Hardware

Many of LG’s 2017 LCD TVs use subtractive RGBW which steals every 4th subpixel and changes it to white. It helps with brightness and contrast, but reduces the TV’s true resolution from 4K to 2.8K.

Earbud makers have been busy doing away with wires—a good thing whether or not your phone still has a headset jack. You no longer have to deal with cords if you don’t want to. True wireless earbuds connect to one … Continue reading →

Free and fun Image by Andrew Hayward/IDG We routinely pour hours into free-to-play games, but thanks to freemium annoyances and sometimes limited or simplistic gameplay cycles, they may not qualify as the best games we’ve played all year. But we … Continue reading →

Powerful Mac apps that won’t break the bank There’s something of a misconception when it comes to the Mac. While powerful tools like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro certainly have price tags commensurate with their robust feature sets, many of … Continue reading →

Snakable has a unique solution to the classic cable weak spot: plastic ball-jointed “armor.” The company has put three rotating ball joints at each neck of its Armored Apple MFi Lightning cable for reinforcement and to prevent users from over-bending. … Continue reading →

Tylt’s Cord Noir Lightning cable is exactly what a premium cable should be: Beautiful, sturdy, and uber-convenient. The most notable feature of the Cord Noir Lightning cable is its reversible USB plug, which lets you plug the cable into a … Continue reading →

The Macalope worries. Mostly about reverse vampires, but also about people who think he hates anyone who uses anything but Apple products. This is simply not true. Reverse vampires, on the other hand, are real and pose an immediate existential … Continue reading →

There’s nothing fancy here, but this box delivers a great performance every time.

Time Machine can’t make use of Apple File System (APFS) volumes. This is a significant problem that many Macworld readers want to make sure others know about. This has been known for months, and because you typically have to take … Continue reading →

This smart appliance examines the air you breathe, but do you need that analysis?