The popular CPU benchmarking tool Cinebench has received its latest update today and it's a pretty big one. The software brings back GPU measurement, gets Windows on Arm, and Apple M1/M2 support.
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While there are several limits to running Windows 11 Arm on Apple M1 and M2-based Macs, Microsoft has now authorized the Arm version of the OS for those PCs, along with the Microsoft 365 cloud version
AMD Zen-based processors with Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) like Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC, and Athlon CPUs have been found to be vulnerable to a new “SQUIP” side-channel attack.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of a Teams client that runs natively on Apple Silicon. The key benefit here is performance improvements as compared to running Teams on emulation.
ExpressVPN launched an app update, 11.5.0, that lets Apple Silicon Mac users use the ExpressVPN application natively, and comes with lower battery consumption as the company claims.
VMware has announced a new preview update for Fusion, free software for running virtual machines on macOS. Version 22H2 brings Windows 11 support to Macs with Apple Silicon and Intel processors.
The Adobe Premiere Pro upgrade has new features to speed up the work of social media creators. These include workspace, graphics, GPU, proxy enhancements, and popular hardware support.
Stage Manager is one of the key features of iPadOS 16 announced earlier this week. However, it's only supported on iPads with an M1 chip, and now, Apple has explained why this is the case.
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A new unofficial project is underway which is working to add native support for running Microsoft's Windows 11 on Apple Macs which run on Apple Silicon like the M1. However, these are very early days.
It was recently reported that Samsung was making a custom silicon in 2025. A new report adds to this stating that a "dream team" is working on this project to take on Apple Silicon offerings like M1.
A last-minute report has revealed exciting performance upgrades for the upcoming iPad Air "5". Apple plans to equip its latest mid-range tablet with the M1 processor and 5G support.
After eight long years and successfully developing the Apple M1 System on a Chip, Jeff Wilcox is heading back to Intel, where he will design next-gen SoC, which would be based on the x86 architecture.
Canonical has announced the availability of Multipass 1.8, a tool that lets you quickly set up Ubuntu VMs on Windows, Linux and macOS. This update brings aliases and Apple M1 support.
Apple has revealed two new chips, the M1 Pro and M1 Max. The new chips are aimed at professional users and come with the newest MacBook Pros. They outperform the competition while using less power.
Parallels Desktop 17.1 is bringing full support for running virtualized Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. There's no need to manually switch on support for TPM, as opposed to the previous version of it.
Ahead of the iPhone 13 and iOS 15 reveal later today, we can share a nice looking deal for the 256GB and 512GB MacBook Pro, powered by the machine learning M1 CPU, it's now $149.01 off.
Microsoft has confirmed that running Windows 11 on M1 Macs using virtualization software such as Parallels Desktop is not supported. So if you run into an issue, Microsoft's isn't responsible.
In a recent interview, AMD has said that it is very confident in its own abilities and isn't intimidated by the arrival of Apple's M1. The ARM-based M1 has replaced Intel's x86 CPUs in the Macs.
Apple has announced that it's bringing the Apple M1 chipset, so far only found in Macs, to the new iPad Pro. The new tablet also comes with a new Liquid Retina XDR display using mini-LED technology.
Apple is expanding the lineup of Apple Silicon-based Macs with a new iMac powered by the Apple M1. It comes in a variety of saturated colors, and features flat edges and reduced bezels.
Parallels has officially released version 16.5 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software, bringing native support for Apple Silicon Macs, making it faster and more power-efficient.
Opera Software has released a new version of Opera that supports the Apple M1 processor that was shipped last November with new Macs. Opera sees a two-times speed enhancement from the change.
Adobe has announced that Photoshop is now officially available for Apple Silicon-powered Macs, after spending a few months in beta. New features are also making their way to Photoshop for iPad.
Apple's new custom ARM processors are here, and there's a lot of good, but there's also some bad. The performance is the best we've seen from ARM so far, and the battery life is incredible.
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According to internal documents, Apple is actively investigating an issue where "pink squares" appear on the display when the M1 Mac mini is connected to it via HDMI rather than Thunderbolt.
Microsoft has released .NET 6 Preview 1. It comes with a bunch of features including support for Apple Silicon, Blazor, Mult-platform App UI toolkit, a better CLI, and performance enhancements.
In the fifth part of this series, we're going to be looking at software compatibility, installing Windows on the Mac, trying to use an iPhone with a Windows PC, app compatibility, and more.
In the fourth part of this series, we're going to be looking at hardware compatibility, testing out peripherals such as an Xbox controller, an external GPU, multiple screens, and more.
Nvidia's cloud gaming platform, GeForce Now, has added support for the new Apple M1-based macOS devices. That said, it will work on this type of hardware only via the Rosetta 2 emulator.
Apple's new custom ARM processors have been praised by reviewers, and Apple has been making some big promises. We're going to see if its new hardware can live up to the company's hype.
2020 has been a long hard year, but the technology world has marched forward with some cool new products this year. Let's take a look at some of the best products we've seen this year.
Today, Adobe announced that you can now test out a native version of Premiere Pro for ARM-based Macs. Unfortunately, there's no mention of Windows on ARM support in the announcement.
Mozilla has released Firefox 84. It brings WebRender to more systems including some Linux computers, it's the last version to support Adobe Flash and it now supports Apple Silicon CPUs natively.
A new report suggests that Apple is working on eight-, 16-, and even 32-core chips for use in higher-end Macs in 2021 and 2022. The firm is also reportedly developing GPUs with up to 128 cores.
In light of the impending launch of the first Apple Silicon-powered Macs, Microsoft has published a document saying that its Office apps will take 20 seconds longer when they're first launched.
The ARM-powered MacBook Air clocked 1687 in single-core and 7433 in multi-core tests on Geekbench, showcasing results similar to the 2019 Mac Pro and beating the higher-end 16-inch MacBook Pro.
At its One More Thing event today, Apple introduced its first ARM chip for MacBooks. The Apple M1 is built using a 5nm process, it has 16 billion transistors, and an octa-core CPU.
