January 2025

Deals on the 1TB M4 MacBook Pro at $200 off are indeed still live, but today we are moving back over to the M3 MacBook Air – the most affordable 13- and 15-inch models are now also $200 off while open-box listings are as much as $470 off the original prices before the RAM upgrade. […]

Macworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Included as part of Office subscription Ideal for just about any finance management Tied in nicely with OneDrive Cons No Copilot (yet) Our Verdict Excel is a fantastic spreadsheet app, capable of processing large quantities of data with ease, but it’s missing arguably its biggest recent feature addition

We’ve today been given a preview of the gorgeous new Apple Miami Worldcenter store ahead of its opening on Friday morning. The company has highlighted the store’s “biophilic” design, environmental credentials, accessibility features, and multicultural Latin American influence … more…

Macworld From its introduction in iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence has been an opt-in feature. Users had to decide to enable it, with Apple even going so far as to put people on a waiting list before they could use it. With iOS 18.3 and macOS 15.3, Apple’s AI features become a standard default part of

We yesterday got a look at what is claimed to be the iPhone 17 Air camera bump, and the reaction hasn’t been … overly favorable. While we don’t know for sure that the photo shows the real thing, our own sources indicate that the design depicted is probably accurate … more…

Philips Hue and other smart bulbs based on the Zigbee standard could soon act as motion sensors without the need for any additional hardware. This would mean they could automatically switch on when someone enters a room without using a separate motion sensor. Even better, the new functionality looks set to be added to existing

Macworld Thanks to Apple’s feast-or-famine approach to product announcements, January can be a tedious month for the Macworld crew. The last batch of new products came out in the fall, and the next ones probably won’t be here until the spring; in between, we shiver and get bored. In their wintry desperation, keynote-starved Apple reporters

Plex, the popular media server and streaming app, has a handful of announcements today. The service is adding new discovery and community features for all users and upgraded video streaming quality for Plex Pass users. Perhaps most notable for Apple users, however, is that Plex is expanding its preview of the all-new Plex experience to

Apple is wrapping up its iOS 18.3 beta cycle, and that means one important thing: iOS 18.4 beta 1 is coming soon. Here’s when to expect it to arrive. more…

If Ray-Ban Meta glasses are not your style, the company is expected to launch a pair of Oakley smart glasses later this year. These will likely mirror the functionality of Meta’s existing AI glasses, but with very different styling. The Oakley glasses are reportedly based on the Sphaera model, which is primarily aimed at cyclists