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Mac mini developer test kit shows the promise of Apple Silicon

By Ed Hardy • 10:10 am, June 29, 2020

Apple A14 processor — Apple Silicon looks to be be at least as powerful as Intel processors.
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A benchmark done on a Mac mini running Apple Silicon hints that these processors will live up to the promise that they’ll offer performance comparable to Intel chips.

The evidence is preliminary, but promising.

7 huge changes for Apple users from WWDC 2020

By Ed Hardy • 4:16 pm, June 22, 2020

Tim Cook opened and closed WWDC 2020 — CEO Tim Cook and other Apple executives handled the tough job of a WWDC 2020 keynote without an in-person audience.
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Apple rose to the challenge of holding a keynote for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in an empty auditorium Monday. A range of executives took the wraps off operating system upgrades for Mac, iPhone, iPad … the whole swath of Cupertino’s devices.

The presentation went surprisingly well, considering that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the presence of the usual odd mix of highly enthusiastic Apple employees and professionally skeptical journalists.

Developers get very first iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, iPadOS 14 betas

By Ed Hardy • 2:01 pm, June 22, 2020

First betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS Big Sur and more all debuted Monday. — Developers already got their hands on pre-release versions of all the software updates from WWDC 2020.
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Apple unveiled major updates for all its operating systems at WWDC 2020 on Monday, and already released the first betas of them all. That includes iOS 14, macOS Big Sur 11, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7 and tvOS 7.

The general public won‘t get their first taste of these new updates until July, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook.