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Tag: Ars Technica

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iPhone 17: ‘The best value for the money’

Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:30 pmThursday, September 25, 2025No Comments

Apple’s iPhone 17 features the new Center Stage front camera that takes selfies to the next level, a powerful 48MP Fusion Main camera…

‘Apple’s iPhone Air is a bunch of small changes that add up to something big’ – Ars Technica

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 3:02 pmWednesday, September 24, 2025No Comments

Apple’s all-new iPhone Air is the thinnest iPhone ever made and, to boot, offers pro performance. iPhone Air features a breakthrough…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s M2 Pro Mac mini: ‘A major speed upgrade’

Monday, January 23, 2023 9:39 am1 Comment

Apple last week unveiled the new Mac mini, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, Mac mini is even more powerful…

Ars Technica reviews iPhone 13 lineup: ‘Better battery life, superior cameras, and great screens’

Friday, September 24, 2021 11:03 am1 Comment

Market research shows that the vast majority of smartphone users really wish for three things: great battery life, excellent cameras, and…

Ars reviews new iPhone SE: Reliable, blazing fast, easily recommended

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:12 am2 Comments

Ars Techinca is out with their comprehensive review of Apple’s new iPhone SE (2020).On April 15th, Apple announced the second-generation iPhone SE…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iPadOS: It’s now viable to replace your MacBook with an iPad

Friday, October 11, 2019 5:32 pmFriday, October 11, 201925 Comments

If you’re looking to replace your laptop with an iPad, congratulations; Apple has listened to your feedback and made it viable for the first time…

Ars Technica reviews macOS 10.15 Catalina: ‘The end of a three-year effort to modernize the Mac’

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:41 pm1 Comment

You’d never know from the length of these reviews, but no individual macOS release since the yearly update cadence began really feels like a massive leap up from its predecessor…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iOS 13: There’s a lot more to this update than just Dark Mode

Friday, September 20, 2019 2:00 pmFriday, September 20, 201910 Comments

iOS 13 does bring a new look to the software that runs on iPhones, overhauls a few oft-criticized first-party applications, and…

Apple’s Project Catalyst polarizes developers ahead of iOS 13, macOS Catalina launches

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 3:00 pmThursday, September 5, 20192 Comments

iOS and macOS developers have thoughts on what’s good and what’s still surprisingly bad about Apple’s plan to get iOS apps on the Mac…

Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs

Monday, July 1, 2019 3:25 pmMonday, July 1, 20191 Comment

Ars spoke with key members of the Apple team responsible for developing and promoting Project Catalyst

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s new Mac mini: ‘A jack-of-all-trades system’

Friday, November 23, 2018 1:02 pmFriday, December 7, 201819 Comments

With the newest Mac mini, gone is the two-core, four-thread 28W Haswell processor with up to 16GB soldered RAM…

Ars Technica reviews Apple Watch Series 4: Makes a big difference in the Apple Watch experience

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 3:44 pmWednesday, September 26, 20182 Comments

A larger screen, faster performance with improved sensors, fall detection, and ECG readings…

Ars Technica reviews macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Mac’s best update in years

Monday, September 24, 2018 5:21 pm20 Comments

I recommended against upgrading to High Sierra right away because the operating system’s early bugs…

Ars Technica reviews iPhone X: Easy to recommend if you want a glimpse at the future

Friday, November 3, 2017 1:25 pmFriday, November 3, 20178 Comments

Apple has positioned iPhone X as a blueprint for all handsets to come…

Ars Technica imagines a new Mac Pro, the ‘iMac Pro,’ and the future of Apple’s desktops

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 11:02 amTuesday, April 11, 201714 Comments

After the October 2016 product came and went with no mention of the rumored desktops, complaints and anxiety about the state of Apple’s high-end computers reached a fever pitch…

Apple’s A9X-powered iPad Pro offers Mac-like speed

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:55 pmWednesday, November 11, 201520 Comments

I’ve been asked several times to sum up what I think of the iPad Pro…

AnandTech: iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus preliminary results

Monday, September 28, 2015 12:56 pm7 Comments

Apple has effectively taken their Macbook SSD controller and adapted it for use in a smartphone…

Ars Technica reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: 3D Touch and the A9 chip are the stars of the show

Monday, September 28, 2015 10:55 amMonday, September 28, 20158 Comments

Apple’s A9 uses a dual-core ARM CPU based on a custom 64-bit CPU architecture…

Ars Technica reviews iPad mini 4: A lighter, faster tablet with a better screen

Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:19 pm10 Comments

It’s nice to see a Mini that can match the standard iPad in both resolution and quality…

Ars Technica reviews 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro: ‘New model, two-year-old processor’

Thursday, June 4, 2015 2:25 pmThursday, June 4, 201524 Comments

Apple released a new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro last month…

After fifteen years, Ars Technica says goodbye to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews

Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:54 pm18 Comments

John has published a review for every major OS X revision stretching back to…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iWork ’14: Still waiting for that great leap forward

Friday, November 28, 2014 1:02 pmFriday, November 28, 201417 Comments

The new versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers mainly…

Ars Technica reviews OS X Yosemite: A great victory for the newly collaborative Apple

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:28 pmTuesday, October 21, 201424 Comments

Apple no longer views the Mac in isolation, and neither should you…

Ars Technica reviews Apple iPhone 6/Plus: There’s a lot more going on here than just big displays

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:53 am15 Comments

Big-screened iPhones are what the people want, and Apple has acquiesced…

Ars Technica reviews iOS 8: ‘Transformative’

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:25 pmWednesday, September 17, 20146 Comments

A surface-level glance at iOS 8 suggests an operating system that…

Ars Technica pro reviews Apple’s 2013 Mac Pro: Powerful, but it isn’t always a clear upgrade

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:04 pmTuesday, January 28, 201411 Comments

To call Apple’s Mac Pro ‘anticipated’ definitely qualifies as an understatement…

After first month, the biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:01 pmWednesday, November 27, 201349 Comments

Brand-new software is rarely perfect…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: Very impressive

Monday, November 4, 2013 2:29 pmMonday, November 4, 201317 Comments

You don’t need to hold an iPad Air to see that it’s very different…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s OS X 10.9 Mavericks: A no-brainer upgrade

Friday, October 25, 2013 8:54 am37 Comments

Should you upgrade?

Samsung issues another vague denial regarding Galaxy S4, Note 3 benchmark cheating

Thursday, October 3, 2013 2:44 pmThursday, October 3, 201316 Comments

In the face of a second set of investigative reports detailing exactly how Samsung cheats…

Sleaze: Nearly all Android device makers cheat on benchmarks

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:31 pmWednesday, October 2, 201327 Comments

We started piecing this data together back in July…

Apple slams Samsung’s serial benchmark deceptions

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:00 pmWednesday, October 2, 201337 Comments

Samsung is artificially boosting the benchmark scores…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iOS 7: Delivers genuinely useful new features and additions

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 5:02 pmWednesday, September 18, 201328 Comments

In one sense, iOS 7 changes nearly everything about iOS…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Air: Big boosts to storage, GPU, and battery performance

Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:31 pmThursday, June 27, 20135 Comments

The stories are true! The 2013 MacBook Air is capable of 12 hours or more…

What to expect – and hope for – from Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote

Friday, June 7, 2013 2:29 pmFriday, June 7, 201312 Comments

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is finally right around the corner…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iPad mini: You’ll find yourself reaching for it over a full-sized iPad with Retina display

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 12:13 pmTuesday, November 6, 201214 Comments

I didn’t really want to like the iPad mini as much as I did before I reviewed it…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s MacBook Pro with Retina display: Sharp, crisp, pixelpalooza

Friday, June 22, 2012 11:51 amFriday, June 22, 20126 Comments

Apple is betting on the future needs of professionals…

1080p video smackdown: iTunes Store vs. Blu-ray

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:36 am61 Comments

How do iTunes 1080p downloads compare to the reigning king of home video image quality — Blu-ray Disc?

Apple iPads using iOS 6, high-res Retina displays showing up server logs

Friday, March 2, 2012 2:30 pmFriday, March 2, 201217 Comments

We began looking at iPad user agents coming from Apple’s corporate IP block…

Ars Technica reviews Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: ‘Better technology’

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:30 pmWednesday, July 20, 20119 Comments

In the same way that Mac OS X so clearly showed the rest of the industry what user interfaces would look like…

Ars Technica reviews Motorola Xoom: For the best tablet available today, look no further than Apple

Monday, March 7, 2011 11:12 amMonday, March 7, 201164 Comments

Motorola’s Xoom feels very incomplete. It feels like it was rushed to market…

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