M6 iMac ships Nov 6. Who should buy it for a family desk, who should keep an M4, and when a Mac mini plus monitor wins instead.
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True Black, Steeper Price: Who Should Buy the OLED iPad mini, Who Should Wait, and Who Should Skip
The OLED iPad mini ships Nov 6 at $699. Buy, wait, or skip by the mini you own now, plus the config, pencil, case and charger worth pairing with it.
Fifty-Fifty or Nothing: Where the iPhone Duo Stops Being Enough for a Workday
Can the $1,999 iPhone Duo replace your laptop or iPad for work? The 50/50 split rule, battery reality, and the accessories that make it work.
Four Hundred Dollars Buys the Screen, Not the Speed: Sorting Out the Three New MacBook Pros
Is the OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro worth it? The real cost of the new screen, who should buy it, who should get the M6 model, and who should wait.
Apple Gave the House a Ship Date. The Cold Did Not.
The furnace in this house clicked over to heat on Sunday. Not a dramatic cold snap. Just the first morning where the kitchen tile won the argument and somebody on the team turned the dial before coffee. Apple picked the next afternoon to throw a party called Welcome Home and put a price on the …
One Foldable, Three Names: Decoding Apple’s Biggest Launch Night in Years
I watched Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event Wednesday night with three browser windows open, two colleagues on Slack, and a legal pad I filled with conflicting product names. That last part is the story nobody at Apple will admit: the biggest hardware launch in years shipped with a communications problem. The company that famously obsesses …
Apple’s Foldable Era Starts Wednesday — Here’s What I’d Buy, Wait On, and Skip Entirely
I’ve watched a lot of Apple keynotes from this desk. Somewhere around the twenty-five year mark you develop a rhythm for the second week of September: charge everything, clear the schedule, keep a notepad for the two features that actually matter versus the forty minutes of theater around them. But Wednesday’s event — Wednesday, September …