Apple raised prices on several MacBook and iPad models by up to $300, citing a surge in memory and storage component costs driven by AI data center demand. Memory prices have roughly quadrupled over t…
MacBook GPU memory allocation depends on total system memory: up to 36GB allows 66% GPU usage, while 36GB or more allows 75%. Users can increase allocation via Terminal for AI models. Shared memory el…
A Hacker News user asks how MacBooks compare to dedicated GPUs for running large language models and how to determine a MacBook's capability for such tasks.…
Apple shares fell 6.1% in their worst single-day drop in over a year, wiping out about $270 billion in market value after the company raised prices on MacBook and iPad models due to rising memory and …
Apple will skip Pro and Max versions of its M6 chip, instead fast-tracking on-device AI processing for the M7 series expected in 2027, according to Bloomberg. The base M6 chip may launch this year, bu…
Apple raised prices on MacBooks, iPads, Vision Pro, and home devices globally by up to 20%, citing soaring memory and storage costs driven by AI data center demand. Analysts warn that iPhone price hik…
Microsoft raised Xbox Series X|S prices by $100 to $150, effective August 1, citing surging memory and storage costs driven by AI demand for high-bandwidth memory chips. Apple also increased MacBook a…
Apple raised prices on most of its hardware lineup, with increases ranging from 6% on the Vision Pro to 67% on the Apple TV 4K 128GB, driven by rising RAM and SSD component costs. The iPhone, Apple Wa…
Apple raised prices for MacBooks, iPads, and other products due to soaring memory and storage costs driven by AI data center expansion. The price hikes, ranging from $30 to $300, caused Apple shares t…
Apple announced a 20% price increase for MacBook and iPad models due to an AI-driven memory chip shortage that raised production costs. The company lost approximately $263 billion in market cap, and i…
Apple raised prices on MacBooks, iPads, and HomePods due to a storage and memory chip shortage driven by AI infrastructure demand, with increases up to 33%. iPhone prices remain unchanged, but analyst…
Apple announced significant price increases for its iPad and MacBook lines, citing soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by AI data center construction. The price hikes include the MacBook Air …
Samsung's Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 laptop dropped to its lowest price of $1,200 in a Prime Day deal, down from its $2,000 list price. The 16-inch Copilot+ PC features an Intel Core 7 Ultra processor, 3K A…
Apple plans to raise prices across its product lineup due to rising memory chip costs driven by AI infrastructure demand, CEO Tim Cook announced. MacBook prices have already increased by up to $400, a…
A developer released AirLLM, an open-source tool that enables running 70-billion-parameter AI models on laptops with as little as 8GB RAM, without requiring a GPU. By using memory mapping and layer sw…
NVIDIA's new RTX Spark for Windows on Arm offers 273 GB/s memory bandwidth, but Apple's MacBook still outperforms it with 614 GB/s for local LLM inference, highlighting the continued advantage of unif…
Retired Americans are increasingly spending their retirement years immersed in AI tools, chatbots, and app development, replacing traditional hobbies like golf. Interviews with 15 retirees reveal a tr…
Apple's macOS automatically puts Macs to sleep when idle to save power and protect battery life, but users can override this behavior for tasks like downloads, backups, and remote sessions. The free u…
PC makers including HP and Lenovo, alongside Microsoft, are partnering with Nvidia to challenge Apple's dominance in the laptop market. The collaboration aims to close the gap with Apple's MacBook by …
Google Gemma launched Magenta RealTime 2, an open model for live music synthesis, on Thursday via a thread on X. The model runs natively on a MacBook with low latency and accepts MIDI, text, and audio…