Apple event: announcement of the "greenest" MacBook Air and the new iPad Pro – live | Technology

The new iPad Pro have at their heart a new chip: the A12X Bionic, an advanced tablet clbad compared to the A12 of the iPhone XS. It has 10 billion transistors. It looks like a lot of transistors!

"These iPad Pro are faster than 92% of all laptops sold in the last 12 months," says John. It is an impressive claim.

The graphics performance has doubled compared to the previous generation, apparently offering the "graphics performance of the XBox One S-clbad", identical to Microsoft's flagship console.

Of course, without a home button, the new iPad Pro uses FaceID to replace TouchID. Unlike the iPhone, it works in portrait and landscape mode, which is nice.

The hard edges make it look a little like the first-generation iPad, which is a nice reminder, but everything else is different.

As on the iPhone XR, the screen is now referred to as the "liquid retina" display. But on the smaller model, the 10.5-inch screen is now 11 inches, thanks to the loss of the main button.

On the largest iPad Pro, the 12.9-inch screen remains the same, the device itself narrowing.

The new iPad Pro! Its edges are hard, no base button, thin glbades all around, and its camera nubbin makes it difficult to place on a flat surface.

Tim introduces John, from the iPad division.

The iPad Pro is the first. "Today we announce a brand new iPad Pro and it will push further what you can do. [an] iPad or on any computer, even further. "

Cue video six, showing the new iPad Pro.

Well, let's go back to the expensive things: the iPads.

"A piece of magic glbad that instantly turns into what you want," says Cook. "But you may not know that we have sold more iPads over the last year than the full range of laptops from all the major notebook makers," adds -t it. "This makes the iPad the most popular computer in the world." I … guess?

Apple gives clbades and talks in its stores, and has nice shops in cool places, Ahrendts tells us. Today, the company is launching another 60 courses, such as a video creation course and a children's photography course.

They also run 100% renewable energy, which we already knew before, but that's fine. Back to Tim.

Tim is back and he's now talking about Apple stores. Angela Ahrendts, responsible for the retail sector, gives us a rare appearance to talk about it.

The basic configuration is $ 799, with an Intel Core i3 processor, 8 GB of memory and 128 GB of storage. (So, I was wrong about the lack of Intel.) It is also available from November 7 and out of 100% recycled aluminum.

On the memory, the Mac Mini can hold up to 64GB of RAM and all start with 100% flash storage, supporting up to 2 TB at max.

They also come with the T2 security chip, which allows the same video encoding and Apple Pay as laptops – no TouchID though, for pretty obvious reasons.

Outputs: 2x USB-A, 4x USB-C, HDMI, Ethernet and power supply.

It is a small, fast desktop computer sold as a modular addition to any workflow. Apple even suggests stacking three or more items to perform really intensive tasks.

The smallest and cheapest Apple computer, the Mac mini was considered dead by some, but no. Tom Boger, Mac Product Marketing Manager, talks about the new release.

It's the "gray of space". It starts with a 4-core processor and can be upgraded to a 6-core processor. Interestingly, Apple has not pronounced the word "Intel" in this section, which is unusual and suggests that we may not see normal Intel chips here.

And Tim is back, presenting video number five and the second Mac to be outdated today: the Mac Mini.

Specifications and prices! 8 GB of memory, an Intel i5 clocked at 1.6 GHz and 128 GB of internal storage, starting at $ 1199, on sale today and shipped November 7.

And now video number four, repeating what we already knew.

The three finishes – black, gray and gold – are quite pretty next to each other.

Recycling! All the tin on the motherboard is made from recycled material and 35% of the plastic is post-consumer. And, now, the aluminum alloy in the shell is also made from 100% recycled aluminum.

This, apparently, reduces the carbon footprint by 50% and makes it "the greenest Mac ever".

According to Grove, the USB-C ports are Thunderbolt compatible, unlike the MacBook.

Over the life of the battery, the company promises "12 hours of wireless web browsing" and "13 hours of iTunes video playback".

And in terms of dimensions, the new machine is 17% more compact in volume than its predecessor, 10% thinner and weighs 2.75 lbs, compared to 3 lbs of the previous model.

Bad news for some, though, since Grove reveals that the MBA has the same third-generation keyboard as the current generation MacBook Pros – one that raises serious questions about its long-term reliability and has not been solved yet. .