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How to run an Ubuntu virtual machine on Apple Silicon for free

You can run a Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon for free, and here's one of the ways to do so.

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If you have an M1 or M2 MacBook Pro, then you probably love it as much as I do. The performance is excellent, the battery life is phenomenal, and I even use my M1 Pro MacBook over my PC most of the time. However, there are some things that it's not quite as good at, and one of those things is running virtual machines. Turns out there's a pretty neat way to run an Ubuntu virtual machine for free on an Apple Silicon Mac, though.

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Apple Silicon: Everything you need to know about Apple's own chips

From the M series powering Macs and iPads, to the A chipsets fueling our iPhones, Apple produces plenty of silicon chips. Here's what you should know.

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On top of making high-end consumer hardware including powerful iPhones, excellent iPads, and more, Apple also produces a series of system on a chip (SoC). These SoCs are designed to be used in Apple's own consumer hardware products, and it mainly uses ARM architecture. In addition to the new Mac computers, a variety of different Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Apple Watches, and more, use Apple Silicon.

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MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max may be coming this fall

Apple is planning to launch the next iteration of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips in the next few months.

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Apple is planning to refresh the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in the next few months, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (via 9to5Mac). The new MacBook Pro models would arrive alongside brand-new Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, which are expected to be much more powerful versions of the Apple M2 that's inside the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro.