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NewsTop storiesWatch Store This soft and stylish sleeve works for any 15- to 16-inch MacBook. Photo: Elago If you like a touch of 'soft and comfy' with your style, Elago's fiber-fill sleeves for MacBook and iPad could be for you. They're a soft cases for your devices that are also environmentally friendly because the material in them is recycled. And these sleeves won't break the bank, either. You can choose from different sizes and colors and pay less than $30 in some cases. Check out the collection in the Cult of Mac Store.

A recent iPhone is simply going to give you better video quality than a MacBook webcam. Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac SwitchEasy's MagEasy MagLink Magnetic iPhone Mount for MacBooks provides a handy way to stick your iPhone on your MacBook to use the handset, via Continuity Camera, as a webcam. Recent iPhones have superior optics and solid microphones. Not only that, but the mount can serve as an iPhone stand or a grip for other uses, too. While the clever little mount's stability worried me at times, it works and it won't break the bank at $29.

Apple's M2 MacBook Air is one of the best laptops a regular consumer can buy. With an all-new design, the M2 MacBook Air comes in four color options: Midnight, Space Gray, Silver, and Starlight. While the color choice of a technology product might seem subjective, some colors are better than others in certain areas. Let's take a look at each color to determine which one is right for you. 1. Midnight Apple Image Credit: Apple Midnight is the brand-new color for the M2 Air. It's the darkest color we have seen on a Mac in a while.

Both Samsung and Apple started 2023 with some great product refreshes. Apple launched a new MacBook Pro featuring the M2 Pro and M2 Max chip, and Samsung launched the Galaxy Book 3 Pro series. Considering that these are both high-end products with premium features like pixel-dense screens and fresh new CPUs under the hood, a comparison comes naturally. If you're on the fence about which device to buy, we've put together this guide that looks beyond the basic apples-to-oranges comparison of Windows vs macOS and Apple M2 vs 13th-generation Intel CPUs that you'll often see.

A quick look inside the base-level M2 Pro MacBook Pro revealed something I hadn't expected to see - or, rather, something I HAD expected to see that was missing. Like the base level M2 MacBook Air, the base level of the latest MacBook Pro seems to feature less NAND chips - at a higher capacity - than the last generation. This results in SSD read and write performance dramatically lower than the previous generation. The base model M1 and M2 MacBook Air provide just 256GB of storage. With the M1 MacBook Air, that storage was split between two 128GB Kioxia NAND chips.

Here's your chance to get a cosmetically imperfect iPhone 13 or other handset on the cheap. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The discount site Woot! is at it again with its great-deals-on-a-deadline thing. On Tuesday we noticed it's offering cheap prices on a range of refurbished iPhone and Apple Watches that might show moderate wear, like minor scratches and dents. Thing is, the sale ends Tuesday at midnight CT/10 p.m. PT. That's just hours away. Woot! sale offers deals on refurbished iPhones and Apple Watches Woot!, owned by Amazon, offers several choices of iPhone and Apple Watch in the sale, in some cases with a choice of colors and sizes.

The Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra is arguably one of the most exciting laptops of the year - packing the latest 13th Gen Intel and Nvidia RTX 40-series power into some seriously ultraslim dimensions.We're in the very early days of testing the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, but it's ticking all the right boxes to be a good option for creative pros. This makes one thing abundantly clear: Samsung has the 16-inch MacBook Pro in its sights, gunning hard for supremacy as the ultimate creator laptop. So, let's go down the list of reasons why the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra beats out Apple's latest 16-inch MacBook Pro.

If the new Macs and HomePod announced last week didn't satiate your appetite for Apple news, maybe these new iPhone 15 rumors will: A well-known Twitter leaker has spilled the most exciting details yet about Apple's next iPhone. ShrimpApplePro claims a source has seen the design of the iPhone 15 series and can share a few details. As expected, the sizes offered will be the same as the iPhone 14 range, with two 6.1-inch models and two 6.7-inch models, and the Dynamic Island will reportedly be coming to all four of them.

The differences between the regular and Pro iPhones will only increase with iPhone 15. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac/Pixabay/Pexels A leaked internal Apple document confirms the company is adopting Wi-Fi 6E on the 2023 iPhones. However, only the iPhone 15 Pro lineup will support the faster Wi-Fi standard. The internal document shows the antenna architecture of devices codenamed 'D8x,' iPhone 15 Pro, and 'D8y,' the regular iPhone 15. Only 2023 Pro iPhone models will feature Wi-Fi 6E support Multiple analysts have recently claimed Apple will adopt Wi-Fi 6E with this year's iPhone refresh.

The iPhone 15 lineup is expected to be released this fall, and as we slowly approach that release, more rumors on what to expect will begin to leak. Today, a new rumor claims that the iPhone 15 devices will match the iPhone 14 lineup in screen sizes. The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max (or iPhone 15 Ultra), however, will feature 'thinner bezels' than before and 'beautiful' curved edges. iPhone 15 design changes: Small but notable Today's rumor comes via the leaker ShrimpApplePro, who has a decent though not perfect track record of accuracy, including 6GB RAM for all iPhone 14 models, not just the Pro ones.