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It doesn't seem like a big deal, but for those waiting on the new Mac Pro, it is. There wasn't any doubt that Apple was going to be granted FCC approval for its latest and greatest powerhouse, but it's the...

A quick public service announcement of sorts... I happened upon a recent article on Apple Insider that caught my attention. The title said it all – Apple's macOS Catalina causing problems with select eGPU setups. Yikes. The reason it piqued...

Apple recently felt compelled to let the world know that the new Mac Pro was going to be made in the USA – Austin, Texas to be specific – and the social chatter on MacSales' Twitter and Facebook feeds has...

The flowing translucent Apple logo used on the press invitation for the September 10, 2019 event. It's that time of year again! As summer begins to fade into autumn, Apple traditionally holds an event to unveil the newest crop of...

An Application Programming Interface (or API) is a collection of resources (sometimes source code, sometimes a specification, or both) used by developers to achieve specific kinds of functionality in their apps. OpenGL is a long-standing open-source API, designed to augment an app's ability to display and accelerate 2D and 3D graphics. OpenCL is a lesser-known open-source API, often used to offload specific kinds of computational tasks from the CPU — the Intel processor(s) in your Mac — to the GPU.