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Last Week on My Mac: New and super

The MacBook Neo deserves to succeed, but could do with changes to backing up. It should also revitalise indie development. Will it bring the return of AppleWorks? Also considers the shortage of information about M5 CPU cores.

March 8, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What do those CPU frequencies mean?

Given what we know about the base M5, is it really a significant improvement on the base M4. What features should we be looking at?

November 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

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How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips.

October 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Will Macs get Apple’s new memory protection?

Malicious software often relies on corruption and other problems with memory. Latest iPhones come with new hardware-based protection that’s also likely to come in a future M-series chip. Here are the details.

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology
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