Apple will adjust the prices, both up and down, on the App Store in the coming time. The adjustments must be due to changes in taxes and exchange rates, reports Macrumors.
Prices for apps and in-app purchases will go up in Norway and Great Britain, among others. In Uzbekistan, however, prices are reduced as VAT has been reduced by three percent. The new prices will apply from February 13.
This time, Sweden gets away with some adjustments.
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The Odyssey Neo G7 43 inch is a new gaming monitor from Samsung that is the company’s first with a flat screen surface and mini LED lighting for higher contrast and more dimming zones for HDR content.
The screen has 4k resolution with up to 144 hertz refresh rate and 1 millisecond response time. It is certified for HDR 10 Plus and Vesa Display HDR 600, but despite the mini led lighting, it only has 400 nits of brightness.
On the back there are both display port and hdmi 2.1 connectors for connecting to a computer or modern game consoles. The screen also has a rudimentary operating system with, among other things, support for streaming content from mobiles and game streaming services.
The screen works as a USB hub and also has ethernet, wifi and bluetooth built in as well as stereo speakers with 20 watt output power.
Recently Apple launched a new model of Homepodwhich has led to speculation that an upgrade to the Homepod Mini is on the way.
According to Bloomberg’s technology writer Mark Gurman however, there is no indication that Apple is working on an imminent upgrade to the half-sized smart speaker.
Aside from new colors and price tweaks, there just isn’t enough to change.
Then it might be better for Apple to focus on the software, and there we will see more news already in the update to version 16.3 which is released this week.
Of course, it is not out of the question that Apple will launch a new model of Homepod Mini in 2024 or 2025, but expect the current model to be around for a while longer.
If I had to guess, I’d think Apple sold fewer than 1,000 Mac Pros last year. Between the long wait for Apple’s processor, the release of Mac Studio, and the lack of meaningful upgrades, Apple’s most expensive Mac likely sold only to the most desperate or unsuspecting customers.
It wasn’t meant to be. When John Ternus teased our curiosity by saying the Mac Pro would arrive “another day” at Apple’s Peek Performance event last March, he seemed to be hinting at a machine considerably larger than the Mac Studio and its massive M1 Ultra chip. Fast forward 10 months and we’re still waiting for the Apple Mac Pro to launch.
The safest bet is for the Mac Pro to launch in time for WWDC, where the last three models made their debut in 2006, 2013 and 2019. Apple likes to make a grand entrance with the Mac Pro, and the WWDC keynote is the perfect opportunity to do so, with a audience that is ready and willing to spend tens of thousands of kroner on a Mac “designed for professionals who need ultimate cpu performance.”
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But while there’s no doubt that the new Mac Pro will once again take its rightful position at the top of the Mac pyramid, performance may not be anywhere near the strides made by previous models. When the M1 Ultra, with its 20-core CPU and 64-core GPU, was launched in Mac Studio, rumors began to swirl about an “extreme” chip, with an insane 48 CPU cores and 152 graphics cores, more than twice as powerful as the most maxed out Mac Studio. It would be the ultimate showcase of Apple’s processors and usher in a new Mac Pro generation that has few, if any, equals. Now rumors from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claim that Apple has discontinued the development of the “extreme” chip and will settle for a slightly hyped Ultra processor instead.
It’s still fast, but the difference between it and the Mac Studio — even if it has an M1 chip for another year — won’t be as big as we’d hoped. If the Mac Pro isn’t the fastest Mac you can buy now, and the new model won’t even be significantly faster when it launches later this year, why does it exist?
According to Gurman, the Mac Pro will have an M2 Ultra processor with a 24-core cpu and 76-core gpu, the same design as the current model, and room for storage, graphics, media and network cards, but not memory (it’s not quite clear how graphics expansion would work with Apple’s SoC, but Gurman previously reported that the Mac Pro would have “expandability for additional memory” (it’s possible his source is wrong about graphics card support). Expansion is obviously important for the Mac Pro, but with thunderbolt’s speed of 40 Gb/s, internal upgrades are not as important anymore.
But the bigger question is: what is the Mac Pro’s identity? Over the last decade or so, the Mac Pro has consistently been Apple’s most innovative and powerful desktop computer, from the fascinating but oh-so-frustrating “trash” to the current model’s state-of-the-art thermal architecture and $8,700 wheels. While Apple’s processor transition has rolled on, the Mac Pro has become less relevant and worth its price and is in desperate need of a rejuvenation, one we assumed was coming.
But if the new model is only slightly faster than the Mac Studio and slightly more expandable than, say, the Macbook Pro, then it’s not really a Mac Pro, is it? Apple’s new processors have already killed the Imac Pro, and the 27-inch Imac and Mac Pro seem to fit the same logic: a holdover from an older era that can’t live up to its own legacy. After the 24-inch Imac and Macbook Pro were redesigned to accompany their new circuits, I assumed that the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro would be something radical and revolutionary, needing years of development and a proper introduction to make the transition.
After all, that’s what the Mac Pro is supposed to be. If it isn’t, then I ask again, is it really a Mac Pro?
I used to think that the Mac Studio was a machine meant to fill the space between Mac Pro updates, but now I’m not so sure. I assumed that Apple’s “M” Mac Pro would be a breakthrough, with a new class of processor, a radically new form factor and new identity that put it back on the map. Apple has an opportunity to blow us away with both the design and speed of the Mac Pro and take its MPX modules to the next level, but if they don’t then the Mac Studio might be the only pro Mac we need.
If we assume that the price of the Apple “M” Mac Pro remains at SEK 72,000 and is only about 30 percent faster than a maxed-out Mac Studio, then it’s hard to see why anyone would spend an additional SEK 10,000 for a larger chassis and internal expansion. Apple already sells the Mac Studio with the words “groundbreaking performance, a wide range of peripheral connections and a modular system to create the perfect setup”, so if the Mac Pro doesn’t make a huge leap in performance, design and expandability, why should both exist?
Translated and edited by Petter Ahrnstedt
According to several rumors, the 2024 or 2025 Apple Watch Ultra could be the first to feature an Apple-designed micro-LED display. After that, Apple’s product series such as iPhone, iPad and Mac can also be equipped with the new screen technology, according to Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman in his newsletter Power On during Sunday.
According to reports, Apple has spent six years developing a micro-LED technology that will make images look almost as if painted directly on the screen glass, with better viewing angles, better color reproduction and improved brightness.
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The goal should be to take the technology to all of Apple’s most important products. However, for Mac it may take longer due to the complexity of the technology. It could possibly be ten years before all Mac models have a micro-led screen.
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According to information to Bloomberg so Apple should look at adding touchscreens to its Macs.
The first computer that can get a touch screen is said to be a Macbook Pro with an OLED screen that could be released until 2025. Otherwise, the design is said to be similar to previous Macbooks.
It is worth mentioning in this context that Apple’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs during his time was strongly against laptops with touch screens and said that they were terrible ergonomically. An opinion that the company’s current CEO Tim Cook also repeated in 2012.
Also worth mentioning is that Steve Jobs also once said that Apple would not continue with mobile phones.
Apple themselves have declined to comment on the whole thing.
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