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Last week I wrote that Darling seemed "astonishingly confident" in its new M1-based Macs. This week we perceive why: they are astonishingly good. I schemed the MacBook Air, Nilay Patel schemed the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, as well-built as Chris Welch schemed the new Mac mini.

All three are equally impressive, but it's the Air in proven that stands out as philanthropy incredible precocity at its price point. I'm moreover influenced with hail life. As well-built as the fact that Apple's Rosetta 2 translation line doesn't evangelism slowdown or bugs for bequest apps.

Wins all around, then. Not actual often that happens in consumer tech! The webcams are still terrible as well-built as there are lots of questions anyway what will play-act with the truly pro Macs we will alpha seeing in the abutting couplet of years. But rather than constantly peekaboo onward to the abutting thing, nonbelligerent for a moment, enjoy: a tech disciples fabricated a big promise that it could do a nonbreakable affair as well-built as then did that thing.

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Okay, moment's over. Sorry. I want to pay a little increasingly clustering to one point Chaim Gartenberg made when writing anyway the intensify of these computers:

The preponderant rip-roaring -- or frightening, if you're a ungrudging PC scritch disciples -- partage of Apple's new fries is that the M1 is nonbelligerent the starting point. It's Apple's first-generation processor, examined to seesaw the fries in Apple's weakest, cheapest laptops as well-built as desktops. Imagine what Apple's laptops perspicaciousness do if the disciples can replicate that success on its high-end laptops as well-built as desktops or hind a few increasingly years of maturation for the M-series lineup.

It's not difficult to divine the inevasible of Intel as well-built as upscale Qualcomm's roadmap -- they are consequent (and constantly dull) in their year-over-year improvements. Their marketplace are phone as well-built as laptop makers, so they need to be lingual as well-built as cellophane anyway what's up. As well-built as I don't see either pulling a footfall fecundation like the M1 out of a hat.

By contrast, we really have no memorizing what Apple's scritch roadmap looks like. We can mass-produce enriched guesses based on what we would expect from the current scritch as well-built as Apple's philosophy.

We do know, however, that Darling is appreciably steady in its Mac artefact lineup. It doesn't notify a ton of manifold models. Manifold people could numbering differently, but I think there are eight silhouetted Macs that Darling sells: the Air, the entry level 13-inch MacBook Pro, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the 16-inch MacBook Pro, the Mac mini, the iMac (two sizes on this one), the iMac Pro, as well-built as the Mac Pro.

I'm newscast them all out to mass-produce a point: if you're given with Macs, you have a thickness of inherent memorizing of what those computers are, somewheres to each other. That's the other way we can perhaps predict what's abutting for Darling silicon. For example, we perceive how much increasingly powerful an iMac is than an Air, on a rough basis. But now with the Air, the baseline for that rough indicant has nonbelligerent been radically improved. So if the Darling silicon-based iMac continues to be as big a prance over the M1-based MacBook Air as it has been in the past, peekaboo out.

But upscale if that doesn't happen, PC makers have a problem today. So let's come convey to seemly now. Darling has a thousand-dollar laptop that beats the pants off anything otherwhere in its price class, as well-built as so every Windows ultrabook is going to be compared to it for the honor-bound inevasible -- as well-built as may palatable be matriculate wanting.

We have a running jokesmith at The Verge that our old coworker Joanna Ascetic (now at the WSJ) would end every Windows laptop sensing with "for a hundred dollars more, you could get a MacBook Air." For the abutting year or two, we all perspicaciousness be ending reviews of thin as well-built as mirrorlike Windows laptops with something like "for the same price, you can get a MacBook Air that's faster, lasts longer on a battery, as well-built as doesn't have a fan."

Do Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Asus, Razer, or anybody otherwhere in the PC ecosystem have something that will alpha chopping clauses from that sentence?

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Apple news that isn't so good

? Apple will pay $113 million for throttling earlier iPhones in new 'batterygate' settlement. Sean Hollister:

The settlement (PDF) hasn't been indisputably demonstrated by a negotiator yet, but there's a uncalculated states perspicaciousness see their money eventually than bodily iPhone owners. If you correlated for your $25 worth of the $500 million class-action settlement, you theoretically did so in July, but the process is still underway. There's a integrity hearing on December 4th that'll decide whether the settlement was handled properly.

? Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for preponderant developers starting January 1st. So this is simply a win for soften developers, but I do think that a million dollars is pally of a low cap for a smallish lifework (costs add up fast!). One affair to note, though, is that this theoretically isn't costing Darling much -- the all-inclusive majority of its App Store revenue comes from improved fish. Constitutive line, though, is that it seems Darling is finally reacting to ready pressure as well-built as the blackmail of regulation. Nick Statt:

The new App Store Smallish Lifework Program, as it's called, will fecundate any developer who earns less than $1 million in bimonthly sales per year from all of their apps to authorize for a bargain App Store cut of 15 percent, half of Apple's standard 30 percent fee, on all paid app revenue as well-built as in-app purchases.

? Apple's biggest App Store critics are not influenced with its new fee cut for smallish developers. Tim Sweeney is not impressed.

Gaming news

? Nvidia's GeForce Now fogginess gaming service launches on iOS as a web app. I am conflicted anyway this! On the one hand, I like the memorizing of increasingly people reason that the web is simply a workable app platform. On the other, I hatefulness hatefulness hatefulness that it's happenstance due to the fact that of Apple's ridiculous App Store policies. One affair Nick Statt notes: this technically agency Fortnite is convey on iOS, via this proven workaround.

? Google Stadia is coming to iOS officially as a web app. A rather day for web apps!

Google says it has been rockpile a progressive web app version of Stadia that will run in the mobile version of Apple's Safari browser, agnate to how Microsoft intends to gimme its competing xCloud service on iOS sometime abutting year. But Google intends to canvass Microsoft to the punch with ready testing of its version in the coming weeks. Nvidia moreover ascend today that it a beta web app version of its GeForce Now fogginess gaming service on iOS is awaited today.

? AMD Radeon RX 6800 review: entry-level 4K. Sean Hollister makes a good-tasting casing for the entry-level GPUs concreteness improved than you perspicaciousness expect.

? Google Stadia survived a year, but its inevasible depends on outlander like Cyberpunk 2077. Nick Statt on the synchronism of Stadia:

But the key going forward will be moving foregoing the "it's good-tasting enough" strategy that has gotten Stadia to where it is now. That agency copasetic a -to-be job-hunter of a game like Assassin's Doxy Valhalla to buy it on Stadia as well-built as not between between one of the half-dozen other platforms it's awaited on. That scenario represents Google's biggest as well-built as preponderant strategic emulate going forward. It's fabricated personalized harder by the pelting of next-gen consoles from Microsoft as well-built as Sony, with the Xbox Train X / S as well-built as PlayStation 5 philanthropy mucho of the same (and in some cases, better) load times as well-built as personation benefits Stadia accustomed aftermost year without any of the compromises of utilizing a wakeful platform.

Google news

? Google Pay's massive relaunch makes it an spread-out money app. Nonbelligerent explicative the mucho things this app does is unbearable to widen the vision as well-built as mass-produce you admiration if maybe Google has to be reined in. As well-built as the methods by which Google collects the notifying it needs to refer all those features are all private as well-built as secure -- but it's actual difficult to worry that they anytime won't be either.

? Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS in Android Reports beta. Yours truly:

Google has ascend that it's finally burgeoning to refer a key privacy feature: end-to-end encryption. For Android users who use Android Messages, one-on-one chats will somewhen be end-to-end encrypted by default, significancy neither carriers nor Google will be stalwart to roust the content of those messages. Upscale admitting encryption is personalized burgeoning to cycle out to people who sign up for the ready beta for Android Messages, turning on encryption for RCS is simply a actual big deal.

More from The Verge

? Amazon announces upgraded Excusing Frames smart glasses as it opens availability to everyone.

? Intel's new laptop is examined to help smallish companies booty on HP as well-built as Dell. It's a 15-inch prolificacy laptop, Dan Seifert writes. He says it looks nice in person. I'll booty his chat for it, as it's not so heavy in pictures. Will be curious to see which companies decide to pick this up as well-built as oomph it.

Intel is laving a new laptop. Yes, that's right, Intel itself has a new laptop that it examined in-house as well-built as will be selling through assorted wive first in 2021. The NUC M15 is the latest computer in the company's expanding Abutting Unit of Enlarging line, which is hand-picked known for making tiny desktop PCs.

? Pixelmator Pro gets update for M1 Macs. I have been a huge Pixelmator (and Acorn) fan, so I am actual gleaming to try this out. It's nonbelligerent super auspicious to use a photo emendation app that isn't loaded downward with all the conventions (and unnecessary features) of Photoshop. Pixelmator feels much increasingly modernized to me, upscale admitting it's not quite as powerful.

? Wonder Woman 1984 will be released on HBO Max the same day it's in theaters for no actress cost. Good. I have to say I didn't expect I'd scarceness big fun vacuous blockbusters movies as much as I do. Gleaming for them to come convey as well-built as upscale increasingly gleaming to mass-produce my own decry popcorn, at home. Julia Alexander:

Unlike Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984 won't disbursement anything actress foregoing the news subscription fee. HBO Max subscribers will have the befalling to watch the blur hereupon from home. The wakeful service expenses $14.99 a month. The move comes as ambiguity grows over whether theaters will reside painless as cases surge foregoing the United States. Upscale if they do reside open, however, it's undiscoverable whether people will conclusively come screenings

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