

Apple today made its $2,000 Mac Pro Afterburner Card available as a separate purchase, having previously been offered only as a build-to-order option when configuring a new ‌Mac Pro‌. Apple Afterburner is a PCIe accelerator card specifically for the 2019 ‌Mac Pro‌, created to enhance Apple ProRes and ProRes RAW workflows for creative professionals by accelerating the decoding and playback of ...

Best Buy and Amazon today have new discounts on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, returning the 512GB model down to its lowest price of $2,099.99 ($300 off). We've seen this discount a few times over the past few months, but it hasn't been as consistent as sales on the 1TB model. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a...

Amazon today is offering a solid solo deal on the 256GB 13-inch MacBook Pro, which you can buy for $1,499.00, down from $1,799.00. This $300 off deal is the best price we've ever tracked among the major Apple resellers online for this particular model. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us...

Apple and over 40 U.S. companies have signed a letter opposing several "anti-LGBTQ" legislation bills currently being considered in courts across the country (via AL.com). The open letter, drafted by the Human Rights Campaign and published Wednesday, argues that measures proposed in the bills would harm LGBT staff and negatively impact the companies that employ them. "These bills would...

Folding@home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. In addition to cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's, Folding@home has announced that it is tackling a disease that has been dominating the headlines: COVID-19. The project is joining researchers around the world ...

Apple today seeded the fifth beta of an upcoming macOS 10.15.4 update to developers for testing purposes, one week after seeding the fourth beta and over a month after releasing macOS Catalina 10.15.3. The ‌‌macOS Catalina‌‌ beta can be downloaded using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper software from the Developer Center. macOS...

Amazon, Adorama, and Best Buy have a few solid deals on the newest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models this week. The highlight of the sale is new lowest-ever prices on both storage capacities of the 2019 MacBook Air, which can be found at Best Buy. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps...

Best Buy kicked off a new three-day sale today, offering solid discounts across a wide variety of Apple products through Sunday, March 8 at 11:59 p.m. CT. This includes savings on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, HomePod, iPhone 11, iPad, iPhone cases, Beats products, 4K TVs, Bluetooth speakers, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a...

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 102 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, Web API, IndexedDB, ...

Amazon has introduced a new low price on the 13-inch MacBook Pro from mid 2019 today. You can get the notebook with a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD for $1,499.00, down from $1,799.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. This $300 ...

Apple's Victoria Square retail store in Belfast, Northern Ireland reportedly closed its doors early on Wednesday to undergo a deep clean, following suspicions of a coronavirus contamination in the local area. Video shared on Facebook appeared to capture a clean-up operation taking place at the store. In the clip, two people wearing breathable isolation suits can be seen wiping the Sequoia...

Computer keyboards and input devices can be hotbeds of bacteria, especially if they're used by several people – in a school or office environment, for example. Regularly disinfecting your Apple keyboard, trackpad, and/or mouse is the best way to sterilize these devices and remove any nasties, and it only takes five minutes to do. Keep reading to learn how. To follow the steps below,...