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everything we think we know about Apple’s new base model

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In September the new iPhone 18 Pro and it will be the debut of John Ternus as the new CEO of Apple. And… that’s it. Maybe we’ll see the rumored foldable iPhonebut the iPhone 18 will have to wait. Breaking with the tradition of their releases, the basic iPhone 18 will have to wait until sometime in the spring of next year. However, that does not mean that the wheel of rumors and leaks is not working. Next, we tell you everything we think we know about that iPhone 18 which, according to those rumors, will not be a revolution, but it will have a couple of features that will make it more interesting than the current ones. iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e: new camera and RAM memory. Let’s go to trouble. What to expect from the iPhone 18? Design: two aspects in the leaks with a design maintained in the most conservative leak and an island that will follow the design of the Pro models, but with two cameras instead of three to further differentiate this iPhone 18 from the iPhone 17 and iPhone 16. Screen: 6.3-inch diagonal with LTPO refresh rate up to 120 Hz with a Dynamic Island that will maintain the size of the one we had until now. On the iPhone 18 Pro we are supposed to have a smaller Dynamic Island. SoC: Apple A20 with reduced features in GPU and cores compared to the A20 Pro that the iPhone 18 Pro will carry. RAM: 12 GB integrated on the chip wafer to allow good performance of the new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. Cameras: dual camera configuration with a wide angle that will be brighter and so on, but that will pale in comparison to a new main sensor that will also be in a camera with a variable aperture. Connectivity: The new C2 chip would be the heart of the networks of the new iPhone 18. Price: It is expected to remain around what we already have with the iPhone 17, without exceeding 1,000 euros in the basic 256 GB version. Another story will be the version with 512 GB, which may suffer due to the increase in the price of components. Launch: Obviously, without anything confirmed, but all the leaks for a long time point to a launch in spring 2027. When would the iPhone 18 come out? The forecast is that Apple, for the first time, will break its classic release cycle. Instead of launching the two iPhone 18s in September, the one that will arrive first will be the iPhone 18 Pro, while the iPhone 18 will be released sometime in spring next year. In fact, this late launch would imply that in the September keynote Apple will not present the iPhone 18 in depth. It should mention it so that the user is clear that it will arrive, but leaving all the details for a later presentation closer to the launch in spring. What design will the iPhone 18 have? The leaks point to a conservative design, as usually happens. Apple has already created a visual identity for the Pro with a giant side-to-side rear camera island, while the basic iPhone 18 has the cameras separately and vertically. There may be some changes such as cameras next to each other or with a similar design to the Pro’s island, but keeping only two cameras. At the moment, there is only speculation here, but if the trend continues, it is easy to see that change on the back because, if not, Apple would repeat the design of the iPhone 16 for the third year. And that is not something that Apple people usually do. What will the screens of the new iPhone 18 be like? On the front, the iPhone 18 Pro is expected to feature a smaller dynamic island, but right now there are no leaks about that element of the iPhone 18. There have been reported some problems when carrying out this miniaturization, which would raise the price of the device and is something that, for the ‘cheaper’ iPhone 18, Apple would not want to allow itself. For the rest, the leaks point to an LTPO screen with a refresh rate up to 120 Hz and a diagonal of 6.3 inches. There are fewer leaked details (in general) than for the iPhone 18 Pro, something logical due to this supposed time lapse between one model or another, and it’s not like we have too much information on the screen either. The easiest? That the Pros do have that smaller Dynamic Island, but that with the iPhone 18 Apple maintains the size. What processor will the iPhone 18 have? Here what we can expect is a A20but with some cores and frequencies cut compared to the A20 Pro that, supposedly, will mount the iPhone 18 Pro. It will be a 2 nanometer chip manufactured by TSMC and, beyond the expected increase in power thanks to the new SoC, perhaps the most notable thing is the issue of RAM. From 8 GB, we would go to 12 GB of memory. They are the same ones that already have the iPhone 17 Prohe iPhone Air and those expected to mount the iPhone 18 Pro and the explanation when it comes to matching the amount of RAM is marked by the company’s ambition with the new Siri AI. The iPhone 18 will be mobile phones launched with the new Siri and Apple Intelligence in place and, to perform some actions locally, a considerable amount of RAM is necessary. It is clear that 12 GB is needed to have all the Siri AI and Apple Intelligence options The iPhone 17’s 8GB is adequate for certain tasks, but not for the more advanced Siri AI tasks (as Apple itself has detailed) and going up to 12 GB would be ideal to maintain parity in that experience with that AI that they are going to push so much from now on. What battery will … Read more

The European Commission responds to Apple’s criticism and distances itself with its story about Siri AI

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Maybe the Apple Intelligence news convince us more or less, and maybe Siri AI still have a lot to prove when it hits devices. But there is a quite concrete reality for European users: if they have an iPhone or an iPad, they will not be able to try out one of Apple’s big bets to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The Cupertino company has placed the delay in the field of European regulation, but the story does not end there. What we have seen next is a direct clash between Apple and Brussels over control of AI assistants and the rules that should open them to competition. Brussels’ response. The European Commission has not accepted that reading. According to Reuterss, his spokesman Thomas Regnier said that “the decision not to launch Siri AI in the EU is Apple’s and Apple’s alone,” adding that there is nothing in the Digital Markets Law that prevents the company from introducing new products in the European Union. The message was even more direct when explaining what Apple had asked for during the conversations: to be exempt from its interoperability obligations for at least 18 months. “That is not an option,” Regnier concluded. What is DMA? It is likely that in recent years we have read these acronyms many times, but the DMA is better understood when a specific case appears on the table. The Digital Markets Law is a European competition law that seeks to prevent large platforms from closing access to services, applications and users. In the case of Siri AI, the debate focuses on interoperability: if Apple deploys its own artificial intelligence assistant, it must also allow third-party developers to offer alternative assistants within its ecosystem. Apple as gatekeeper. That framing helps to understand why Brussels does not present the case as a simple calendar decision. Thomas Regnier, quoted by The New York Timesrecalled that Apple is a “gatekeeper” and that “it cannot close the market.” The company itself explains in its documentation on the DMA that the European Commission designated it as such in relation to iOS, App Store and Safari on September 5, 2023, and with iPadOS on April 29, 2024. The bottom line, therefore, is not only when Siri AI arrives, but how the ecosystem opens up to services that compete with Siri AI. What changes for you if you are in Europe. The most visible consequence is simple: if you use an iPhone or iPad in the European Union, Siri AI will not be there when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 arrive. Apple also leaves out watchOS 27, because the watch needs to be paired with an iPhone that has Siri AI. On Mac and Vision Pro, however, the company does plan to offer the new version of the assistant. What is left behind on mobile and tablet includes the app to review conversations, expanded Visual Intelligence, integrated writing tools and Siri mode in Camera. The proposal that Brussels did not accept. In his statementApple says it designed Trusted System Agent, an intermediary so that other virtual assistants could securely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI on European devices. The company assures that it also proposed a gradual deployment of that solution over 18 months while it brought Siri AI to the European Union. The bottom of the pulse. Apple presents the delay as a consequence of the DMA and privacy and security risks that, according to the company, have not been recognized by European regulators. Brussels responds from another place: it maintains that the rule does not prevent launching new products in the European Union and that Apple has not found a solution compatible with its obligations. Images | Apple | Pascal Bullan In Xataka | The biggest sign that a foldable iPhone is coming went unnoticed at WWDC

Comparing Apple’s AI to ChatGPT or Claude is a mistake. Apple is not playing that game

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to whom They rule out Apple in the AI ​​raceeye. The company may have arrived late and it certainly may have little to show today, but its evolution over the last three years reveals three interesting things. The first, that Apple does have its own AI models. The second, that they are very far in performance from the best of OpenAI and Claude. Third, that may not matter at all. Three years of evolution. The trajectory of the technical documents shared by Apple in recent years reveals a series of more than relevant changes. In 2024 its initial proposal was limited to small models of about 3,000 million parameters (3B) specialized in solving basic tasks like generating Genmojis or text summaries. In 2025 the company launched its MLX framework to the developer community to facilitate the integration and use of local models. Now, in 2026, They propose a hybrid infrastructure based on a basic principle: Simple requests: they run in small local models on the device, you don’t even need an internet connection Complex requests: the system delegates the task to be processed in the cloud privately through Private Cloud Compute A (maybe) great idea: NAND can help. The most relevant milestone of Apple’s new approach lies in the design of its AFM 3 Core Advanced model. In today’s mobile phones we have a big bottleneck with the execution of capable (large) AI models because these devices have a very limited amount of memory (12 GB on some iPhones). To be able to fit a model with 20,000 million parameters (20B), Apple has decided to store that model in the internal SSD unit, not in memory. In the AFM 3 Core Advanced model the “experts” are in the mobile’s SSD. They are preselected and loaded into RAM to be used dynamically, optimizing model execution. Experts by prompt, not by token. It then activates a series of pruning techniques (Instruction-Following Pruning, or IFP) to activate only between 1,000 and 4,000 million parameters in a sparse manner (sparse), somewhat similar to what is done in models with Mixture-of-Experts architecture. But Apple selects these experts at the beginning of each prompt, not token by token, which allows it to avoid the slow bandwidth of the mobile’s NAND storage compared to its RAM memory. Privacy by flag. If for something Apple’s approach stood out from the beginning It was for his privacy.which is implicit when using local models. But if the request is complex, the system redirects it to the AI ​​models in Apple’s cloud, the Private Cloud Compute (PCC). Unlike other platforms and infrastructures such as those of OpenAI or Anthropic, conversations with Apple’s AI are encrypted and are totally private according to the company: this data is not shared with third parties (because not even Apple can see it) and it is not used to train its models. Five models with the help of Gemini. Although Apple is obsessed with total control of its products, this time had to give in and ally with Google so that their Gemini models could “show” Apple the way. The result is a third generation of models that are developed in collaboration with the Mountain View firm. We have five models in total: AFM 3 Core: 3B parameter dense model AFM 3 Core Advanced: sparse model of 20B parameters with activation of 1B to 4B parameters depending on the task AFM 3 Cloud: a powerful but also efficient and fast model that runs on the Apple cloud. ADM 3 Cloud (Image): for generating and editing images, the heart of both these options and the new Image Playground AFM 3 Cloud Pro– Apple’s most powerful cloud model is for autonomous agents. It has been trained with Google TPUs and runs on Nvidia GPUs within Google Cloud infrastructure Performance, an unknown. Unlike what other companies usually do when they present their models, Apple has not published metrics on known benchmarks. Instead, it shows “human preference” metrics in which it compares user satisfaction when using its models versus competing models. The comparisons are also with previous versions of these models, which does not clarify much what can be expected from them. But they are not in the race for the best model. In 2025 yes there was comparison with open weight models of that time (Qwen-3-4B locally, GPT-4o or Llama 4 Scout in the cloud) and then they seemed to be at a good level in reference to those options. Expect them to be behind the most recent models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google itself, and it’s unclear how they compare to the new Chinese open weights models. One thing seems clear: Apple is not very interested in having its own Mythos, at least for now. Your objective is different. Apple models from 2026 are “preferred” more than those from 2025. Logical, but also useless when it comes to understanding how good these models are compared to the competition. But integration is important. Apple’s big ace to compensate for this difference in capacity is that its models have full access to the user’s OS, apps and hardware. AFM models are integrated with iPhone camera sensors, notification history or local app permissions. This allows useful tasks to be carried out that an LLM that is “disconnected” from the hardware will hardly be able to replicate. Here the integration of the models with the hardware and software of the device is (or wants to be) fundamental. Beware of mediocrity. This approach focused on integration and privacy is especially striking and differentiating from its competitors, but there are risks. Among others, the product is limited by its functional capabilities compared to the competition. If local models do not solve and cloud models also do not behave reliably, Apple runs the risk of having an AI that is secure and private but technically mediocre in its responses. Siri has already been criticized for being especially stupid: Siri AI must precisely eradicate that perception. In Xataka | Apple has designed Siri AI so … Read more

Two years later and with the help of Google, this is what Apple’s AI assistant does

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Apple promised a radically new Siri in 2024. It didn’t arrive. He promised it again in 2025. And it didn’t come either. Today, in the last keynote of Tim Cook as CEO, has finally presented the complete review of this wizardwhich now runs on the models of artificial intelligence (AI) from Google. Two years late. A multi-million dollar agreement with its biggest historical rival. And a question that hangs in the air: is it enough to make up for lost time? Several notes before we get into trouble. Apple pays approximately 1 billion dollars a year for licensing a custom Gemini model from Google with some 1.2 trillion parameters, according to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. It is not a built-in ChatGPT. Nor a direct access to Gemini. It’s a bit different: Apple distills those models to create versions optimized for local execution on iPhone and Mac with its own privacy requirements. But the brain belongs to Google. What Siri AI can do now Siri will continue to run on Apple devices, locally, and in this company’s private cloud, maintaining the apple company’s privacy standards. This is the biggest promise that Apple has made to us. And it simply means that Google provides artificial intelligence. And Apple provides the infrastructure, the chips and the promise that no one, not even Google, can access our data. For the first time, Siri has its own app with a dark interface, a text field, a microphone for voice mode and an icon to attach images and files. The conversations are saved in a history with optional expiration date and are synchronized via iCloud. It is, in essence, a direct competitor to ChatGPT and Gemini in Apple’s own ecosystem. Article in development…

everything we think we know so far about the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system

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Let’s tell you everything we think we know about iOS 27based on all the leaks and rumors around the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system. Like every year, the months leading up to the imminent presentation of the new version of the system have left us with a whole collection of rumors and leaks that we are preparing to review. Here, what you should know is that everything we are going to tell you is based on the rumors and leaks that have been released about iOS 27. When it is officially presented we will update the content so that you can know with certainty all the official changes. When do we expect iOS 27 to be released The new iOS 27 will be presented on June 8 this 2026, during the long-awaited WWDC 2026. This is the annual event organized by Apple to announce its upcoming software news, where the new versions of the rest of its operating systems will also be presented. That same day the first beta is expected to be releasedalthough for now it will be for developers. This is at least what Apple usually does, although we will have to wait for official confirmation to be clear. After several developer betas, it is expected that Starting in July, public betas begin to arrive that any user can download by simply registering in the beta program. Normally the final version of iOS 27 will arrive in September along with the presentation of the new iPhone 18. But here the leaks outline some possible changes. Specifically, it is possible that only the iPhone 18 Pro and a new folding iPhone will be presented in September, while the “normal” iPhone 18 may not arrive. until spring 2027. However, there are no confirmations on this either, only rumors. What news do we expect from iOS 27 Let’s tell you what they are the rumored news of iOS 27. According to rumors and leaks, everything seems to indicate that after having finished with the aesthetic innovations of iOS in recent years, now it will be the turn of stability and performance. This is what we know to date. More performance and more stability As they point out in Applesferaleaks from the renowned Mark Gurman aim to eliminate the “technical debt” that has been accumulating after years of adding layers of software. Now it’s the turn to polish the system inside to optimize it as much as possible. This means that a restructuring of the internal code is expected so that iOS 27 is much faster and smootherthat bugs that consume battery are eliminated, and that it flies regardless of the age of the iPhone. There will be no new icons, there will be no flashy redesigns, but there will be noticeable differences in fluidity. An even smarter Siri We’ve been talking for several versions of iOS about Siri being smarter and using AI, but so far everything has been delayed. However, we hope that the new Siri finally arrives with iOS 27and that this Siri will also have an artificial intelligence model based on Gemini. The agreement between Apple and Google gives those from Cupertino full access to Gemini. With this, it is suggested that Apple could try to distill Gemini and create smaller adapted versions that can work locally on your mobile. With this, in addition to offering greater privacy, they will also have more efficient and faster operating models. Come on, Apple privacy and Google intelligence. The leaked renders This new Siri will show dark background and will be integrated within the dynamic island. When you launch Siri, it will tell you that you can search or ask whatever you want. The interface will be different from the old Siri so that they are unmistakable. Siri will also have a live conversational mode like Gemini, to be able to chat by voice, as well as multitasking that allows you to do several things at the same time. You will also have full control over iPhone apps and settings, and possibly a new way in the camera carousel to use visual intelligence and analyze what you point at. The new smart Siri will also have advanced writing tools such as Grammarly-style grammar check, AI wallpaper generator within Image Playground, or camera options with which to change the perspective of an already taken photo or expand photos. They will also include shortcuts with natural language which will mean that you no longer have to configure several steps, a smart wallet to create digital passes by scanning the physical object, smart tab management in Safari, and additional functions for the Health app. Additionally, there are leaks indicating that Siri in iOS 27 could also let you choose what a task is solved by Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT in case it is necessary. Thus, Apple’s new AI will not seek to be the best, but rather to solve your problems and serve as a gateway for other models on the iPhone if necessary. Lastly, if you don’t like any of this it is also expected that there will be a switch in settings to be able to deactivate the new Siri with AI. This, by the way, arrived in Beta status. Other news And now we leave you the list with the rest of the news that has been leaked to date. In addition to the novelty, we will also include a small description so you know what it is about. Perfecting Liquid Glass: There have been internal changes at Apple with the departure of the head of design and the rise of a veteran to top manager, so it is uncertain how much Apple’s Liquid Glass will be improved. At the moment we are talking about Liquid Slider, a slider that allows you to choose the intensity of the transparency. Undo and redo when rearranging widgets or apps: The arrival of a system that allows you to reverse accidental changes when organizing desktop apps and widgets has been leaked. … Read more

The PC market is mortally wounded because of RAM. Excellent news for Apple’s plans

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If there was something missing from Apple’s catalog, it was undoubtedly the cheap MacBook. The non-Pro MacBook died a long time ago, the last attempt at a MacBook without a surname did not work and that role of “affordable” laptop fell into the Macbook Air. That laptop was still missing to stand up to the 800-900 euro market that Windows dominated at will and it turns out that Apple had the answer at home: the iPhone. Its processor, rather. Because that’s what he is macbook neo: the guts of a iPhone 16 Pro in a laptop chassis. In our analysis We lowered a bit what was being said about the MacBook neo, but pointing out that it was not only a very interesting device for a wide range of users, but a blow to the PC market. This is something that Apple does not want to miss and it seems that they have bent MacBook neo orders. However, they now face the “neo dilemma.” Stop or pay more, the neo dilemma To no one’s surprise, The MacBook neo worked like a charm in its first week. 699 euros for a perfect laptop for students, or for those of us who want a second computer, is an option that is difficult to reject. Because there are cheap laptops, but not with these battery features, system speed and, above all, build quality. For find something similar in Windows You have to go to more expensive models. In the midst of a memory crisis, furthermore, those 699 euros for the basic version seemed even more appealing. And it seems like Apple expected it to do well in the market, but maybe not so well. Tim Culpan is a former Bloomberg reporter, based in Taiwan and has a very interesting newsletter. Most importantly, you have some sources at the heart of the factories that produce components for these equipment. On your speaker, Blame point that Apple had planned a total shipment of between five and six million MacBook neo. Tim Cook described the reception of the laptop as “a demand through the roof”, showing himself very satisfied with its performance, and Apple was at a time when it had to take a decision to ensure the future of the device. The reason is that this laptop uses A18 Pro chips… different. They are the processors of the iPhone 16 Probut they were not suitable for the high standards of the iPhone. In this case, it implies that instead of six GPU cores, they had five. This happens with many other processors that are renamed or derived from more affordable products. They had a lot due to leftover shipments and they converted them into the guts of the laptop. These processors were practically “free” for Apple, but now Culpan points out that those in Cupertino had to decide whether to let the inventory run out or ask TSMC to manufacture a new batch. They have chosen the second. in a new publicationCulpan claims that Apple now aims to have a base of 10 million unitsdouble that initial forecast. But of course, ordering TSMC to manufacture a new batch of A18 Pro would mean having to pay a significantly higher price to build the laptop. This would greatly narrow the profit margin they have per unit sold. Although Apple to be TSMC’s second customerthe Taiwanese foundry does not work for free, obviously. A few days ago, Tim Cook pointed out to investors that Apple had been able to avoid the first wave of the RAM crisis due to the amount of stock accumulated, but that is over. After loading memory options both from Mac Studio as of Mac Miniit is evident that not even Apple is untouchable. Here, Culpan points to two scenarios. One is to eliminate the basic option of 256 GB of memory, which costs 699 euros, leaving only the 512 GB option for 799 euros. It would be the move they have already made with other products. The second letter is raise the price of both optionsbut giving some extra to “compensate”, such as extended free storage in the cloud for a period of time. We have already seen this strategy in the PC segment. The problem is that it doesn’t just increase the memory. Aluminum is also increasing and, no matter how little it increases, anything that increases the cost of a manufactured unit is something that will have an impact on the sales price. And there is another question. Since the MacBook neo was being manufactured with those A18 Pros that were not the best, when ordering a new batch you enter a scenario in which it is possible that the new MacBook neo are “better” than the ones we had until now. Simply because they have all six GPU cores intact. TSMC is not going to make them limited on purpose. Apple has the option of software limit one of the GPU coresbut in the end that is the least of the company’s problems at the moment. All components, including processors, have increased in price since the initial order a few months ago. If we are seeing something in the industry, it is that, in case it was not already clear, It is the user who ‘eats’ the problems either due to price increases or due to the impossibility of acquiring products because they simply do not exist. And something that we are also observing is that Apple is in that “neo dilemma” because they are seeing that the consequences of launching a product with an attractive price and a good value on a daily basis translates into they take it away like hot cakes. And all this within the context of the brutal component crisis that we are experiencing. In Xataka | Tim Cook optimized factories and processes, John Ternus builds things: what we can expect from the “new Apple”

Does Apple’s computer have real competition?

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He MacBook Neo It has burst in like an elephant in a china shop because many of us have been asking Apple to launch an affordable laptop for years. The question at this point is how it compares to Windows laptops that are around a similar price. We have selected three interesting models for this price and we are going to put them face to face to see how the new Apple equipment looks in front of them. You have the models in question right below. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HP 15-fd0402ns – 15.6″ FHD laptop (Intel Core 5 120U, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Graphics, Windows 11) Blue – Spanish QWERTY keyboard The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Gen 8 – 15.6″ FHD Laptop (Intel Core i5-13420H, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Intel UHD Graphics, Wi-Fi 6, Win 11 Home, Office Trial) Spanish QWERTY Keyboard – Arctic Gray The price could vary. We earn commission from these links acer Aspire Go 15 – 15.6″ Laptop (Intel Core i7 13620H, 16 GB DDR5 RAM, 1024 GB SSD, Windows 11 Home, Intel UHD Graphics) Silver Color, Spanish QWERTY Keyboard with Numeric Keyboard The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Differences between the MacBook Neo and similarly priced Windows alternatives Fewer inches, but a higher quality screen The MacBook Neo has a 13 inch screensmaller than the rest of its rivals in this comparison, at 15.6 inches. It is a difference that is noticeable in practice, especially if you are a user who usually works with several windows open at the same time. Now, this smaller size will also be noticeable in the dimensions and weight of the equipment, something we will talk about a little later. If we remove the issue of size from the equation, the MacBook Neo’s screen will win over that of these laptops with Windows operating systems. Not only in color representation (Apple’s True Tone technology does a lot there), but also in the brightness levelwhere he has one higher than that of his opponents. What does this mean? If we work in a room or in a place where there is a lot of light, we will be able to see what we are doing more easily. The operating system is the most important difference A difference that must be addressed and that is not exclusive to this new Neo is the issue of the operating system. Choosing the Apple laptop will introduce us to MacOS, a lightweight and visually very clean operating system. It is true that it is much less customizable than Windows, but in it you will find all the most typical office tools or similar that you need to work or study. Also, if you have an iPhone, you can receive your notifications on your laptop. Or even use an iPad as a second screen. On the other hand, there is Windows. It is a more demanding operating system for the hardware, but in exchange it is also more customizable and usually works better with several windows at the same time. Besides, It is also easier to install applications and gamesalthough these teams are not designed to play. You can also connect your mobile phone to this operating system, although it does not reach Apple’s level of integration. The hardware differences, beyond the numbers Let’s move on to the hardware, which is where the meat of this comparison is. By numbers, if we look at the specifications of the three Windows laptops (you can find them below in a comparison table), they are superior. The MacBook Neo comes with a mobile processor (the A18 Pro that was mounted on the iPhone 16 Pro), but that doesn’t mean it should be underestimated: has more power than a MacBook Air M1. Putting the processors of Windows computers on the table, we have a quite different bouquet. The Acer laptop comes with a 13th generation Intel Core i7, which can offer Better performance in heavy tasks like 4K video editing than the rest. The Lenovo, with its Intel Core i5 of the same generation, is the intermediate option and the HP, with an Intel Core 5 120 U, is the least powerful of all, but with enough for office automation and simple tasks. Important point related to the processor: temperature management. A laptop, due to space issues, has very little room to cool its interior. With very intensive use, it is possible that Windows laptops tend to heat up more and emit noise from the fans. This is something that the MacBook Neo will not suffer at that level, since Apple laptops They are characterized by being very quiet. Processors aside, there is also the issue of memory. The MacBook Neo only has an 8GB RAM configuration, just half of what the three similarly priced Windows options offer. Here we have two things to keep in mind: MacOS is a less demanding operating system, so we will have a more fluid experience than in Windows. However, the 16 GB of RAM is better if you are one of those who has dozens of tabs open in the browser. And finally, there is the issue of storage. This is where the Apple team loses the most, since this configuration It only comes with 256 GB capacity (There is one with 512 GB, but it is more expensive). The HP and Acer laptops win by a landslide, both with 1 TB of storage. The Lenovo falls right in the middle with its 512 GB of storage. If we are going to move a lot with it, the Apple laptop is better The beauty of a laptop is, above all, that it is portable. They are devices designed to work there and there, no matter if it is in the office or on board a train. We may spend part of the day carrying them and, logically, the lighter … Read more

Apple’s problem with AI is not just being very late. The fact is that allying with Google will not be enough

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We still do not have a date for Apple to finally release the new Siri which he has been promising for two years. But the biggest problem with being late is not just being late: it’s arriving at a time when you don’t even all the efforts you have put on the table They are enough. Comet arrived. Perplexityquietly, is beginning to conquer an important piece of mobile territory. Its latest alliance comes from Samsung, natively implementing its artificial intelligence in star models like the Galaxy S26. One of Perplexity’s most powerful tools is its browser Cometwhich just landed on iOS. A browser that, by default, uses Google as a search engine, but whose technology is above what Gemini manages to offer today. Why is it important. Comet is not smoke. It is also not a browser with minor functions that adorns the desktop of our iPhone. The interface is simply outstanding Block ads by default Find information for us Manage tabs Allows voice searches with interactive answers It is capable of playing video for us and summarizing it without us having to see it. Summarize websites Comet stops short of being fully agentic AI, but it replaces the browser with a more reliable solution than chatbots like Gemini or GPT: you’re using AI inside a browser, not AI that accesses the internet to find (or invent) links. And so, with everything. 2026 is being a wild year for AI. In fact, it is exhausting to open the computer every morning and see how practically every day a new model has come out that surpasses the previous one. 2026 is being a year in which AI advances day after day. Nobody knows how Apple will be able to launch something at the level of what may already be obsolete today Although the iterations are minimal, we are seeing spectacular phenomena such as OpenClaw. While Chinese brands like Nubia begin to implement it on their phones, Apple only has the promise that Siri will be smart one day soon. Soon, it is assumed. According to Gurman leaks, we will see the new Siri throughout the first half of this year. The “according to” is important, because the rumors pointed to a February in which we have not yet seen a trace. Apple has been accumulating delays since it promised a Apple Intelligence which disappointed, and beyond the announcement of its alliance with Google, we have no more relevant news. Image | Xataka In Xataka | What have Apple and Google agreed on for the new Siri? Nobody knows because Google doesn’t even want to mention it.

Anthropic has taken Apple’s strategy against Microsoft to the Super Bowl: making using the rival look ridiculous

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Anthropic has opened the Super Bowl by attacking OpenAI with ads that show virtual therapists advertising dating apps and personal trainers selling boosts for short people. The message: “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude“(“The ads are reaching the AI. But not Claude.”) Sam Altman has responded in X calling them “dishonest” and accusing them of “doublespeak“, “double speech” in Spanish, although a better adapted translation could be “deceptive language” or simply “hypocrisy.” It seems like a minor skirmish, two rivals fighting over an advertisement. But under that hood is a billion-dollar question: What kind of business will AI be when it’s established? The history of the Internet is summarized in two great models: One free supported by advertising: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok… regardless of whether they have premium versions. Other direct payment by subscription: Netflix, DAZN, Disney+, Apple Music, PSN… The first aims to maximize the audience, the second aims to maximize the revenue per user. The AI ​​is right now deciding which of the two paths it takes. In Xataka AI is breaking one of the oldest economic paradigms in history: that cheap equals "bad" OpenAI has already chosen and is starting to test putting ads on free ChatGPT accounts. Altman justifies it with the classic argument of democratization: “More Texans use free ChatGPT than the total number of people using Claude in the United States.” In other words: they want to reach those billions of people who are not going to pay 20 dollars a month. And for that you need advertising. Anthropic chooses the opposite. “Anthropic offers an expensive product to rich people,” Altman reproaches him. In a way, it is true: Claude is betting above all on contracts with companies and premium subscriptions of 20, 100 and 200 dollars per month. Their model depends on the AI ​​being valuable enough for you to pay for it. And so that you look from time to time to the higher plan with the temptation to go up one more step. Without advertising, without sponsored links and without responses being influenced by advertisers. The difference is not only business, it is product. An AI with advertising has different incentives than one without it. What happens when you ask the assistant what car to buy you and there is a manufacturer paying to appear in their answers? What about medical, financial, legal advice? OpenAI has promised that “ads do not influence responses.” That’s what he said in minute 0. But that promise will be increasingly difficult to sustain as monetization pressure increases. {“videoId”:”x9u4ml2″,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Does Gemini 3 surpass ChatGPT? This is Google’s new AI”, “tag”:”Webedia-prod”, “duration”:”156″} Anthropic has its own problem: If it only reaches those who can afford to pay, AI becomes a tool of the elites. A technology that promises to democratize knowledge ends up reproducing the class divisions that already exist. We saw this coming with the arrival of $200 plans to access the AI ​​elite. A gap that creates another gap, The parallel with the history of the Internet is inevitable. Free social networks caught (almost) all of us in the 1910s, but in return they built advertising surveillance machines optimized for the engagementnot for anyone’s well-being. Payment services are cleaner, but also more exclusive. So AI is now at that bifurcation point: OpenAI is committed to being the YouTube of AI: free for everyone, supported by ads and with premium versions for those who want to pay. Anthropic wants to be the Netflix: better experience and free of ads, but only for those who pay. It is true that it maintains a free plan, but its limits are a continuous invitation to check out or leave. And now it’s up for grabs What kind of relationship with those machines that know more and more about us and from which we ask more and more?. Whether they will be services that serve us or whether they will be platforms that monetize us. In Xataka | The AI ​​of 2026 brings an uncomfortable truth: the most useful will be the one that watches us the most Featured image | Anthropic (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news Anthropic has taken Apple’s strategy against Microsoft to the Super Bowl: making using the rival look ridiculous was originally published in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

make Apple’s memory configurations look cheap

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For years, criticizing Apple’s pricing policy has been a more than justified constant: we have seen how the company charged $100 per a leap in capacity that it cost them ten, or asked astronomical figures such as 690 euros for a 2 TB SSD which in the market cost 100. However, the current memory crisis has turned the tables: the shortage is so serious and the inflation so aggressive that Apple’s rates are beginning to seem even “economical” compared to the competition. Context. As we have been telling in Xataka, the memory industry is facing a critical scenario. The AI ​​fever has caused chipmakers such as Samsung and SK Hynix to prioritize the production of HBM memory for servers and AI GPUs, leaving aside the consumer market. The result is a supply deficit that has skyrocketed prices by up to 300% for some components, forcing manufacturers like Xiaomi to warn that our next mobile will be more expensive. Others like Micron have not brought good news either: in fact, the manufacturer closes its Crucial consumer division to focus on the lucrative data sector. Dell and Lenovo raise prices, Apple freezes. The first chip to fall has been Dell. According to industry reportsthe company plans a price increase of 15-20% this month, while Lenovo has begun to warn its customers of imminent increases for early 2026 precisely due to the DRAM shortage. But the most striking thing is not the general increase, but the cost of the expansions. Dell is currently charging a surcharge of $550 for going from 16 to 32 GB of RAM in some of its XPS laptops, a figure that easily exceeds the $400 that Apple asks for the same jump in its MacBook Air. Bounce effect and an exception. The current situation has led to paradoxes never seen before: the traditionally expensive Apple maintains its prices stable (for the moment and thanks to already high margins), while the PC world suffers from market volatility. The Framework Modular Laptop Manufacturer He took the opportunity to point out the play: denounces that Dell’s prices are “abusive” and highlights that they charge 85% less for the same memory upgrade. However, even they warn that their cheap inventory will run out sooner rather than later. A future of pressured margins. Although Lenovo is well positioned to weather the storm thanks to its scale, financial analysts They warn that the rise in memory prices threatens their margins and end-user demand for the next 12-18 months. With Samsung and SK Hynix refusing to increase production To avoid a new bubble, it seems that the industry has entered a phase where paying premiums for RAM will be the new normal. This makes Apple’s historical “dunks” seem, ironically, like a refuge for its stability. Cover image | Composition with images of Applesfera and Andrey Matveev for Unsplash In Xataka | We have been assembling computers in the same way for many years. The RAM memories of the future promise to change that and more speed

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