Whisky, a gaming-focused front end for Wine’s Windows-compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer’s toolkit, it could be seen as a great loss, but its developer hopes you’ll move on with what he considers aContinue Reading
If your hard drive is full, and you’re not sure what could possibly be taking up all that space, you might think your only option is to tediously go through your file lists, one by one. Thankfully there are applications that will not only highlight where you might be ableContinue Reading
Great Mac Accessories Photograph: Brenda Stolyar The fun part about a desktop computer is that you can outfit it with all of your favorite accessories, and there are many great options out there. Here are a few recommendations, and you can find more in our Best MacBook Accessories guide. SatechiContinue Reading
Macs are powerful machines straight out of the box. Whether you’re using a MacBook Air or a Mac Studio, these machines can power through a wide range of tasks. But installing the right apps can up the ante on the entire experience. If you’re looking to fine-tune your workflow, stayContinue Reading
in 2020, Apple’s MacBooks entered a new era. The company announced it was moving away from the Intel chips it had been using since 2006; in their place, it rolled out the first Macs with the Apple-designed M1. Cut to 2025 and the company now offers the choice between 15Continue Reading
The M4 also gives the MacBook Air its AI boost with Apple Intelligence. The 38 TOPS of local AI processing through the faster 16-core Neural Engine makes the M4 MacBook Air closer to the 48 TOPS on Intel’s Lunar Lake chips and 45 TOPS of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips. ThisContinue Reading
In her review of the 2023 edition of the Apple Mac Studio, Brenda Stolyar called the pint-sized powerhouse “the Goldilocks Mac”—suggesting its combination of performance and price was just about perfect for power users, at least those that don’t need the hemorrhage-level bleeding-edge performance of the Mac Pro tower. TodayContinue Reading
There are all kinds of reasons to prefer Macs over Windows-based PCs. Gaming isn’t one of them. That isn’t to say that you can’t game on a Mac—modern Apple Silicon computers are fairly powerful. The problem is that many popular games don’t offer downloads that will run natively on aContinue Reading
The process of creating the USB recovery drive can take some time—about two hours based on my testing, though the speed of your system and USB drive will play a part in that—and you’ll see a message on screen when the job is done. When your recovery USB drive isContinue Reading
As the entry-level chip in the M4 family of Apple silicon (which includes the M4 Pro and M4 Max), the M4 packs a 10-core CPU and a GPU with up to 10 cores. Apple claims this CPU’s performance is up to twice as fast as the M1 version from 2020.Continue Reading
