Apple Updates For Mac
Today’s topics include Apple updating the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pro, and Bleedingbit Bluetooth vulnerabilities exposing WiFi access points to risk. Apple on Oct. 30 announced some important updates to the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pros to compete with existing hardware from other manufacturers.
The Mac Mini has moved even more into the enterprise, providing workstation-like performance for a price that’s competitive with medium-priced desktop computers. It now has a choice of four or six core processors and up to 64 gigabytes of memory.
Related Reading. With the upgrades to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, Apple has eliminated the home button and made the screen edge to edge. Other updates include a new keyboard and cover that supports multiple viewing angles for the tablet, and a new Apple Pencil.
Internet of things security firm Armis on Nov. 1 announced a set of new Bluetooth flaws called Bleedingbit, which impacts Bluetooth Low Energy chips made by Texas Instruments that are used in Cisco, Meraki and Aruba wireless access points. According to Armis, the impacted vendors were all contacted in advance of the disclosure so that patches could be made available. The Bleedingbit vulnerabilities include two issues that could have potentially enabled an attacker to gain unauthorized access to an enterprise network. Relevance sum of sizes of bigfix client downloads for mac. One is a memory corruption issue that impacts Texas Instruments BLE chips, and the other is a backdoor within the over-the-air firmware download capability on the TI BLE chip.
Apple plans to announce updated iPad Pros with USB-C ports, a 13-inch laptop meant to replace the MacBook Air, and long-awaited updates to the Mac Mini during its event Tuesday morning,. Just about all of this has been rumored before, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is usually the definitive name when it comes to nailing exactly what we’ll see on event day, and with a few days to go, we now have those answers. Gurman confirms rumors that the iPad Pro — seemingly both sizes of it — will be getting a redesign, giving it a nearly edge-to-edge display, Face ID, and a USB-C port. That’ll be a huge deal, as it’ll mark the first time that Apple has traded out its exclusive Lightning port in favor of the increasingly universal USB-C standard. The new iPads will lack a home button, according to the report, and they’ll gain an Apple-made graphics chip, something that’s never been in an iPad before. Related Perhaps even more exciting is news of a MacBook Air successor with a high-res screen.
Apple Updates For Mac Os X
It’s still not clear exactly what we’re in for — whether it’ll be updated parts in the Air’s body, a brand new take on the Air, or just an alternate version of the MacBook. But it’s clear that some kind of much-needed update is coming. Bloomberg says it’ll have a 13-inch screen, which means that at the very least, it’ll be different than today’s MacBook. Mac Mini fans will also find their immense (and honestly questionable) patience rewarded, as the much-neglected PC will get a spec update for the first time since 2014. Bloomberg says it’ll get new processors and some other features meant for pro users. Updated iMacs and iMac Pros are also in the works, as is a processor bump for the 12-inch MacBook, but it’s not clear if those will all be ready for the event.