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Apple Launches Official Online Store in India on September 23

So, 23rd September marks the launch of the Apple Online Store in India and this is a very big step for Apple in India. This will attract more customers to Apple Products because up until now, customers were only able to purchase them through e-commerce websites like Amazon and Flipkart or Apple Authorised Resellers like Indiaistore and others. Also, the option to configure Macs wasn’t available. All of this is set to change, now the Apple Store Online has launched in India. And today, I will discuss how this will be beneficial both for the customers and Apple. Art Credit: Apple For the customers, this makes the experience of buying an Apple Product a lot easier. Now, you get more ways to pay. You can pay using a Credit Card or a Debit Card, by EMI, RuPay, UPI, Net Banking and you can even pay on delivery using a Credit Card. Keeping in mind the current situation of COVID-19, they are also providing contactless delivery and of course, the delivery is going to be free. There is also an o...

ARM: The future of Notebooks

If you are an everyday computer user, then you must have used Windows or maybe you are a Mac OS user. You might also have heard about Linux. These operating systems are based on the x86-64 architecture. But, what about mobile devices like Android or iOS or even laptops based on ChromeOS? These devices run on an architecture called ARM. Now, you might want to know about ARM and how it differs from x86-64. ARM is a computer architecture just like x86. It was first used commercially in 1987 in a home computer called the Archimedes. Where it differs from x86 is that ARM is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture whereas x86 is a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing) architecture. Also, the first use of x86 was in the Intel 8086 microprocessor in 1978.  In simple words, ARM was a simpler and less powerful architecture than x86-64. Nowadays, the situation has changed. ARM chips have gotten more powerful over time. This happened due to the increasing influence o...