You’re shopping for a MacBook Air in 2026 and facing a rare choice: Apple’s still selling the M4 alongside the newer M5. At first glance the M5 costs $100 more, but it ships with double the base storage and Wi-Fi 7. With retailers already discounting the M5 below its launch price, the decision’s trickier than […]
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If you’ve been holding out for a price break on the 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s M5 chip, Memorial Day weekend 2026 is delivering. The M5 14-inch only launched in October 2025, and Apple refreshed its base config as recently as March 2026, so real discounts on the latest chip are still rare. This weekend,
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Apple’s MacBook Neo, announced 4 March 2026 and on sale a week later, has now spent roughly two months on the market, long enough for the launch-week spec-sheet conversation to give way to a lineup question. The first A-series Mac in Apple’s history sits at $599 ($499 education), one tier below the MacBook Air M5,
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Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo launched last March with an A18 Pro chip, four colors: Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo, and a set of trade-offs at its price point. The Neo ships with two USB-C ports (one USB 2, one USB 3; no Thunderbolt), no backlit keyboard on any configuration, and storage capped at 512GB with
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Apple turns 50 tomorrow, April 1, 2026. Half a century since Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne signed a partnership agreement in a Los Altos garage and accidentally started one of the most consequential companies in modern history. Fifty years of Apple history written in products that made people line up around the block,
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Apple MacBook Ultra | AI-Generated Image Only Apple spent nearly two decades telling anyone who would listen that touchscreens don’t belong on laptops. That position held firm through the entire rise and fall of Windows convertibles, through years of iPad Pro improvements that kept creeping closer to laptop territory, and through every rumor cycle that
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You know that feeling when a product announcement makes you stop scrolling and actually read? Apple just did that with a $599 laptop. The MacBook Neo doesn’t look like a budget machine. It doesn’t feel like one either, according to everyone who’s touched a demo unit this week. It’s built from aluminum, runs the A18
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Apple didn’t book a venue. It didn’t queue up a livestream or put Tim Cook on a stage. Instead, the company rolled out six major product announcements across three days and three cities, calling the whole thing a “special Apple experience.” Press releases landed in waves between March 2 and March 4 from New York,
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Apple hasn’t released a new MacBook this colorful since, well, ever. We featured the MacBook Neo earlier when it was still unofficial, pieced together from leaked regulatory filings and an accidental PDF on Apple’s own website. Now Apple has made it real. The MacBook Neo is the company’s new entry-level laptop, and it arrives on
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Apple’s March has been a fire hose. The iPhone 17e arrived at $599 with MagSafe and the A19 chip, giving the entry iPhone its first real upgrade in years. The iPad Air M4 quietly doubled its memory to 12GB without raising the price. A spring accessory refresh painted nearly every case and Watch band in
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ARTICLE – Apple just dropped the new MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, and the spec sheet reads like someone got a little too creative with the numbers. Two chips fused together, a new type of CPU core Apple is calling “super cores,” and AI performance gains that make the previous generation look
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ARTICLE – Apple announced the MacBook Air with M5, and the tech press has mostly fixated on two things: a faster chip and a $100 price increase. Both are true. Neither tells the full story. The real action in this update lives in the details Apple moved through quickly during the announcement, the kind of
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REVIEW – If you’re on the hunt for a gorgeous laptop case made from durable, renewable materials, Oakywood has just the thing with their merino wool Felt MacBook Case. What is it? Oakywood’s Felt MacBook Case is a handcrafted merino wool felt laptop sleeve with a washpapa (washable paper) accessory pocket sewn onto the front.
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REVIEW – We live in a world where most gadgets are made from plastic or metal, and where they are often more functional than beautiful. Last year I reviewed a pair of handmade, leather wallets from Godbolé, and I fell in love with their craftsmanship and the beauty of full grain leather. Can this same
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REVIEW – If you’ve been a long-time MacBook user then you’re familiar with the way Apple makes port changes to their line. It’s a no-looking-back approach that can be refreshing and frustrating at the same time. The switch to USB-C was one that visually cleaned up the sides of their laptops leaving only the headphone
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NEWS – Apple has introduced a new 13-inch Macbook Pro with updated keyboard, double storage capacity, and available 10th generation Intel Core series processors. This marks the end of Apple’s use of its butterfly keyboard, the controversial mechanism introduced in the 12-inch Macbook in 2015. The 13-inch Macbook Pro uses Apple’s Magic Keyboard, using an
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NEWS – Bored with the look of your old MacBook Pro? Twelve South is here to inject a little color into your life with ColorKit for MacBook. ColorKit allows you to change the color of your MacBook Pro from the inside out. The kit includes wraps to cover the top, bottom, and deck of your
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NEWS – If Santa’s elves have let it slip that there might be a new 16 inch MacBook Pro under the tree for you on Christmas Day, then you should consider a cover to protect it from everyday wear and tear. For a premium laptop like the 16 inch MacBook Pro, you need a premium
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REVIEW – Sleeves and covers for laptops abound. No matter the size, shape, or model, you can probably find a cover that gives you padding for your “ultrabook” design laptop. What many folks want, however, is something that shows their personality, their style. If you’re a MacBook user who loves wool, leather, and natural finishes
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ARTICLE – Sadly, my 12-inch MacBook is sick and needs surgery. It’s suffering from a debilitating SKD (Stuck Key Disease). Yes, it’s one of the 1000’s, maybe millions of Apple MacBooks with the newer generation keyboards that are obviously flawed due to their thinner mechanisms that are susceptible to breakage. I’ve been dealing with a
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