Apple's Colorful $599 MacBook Neo Is Here, Runs A18 Pro Mobile Chip

From PC Mag: Apple's big week of March announcements has been heavily MacBook-focused, and it's finishing with the $599 MacBook Neo, a new lower-cost alternative to the MacBook Air with M5.

Apple has made this possible by using a mobile chipset to power the laptop, the A18 Pro processor produced by...

ChatGPT just got a little less chatty

From PC World: Among the most annoying habits of AI chatbots is when they lay it on thick with the cringey “you can do it!” talk or the preachy “I can’t help you with that” refusals for seemingly innocuous requests. It’s all a matter of tuning, and now there’s a new ChatGPT version that promises to...

Elgato Unveils Wave Next: The Audio Ecosystem Powering a New Era

From Corsair Press Release: Elgato, a brand of CORSAIR, today announced Wave Next, the company’s next generation of audio products and the most significant evolution of the Wave platform since its debut in 2020. Wave Next brings together six deeply integrated products: Wave Link 3.0 software, Wave:3...

Claude can now import chat histories from ChatGPT (and other AIs)

From PC World: Anthropic has released a new Import Memory tool that lets you “switch to Claude without starting over.” In short, this new tool makes it extremely easy to import chat histories from other AI chatbots (including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot) into Claude, reports Engadget.

The Import...

Apple Launches MacBook Pros With New M5 Pro, M5 Max Chips

From CNET: After shipping the M5-based version of the MacBook Pro 14 in the latter part of 2025, Apple has followed its usual pattern of releasing higher-end versions of its 14- and 16-inch MacBooks with Pro and Max versions of the processor. It's also releasing an M5 model of the MacBook Air.

The...

AMD punts Ryzen AI 400 to business desktops and laptops

From PC World: AMD’s Ryzen AI Pro 400 chip will be offered as a desktop processor, giving users another option for a low-power, efficient desktop or mini PC. But AMD is marketing both its desktop and mobile Ryzen AI 400s under its Pro brand for businesses, apparently conceding that consumers will...

Apple Refreshes iPad Air With M4 Chip, 12GB RAM

From PC Mag: Apple has refreshed the iPad Air with the M4 chip and a big memory boost.

Apple has bumped the RAM from 8GB on last year’s model to 12GB on the latest one. “With the new iPad Air, unified memory jumps 50 percent, to 12GB, and memory bandwidth increases to 120GB/s, helping users run AI...

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