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Apple releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update, seeks to address thermal issue in 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks

Apple has released a patch that it hopes will address a heat-related issue in the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks. The now-somewhat-infamous heat issue on the Core i9-powered 15-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro has been identified as a software flaw in the system’s thermal management software, and Apple is rolling out a macOS […]

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Apple releases details on Intel’s JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller found on the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro

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 […]

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Apple’s 2018 i9-power Touch Bar MacBook Pro may include thermal issues that can throttle performance

Apple could have a bit of a thermal issue to contend with when it comes to its top of the line 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. The notebook, which features an i9 processor, may look amazingly fast on paper, but could throttle and slow down dramatically under a heavy workload. Per YouTube reviewer David Lee, […]

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Samsung debuts LPDDR5 DRAM prototype, could include modules in future Apple products

Samsung has completed its first 10-nanometer 8-gigabit LPDDR5 DRAM prototype, a memory module that’s faster than previous generations that could be included in future iPhone models. The new memory module is claimed to have a data rate of up to 6,400 megabits per second, approximately 1.5 times as fast as the 4,266 megabit per second […]

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Apple releases Coffee Lake MacBook Pro notebooks, boosts processors up to 4-core and 6-core configurations

The rather huge MacBook Pro news hit today. Apple on Thursday released its long-awaited line of MacBook Pro notebooks. And while there aren’t a ton of external changes, the company seems to be chasing the pros by switching to the eight-generation of Intel Core processors (known as the “Coffee Lake” line), for which which Apple […]