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At a virtual event today, Apple announced new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets.

Parallels has announced the release of Parallels Desktop 17.1 for Mac, which adds full support for macOS Monterey and Windows 11.

Luna Display 5.0 comes to Windows for the first time, letting you use your iPad as a second display. And guess what? It works great.

Apple’s long-anticipated M1X-based Macs should debut at a special event next week which the firm dubs “Unleashed.”

You don’t hear a lot about iWork---Keynote, Pages, and Numbers---these days, but Apple just announced a major update to the suite.

Microsoft has finally gone on record about whether it will support Windows on Arm on Apple’s M1 Macs. And it’s not good news.

Every year, Apple promises a bonanza of new features across its platforms at WWDC. And almost every year, at least some of them are delayed.

The latest version of Parallels Desktop will support Windows 11 and macOS Monterey on Intel- and M1-based Macs.

Parallels Toolbox 5.0 is available today on Windows and Mac, several new tools on top of the new UI that debuted in version 4.5.

As expected, PC sales growth is slowing dramatically as the global pandemic winds down, with PC makers selling 77.6 million units in Q2 2021.

One year after Apple shipped its first M1-based Macs, Microsoft plans to finally update OneDrive to run natively on that hardware.

Adobe announced today that it has successfully ported Illustrator and InDesign to Apple Silicon for native compatibility with M1-based Macs.

Today, Apple introduced new features for coming versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, but didn’t reveal any new hardware devices as hoped.

At Google I/O 2021 today, Google announced the release of Flutter 2.2, the latest release of its open source app development toolkit.

A new report from Strategy Analytics claims that hardware makers sold 68.2 million notebook PCs in the first quarter, a YOY gain of 81 percent.

At a virtual event today, Apple announced new M1-based iMacs and iPad Pros, a new Apple TV 4K, the long-awaited AirTag, and more.

Parallels Desktop 16.5 is now available on the Mac, offering native M1 support. That said, you still can’t run normal Windows 10 in a VM.

Apple announced today that it is expanding its “Find My” services to third parties, starting with Belkin, Chipolo, and VanMoof next week.

Opera today announced the availability of the first M1-native version of its flagship browser, and it’s claiming that it’s two times faster than the previous version.

Apple announced today that WWDC21, the coming rendition of its annual developer conference, will be all-virtual for the second year in a row.

Intel is finally stepping up its campaign against Apple Silicon with a new series of ads promoting PCs that star Justin Long of “I’m a Mac” fame.

Microsoft announced today that it will move its Edge web browser on Mac off Microsoft AutoUpdate because users have found it confusing.

Adobe announced today that its Photoshop is now available natively on M1-based Macs, offering significant performance gains on that platform.

The February 2021 release of Visual Studio Code brings several new features to Microsoft’s modern code editor, key among support for M1-based Macs.

In its initial releases, Flutter allowed developers to create apps that run on both Android and iOS. But now Google is setting its sights higher. Much higher.

This past week, I’ve experimented with using a wide range of hardware devices with the Razer Book 13 and Apple’s M1-based MacBook Pro.

Having recently suffered the fate of all Apple partners, Intel is firing back against Apple Silicon in a new series of “Go PC” advertisements.