Apple’s chip bumps, big and small
Apple updated a couple of its most-loved products this week, both in relatively minor ways. The iPad and iPad Air both got new processors and not much else, the MacBook Air got a new processor and a new color, and the Mac Studio got a new processor. All this is both good news, and thoroughly unexciting.
So of course, on this episode of The Vergecast, we talk for nearly an hour about all these chip bumps. The Vergeâs Jake Kastrenakes joins Nilay and David to talk about the state of Appleâs various device lineups, the ongoing failure of Apple Intelligence to be a reason to upgrade, and whether reinventing the gadget wheel is what we even want from Apple anymore.
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