Amazon is back with some great deals on select Apple hardware, offering hefty discounts on Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch SE, MacBook Air 15″, and the 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro M3 series. Take a look!

Apple Watch Series 8 for $289 (down from $399)

Apple Watch Series 8 may be the prior generation, but it’s still a fantastic Apple Watch and you can get it for a great discount right now from Amazon. Featuring a 41mm display, GPS, fitness tracking capabilities, blood oxygen reader, ECG app, water resistance, an always-on display, and much more.

• Apple Watch Series 8 GPS 41mm – $289 (down from $399)

Apple Watch Series 9 for $349 (down $50)

If you want the latest and great, Apple Watch Series 9 is discounted to just $349 in select colors and band size combinations, down from the MSRP of $399. Apple Watch Series 9 offers a 41mm display, fantastic fitness tracking capabilities, a heart rate monitor, blood oxygen reader, ECG capability, crash detection, fall detection, ovulation tracking, always-on display, GPS, pinch gesture support for interacting with the Apple Watch with just one hand, and a powerful new chip to make the watch faster than ever before.

• Apple Watch Series 9 – $349 (Down $50 from $399, select colors)

Apple Watch SE 2 for $199 (down $50)

Apple Watch SE 2 features a 40mm screen, fitness tracking functionality, sleep tracking, crash detection, a heart rate monitor, and is water resistant, making it a fantastic entry-level Apple Watch for just about anyone.

• Apple Watch SE 2 – $199 (down from $249)

M3 MacBook Pro 14″ & 16″ – Up to $200 Off

MacBook Pro offers more power with the M3 chip, and more ports, including MagSafe charging port, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack. The brand new MacBook Pro with M3 Pro chip is available in both 16″ and 14.2″ display sizes, and discounted by up to $300 in select RAM and storage configurations.

• 14″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro – 18GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $1899 (down $100 from $1999)
• 14″ MacBook Pro with M3 Max Chip – 36GB RAM – 1TB SSD – $2999 (down $200 from $3199)
• 16″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro – 18GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $2299 (down $200 from $2499)
• 16″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro Chip – 36GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $2699 (down $200 from $2899)

M2 MacBook Air 15″ for $250 Off

The 15″ MacBook Air M2 models feature the powerful M2 processor, SSD storage, a 1080p FaceTime webcam, Touch ID, backlit keyboard, and a great slim lightweight design, and is available in the popular Midnight Blue and Starlight at a nice discount. Be sure to clip the on-page coupon to get the final discounted price when added to your cart.

• 15″ MacBook Air M2 – 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD- $1049 (clip on-page coupon for price in cart during checkout, from $1299)

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One way you can improve your Mac experience is by adding some handy tools and items to your Mac menubar item. And, coincidentally, some of the best free utilities available for Mac, are also menubar items.

We’re going to cover four of the best free menubar apps for Mac, which are sure to improve not only your menubar experience, but your Mac experience too. And if we missed an essential menubar tool that is part of your Mac workflow, share it with us in the comments!

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Many people use Google Maps to find out about businesses, parks, locations, and destinations, by reading the reviews. While it’s one thing to browse through all of the reviews and read them, it can be very useful to narrow down reviews for something specific, like a keyword. Thus, it’s a desirable capability to be able to search reviews on Google Maps for a keyword match.

Searching reviews is incredibly useful if you’re wondering about something specific. For example, you can search a restaurants reviews for “burrito” if you’d like to read specifically reviews mentioning that.

Searching reviews on Google Maps is easy but it may not be obvious to everyone, so here’s how you can do it.

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The official ChatGPT app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac includes a voice feature, letting you speak with the chat bot and hear answers back from high quality voice options. Voice chat with ChatGPT lets you have hands-free interactions with ChatGPT, and can be very useful for a wide variety of purposes.

Not only can you get ChatGPT to answer your questions about a particular subject or topic by voice, but you can continuously engage with it in a conversational way, making it a super useful assistant to have around when you’re engaging in various tasks.

For example, maybe you’re in the kitchen and want a assistant chef to guide you through a recipe, or create a recipe entirely on the fly with a limited series of ingredients. Or perhaps you have the curiosity of a four year old and you just want to continuously ask questions about a particular subject, and follow the answers up with more and more questions. ChatGPT Voice Chat can easily do all of that, and more.

If you haven’t used voice chat with ChatGPT yet, we’ll show you how to get started.

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If you have an iPhone with iCloud, and you also have a Windows PC that does not have iCloud setup, you may still want to copy the pictures off of the iPhone to the PC. This is a common situation that not everyone is familiar with, so we’re going to take the opportunity to demonstrate how you can transfer photos from iPhone to a Windows PC, without using iCloud.

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The latest versions of iPhone and iPad system software include a feature that offers predictive typing, with typing suggestions shown inline as light gray words that are ahead of your cursor as you type. For example, if you’re typing “how ar” you might see the inline prediction suggest “how are you” as a way to complete typing that sentence, where you can just hit the spacebar and complete the inline typing.

Some users really like the Inline Typing Prediction feature on iOS and iPadOS, whereas other users may not like the feature, or even find it annoying. If you wish to disable inline typing predictions on iPhone or iPad, read along and we’ll show you how.

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While the big holiday discount shopping season is over, that doesn’t mean you have to pay full price for some desirable Apple products. Amazon continues to offer nice deals on a variety of Apple gear, including taking $50 off just about every Apple Watch model.

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Apple has issued the second beta versions of iPadOS 17.3 for iPad, iOS 17.3 for iPhone (which has since been pulled), and macOS Sonoma 14.3. The new betas are available to download now for any user actively enrolled in the appropriate beta testing program.

Update: Just kidding, iOS 17.3 beta 2 has been pulled because it was bricking some iPhones during the software update – gotta love beta testing system software eh?! macOS Sonoma 14.3 beta 2 and iPadOS 17.3 beta 2 remain available, and a new version of iOS 17.3 beta 2 will likely be released soon.

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Most Mac users will likely see battery stats in the menu bar of MacOS, and head to System Information to investigate cycle count, but some users who spend a lot of time at the command line may find it useful to be able to retrieve battery information from the Terminal.

One way to find battery life information is with the pmset command, but another approach uses the ioreg command, which is what we’ll cover here. By using ioreg, we will retrieve the current battery capacity, maximum battery capacity, and the cycle count of the battery on the Mac as well.

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The latest versions of MacOS offer an inline predictive text feature, which attempt to predict what you may want to type text. You’ll see this appear when typing in many Mac apps as there are words appearing in lighter gray in front of what you are presently typing, which you can complete typing of by hitting the space bar. This is kind of like an autocorrect on steroids, as it attempts to predict what you’re going to type next on the Mac, and for some users they really like this feature, whereas other users may not like inline predictive typing.

We’ll show you how to turn off the inline predictive text feature on Mac.

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Want to run Linux on your M1 or M2 Mac? You can now run Fedora Linux on most Apple Silicon Macs, including all models of M1 and M2 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, Mac Studio, or iMacs. Fedora Asahi Remix is the first full Linux distribution to support the M1 and M2 processor series of Macs. Presumably support for the M3 Macs will arrive soon, along with support for Mac Pro.

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When Threads debuted from Meta (FaceBook), it was intricately linked to Instagram, and initially when you went to delete or deactivate a Threads account, it had the unfortunate side effect of also deleting the related Instagram account. But that is no longer the case. Now you can choose to delete a Threads account without impacting your Instagram account, and you can also deactivate a Threads account without impacting or leaving Instagram too.

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Running Linux on a Mac can be a big ordeal, but not with virtualization. By using UTM, you can run Linux in a virtual machine atop MacOS, contained entirely within an app. This allows you to explore and experiment with Linux, without having to go through any complex installation process or setup, it’s just a matter of downloading a preconfigured virtual machine and launching it with UTM. It’s as easy as it gets.

If you’re looking to experiment with running Linux on a Mac, but you don’t want the significant commitment that involves running Fedora Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac which formats your Mac to remove macOS and install Linux instead, then UTM and a virtual machine is a good alternative.

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Remember when MacOS (then called Mac OS X) was skeuomorphic, with a three-dimensional looking user interface elements that were fun to look at? Apple called that interface “Aqua”, but over time has slowly flattened and squished the aqua interface out of MacOS and into the flat bright white iOS-ish like interface instead.

If you miss that old classic menu bar style on your Mac, that looked kind of 3D and embossed, you can get it back again with a free app called Lickable Menu Bar.

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Some Mac users may occasionally experience a peculiar error when attempting to perform a system software update on their Mac, with the error message stating that the “available software updates have changed” and to try again or contact Apple.

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Amazon is offering some really great deals on Mac laptops, taking up to $300 off the M3 MacBook Pro series in both 14″ and 16″ display sizes, and $250 off the M2 MacBook Air 15″ base model. Plus, Amazon continues to offer great deals on AirTags, a nice discount on AirPods, and discounts on a variety of external hard drives in both SSD and HDD configurations which can be great for file storage and backup purposes. And if you’re looking for a beautiful external monitor that rivals the Apple Studio Display but at a nice discount, Amazon has a whopper deal taking 40% off the price on the Samsung display. Take a look!

M3 MacBook Pro 14″ & 16″ – Up to $300 Off

MacBook Pro offers more power with the M3 chip, and more ports, including MagSafe charging port, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack. The brand new MacBook Pro with M3 Pro chip is available in both 16″ and 14.2″ display sizes, and discounted by up to $300 in select RAM and storage configurations.

• 14″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro – 18GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $2299 (down $200 from $2499)
• 14″ MacBook Pro with M3 Max Chip – 36GB RAM – 1TB SSD – $2899 (down $300 from $3199)
• 16″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro – 18GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $2299 (down $200 from $2499)
• 16″ MacBook Pro with M3 Pro Chip – 36GB RAM – 512GB SSD – $2599 (down $300 from $2899)

M2 MacBook Air 15″ for $250 Off

The 15″ MacBook Air M2 models feature the powerful M2 processor, SSD storage, a 1080p FaceTime webcam, Touch ID, backlit keyboard, and a great slim lightweight design, and is available in the popular Midnight Blue and Starlight at a nice discount.

• 15″ MacBook Air M2 – 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD- $1049 (from $1299)

AirTags 4-pack for $80, singles for $24

AirTag personal trackers are rarely discounted, but right now they’re $24 each on Amazon, and $80 for a 4-pack:

• AirTag – single tracker – $24 (down from $29)
• AirTags – 4-pack – $80 (down from $99)

AirPods 2nd gen for $99

Save $30 from MSRP on the AirPods 2nd gen with Lightning charging:

• AirPods 2nd gen for $99 (down from $129)

Hard Drive Deals

Want a speedy portable SSD for fast storage on the go? Maybe you want a gigantic external HDD for Time Machine and other backups? There

• Sandisk 1TB portable SSD (USB-C) – for $65 (down from $85
• Samsung T9 1TB Portable SSD (USB-C) for $129 (down from $149
• Western Digital 12TB HDD for $239 (down from $310)
• Western Digital 18TB HDD for $280 (down from $529)

Samsung 27″ ViewFinity S9 5k Monitor for 40% Off

Amazon is discounting the Samsung 27″ ViewFinity S9 Series 5K Computer Monitor, complete with ThunderBolt 4, Display Port, camera, AirPlay, and a slim design that is similar to the Apple Studio Display, at 40% off.

• Samsung 27″ Viewfinity S9 for $892 (down from $1499)

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While pop-up windows have long been the bane of the web, some websites require the use of pop-up windows for various reasons. Safari for Mac will automatically block pop-up windows, but since some websites require the usage of popup windows, you may end up in a situation where you need to open a pop-up window on the Mac.

Rather than allowing pop-up windows in Safari for Mac you can also just open pop-up windows on an individual basis.

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Amazon continues to offer excellent deals on Apple products, with some great discounts on the MacBook Air 15″ model, AirTags, and more.

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