November 2026 Newsletter
The First Ever Touchscreen Mac
In late October, Apple unveiled the first ever touchscreen Mac. The new MacBook Pro, featuring a cutting edge PROLED XDR display, was first teased at an Apple event on October 19th before its official release in November. Along with the touchscreen, Apple says the new design is thinner, lighter, and features a crisper display. Many Apple fans have been looking forward to a touchscreen Mac for years—but if you don’t get the hype, that’s fine. The new non-touchscreen Macs released in March are available, and the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips powering them should give you the same solid performance you’re used to with Apple tech.
Whether you’re looking forward to this new hardware or not, we can help you get set up with new hardware quickly, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. Contact us today and we’ll make sure you’re equipped with the tech you need for 2027 and beyond.
New Apple CEO Hints at Paywall for Siri
In the past year, Apple has re-built Siri from the ground up in order to take advantage of their new “Apple Intelligence” features. In his first earnings call as the new Apple CEO, John Ternus spoke at length about the virtual assistant’s new features. But these advances may come with a cost—for Apple and its users.
In line with their usual privacy-focused approach, Apple designs most of its AI features to be performed on-device. On-device AI technology is limited, so your iPhone or Mac sometimes offloads more difficult tasks to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. These AI servers are owned by Apple and designed to keep your data private, but—like most AI servers—they’re expensive to run. In his last call as CEO, Tim Cook said Apple was considering locking some Siri functionality behind a paywall to counter the cost of the AI. Ternus, who spent much of his first earnings call hyper-focused on AI, seems set to follow the same path.
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