Apple shipped significantly more MacBooks during the first quarter of 2025, outpacing the broader PC market, according to new estimates from Counterpoint Research.

While the overall PC market grew 6.7% compared to the same period in 2024, Apple led major vendors with a 17% increase in unit shipments. However, the report attributes much of the industry’s first-quarter gains to accelerated shipments as manufacturers moved to avoid new tariffs expected to be implemented by the United States later in the year.

Temporary exemptions on tariffs for certain electronic products allowed companies to front-load shipments during the exemption window. As a result, the increase in shipped units does not necessarily translate to higher sales to end users, and many of the products delivered in the first quarter are expected to remain in inventory throughout the coming months.

For Apple, the launch of the M4 MacBook Air in March 2025 also contributed to its shipment volume. Despite Apple touting the M4 chip’s AI capabilities, the report notes that the shipment gains are not necessarily a sign of growing consumer interest in AI PCs.

Apple reportedly increased its share of global PC shipments from approximately 9% in the first quarter of 2024 to 10% in the first quarter of 2025. Lenovo retained the largest market share overall. Apple typically reports product revenue rather than unit shipments, making third-party estimates an indirect measure of market activity.

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AMD a prévu plusieurs nouvelles cartes graphiques à son catalogue dont les Radeon RX 9060 XT et Radeon 9070 GRE.

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The nubia RedMagic 10 Air, which was unveiled last week in China, made its international debut today. The RedMagic 10 Air comes in Twilight, Hailstone, and Flare colors, with the first two offered in 12GB/256GB and 16GB/512GB configurations, while the third one is only sold with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage. The Twilight and Hailstone versions with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage are priced at $549 in the US and €499 in Europe, while the 16GB/512GB model costs $699 and €649, respectively. These variants will go on open sale starting May 7. The Flare model costs the same as the…

Whisky, a popular open-source front-end for Wine that made Windows gaming on Mac more accessible, has ceased development. The project’s 18-year-old creator, Isaac Marovitz, announced the shutdown and encouraged users to switch to the paid CrossOver app instead.

In offering the reasons for his decision, Marovitz expressed concern that Whisky was potentially harming the Wine ecosystem by competing with CrossOver, a commercial product from CodeWeavers that helps fund Wine development.

“Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole,” he wrote on the project’s website. He said that Whisky contributed “practically zero” to Wine development while potentially threatening CrossOver’s financial viability.

Marovitz is also a full-time student currently attending Northeastern University, and so he has had to balance the increasing demands of the project with his academic responsibilities. “I lost interest in the project,” he admitted. “And as I’m still a student and also not being paid for work on Whisky, it becomes hard to justify working on it if I no longer enjoy it.” He said that occasional updates to Whisky may still come if macOS “fundamentally breaks the main app,” which happened with macOS Sequoia 15.4.

Writing on the Codeweavers blog, CEO James B. Ramey said in response that he appreciated Marovitz’s work. “We ‘tip our cap’ to Isaac and the impact he made to macOS gaming,” Ramey wrote, acknowledging that Whisky, like CrossOver, was “a labor of love built by people who care deeply about giving users more choices.”

During its run, Whisky gained popularity for its user-friendly interface that simplified running Windows games on macOS. The project highlighted the potential of Apple’s own Game Porting Toolkit, which is based on the same Wine technology that powered both Whisky and CrossOver.

Despite stepping away from Whisky, Marovitz told Ars Technica he isn’t done with Mac gaming: “Right now I’m working on the recompilation of Sonic Unleashed and bringing it fully to Mac.”
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Samsung’s One UI 7 update greatly elevated the Galaxy AI Sketch to Image tool. As you may have heard, the tool is now called Drawing Assist and boasts a bunch of new features, as well as multimodal capabilities. All this means is you can now create AI-generated images more easily and have greater control over […]

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