The notion that Apple was neglecting the Mac has been absolutely demolished in recent years. Not only have we seen Apple shock the industry with its line of M1 processors, but we've also seen Apple ...

Rumors of Apple ditching Intel and designing its own processors for the Mac have been floating around for years, but a new report says the company will finally take the leap in 2021. According to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The December 2025 Steam Hardware Survey reveals Apple’s M4 is now the #1 chip for Mac gamers, surpassing the legendary M1.

Attempting to determine the actual speed a processor is running at (rather than the maximum set clock speed) under Mac OS X 10.2.x can be a somewhat difficult task. The speed of the processor is ...

A new report claims that Apple will make a significant announcement at WWDC a couple weeks from now: a transition in Mac hardware away from Intel’s x86 processors and toward its own custom-designed ...

Older Macs are equipped with a PowerPC processor, which makes them incompatible with some of the newer software available for Mac. For this reason you may want to check what kind of processor your Mac ...

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Apple's successor to its M1 Apple Silicon chip could arrive in MacBook computers by the second half of this year, according to a report from Nikkei. Tentatively known as M2, the processor has ...

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New M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros are about to launch. Don't lean too heavily on upgrade order shipment delays or Apple's ...

To check computer speed boost clocks, use CPU-Z (Windows) or Intel Power Gadget (Mac). This article explains how to check the base clock speed and computer speed boost clocks on Windows and Mac ...