March 2025

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New M3 iPad Air:

So this means the M2 will get a discount, and it looks like there is no difference except they might have gotten rid of a woofer speaker:
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/05/13-inch-ipad-air-m3-chip-no-double-bass/

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m2-vs-m3-ipad-air/

They also have the cheaper iPad 11th generation that just got updated:
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/new-ipad-with-a16-and-more-storage/

Might be new Macbook Air’s and studio:
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/new-macbook-air-tomorrow-says-gurman/
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/mac-studio-coming-this-week/
 
Text messaging Android got better in 18.4
Apparently only the major carriers got the upgrade, 18.4 brings it to the smaller cell phone companies:
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/ios-18-4-t-mobile-mvno-rcs/

Thank goodness Apple no longer has a 64 GB option!
It really is not enough storage to do much.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/apples-64gb-era-is-over/

Assassins Creed coming to the Mac!
You need a M3 chip or better for it to work, most games run fine on a M1 if you have enough ram.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/04/assassins-creed-shadows-mac-march-20/

Robot driving a bike video:
He is doing stuff no robot has ever done!
https://www.tiktok.com/@kagan_dunlap/video/7474352037753343275
https://www.tiktok.com/@kagan_dunlap/video/7474352037753343275?_r=1&_t=ZT-8uAjltNzQSI

Really good Duplicate cleaner:
It lets you have a little more control than the Apple one in Iphotos:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photos-duplicate-cleaner/id592704001?mt=12

Stable Diffusion:
You can make graphics locally, it uses little ram and runs pretty fast, but does a mediocre job!
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/install-mac/

Someone has taken the graphics AI and applied it to text, so now it will make sentances or paragraphs at a time, instead of the AI making one work at a time for a drastic speed increase:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/new-ai-text-diffusion-models-break-speed-barriers-by-pulling-words-from-noise/

Grok 3
Elon talking about the challenges in building the super computer in record time:
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1891719655301267599