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LG hss done some lousy things, but I wouldn't assume its smart home tech will have an open pipeline, especially not with Apple involved.

That was quick: Bloomberg says the touchscreen MacBook and OLED iPad mini (plus an M6 14-inch MacBook Pro) will arrive separately, on October 27th. Not surprisng as Apple no doubt wants the October 13th event to focus on the smart home, but it's worth noting.

I'm curious about that as well, although it does have a good mix of higher-end systems (think ROG, ExpertBook, some ZenBook models). Maybe it's just that ASUS isn't as much of a household name for cheap PCs.

The Q3 2026 PC market share estimates are out, and shipments were lousy for almost everyone, but Apple and ASUS actually gained market share as their damage was relatively limited. The explanation: most companies shipped a ton of PCs earlier in the year to delay price hikes, but now they've...

From what I've seen, the cameras will be LG models that were co-developed with Apple. Still, it'll be nice to have smart home devices that Apple explicitly optimized for HomeKit.

Apple has announced a "Welcome Home" event for October 13th — interestingly, in New York City rather than Apple Park in Cupertino. The headliner is expected to be a smart home hub that looks like an iMac G4. It will apparently have a six-inch by six-inch screen and an interface that looks like...

Jumping that far ahead is going to be an absolute treat. Dramatically faster, a far nicer display, much better cameras, and significantly longer battery life (even compared to when your iPhone 11 was new). It should be considerably better at lasting five-plus years.

This makes Apple look tastefully restrained, even with Siri AI woven throughout its software. You can leave the AI alone and it won't be in your face.

I’ve used some of the new ones. The Dell 14S is leaps above the company’s previous budget laptops, even if Wildcat Lake isn’t a major performance upgrade. The catch, of course, is that the Neo still does some things better and is the reason the new 14S exists in the first place. It’s hard to...

I would like Apple to squeeze in a larger battery. I've seen better results than Josh's in some cases. However, I'd want the Neo to hold up under these kinds of workloads. I'm not expecting the same capacity as in the Windows machines (they need it to offset their higher power draw), just...

You're exaggerating things. The Core Series 3 does pull out in front in some tests, but not enough to meaningfully make a difference. And not only is the HP's screen lower resolution, but there's 16GB of RAM. The only area where the chip clearly wins is battery life — Apple's smaller battery...

They have, and the general rule is that the A18 Pro wins in single-core while Core Series 3 does better in multi-core. And of course, memory plays an issue; the Mac is much better at juggling multiple apps with 8GB of RAM even when it has to use swap memory. I''ve said it before, but I'll say...

There was an in-depth analysis video I shared earlier that notes the chip is in its thermal limits. It's not going to cook itself; if it can work in a titanium iPhone without cooling (albeit getting warm), it can certainly survive a much larger aluminum casing. And performance-wise, an A18 Pro...

You can do a lot of things with it, including light audiovisual editing. I'd further note that Core Series 3 isn't really better than the A18 Pro, and that 8GB of RAM on a Mac is much more usable than 8GB in Windows (at least until Microsoft streamlines its OS). There's no model sales...

As I like to put it: the days of fierce platform debates are largely over (arguably, should never have started). There are certainly reasons to choose one platform over another, and specific complaints (Apple's walled garden, Microsoft's Windows-as-marketing-tool strategy). But the gaps have...