Apple Event 18th October

HomePod mini - You never heard color like that before

So the new HomePod was presented by a fun litte "beep" piece of music, showing us the new five colors, Red, Blue, White, Black and Yellow, but the red later was labled as orange. They were presented by the slogan "YOU NEVER HEARD COLOR LIKE THIS BEFORE" And they advertised siri as the smart assistant. The homepod is 99 Dollars.

AirPods

The new AirPods have now 3D-Sound with Dolby Atmos. So Apple starts with a classic. The made the blac scheme people on Fun clolors and present the AirPods pro like looking AirPods. This time they are waterproof and feature a new Case desingAdaptive EQ is now availible on standard model of AirPods Too, which debued in AirPosd Pro and makes you listen to music like it was originally intended. AirPods feature 6h listening time now and 5 minutes charging gives you 1h of listening time. The Charging cases battery is also better with 30h listening time instead of 25h and MagSafe 2 and Wireless charging is now a standard. The starting price is 179 Dollars. 

M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips

Its the 2nd Chip in the M1 family, joining the normal M1. M1 Pro delivers up to 200GBtS, which is 3x of the normal M1s Bandwith. The M1 Pro now supports 32GB of Ram instead of 16 on the M1 and it is build on 5nm anrchitecture and it has 33.7b Transistors (more then two M1 Chips together. It has a 10 Core CPU with 8 High - and 2 Efficiency cores with 70% better CPU performance, it also features 16 GPU cores, double the M1 with 2x better graphics. It also features the all new Media Engine for Video Processing with high efficiency. It has also a new Display Controller and a more powerful Thunderbolt Manager and more from M1.

M1 Max with 400GBts Bandwith 64 GBs Ram and 57 Transistors. Its got the same CPU but double the GPU of M1Pro. It has the best efficiency. It has better perfornance per watt. 

MacBook Pro

The new MacBook Pro got a complete redesign with a new display, squerer, sharper case and a new set of ports. They come in 16" and 14". The MacBook has a new case with MacBookPro engraved, and it is designed for thermals, compactness and power. Even at lower fan speeds, it pushes 50% more Air through then the 2020 models could, this means, it delivers more performance, quieter, but the magic of Apple silicon, as already seen on M1, is thant the fan has not got to spin up for 60% of the tasks you do daily. Its 16.8mm thin (thicker than 2020) and 2.13kg (heavier than 2020) on 16" and 15mm and 1.5kg on 14". The keyboard is a ported version of the standalone and there are pysical keys replacing the ToucBar, and the keyboard is sunk a little bit to give better backlight. And there is an new ForceTouch trackpad, and it is even bigger. There is again a HDMI port to connect to display, an SD-Slot. There is a headphone jack with a new, better high end DMC, and there are three Thunderbolt 4 Ports, one on one side and two on the other. Apple also has braught back Magsafe with their new Magsafe 3 Design, which delivers more power, but you still can charge via thundebolt. The new MacBook has a new generation Retina Display, which is bigger on size, with a notch. The 16" model has a 16.2" display in an identical size with 7.7M pixels on 3456x2234. The 14" has 14.2"screen with 5.9M pixels on a 3024x1964 Display. All displays have promotion with 120hz, and it is a smaller version of the Liquid Retina XDR display we saw on ProDisplay XDR, and it features miniled from iPadPro. The display has 1000 nits brightness and 1600 nits peak, and a 1000000:1 contrast ratio. The camera is now 1080p, and its a 4element one as we saw in iPhone 13. It has also a f2.0 aperture for more light and the image sensor is also bigger and better. The Mac has now three mics with studio quality for 60% lower noise floor. The sound system is even better with six speakers. two of them (one on each side) and 4 Basstuners (two per side), all have force cancellation. and the Macs support spacial or also called 3D audio for a better experience. It is in general 2x faster in processing then intel i9, M1 Pro is 2.5x faster then the Radeon Pro 5600M and M1 Max 4x (in the MBP 16"). The Mac has 64GB of RAM and VRAM. They have 7.4GBpS SSD Speed. Those Macs hav enourmus batterys with fast charge (30min > 50%). The housing is made out of 100% recycled materials.

The event was cool. look forward to my next articles about the devices.