Over the years, we’ve touted the MacBook Air as the laptop for just about anyone – it’s an ideal combination of performance, features, and price. It became even more compelling when Apple redesigned it and upgraded to the M2 chip in 2022 and released

A good MacBook bag shares many qualities with Apple’s laptops. We want it to be tough, so it needs to be made from good materials. We want to use it for multiple tasks, so it needs to have plenty of pockets and compartments. Let’s admit it, with the

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or became corrupted, you had relatively few options. App

If you’ve had your Mac for a few years you may be looking longingly at the Apple website wishing you could justify the expense of buying a new one. But luckily you don’t have to fork out for a replacement computer to enjoy speed increases: in this ar

Apple Vision Pro is clearly a first-gen product. Expensive, flawed, limited and impressive. Much of what it needs to really become a mass-market device will need new hardware that is lighter, more affordable, and more fully featured. But that’s not t

As you probably know, a battery’s charge capacity diminishes over time. If you’ve recently got an M-series MacBook, you spent a good amount of money on that laptop, so you want the battery to be viable as long as possible. Fortunately, macOS has buil

One of the previous advantages of third-party virtual camera apps (such as Camo from Reincubate) over a built-in or add-on webcam used with your Mac is that they let you use an iPhone as a webcam for FaceTime, Zoom, and other videoconferencing apps.

Macworld columnist Jason Snell has written about how Apple should take more risks with its products – and I wholeheartedly agree, especially when it comes to the Mac. Makers of Windows PCs often implement odd features to stand out in a crowded market

The AI race shows no signs of slowing down. We’ve reported about how iOS 18 is expected to build in many different AI features throughout the operating system, and Apple is racing ahead with its AI research and development, publishing new research pa

After a string of operating system updates last month that patched billions of devices with hundreds of security fixes, Apple released one more in March targeting a very specific vulnerability in GarageBand. The GarageBand 10.4.11 update is for users

After launching iOS 17.4.1 last month, Apple has released a small update in macOS 14.4.1 that contains numerous bug fixes that have plagued Mac users during the month of March. Apple’s release notes state that the following bugs have been addressed i

Photoshop Elements isn’t the cheapest photo editor available for the Mac, costing £86.56, but it’s still great value for money as it’s able to use technology from the professional version of Photoshop to provide some really powerful tools for editing

The Anker 675 USB-C Docking Station solves several of your laptop’s limitations in one user-friendly, stylish and functional product. A laptop is a wonderful device, but it comes up lacking in a few areas because of its portability. First, the screen

Microsoft has revealed a number of important details about the new version of Office coming later this year. Among these is a particularly pleasing announcement for those who don’t want to sign up for a recurring subscription. The commercial preview

Whether you just got a new Mac or upgraded an old one, macOS Sonoma is filled with fun new features to explore all over the place. But after you set your new screen saver and customize your widgets, you might find one new feature you don’t actually w

Apple has launched a new page for customers that brings together a lot of separate elements across its website into a single resource. The new Manuals, Specs, and Downloads page will help you find all the information you need for any of the Apple pro

While Windows users often close down their PCs at the end of the day, those with Macs tend to leave them on indefinitely. Many Mac users engage in this behaviour because they want to pick up from where they left off, but also because experience has s

After a somewhat disappointing string of quarterly releases, Apple reported a 2 percent year-over-year revenue gain in the first fiscal quarter of 2024 on the back of $119.6 billion in revenue. And that’s with one fewer week than last year’s quarter

We here at Macworld used to complain that the MacBook line-up was too complicated, but Apple has now simplified it so it makes more sense. But what if Apple had gone even further – what if there was only one laptop line, the MacBook Pro, and nothing

After ChatGPT debuted in November of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) made a big splash in 2023, with generative AI (the ability of AI to create content) functions and services popping up all over the place. Apple, however, has barely made a peep –

This year is shaping up to be a landmark one for Apple. The Apple Vision Pro has started shipping, and it’s not just a new product, it’s a whole new computing platform for the company. So, what else could happen that would solidify 2024 as a landmark

Vision Pro is all about the future: if you think it’s too heavy or too expensive or hasn’t got enough apps, you’re just not thinking long term enough. Apple is aware that the smartphone won’t rule the tech roost forever, so it’s trying to build a pla

Sitting on a shelf in my garage is a 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro. I keep it around because it has an optical drive – it was the last Apple laptop with the feature. Since I’m the go-to tech support guy in the family, I’ve used that laptop more than I exp

No matter what you think of its future prospects, we can all agree that the Apple Vision Pro is weird, right? One of the world’s most powerful companies has spent a decade preparing to ship a new product and platform that’s embodied in a $3,500 VR he

Apple goes to great lengths to avoid calling the Apple Vision Pro a virtual reality headset. Or augmented reality, or mixed reality, or any other ‘Reality’ thing. We wrote a bit about what all these terms mean last year and they all apply to Apple Vi

A distinguishing characteristic of Apple’s ‘mixed-reality headset with video passthrough’ is the external display. When in use, it shows swirls of light, but the main feature is something Apple calls EyeSight, which offers a way for others to connect

From 1999 until 2016, Apple released and continued to sell a series of external digitally connected displays optimized for Mac users. The displays started with DVI connectors, shifted to the Apple-made ADC connection, then back to DVI, expanded to du

The Mac mini has an incredibly fast M2 or M2 Pro processor, and rivals even Apple’s most pro computers despite costing significantly less. However, as great as it is, there is a problem with the Mac mini – the upgrades are pricey and after you buy on