MacBook Air destroys pricier Dell laptop

August 23, 2022

Remember the megahertz wars?

Throughout the nineties and noughties, PC manufacturers made a big deal of the speed difference between PCs and Macs, which was measured in megahertz. Macs often trailed.

CPU speed was a big deal, and you couldn't read a trade mag or website without seeing a constant drumbeat about how Apple was doomed because it couldn't compete on speed.

Fast forward to today, and the tables have turned. Apple silicon is way faster than chips from rivals -- as our top story today amply demonstrates.

Apple is so far ahead, it's lapping the competition. And it's only going to get worse for Dell and HP this fall when Apple updates its MacBook Pro lineup.

And yet there's a deafening silence in much of the trade press and mainstream publications about Apple's dramatic lead.

I guess CPU speed doesn't matter anymore?

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Real-world experiments with the new MacBook Air show Apple’s latest can use Parallels 18 to run Windows 11 faster than a Dell XPS Plus. It’s a tribute to the performance of the Apple M2 processor in the latest Air.

Updated versions of the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro will go onto production during the last months of 2022, according to a prominent Apple analyst.

The Satechi USB-C Aluminum Tool-Free Enclosure allows M.2 PCIe NVMe and SATA solid state drives to be easily added to a Mac. Place the SSD in the rugged enclosure and it’s ready to plug into a laptop or desktop’s USB-C port.

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You can grab Apple’s petite but powerful tablet with a sweet $59.01 discount on Amazon right now. The deal brings the price down to $439.99.

Casetify, known for pop-culture imagery on its iPhone cases and other accessories, plans to mark the 35th birthday of classic game franchise Street Fighter with a slew of products featuring imagery from it.

The Adonit Neo Pro iPad stylus gets power just by being placed on the edge of the tablet. This is a trick that used to be reserved for Apple Pencil, but no more. Even better, the stylus is well-designed for note-taking and sketching, and offers palm rejection and tilt sensitivity.

On August 23, 2011, United Airlines said it would hand out 11,000 iPads to replace pilots' heavy flight bags.

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"I'd rather sell dog s*** than PCs." -- Steve Jobs.

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