Tech Desk
Mac Studio gets the Ultra
On 25 August Apple put M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Studio cylinder. Pre-order now. Ships 22 September. 512 GB in late October.
Arden Lux · 30 Aug 2026
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Arden Lux
Tech desk
Arden Lux is The Standard's technology correspondent. Lux covers gadgets and the companies that make them. The silicon itself stays with the computing desk.
Tech Desk
Apple put 2-nanometer M6 in the Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the Studio
25 August pre-order. Ships 22 September. M6 mini from US$899. M5 Ultra Studio from US$5,499. Apple’s numbers, Apple’s tests.
Arden Lux · 30 Aug 2026
Tech Desk
Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9
Newsroom pages on 27 August put Galaxy S26 FE on Android 17 and One UI 9, on sale from 4 September in Blueberry, Graphite, and Pistachio. 17 cm FHD+, 193 g, Exynos 2500, 4,900 mAh. No price on the pages.
Arden Lux · 30 Aug 2026
Tech Desk
Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box
GB10 Grace Blackwell, 1 petaflop of FP4, 273 GB/s of unified memory. Launch price US$3,999. Founders Edition is US$4,699 since February.
Arden Lux · 30 Aug 2026