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So a MacBook with an iPhone chip can have macOS. But an iPad with an M4 chip, no

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Neo. It is the surname that gives life to the new cheap macbook. 699 euros for a Mac with a good panel, a promising speaker system, a design that makes you fall in love at first sight and that, for all those looking for a simple laptop for office purposes, is considered one of the best options on the market. The small detail is that, with its launch, Apple has admitted that running macOS It is not particularly demanding at the hardware level. So much so that we find ourselves faced with the paradox of having a processor of iPhone 16 Pro running macOS and iPads worth thousands of euros with M4 chip running… iPadOS (iOS with some modifications). A movement with meaning. My colleague Javier Lacort told it, the only option that Apple has found to make a cheap laptop has been to give it the heart of a mobile. It is thus manifested, indirectly, that a A18 Pro It is more than enough for the majority of potential consumers of this laptop. But there is a key that can hurt users of latest generation iPads: right now there is a laptop with an A18 Pro moving PC programs, while a iPad with an M4 chip moves completely layered apps. The point is not just macOS, the point is the apps. Apple has been implementing M chips in its iPads for years. We all agree that a Mac is a Mac and an iPad is an iPad but… selling a iPad with an M4 chip and phone applications is to sell a horse tied by the legs. It is an inexplicable paradox, one in which a MacBook with an A18 Pro can run desktop programs like Davinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere or Lightroom CC, while a much more powerful iPad has layered versions closer to those of a mobile phone. I don’t want a touch Macbook, I want an iPad according to its hardware. In my particular case, I am the perfect potential buyer of an iPad capable of running desktop apps. I work 90% of my day in front of the PC, but mobility is very important to me. And the iPad + keyboard format sweeps any Mac, no matter how small. But I have been forced to buy a MacBook Air M4 because, with an iPad, it is simply impossible to do my work. The apps are not up to par with the processor, and for professional uses it is of little use to have one of the best processors on the market if the operating system is nailed to that of my iPhone. It’s not going to happen. Dreaming of an iPad with macOS or, at least, capable of running some desktop applications, is still a dream. Apple is clear about its product categories and, although it sells the iPad M as productivity tools, they are still products limited to the use that Apple wants us to give them. Be that as it may, reality is inevitable: the iPad falls short of iPadOS. It is a platform that, in its day, made sense as a version of iOS for tablets. Today, the iPad is more powerful than most computers on the market and, at the very least, deserves software on its level. Image | Apple In Xataka | I’ve tried replacing my MacBook Pro with the new iPad Pro. iPadOS is still a stumbling block

I always wanted to have the macos spotlight in Windows. The surprising thing is that whoever has just given me that option is Google

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Google He just launched a curious tool for Windows: a pitcher who Imitate what Apple has been offering for years to its users with the Macos spotlight. This small component, yes, comes with some curious ideas and a clear secret objective: infiltrate your operating system. The option is available as a small tool that we can download From Google Search Labs. At the moment it is only available in English and can only be downloaded if it is downloaded from the US, but the latter is easy to solve using a VPN. Testing this “Google Spotlight” for Windows It is what I did to try the tool on my PC with Windows 11 – it is also compatible with Windows 10 – and after doing so it can start using this little pitcher who, yes, asks you to Log in your Google accountprecisely to be able to include in those searches the documents you have on Google Drive. You can deactivate that option in the tool settings, by the way. The so -called “Google App for Windows” acts as a pitcher that we can start with the Alt+Space Bar combination (this shortcut can be changed), and from there we will have at our disposal many of the Google search engine options integrated into Windows. Thus, we can: Search on the Internet Find files from our Google Drive account Launch applications installed in our equipment Look for stored files in our team But we also have direct access to take advantage of the Google Lens power directly on the Windows desktop. By pressing it we can then select a screen region, and on it we can for example translate text to another language or solve the problem described in that “screenshot”. One of the promotional images of the app shows how with Google Lens we can “capture” a small mathematical problem and ask Google for help so that it solves it. In my tests I could see that the pitcher behaves impeccably. The search results appear instantaneously, although here Google seems to give preference to those found in Google Drive (such as Docs or Sheets documents). The launch of applications is also very fast, and in terms of documents, also fantastic behavior: It is deviably fast When finding documents (by file name) in our team, although yes, it does not seem to find them if they are in network folders, or at least I have not achieved it in my tests. As for the functions of Google Lens, the Occion is interesting if we want, for example, translating texts in some languages, but that option is especially intentive when we cannot select the text. I tried to translate a fragment of an Xataka article and did it well, but in reality for this type of option there are more direct alternatives (such as Google Translate, or Deepl) for example. Where the thing gets interesting is If we capture an image with texts in other languages “As a poster in Chinese, for example,” and that is where Google Lens is able to identify that text and translate it into languages ​​such as Spanish instantly. Taking the Chinese text of an image and translating it with Google Lens is to sew and sing with this little tool Of course, the other great option of this pitcher is to do what Google tries to do: look for information. That text field lends itself to asking anything, which will make an integrated search engine activated in a small drop -down window that will behave like the Google search website, showing AI Overviews, links and even access to the AI ​​Mode (because we continue to use the VPN and that option is also available in the US). Windows 10: 9 very useful and little known tricks Actually it was already possible to have a spotlight in Windows Google’s proposal is undoubtedly interesting, although undoubtedly it is another way of “infiltrating” on our PCs. This time Google’s app for Windows fulfills its mission, but it is important to note that it is not the only one that manages to take Windows the macOS Spotlight options. Powertoys Run In fact, there are a few suitors who try to offer the options of that Apple tool. One of the most remarkable is included in the set of Microsoft Powertoys tools. There the pitcher (called Powertoys Run) is also activated with ALT+space bar and allows several options similar to those of the Google app. Thus, by default it behaves like a Application search engine and pitcher: As soon as we begin to write the name of an application, the results will appear to be able to launch them from there. But we can also look for files and folders by writing a question closing symbol (“?”) And writing the name of the file to look for, or use it as a quick calculator using the equal symbol (“=”). I always wanted to have a desktop search engine focused precisely on that work of looking for files, and I found a great option with Everythinga small application whose interface is somewhat obsolete but whose operation is enviable. Everything finds all kinds of files related to the search term at the speed of lightning. It is difficult to compete with her in search of files, because before even looking for them is building a gigantic index that then consults for those searches. And best of all, in my case, this index also You can include network folders And therefore files that we have – as happens to me – in a nas connected to our local network. Be that as it may, Google’s option is an interesting step, although it is still available only in a limited way. If anyone knows about looking for things – especially on the Internet – it is this company, and without a doubt this is a good company for other tools that have coquista our Windows systems. Above all, of course: Google Chrome. In Xataka … Read more

It also offers an antivirus compatible with PC, Android and Macos by very little

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No matter the device we refer to: if we can protect it with an antivirus, better. We have several available, even Free options for both PC as For mobile phones. What is not so easy is to find one that serves us for several devices simultaneously and that works well, preventing our equipment from infecting malware and other dangers. If we are looking for a versatile and quality, It may be that of Surshark fits us perfect: Its price is only 2.99 euros a month. Protection for up to 5 devices no matter how little The investment required by this antivirus is very small if we take into account everything it offers. This surfshark tool is not only compatible with Windows, but also with macOS and Android. In addition, we can use it simultaneously in 5 different devicesso we can have everything protected at the same time without having to worry about using several different antivirus. More things. The antivirus analyzes everything, both downloads and applications. Your database is updated very frequentlyso it allows you to identify possible Malwares or other threats, even if they have been acting for a very short time. It is also a very light software and that barely affects the performance of the devices, so we will not notice any type or similar. Protect your devices with an antivirus of the best level * Some price may have changed from the last review To all of the above we must still add some other thing. One of the functions that this tool allows is to Protect our webcamblocking any unauthorized access. It will also send us a notification in case an application or program is trying to access it without our prior authorization. All this is what we take with surfshark for just 2.99 euroshence A year of service will cost us 35.88 euros. We have the option to test the service for 30 days and, if we are not satisfied, ask for a refund. A software that is worth winning in tranquility, not only on the PC: also in the rest of the devices. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Surfshark In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

Apple got into a macOS trap and annual versions. He has managed to focus on the details

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How to improve a product in a remarkable product year after year? Moreover, how to do it when that product has more than two decades with us and is already super mature? That is the challenge that Apple faces every year with macOS, the operating system that governs its Mac since OS X made its appearance in 2001. In this (almost) fourth century, Macos has changed, without a doubt, but The surprising thing is that he has not done so. Who took a Mac at that time would not feel too strange with another of today. It would see changes and numerous modern functions, without a doubt, but in essence the interface has been preserved for a simple reason: it works. To adapt to the new times, Apple self -imposed a rule: there would be a new version of macOS – and, later, of the rest of the operating systems – every year. It was something initially reasonable, but that rhythm has ended up making perhaps not a conviction, but something that comes to play against him. Thus, while in the first years it was logical to expect great changes in functions and benefits, things have been very different in the last editions. There was not so much to scratch, and we have not really striking surprises. Instead, Apple has been focusing on some specific areas of the operating system to try to give significant jumps in benefits. Let’s see what happened in the last three versions of macOS: MacOS 14 Sonoma (2023): the main novelties They were the widgets on the desktop, the screen funds in slow camera and new functions during videoconferences, for example. Nothing really spectacular. MacOS 15 Sequoia (2024): here They debuted The new iPhone mirroring system, a new password app and also the options to better manage windows on the desktop. Macos 26 Tahoe (2025): In addition to the redesign with Liquid Glassin the latest version the focus was in the improvements in the mirroring of the iPhone and of course the changes in spotlight and shortcuts to enhance them more than ever. It is not that none of those changes especially call attention. In fact they can become disappointing for the most demanding users. “Is this really the only thing that changes after a whole year?” They will say. It is a reasonable and logical question, but here there are several factors that explain that apparent lack of ambition. The first, that of the maturity of the operating system. With macOS we are facing a veteran and very solid system in which practically everything works as one would expect. Apple has been polishing it during all this time, and that has allowed the mechanics to be strengthened while small improvements were added here and there. The main features of Macos 26 Tahoe do not seem much after a year of work. It is probably the best that could happen to users of the operating system. This is how Macos has adapted to the new times silently, with internal changes, support of new standards and protocols and of course support of the devices that have been part of the company’s ecosystem. We have a good example here in continuity, the system that “connects” the iPhone with the MAC and that debuted, ” More than a decade ago. That maturity is also closely related to the second of those factors we referred to by talking about Apple’s apparent lack of ambition. The famous “If you work, don’t touch it” It also becomes more true than ever, and it is not necessary to reinvent wheels when (in most cases) everything works as it should. But there is also an important third factor. It is easy to make changes when you have fewer users and your operating system, platform or application has just taken your first steps. But the thing changes when Apple you have more than 1,000 million users who use your devices. A change, however small, affects the lives of all these people, and can mean millions and millions of conflicts. There is therefore that having extreme care when making these changes, and in no way can they be radical or in form – that is why Liquid Glass is not “so different” – or in function – imaginated that suddenly the keyboard shortcuts or the way of using Finder will change. Apple knows better than anyone that situation, and given the challenge of presenting a new operating system every year, its solution has probably been reasonable. What they try is not to surprise us with radical changes, but Provide small practical improvements They try to make the lives of the most comfortable users. That is why we have the aforementioned continuity (continuity), and that is why the current focus on a supervitaminated spotlight that can end up being useful for many users. Is that disappointing? Maybe. Is Apple’s best option for the obligation to renew its operating systems every year? As boring or hard to seem, no doubt. In Xataka | The decline of the “Apple culture”. Blind devotion has evolved towards critical enthusiasm

Liquid Glass, iOS 26, Macos Tahoe, Watchos 26, the new Games app and all the news left by Apple’s WWDC 2025

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Apple has chosen the WWDC 2025 To launch a clear message: its ecosystem needed deep reorganization. And he has done so starting with the most visible, such as design, and extending to the most structural, including the name of its operating systems. Next we review all the news that Apple has presented in this WWDC 2025. From the most obvious visual changes to the most discrete functions, everything you need to know is here, well organized so you can consult it at a glance. A total redesign: This will look like the entire Apple ecosystem Liquid Glass arrivesa new translucent material that reflects and refracts the environment, providing visual depth in real time. This design extends to iOS, iPados, macos, watchos and tvos, with new icons, floating controls and adaptive navigation bars. Blocking screens, desks, docks and key interfaces such as camera, safari or Apple Music now offer a renewed (and more coherent) experience. iOS 26: More personal, smarter, more connected iOS 26 Combine the visual redesign with integrated artificial intelligence functions. Apple Intelligence allows you to translate messages in real time, suggest events and create visual content with Genmoji or image playground. Telephone and messages are updated with spam detection, call management and surveys suggested by IA. Carplay improves your interface and adds fixed conversations, widgets and compact view for calls. Apple Music incorporates letters, automatic mixtures and personalized musical suggestions. Apple Games: The new center to play throughout the ecosystem Apple Games It is the new app dedicated to gaming with social functions, catalog organization and connection with Apple Arcade. Group all games installed on the user’s devices, whether own, Apple Arcade or Game Center. It offers rapid access to recent games, markers, achievements and active events. Integrates social functions such as shared rankings, challenges between friends and monitoring of progress. It is available in iOS 26, Ipados 26, Macos Tahoe 26 and Visionos 26, with design adapted to each platform. In macOS y Visionos includes Game Porting Toolkit 2, with improvements for developers who want to adapt games to Apple Silicon. Watchos 26: Intelligent motivation and more control from the wrist Watchos 26 Win in customization, intelligence and comfort with key improvements to train, communicate and manage every day. Workout Buddy USA Apple Intelligence to offer motivating messages during training. The apply app and includes musical suggestions adapted to the type of exercise. Real -time translation comes to messages and new conversation funds synchronized with the iPhone. A new doll rotation gesture allows you to rule out notifications without touching the screen. The APP notes, accessibility improvements and new telephone functions complete the update. Tahoe Macos 26: More fluidity, more automation and more game Tahoe macOS 26 It opens a clearer interface, intelligence distributed throughout the system and a firm bet for gaming. The telephone app arrives at the MAC with functions such as call filter and Hold Assist thanks. Spotlight is redesigned to execute actions, activate shortcuts and look for content more efficiently. Apple Intelligence Power shortcuts, translates into real time and allows automating complex tasks. The new Apple Games app organizes the user’s catalog and allows you to play without leaving the environment with Game Overlay. Safari, messages, facetime and photos are updated with visual improvements, new functions and more content control. Visionos 26: One more step towards a more fluid mixed reality The Vision Pro system continues to evolve with improvements focused on navigation, performance and shared use. It is now possible to place apps in space and leave them fixed even when the device goes out, to resume them exactly where they were. People in SharePlay, which allows you to see realistic avatars of other users during a shared session is incorporated. The new travel mode allows you to use the vision in trains, adapting the experience to moving environments. VISIONS 26 Enter simpler and more precise gestures to control the interface without the need to move the head or hands both. Images | Apple In Xataka | How to install the beta for developers of iOS 26, iPados 26 or Watchos 26 In Xataka | Apple believed to have an excellent plan to deploy its AI in China. He is going as good as everything else in China

In the new macOS 26 Tahoe there is change of interface, yes. But the surprise is to be able to write an email or throw a shortcut from Spotlight

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More than 40 years of history They contemplate the Mac. It may not be the protagonist of the Apple ecosystem, but Macos always has a relevant study in the updates that the company announces every year. This time it has not been the exception, and this year we have a new version that not only changes its name (Tahoe), but also jumps rumored in numbering. Thus, the traditional sequence after MacOS 15 Sequoia It should have brought us Macos 16, but instead Apple has decided to adopt a version number that corresponds to the “year of launch+1”, which in this case is 26. In this new version of macOS A good face washing was expectedand that’s what we have with MacOS 26 Tahoe. The changes in the interface are the absolute focus, although the most striking novelty is the one that reaches Spotlight, the launcher/search engine integrated in macOS. The interface changes, although not radically. Liquid Glass raises an interface in which for example the taskbar is transparent and that is customizable, such as the control center. The latter can be configured to our liking, adding a lot of direct icons and accesses, even that they can correspond to iPad apps. These customization improvements also reach the folders, in which we can change the color or add a small badge to differentiate them from the rest. The new version of continuity allows us that for example we can have a “twin” of our iPhone on the screen to be able to do things like enjoying calls directly on the MAC screen and also doing it using options such as the Real -time translation. However, where the most curious improvements arrive in Shortcuts and in Spotlight. In Shortcuts, a powerful Automatizon tool, now we can create more powerful shortcuts thanks to the so -called “smart actions”, which take advantage of Apple Intelligence’s functions. But It is in Spotlight where things change especially. We are facing that Apple states that it is the most important update in the history of this component. This pitcher allows you to search for files or launch applications – even those of the iPhone that we have matched with continuity – starting to write its name in the text field. But it is also that we now have a way to access very striking functions without leaving Spotlight using small keyboard shortcuts. Thus, if for example we write “SM” (Send Message) we can start the writing of an email message without opening the mail application. There are several of these personalized commands that make Spotlight into A kind of custom “terminal” In itself from which to execute commands, launch applications and even access the history of the clipboard. The last great novelty of Macos 26 Tahoe comes from the hand of video games. Apple, who has never paid too much attention to this area in the Mac, now offers a control center called Apple Games that reminds us of the Xbox application in Windows. As in that case, in Apple Games We have a form from which to access our library and from which to launch the games that we have bought or buy new. There is a new Game Overlay that allows us to chat with friends, invite them to play or adjust our configuration to play. The developers and users will also benefit metal 4, the new rendering technology specifically designed for the Apple chips GPUs and that allows games that take advantage of it improve its visual quality remarkably, promise in the company. In Xataka | Apple plays in today’s event more than its future in AI: its credibility is played as a company

This is Liquid Glass, the new interface of iOS, Macos, Ipados and Watchos

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Great changes were expected to the Interface of Apple’s operating systems, and we already have them with us. Liquid Glass arrivesa new design language that makes use of translucent elements throughout the interface. Alan Dye, head of human interface in Apple, presented this “inspired” vision “redesign. This “expressive material” precisely adopts the appearance of a layer of liquid crystal that applies to drop -down menus, buttons and other visual elements. There is a unique effect also on all these visual elements: They are translucentbut they act as a unique lens that shows what is underneath as if those elements were actually made of that material. Transparencies are very realistic thanks to the effects that mimic this glass effect. In the iPhone wallpaper, for example, the time digits show the background color slightly modified by the effect of “liquid crystal” itself. This new interface adapts without problems in the dark mode if necessary, although Apple showed above all clear mode in all captures and demonstration animations. That interface promises to be especially clean, although a priori does not seem especially radical: we have a desk that seems more polished and with more “air” than its predecessor. There is something especially important: those visual elements are universal throughout the Apple ecosystem. The Liquid Glass design language reaches iOS, macOS, iPados or Watchos equally. All of them take another leap: Theoretically this year Macos 16 or iOS 19 were going to arrive, but instead we will have macos 26 or iOS 26. In development …

How to program the off and ignition of your mac or macbook in macOS

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Let’s explain How to program the off and ignition of your Macsomething that is a bit more complicated than it should not have a native option for it. However, there are two possibilities that you deserve to know so you can do it. Let’s start by explaining how to schedule the dulls and on macOS From the device terminalwithout having to install anything, just write some commands. Then, we will explain how to do it using a popular free application. Your mac’s shutdown program at the terminal To schedule the shutdown or ignition of your Mac from the terminal, you have to use the command PMset. In addition, you will have to determine the days of the week you want to do it and the time. When you write the command, you will request the administrator password. These are the two commands to be used: SUDO PMset Repeat Wakeorpoweron Mtwrf 07:00:00

How to use it locally on Windows, Macos or GNU/Linux

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Let’s explain How to install Depseek on your computerto be able to use it whenever you want. There are several ways to do it, but we will try to turn to one of the simplest that is possibleand that works with both Windows and Macos and Gnu Linux. For that, we will resort to A program called Ollamaand that serves to install different artificial intelligence models and launch them on your computer. Among them is Deepseek. It is installed as a normal application, although its use is a bit different. His great peculia is that It works from the internal console of your operating systemboth Windows and Macos or GNU/Linux. This can be a bit confusing, although simplifying its use to the maximum. In fact, you just have to install the app and write a command to start working. The positive part of this is that You will be able to use Depseek even without connection to the Internet, since it will be working internally on your computer. And the negative part is that you cannot search the Internet, at least with this R1 model that we are going to install. Install Depseek on your PC The first thing you have to do is enter the Ollana website, which is a program that serves to install and run several artificial intelligence models locally. For this, enter Ollama.comand click on the button Download That will appear. Now, you will go to the page where you have to Choose the operating system for which you want to lower the program. Once you have chosen it, click on the button Download. By default the web will show the system you are using, but you can download the executable of any other. When you download it, it launches the installation program. Install Ollama is very simple, you just have to click on the next button on the presentation screen, and then click on the button Install On the installation screen. Now comes the only one a bit complex. Once installed, you have to launch the Ollama application. Apparently nothing will happen, nothing will open. At this point, with Ollama operating you have to open the terminal of your operating system, the system symbol in Windows. There, you have to Write the code to install or execute Deepseek. Is the following: OLLAMA PULL DEPEEEK-R1: 8B: This only discharges Deepseek R1 in its 8B version. This version is somewhat bigger than the lower ones, but it is much more effective. Ollama Run Deepseek-R1: 8b: This installs and launches Deepseek R1 in version 8b or in which you choose. The installation process is several gigabytes, about 5, and The lot or little that will depend on your connection to the Internet. Once installed, in the case of having used the command Run You can start using it. How to use Deepseek on your PC After doing the installation, you just have to Use the command Ollama Run Deepseek-R1: 8b In the terminal of your computer having the Open Open program. Version 8b can change it for another one available here: ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags. When you set the program, in your computer’s command line you can Write the prompt you want Throw Deepseek, and after a few seconds the answer will begin to generate. If you write in Spanish, possibly answer you in the same language, although your trend will be to use English. If you respond in English, you can always mention in the Prompt That he answers in Spanish. The Deepseek R1 model is specialized in reasoning. Therefore, when you write a prompt, Before receiving the answer you can see your reasoning Among the labels . This is curious so you can see the way in which AI is processing what you have asked. Then, the answer will generate. When you want to stop using ollama with Depseekthen you will have to write the command /Byeand will return you to the default terminal. If you write /? It will show you other commands you can use. In Xataka Basics | Prompts pages: 16 free websites and communities to find ideas for your prompts and find advice to improve them

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