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Apple iPad and Mac event: 'greenest ever' MacBook Air announced – live Apple event: 'greenest ever' MacBook Air and new iPad Pro announced – live
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And finally, Apple has confirmed it’s shipping iOS 12.1 today, introducing pre-announced features including group Facetime, dual SIM support with eSIMs, and more emoji.
Price: The 11 inch iPad pro starts at $799 for 64GB of space, with the 12.9 inch model starting at $999 for the same storage.
The current 10.5 inch Pro also sees a price cut to $649.
John ends the session with video number seven, another advert for the iPad Pro.
Sian, who is in charge of developer relations, comes on stage to show some of the apps that developers are making.
AutoCAD is bringing its desktop class rendering engine to the iPad; DJay Pro can now mix up to five times the video clips; and there’s an Assassins Creed mobile game that’s running at 120fps.
We get more detail from 2K Games, as Greg Thomas comes up and announces NBA 2K Mobile for the iPad Pro. It’s a basketball game.
And Adobe’s Jamie Myrold re-announces the iPad version of Photoshop, and shows an augmented reality design tool, Project Arrow.
Now we get the standard bit where Apple pretends that people use Augmented Reality. The iPad is good for Augmented Reality, apparently.
There’s also a new Apple Pencil, which connects to the side of the iPad Pro with a magnet, charges wirelessly from it, and pairs automatically. It’s also got a button, of sorts – tapping twice on the side of the pencil changes modes.
Get ready to buy new cables: the new iPad Pros have USB-C replacing the lightning connector. That makes it more capable as a computer – and even lets it charge an iPhone – but no-one likes having to replace all their plugs if they just use it as a charging cable.
It can handle up to 1TB in storage capacity, apparently.
The new iPad Pros have a new chip at their heart: the A12X Bionic, a tablet-class bump to the iPhone XS’s A12. It’s got 10bn transistors. That sounds like a lot of transistors!
“These iPad Pros are faster than 92% of all portable PCs sold in the last 12 months,” John says. That’s an impressive claim.
The graphics performance has doubled compared to the last generation – apparently delivering “Xbox One S-class graphics performance”, matching Microsoft’s console.
Of course, with no home button, the new iPad Pro has FaceID, replacing TouchID. Unlike on the iPhone, it works in portrait and landscape mode, though, which is nice.
The new iPad Pro
The hard edges make it look a bit like the first-generation iPad, which is a nice call back, but everything else is different.
The screen, as with the iPhone XR, is now branded as the “liquid retina” display. But on the smaller model, the 10.5in screen is now 11in, thanks to the loss of the home button.
On the larger iPad Pro, the 12.9in screen stays the same, with the device itself shrinking.
The new iPad Pro! It’s got hard edges, no home button, thin bezels all around, and still features a camera nubbin making it hard to place on a flat surface.
Tim introduces John, from the iPad division.
The iPad Pro is first up. “Today we’re announcing an all-new iPad Pro, and it’s going to push what you can do on [an] iPad or on any computer even further.”
Cue video six, showing the new iPad Pro.
Right, back to the expensive stuff: iPads.Right, back to the expensive stuff: iPads.
“A magical piece of glass that transforms instantly to whatever you want it to be,” Cook says. “But you might not know that we’ve sold more iPads in the last year than the entire notebook line-up of all of the biggest notebook manufacturers,” he adds. “This makes iPad the most popular computer in the world.” I… guess?“A magical piece of glass that transforms instantly to whatever you want it to be,” Cook says. “But you might not know that we’ve sold more iPads in the last year than the entire notebook line-up of all of the biggest notebook manufacturers,” he adds. “This makes iPad the most popular computer in the world.” I… guess?
Apple holds classes and talks in its stores, and has nice looking shops in cool places, we learn from Ahrendts. There’s another 60 classes that the company is launching today, she says, like a video creation class and a kids photography lesson.Apple holds classes and talks in its stores, and has nice looking shops in cool places, we learn from Ahrendts. There’s another 60 classes that the company is launching today, she says, like a video creation class and a kids photography lesson.
They also run on 100% renewable energy, which I think we knew before, but is good. Back to Tim.They also run on 100% renewable energy, which I think we knew before, but is good. Back to Tim.
Tim’s back, and now he’s talking about Apple’s stores. So we get a rare appearance from Angela Ahrendts, head of retail, to talk about them.
Base config is $799, with an Intel Core i3, 8GB memory and 128GB storage. (So, I was wrong about the lack of Intel.) It’s also available from November 7, and also 100% recycled aluminium on the outside.
On memory, the Mac Mini can be specced up to 64GB of RAM, and they all begin with all-flash storage, supporting up to 2TB at max.
They also come with the T2 security chip, which enables the same Apple Pay and video encoding as the laptops – no TouchID though, for fairly obvious reasons.
Outputs: 2x USB-A, 4x USB-C, HDMI, Ethernet and power.
This is a small, fast, desktop, that’s being sold as a modular addition to any work flow – Apple even suggests stacking three or more together to achieve really intensive tasks.
Apple’s smallest and cheapest computer, the Mac mini was considered dead by some, but no. Tom Boger, the head of Mac product marketing, comes out to talk about the new version.
It’s “space grey”. It starts with a 4 core processor, and can be upgraded to a 6 core processor. Interestingly, Apple hasn’t said the word “Intel” in this section, which is unusual and suggests that we may not be seeing normal Intel chips here.
And Tim is back, introducing video number five, and the second Mac to be bumped today: the Mac Mini.
Specs and price! 8GB memory, an Intel i5 clocked at 1.6GHz and 128GB of internal storage, from $1199, on sale today and shipping 7 November.
And now video number four, repeating what we already knew.
The three finishes – black, grey and gold – do look quite pretty next to each other though.
Recycling! All the tin on the motherboard is from recycled material, and 35% of the plastic is post-consumer. And, now, the aluminium alloy in the shell is also made from 100% recycled aluminium.
That, apparently, reduces the carbon footprint by 50% and makes it “the greenest Mac ever”.
The USB-C ports are, Grove says, Thunderbolt compatible, unlike the MacBook.
On battery life, the company is promising “12 hours of wireless web browsing” and “13 hours of iTunes Movie playback”.
And on size, the new machine is 17% smaller by volume than its predecessor, 10% thinner and weighs 2.75lb, compared to the previous model’s 3lb.
Bad news for some, though, as Grove reveals that the MBA has the same third-generation keyboard as the current generation MacBook Pros do – one which with serious questions over its long-term reliability that still haven’t been answered.