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Rumours are swirling that Apple is planning to release a new MacBook Air within the next couple of months, with an M2 processor and a larger 15-inch screen. And now a filing by the Bluetooth Launch Studio (fave.co/3kpjbXk) suggests the new machine may have Bluetooth 5.3 too. On 18 February, Apple apparently began the Bluetooth Qualification Process for a new Mac with Bluetooth 5.3. There are no products listed under the declaration, meaning they have not yet completed the full qualification process. Had the products in question been the new M2 Mac mini or MacBook Pros, the first Macs to use Bluetooth 5.3, the model numbers would have been listed. While it makes sense for the 15-inch MacBook Air to use Bluetooth 5.3, it would also give it an…

When Apple releases the new iPhone 15 Pro this autumn, it could offer a significant jump in performance and power efficiency than the past few models. That’s because of the A17 chip, which is almost certain to use a new 3nm chip-making process that is significantly faster and more efficient than the current 5nm process. And it could be a while before any other chip comes close. According to DigiTimes, Apple is going all-in on 3nm for the iPhone in 2023, reportedly snatching up TSMC’s ‘entire initial 3nm supply’. Apple is a priority customer for TSMC and it pays a premium to get first dibs on new manufacturing process technology – prior reports have said that TSMC charges $20,000 per wafer, which typically yields several hundred chips. It’s not unusual…

It looks like the 24-inch iMac with the M1 processor is going to stick around for a while longer. In his latest Power On newsletter (fave.co/3YVctY7), Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the next generation iMac might not see an upgrade until late 2023. Gurman wrote that he has not “seen anything to indicate there will be a new iMac until the M3 chip generation”, which would mean the 24-inch iMac skips the M2 generation altogether. The M3 chip will be manufactured using the 3-nanometre process, which could bring performance improvements that are better than the 20 percent we’ve seen between the M1 and M2, both of which are 5nm chips. Gurman says the M3 models “won’t arrive until the tail end of this year at the earliest or next year”.…

It’s been about a year since Apple surprised us with the launch of the Mac Studio with M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips, which was largely seen as a precursor to the Mac Pro. According to a new report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (fave.co/3IpuC9h), it’s a little too close to the Mac Pro. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman claims that Apple is unlike to launch a new Mac Studio “in the near future”. As he explains, the upcoming Mac Pro “is very similar in functionality to the Mac Studio”, and Apple will likely delay its chip upgrade by at least a generation so buyers aren’t confused. Gurman says Apple is more likely to “never update the Mac Studio or hold off until the M3 or M4 generation” when…

If you’ve been waiting to run Linux on your M1 Mac, we have good news: Linux 6.2, which was released this week, adds upstream support for the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra. However, there are some serious caveats. The new Linux 6.2 is considered stable enough for distribution, but according to an Asahi Linux support document, many features on Apple silicon are still labelled as a work in progress and not ready for wider testing or distribution, such as Thunderbolt, speakers, and microphones. Other features, including the webcam, Touch ID, and the Touch Bar are listed as TBA (to be announced), which means that they’re not even being worked on at the time of the posting. Despite the missing features, Linux 6.2 is functional enough for a user…

Apple’s switch to its own silicon has a lot of advantages on the Mac, but there is one major feature that was lost in the transition from Intel processors: Boot Camp, Apple’s utility that allows Macs to natively run Windows alongside macOS. While Boot Camp (fave.co/3SEMNwE) is still supported in Ventura, you won’t find it on an M1 or M2 Mac. If a user wants to run Windows on one of those newer Macs, the solution is to use the Arm-version of Windows through virtualization software. However, Microsoft’s licensing restrictions didn’t officially allow users to run Windows for Arm on an M-series Mac – even though technically, it could be done. However, in February Microsoft announced through a support document (fave.co/3EFSBjo) that Parallels Desktop 18 (fave.co/3SByxob) is now ‘authorized’ to…