Last week, the rather cool cats at iFixit ran a complete teardown of the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. The analysis located Intel’s new JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller, introduced earlier this year as part of its “Titan Ridge” family among the notebooks components. While the specifications for the JHL7540 lists compatibility with DisplayPort 1.4 on […]
Author: Chris Barylick
If there’s a cautionary tale, it’s this. Vice’s Jason Koebler and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai have written a full review of a $100 iPhone X knock off from China. The piece centers on how convincing the top-to-bottom, software-to-hardware bootleggery is. iOS is recreated down to the pixel as an Android skin and only the sluggish performance, on-screen […]
The new silicone membrane addition to the butterfly keyboard in the 2018 MacBook Pro may not be that effective in keeping the mechanism free from debris, after testing shows particles can still bypass the protection and cause issues with typing. During an iFixit teardown, a variety of particulates were added to the notebook’s keyboard with […]
In an internal document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers via multiple reliable sources, Apple has confirmed that the third-generation keyboard on 2018 MacBook Pro models is equipped with a “membrane” to “prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism.” A segment of Apple’s internal 2018 MacBook Pro Service Readiness Guide describes the updated keyboard architecture […]
The cool news, as reported before, is that the new 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks feature True Tone displays that can automatically adjust the white balance of the MacBook Pro display to match the color temperature of the light around you, which, as Apple says, provides a more natural viewing experience. The feature is […]