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Category: Hardware

An iMac will never be a monitor*

I have a 2019 iMac. It is a magnificent slab of aluminum and glass, housing a 5K Retina display that is so sharp it could probably perform eye surgery. It is a beautiful thing to look at—sleek, minimalist, and expensive. But there is a snag. The silicon brains inside are now so ancient they struggle …

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16GB of ram is NOT the figure to look at

It is one of the most enduring mysteries of the modern age. It ranks right alongside “Why do people eat kale?” and “How does a fax machine actually work?” You are talking, of course, about the catastrophic, brain-melting, universal confusion between Memory (RAM) and Storage (the Hard Disk). Every single day, someone can walk into …

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A MESH network is the answer to your wifi woes

You’ve just sat down in the upstairs study with a gin and tonic, ready to watch a high-definition documentary about the history of the stapler. You click ‘Play,’ and what do you get? A spinning circle. A little grey ring of misery that tells you the internet, which you pay a king’s ransom for every …

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Considering the MacBook neo

Every once in a while, Tim Cook and his minions stand on the roof of, or lurk around the grounds of, the Apple spaceship all wearing sneakers that cost more than my house, and tell us that they have “reinvented the future.” Usually, this involves moving a button three millimetres to the left or making …

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Your new cable is smarter than you think

Over the years I have heard a lot of people complain about Apple and their cables. It seems to most people that Apple comes out with a new cable all the time, keeping consumers on their toes and reaching into their pockets. Just a few weeks ago I told a client that their new iPhone …

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