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Foldable iPad may launch early 2024, according to top Apple analyst A foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand is reportedly in the works and may launch early 2024. This information comes from notable Apple tipster Ming-Chi Kuo via a Twitter thread . While there isn’t much to be gleaned from the short thread, what he reveals paints a rather interesting picture for the tech giant in 2023. According to Kuo, Chinese manufacturer Anjie Technology will be supplying the carbon fiber kickstand for the new device and is expected to benefit greatly from this “growing trend of foldable devices equipped with kickstands.” He goes on to say the upcoming iPad will launch alongside a revamped iPad Mini which is “likely to begin mass production” during the same time period. As for the near future, things are going to be a little unfriendly towards consumers. Kuo says it’s possible “there may be no new iPad releases in the next [nine to 12] months” as Apple works on its upcoming devices. He also ...

The Google Pixel Tablet could be the Pixel Tablet Pro in all but name A while ago, one leak suggested Google might be working on a Pixel Tablet Pro alongside the standard Pixel Tablet , but now it looks like that standard slate has been scrapped, with only the Pro remaining. This claim comes from Twitter user Kuba Wojciechowski , who says that the only major difference between the standard Pixel Tablet and the Pixel Tablet Pro is the chipset – with the former using the original Tensor chipset found in the Pixel 6 series, and the Pro using the Tensor G2, found in the Pixel 7 series. So unless Google is aiming for a budget slate, it makes sense to cancel the Tensor G1-powered model – as it apparently has done – as that would be a too dated by launch time. As it turns out, Google initially created "tangor" (T6) with a first-generation Tensor chip (as I also leaked before https://bit.ly/40aiH7m) but then cancelled the project in favour of a Tensor G2-powered "tango...

Exclusive: here’s your first look at the OnePlus Pad, launching alongside the OnePlus 11 The OnePlus 11 is getting its global launch on February 7, but it won’t be alone, because OnePlus has confirmed to TechRadar that the OnePlus Pad will be launching alongside it. Better yet – the company's even shared the first image of the tablet with us, giving you the first official look at the slate. You can see that picture at the top of this article, with the company’s first tablet coming in a Halo Green shade, which OnePlus claims “blends the vibrancy of life with the vastness of space”. There may be other colors offered too, but this is the only one we’ve been told about. The design of the OnePlus Pad includes an aluminum alloy body and a cambered frame, which should make it comfortable to hold for extended periods, according to OnePlus. There’s a single-lens camera jutting out of the rear in a central position, which is apparently an ideal position for taking photos, since it’s m...

Apple, why the heck is my new MacBook’s SSD so slow? If you’re considering picking up one of the newly-released MacBook Pro M2 models, watch out: it looks like Apple has cut some corners (presumably in the name of keeping manufacturing costs down) when it comes to the SSD found in the entry-level iterations of the new laptop. As spotted by @ZONEofTECH on Twitter, the 512GB drive found in the base configuration of the 2023 MacBook Pro is significantly slower than the SSD used in the previous M1-powered model. It’s a fairly major drop; over 400MB/s slower writes and almost 1,400MB/s slower reads. This Tweet was later corroborated by 9To5Mac , who ran their own tests and received similar results. Unlike @ZONEofTECH, though, 9To5Mac went one step beyond and cracked open their M2 MacBook Pro to take a closer look at the storage on the motherboard itself. BREAKING: We’ve just discovered that the base 14” M2 Pro MacBook Pro (512GB) is considerably slower than the previous 14” M1 Pro ...

Fed up with noisy laptop fans? Fanless cooling tech could soon bring you peace An innovative new cooling solution could lead to the demise of the laptop fan, if it really is as effective as its creators suggest. San Jose-based firm Frore Systems have developed a revolutionary new ‘cooling chip’ that could be implemented to provided superior - and near-silent - cooling for everything from the best ultrabooks to even the best VR headset . This isn’t passive cooling, either; despite the lack of fans, these chips (dubbed the ‘AirJet’) provide active airflow by vibrating super-thin membranes inside the chip at ultrasonic frequencies to generate jets of air. The name is nothing if not appropriate. This process provides cooling by sucking colder air in through small vents on the upper surface of the chip, then blasting it through a narrow chamber on the underside, where it comes into contact with a heat spreader plate. The spreader absorbs heat from the component being cooled (for examp...

The latest Apple rumor points to an OLED iPad Pro arriving in 2024 It's been rumored for several years that Apple is thinking about switching its iPad Pro tablets to OLED display technology, and the latest report from the supply chain says the first of these updated devices are due to arrive in 2024. This is from ET News in South Korea (via MacRumors ), which claims that development is now underway on an iPad with an OLED screen. The display departments at Samsung and LG are apparently in line to provide the panels. The current iPad Pro models feature mini-LED LCD technology: while this has a slightly higher ceiling in terms of maximum brightness when compared with OLED, OLED can't be beaten in terms of contrast and the deepness of its blacks. Same sizes According to the report, the screen sizes of 11 inches and 12.9 inches are going to remain the same as Apple makes the switch, so in terms of the dimensions and the form factors of the iPad Pro there won't be any ob...

Don't worry, Quordle is not going behind a paywall, says Merriam-Webster For all those who feel a certain pride in playing Quordle, the five-letter word game best known for being four times as difficult as Wordle, your word quest is vindicated. Iconic dictionary brand Merriam-Webster bought up the popular online puzzler and announced it on Thursday. Merriam-Webster, which is owned by Encyclopedia Britannica, quietly snapped up the game, which launched shortly after Wordle became an online phenomenon in late 2021. Quordle has a lot in common with Wordle . Where Wordle asks you to solve a five-letter word puzzle in five guesses, Quordle asks you to simultaneously solve four five-word puzzles in nine attempts. A typical Quordle result that you can share without giving away the answers. Yes, it's a lot like Wordle...but harder. (Image credit: Future) Both present you with a standard virtual keyboard and after you enter a five-letter word guess, letters appear across a...

MacBook Air 2023 could be faster and sleeker with new M3 chip A MacBook Air with M3 chip will be unleashed on the world by Apple in the second half of 2023, if a new rumor is to be believed. As MacRumors flagged up, this comes from DigiTimes (not our most favored reliable source, it has to be said – and we’ll come back to that later), which asserts that the MacBook Air arriving later this year will use a 3nm chip (meaning it’ll be an M3, dropping down from the 5nm process used with the M2 SoC). DigiTimes tells us: “The supply chain is more focused on the more affordable MacBook Air, which is expected to be updated in the second half of 2023 and may be equipped with a 3nm processor.” Note that there’s a certain amount of vagueness here in that the claim is the portable may have a 3nm (M3) chip. Of course, we heard similar rumors that the M2 Pro and Max could be built on 3nm last year, but they turned out to be false, with Apple saving the drop in process for the M3 (which will...

More on new MacBooks: Shaky M2 Pro rumors dispelled, but Wi-Fi 6E support has a catch Apple’s new MacBook Pros – and Mac mini – have freshly arrived on the scene packing new spins on the M2 chip, and we’ve caught some fresh info on how Wi-Fi 6E support works – with a major caveat – along with an informative glance at the M2 Pro die. Let’s start with Wi-Fi 6E support which these new Macs incorporate, but the catch is that not all macOS apps will be able to benefit. At least not initially, anyway, because as 9 to 5 Mac reports, the co-founder of Intuitibits – which makes the WiFi Explorer app – let us know that some apps can’t yet use Wi-Fi 6E with these Apple devices. Changes are needed in macOS and its frameworks for 3rd party apps to take advantage of the new 6E Wi-Fi interface. I'm hoping Apple will make those changes available as soon as possible. https://bit.ly/3HeuSbR January 17, 2023 See more Why not? Because as the tweet explains, macOS as it stands doesn’t have...

Samsung hints it is giving Galaxy Book the Galaxy S23 Ultra treatment Samsung is dropping hints that its next Galaxy Book Windows laptop , expected at Unpacked on February 1, will get the Ultra treatment, similar to the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra tablet and the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra phone. That likely means an S Pen on board, since Samsung shut down its Note family of devices to focus on Ultra. We could also see improved cameras as well as a sky-high price tag.  In a blog post from TM Roh , President and Head of the Mobile eXperiences (MX) Business, Samsung digs deep into what the evolution from Note to Ultra branded devices means. Roh cites performance and camera capabilities, then says that “Ultra means big.” In advance of the Samsung Unpacked event in San Francisco, the company is already taking online reservations for two devices, a smartphone and a Galaxy Book, presumably a Windows laptop following up on the Galaxy Book 2 Pro . That laptop tops out at 15 inches, but we migh...

Nvidia RTX 4090 and 4080 gaming laptops spotted with prices to make your wallet cower Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and 4080 are debuting in laptops very soon, and we’ve caught another glimpse of pricing – underlining just how expensive notebooks boasting these GPUs will be, particularly the Lovelace flagship. The new prices are from Micro Center, which is now listing MSI gaming laptops as Wccftech reports, with the top model being the MSI Titan 17 with the RTX 4090. This portable weighs in at a rather monstrous $4,700 (around £3,800, AU$6,800) in the US (also packing the mighty Core i9-13980HX processor, the Intel Raptor Lake flagship). For the MSI Raider 17 with the RTX 4080 laptop graphics card (and same CPU), the version with 32GB of DDR5 system RAM plus 2TB SSD retails at $3,300 (around £2,700, AU$4,700), but you’ll pay $4,000 (around £3,300, AU$5,700) if you want 64GB of RAM (and the same 2TB SSD). Remember, Nvidia said that RTX 4080 and 4090 laptops would start from $1,999 in th...

MacBook Pro 16-inch (2023): everything we know about Apple's newest laptop Apple has just unveiled a bunch of new MacBook Pro models, equipped with the shiny new M2 Pro and M2 Max processors. You can read about the 14-inch model here , but in this article, we're going to be examining the bigger (and more expensive) 16-inch version. Thanks to the newly powered-up M2 Pro and Max chips, we can definitely expect the 2023 MacBook Pro 16-inch to make its way onto our list of the best MacBooks and Macs , not unlike the mighty MacBook Pro 13-inch (2022) , which didn't have those chips - instead using the standard M2 SoC found in the MacBook Air (2022) . There's a lot to like here, from uber-powerful new silicon to a pleasingly sane price model. Sure, they're still seriously expensive devices, but that shouldn't be surprising to anyone remotely familiar with Apple hardware; the important thing here is that we're not looking at any huge generational price jumps. ...

MacBook Pro 14-inch (2023): everything we know about Apple's new pro laptop Apple has announced a new selection of MacBook Pro models, using the new M2 Pro and M2 Max processors and coming in 14- and 16-inch variants. We're looking at the 14-inch version here, breaking down everything we know so far. The new silicon at the heart of these Apple laptops could render them some of the best MacBooks ever made, following on from the excellent 2022 MacBook Pro 13-inch - which used the same standard M2 chip found in last year's MacBook Air . Fortunately, it looks like Apple hasn't pulled the same trick here as it did with the new M2 Air, since pricing is largely the same for the M2 MacBook Pro models as it was for the 2021 M1 Pro and Max models . Read on for all the rest of the key details we have right now - we'll be reviewing this new MacBook Pro as soon as we get our hands on one, so watch out for that too! MacBook Pro 14-inch (2023): Cut to the chase What is i...

Apple surprise launches new MacBook Pro and Mac mini - plus M2 Plus and M2 Max Apple has quietly launched new 2023 models of the 16-inch and 14-inch MacBook Pros, alongside powerful M2 Pro and M2 Max chips - follow-ups to the M1 Pro and M1 Max . According to Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, "Today the MacBook Pro gets even better. With faster performance, enhanced connectivity, and the longest battery life ever in a Mac, along with the best display in a laptop, there’s simply nothing else like it." Pre-orders go live today, and will ship beginning January 24. This story is breaking... Click here to read full article. Download our Android App for all the latest Tech News: Click here to download our DTG Android App #DigiTechGeeks #DTG

New Apple MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and Max chips could be revealed today Apple could be planning to launch new MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips later today, if a pair of fresh rumors line up as some are theorizing. The first leak, as MacRumors reports, is a filing that has been spotted in a Canadian database (Industry Canada Radio Equipment List), pertaining to an inbound MacBook Pro and its Wi-Fi 6E support (as flagged by Wade Penner on Twitter). New Apple MacBook Pro model A2779 seen in Industry Canada Radio Equipment List database. Approved on January 11, 2023. Likely the new M2 Max or M2 Pro. Device will support WiFi 6E / 6GHz band. pic.twitter.com/KmSo1aGp7G January 16, 2023 See more This isn’t a source we’re familiar with, but MacRumors has dug into this and confirms that the filing exists (but we should still obviously add a whole heap of seasoning to any leak). The second part of this is that there has been separate chatter on the grapevine – from w...

Laptops with Nvidia RTX 4090 through to 4050 GPUs are about to go on sale Nvidia’s Lovelace laptop GPUs are inbound and we already knew portables carrying these RTX 4000 graphics cards would debut in February, but now we’ve heard exactly when the various cards should be emerging next month. This is according to Chinese tech site IT Home (flagged up by Wccftech , via VideoCardz ), and as ever, we must be skeptical around rumors, but the contention is that Nvidia will first launch RTX 4090 and 4080 models on February 8. That’s when these laptops will start shipping, but you’ll actually be able to order the machines on February 1, a week in advance, the report asserts. Laptops which run with the RTX 4070, 4060 and 4050 GPUs will be available later in the month, going on sale February 22. Pricing for the lower-tier RTX 40 laptops released later in the month starts from $999 (around £820, AU$1,430), with price tags for the RTX 4080 and 4090 portables starting from $1,999 (around £1...

MacBook Pro 2022 models appear to get delayed yet again Apple’s rumored MacBook Pros with the M2 Pro and Max chips have suffered another delay going by the latest from the rumor mill. According to a report from DigiTimes , highlighted by Tom’s Hardware , these MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch models have been “delayed once again” (if you recall, these refreshes were originally expected to debut at the end of 2022 ). More recent rumors claimed we could see the laptops in Q1 of this year, but now DigiTimes is saying that they won’t be out early in 2023. Of course, as ever with the grapevine, we need to be very cautious about accepting this at face value. What we aren’t told is when the MacBook Pros will actually arrive, but we can tap another source for further info here. Mark Gurman has just said (in his newsletter) that the revamped MacBook Pros are set to arrive in the first half of 2023, where previously the well-known leaker was asserting a possible Q1 launch date. That would s...

Ignore the haters, Apple – I’d love a touchscreen MacBook Steve Jobs may have hated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook, but it looks like Apple may finally be warming to the idea, and if true, I think this is a great move. A new report from Bloomberg suggests that Apple engineers are working on a project to finally bring touchscreens to Macs – possibly to a MacBook Pro sporting a new OLED display in either 2024 and 2025.  Now, before I (or you) get too excited, this is all rumor at this point, and no release date is even mentioned in the report, suggesting that even if Apple is working on touchscreen MacBooks, it may still not have made its mind up on them ever seeing the light of day. The whole project could be scrapped if Apple thinks it won’t work (as it did in the past). Now, there will be people out there who agree with Steve Jobs' earlier dismissal of touchscreen laptops, even after all this time. After all, who knew MacBooks better than Jobs, once-CEO of Apple? While ...

Nvidia RTX 4090 laptop GPU price revealed – and it’s seriously expensive Nvidia’s RTX 4090 laptop GPU was revealed at CES 2023 , but if you want this power-packed graphics card, how much will it cost you? The unsurprising answer is a small fortune, going by the price of an upgrade to the RTX 4090 on an XMG gaming laptop . VideoCardz spotted that in a YouTube video from Jarrod’sTech , pricing is listed for the various RTX 40 Series graphics card options that buyers can choose from when purchasing XMG’s Neo 16, an incoming gaming portable packing Intel’s Core i9-13900HX Raptor Lake CPU (and a whole load of other high-end goodies). The base model of the Neo 16 comes with the RTX 4060, retailing at €2,199 (around $2,360, £1,940, AU$3,420). If you want to upgrade that to the RTX 4090, the cost is a whopping €1,687 (around $1,810, £1,490, AU$2,630). XMG’s prices for other Nvidia Lovelace GPUs come to a relatively palatable €375 (around $400, £330, AU$580) for the RTX 4070, but then t...

Eyes on with Vuzix Ultralite: affordable (and amazing!) AR glasses for everyone  “Nobody wants to look like the guy who just stepped off the Starship Enterprise,” Paul Travers, the president of AR eyewear maker Vuzix tells me.  He’s being polite here, so I’ll say what he won’t: It’s hard to wear current VR and AR headsets for more than an hour. They’re heavy! Microsoft’s Hololens is really neat, but at a pound and a half, it’s a lot of headgear to wear around. And Magic Leap is cool, sure, but they look odd when you’re wearing them. Vuzix has the answer. At CES 2023 , the company unveiled new Ultralite AR glasses, ordinary-looking plastic frames with a tiny projector tucked in one stem and a tiny battery and Bluetooth radio in the other. Combine that with Vuzix’s waveguides – a layer in the glasses that bends the projector’s light into your line of sight – and you’ve got ordinary-looking glasses that do the extraordinary. The author wearing sunglasses enhanced by ...