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Mark Gurman and Debby Wu, in a report about Apple getting ready to pull the plug on Intel starting with next week’s event:

The company is already at work on a redesigned iMac, the company’s all-in-one desktop, and a new Mac Pro model, Apple’s highest-end desktop, other people familiar with the company’s plans said.

Apple engineers are currently developing a new Mac Pro that looks like the current design at about half the size. It’s unclear if that Mac will replace the current Mac Pro or if it’s an additional model. Apple’s chip designs could help the company reduce the size of its computers due to increased power efficiency, but the current Mac Pro is large, in part, to fit components like additional storage drives and graphics chips.

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I’m looking forward to learning a lot more about Apple Silicon Macs.

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macOS Big Sur is bringing with a sweeping overhaul of the Mac user interface — perhaps the biggest change since Aqua was first introduced two decades ago.

As different as the new interface is, it does build on the shoulders of what came before it. Big Sur still feels like macOS, and that is more important than any given detail Apple may have gotten right or wrong in the next version of macOS. The Dock, Menu Bar and other major elements of the UI are still present. Even things like sidebars — which now extend all the way up the side of their parent window — are immediately recognizable.

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A new Raspberry Pi model is out, and it looks fantastic:

We’ve never been shy about borrowing a good idea. Which brings us to Raspberry Pi 400: it’s a faster, cooler 4GB Raspberry Pi 4, integrated into a compact keyboard. Priced at just $70 for the computer on its own, or $100 for a ready-to-go kit, if you’re looking for an affordable PC for day-to-day use this is the Raspberry Pi for you.

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Or Fleisher, Gabriel Gianordoli, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali, Miles Peyton and Bedel Saget at The New York Times:

The public health debate on masks is settled, said Joseph G. Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard. When you wear a mask, “You protect yourself, you protect others, you prevent yourself from touching your face,” he said. And you signal that wearing a mask is the right thing to do.

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If you’re having issues with iCloud right now, you aren’t the only one. Update: After about 4 hours, everything is back online.

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Apple Support:

Apple has determined that a small percentage of AirPods Pro may experience sound issues. Affected units were manufactured before October 2020.

An affected AirPods Pro may exhibit one or more of the following behaviors:

• Crackling or static sounds that increase in loud environments, with exercise or while talking on the phone

• Active Noise Cancellation not working as expected, such as a loss of bass sound, or an increase in background sounds, such as street or airplane noise

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This month on Bear Left (Right Frog), my Muppet movie podcast with Quinn Rose:

All aboard for Muppet Treasure Island, a pirate adventure with top-tier music, Kermit costumes, and Tim Curry.

I won’t lie; this it my favorite Muppet film.

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Apple One is now available via iOS 14.1. To enable it, go to Settings > iCloud > Subscriptions, and after a moment it will appear.

You can add on additional iCloud storage space to an Apple One plan, meaning it is possible to buy up to 4 TB of space of storage.

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Snell has the charts.

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In 1987, The Computer Chronicles did an episode all about HyperCard:

It is a fascinating watch, but a few things really jumped out at me:

• HyperCard could do about anything.
• Bill Atkinson’s passion for users to shape the Macintosh into their own personal tool was inspiring to watch.
• The Macintosh II was huge.
• I don’t think today’s computing has a true spiritual successor this, but the closest thing may be Shortcuts.

Don’s miss this 2019 Ars Technica post about HyperCard, which was written by Matthew Lasar.

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Juli Clover:

Apple today seeded a new macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 beta to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta replacing the existing macOS Big Sur 11 beta 10 update that was released two weeks ago.

John Gruber:

The only explanation that makes any sense is that 11.0 was “shipped” as the factory OS for some new hardware, which may well be the first Apple Silicon Mac(s), queuing up for a pre-Thanksgiving announcement. There could be new Intel Macs in the pipeline too — there almost certainly are — but you would think those might not require Big Sur.

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