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YELLOW IPHONE 14
In March, Apple released a canary yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus in honor of spring. The only distinguishing feature of this new release is-you guessed it-the color. Lots of banana-phone jokes have made their rounds, but here at iPhone Life, we do agree it's a lovely shade. Like with all other iPhone 14 and 14 Plus models, the price starts at $799.
M2 MAC MINI
Next up is a new generation of Apple's popular Mac mini, the tiny desktop computer that's also the cheapest entry to the Mac lineup. Like with all 2023 Macs, the mini is outfitted with an M2 chip, the second generation of Apple's own silicon processor. Offering 8 or 10 processor cores and 10 graphics processor cores, the new M2 mini offers improved performance, especially in media processing tasks like rendering video, editing photos, or mixing audio. These M2 Mac minis start at $599 and offer 8, 16, or 24 GB of unified memory (RAM), along with storage ranging from 256 GB to 2 TB.
Even this cheapest entry in the Mac lineup is still an impressively capable device, offering everything the casual user and even the light media enthusiast needs from a desktop.
M2 PRO MAC MINI
This story is from the Summer 2023 edition of iPhone Life Magazine.
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LOCK YOUR APPLE ID WITH A PHYSICAL KEY
Security keys are physical items that can be used to verify your identity when logging into your Apple ID. If you are planning to use security keys, make sure you have at least two. Apple requires you use two, so that if you lose one, you will have another as a backup. At iPhone Life, a brand we recommend is the Yubico Yubikey 5Ci ($75).
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