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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my review of the new iMac. This is the third year and fourth generation of the Apple Silicon-era MacBook Pro design, and outwardly, few things…

Thoughts on the M4 iMac, and making peace with the death of the 27-inch model

Remembrances of a former iMac person The 27-inch iMac, back in the days when it was Apple’s mainstream power-user desktop. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple never stopped selling an entry-level iMac to cover the niche filled by the original Bondi Blue…

Review: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever

In our tests on the Mac mini, any performance gain from using High Power mode was essentially negligible, so small that we haven’t bothered to make charts showing the difference—there are signs of a very small upward nudge in a…