Sommaire pour August 2025 de MacFormat

› £79 › FROM ifi-audio.com › FEATURES 3.5mm and 4.4mm headphone connectors, high-res audio up to 32-bit/384KHz; 14.5g Two separate Sabre ES9219 DAC chips handle the left and right audio channels The Zen Blue DAC that we reviewed from iFi in #MF418 was a high-end desktop DAC that was absolutely loaded with features for both wired and wireless audio systems. In contrast, its new GO link Max, is a much more straightforward option for people who just want to boost the audio quality using wired headphones on their Mac or mobile devices. The GO link Max, costs just £79, so it’s a very affordable audio upgrade. It’s also one of the most portable DACs we’ve seen, consisting of little more than a cable with a USB-C connector on one end…

BEST BUYS… EXTERNAL DRIVE SanDisk Desk Drive From £319.99 westerndigital.com > If you need the space (4 or 8TB), nothing else at this price comes close. MF409 POWER CHARGER Anker Prime 250W Charging Station £169.99 anker.com/uk > An excellent charger with tons of power and flexibility for all your devices. MF409 PRODUCTIVITY Logitech MX Creative Console £199.99 logitech.com > An excellent way to streamline your workflow in creative apps on Mac. MF413 OUR TOP 3 WI-FI 7 ROUTERS ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 > £259.99 > MF414 > asus.com/uk TP-Link Deco BE65 > £249.99 >MF414 > tp-link.com/uk/ Linksys Velop Pro 7 > £399.99 > MF414 > linksys.com OUR TOP 3 4K DISPLAYS Philips 27E1N1900AE > £249.99 > MF412 > philips.co.uk Dell UltraSharp U2723QE > £540 > MF412 > dell.com BenQ PD2705U >…

Apple already has both Games Center and Apple Arcade, but is now bringing a new way to enjoy your favourite games across all your devices – thanks to a dedicated Apple Games app. This not only gives you a new way to access the games you’re already playing, but also to discover new ones and chat and compete with friends and family by taking part in Challenges and by using Game Overlay. macOS Tahoe also introduces Metal 4, Apple’s graphics API, bringing even more advanced graphic and next-gen rendering capabilities to games, with MetalFX Frame Interpolation and MetalFX Denoising promising faster frame rates and smoother visual effects experiences.…

Your Mac’s keyboard is a clever thing, but sometimes it’s not apparent how to type certain accented letters, special characters or emoji. If you invest some time now to learn how to quickly access them, you will save a lot of head scratching later. As with most things on a Mac, there are multiple ways of accessing and adding these characters. Once you’ve learnt them, they’ll become second nature. Here, we’ll show you the best ways to go about it, starting with how to access mini menus for accented characters while you are typing. We’ll also cover how to access the Keyboard Viewer which displays a layout of your keyboard to help you find special characters. In addition, by using the Character Viewer tool, you can access a vast range…

Your iPhone’s ‘point  and-shoot’ Camera app produces great-looking results. It automatically chooses a fast shutter speed to capture sharp detail and avoid shake-induced motion blur. AWB (Auto White Balance) ensures accurate colours by adjusting light’s colour temperature to remove blue or orange casts. However, experienced photographers may want to take manual control over their iPhone camera. By choosing a slower shutter speed, they can add dramatic motion blur to passing traffic, for example. In different lighting scenarios they may want to choose a specific white balance preset to keep certain colour casts at bay. Your iPhone’s native Camera app creates masks that adjust each subject’s exposure independently, but the results can look a bit fake and over-processed. The third-party camera apps in our group test enable you to manually set a…

Described by Apple’s senior vice-president for Software Engineering Craig Federighi as a ‘giant’ update, iPadOS 26 finally brings the features to the iPad users have spent years asking for – the chief of which is more Mac-like multitasking. While the iPadOS 26 shares many of the new features of its iOS 26 sibling – including a new Liquid Glass look, and Apple Intelligence-powered features such as Live Translation and Visual Intelligence, Apple has also raised the bar significantly when it comes to getting stuff done on iPad. Of these the most significant is a new windowing system when multitasking that makes even faster easier to use multiple windows (and apps), with windows even featuring Mac-like red, yellow and green ‘gumdrop’ buttons in the top-left corner to make window-resizing faster and…

› £399.99 › FROM anker.com/uk› FEATURES 3x Thunderbolt 5 ports (2x downstream, 1x upstream), 1x HDMI 2.1 port, 1x DisplayPort 2.1, 2x USB-C, 3x USB-A, 3.5mm audio in/out port, 1x 2.5G Ethernet port, SD and TF card readers, dock manager software, configurable light system, GaN internal power supply An excellent multi-function dock; one accessory that handles pretty much all your power and data needs Anker’s flagship dock uses the latest Thunderbolt 5 protocol to provide a one-cable solution to expanding your system with lots of ports and power. At present only Macs with M4 Pro, M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips have Thunderbolt 5; the Prime Docking Station works with version 4 as well as USB-C (though not Thunderbolt 3 laptops), but its speeds will be limited. It’s a similar…

iMac › From £1,299 › In October 2024, Apple updated its 24in iMac with the M4 chip, and the iMac now has the wonders of Apple Intelligence built in. You can choose between an 8-core CPU/8-core GPU at entry-level, or an 10-core CPU/10-core GPU on the mid-range and top-tier versions. The entry model now comes with 16GB of memory as standard, configurable to 24GB; the mid - and top-tier versions are configurable to 24 or 32GB (32GB only available with 512GB or more of storage). The solid-state drive (SSD) storage starts at 256GB on entry-level and mid-range versions, and 512GB on the top-tier iMac, although you can add up to 1TB on the entry-level model and up to 2TB on mid-range and top-tier models. You still get a 4.5K (4480x2520)…