- Apple just demolished (whistling)
(glass shattering) the competition,
at least if you ignore the price.
Not only is the Vision Pro looking basically revolutionary
when it comes to headsets, but the new M2 Ultra chip
in the New Mac could be equally promising,
at least if its raw size as any indication.
24 Core CPU,
76 core GPU,
not to mention a 32 core neural engine.
I mean, how on Earth are they accomplishing
all of this in a single chip?
How have they managed to do this without the price
for the Mac Pro skyrocketing? (cash register chimes)
And how are they justifying
the apparent lack of support for add-in GPUs
and confirmed lack of support for memory upgrades?
Oh, yeah, did I mention that it's not all good news?
Naturally, we've ordered one of each anyway,
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We're starting with the obvious eye catcher, the Vision Pro.
Is this the most tech technologically advanced
piece of consumer tech ever?
Maybe.
It's basically a wearable computer,
and while Apple has been vague about a lot of things,
they never mentioned Meta or the metaverse once
and they didn't really show off any VR games,
so we don't know if we can call it a VR headset,
what we do know is that it's Apple's first product capable
of what they're calling spatial computing.
Wait, isn't that just a fancy way
to say augmented reality or AR?
Yes. Yes it is.
And with the utterly mind blowing price of 3,500 US dollars,
Apple has got an uphill battle ahead of them
justifying this thing.
But then again, maybe you'd be a fool not to buy one.
According to Apple, it can replace your TV,
your monitors, and even your sound system.
That is quite the claim.
But hold onto your keyboards, haters,
because they might not be that far off the mark,
at least if you live alone.
First up, it contains Apple's first 3D camera
for capturing spatial photos and videos,
dual driver audio pods that can use audio ray tracing
for spatial audio, an outward display that reveals your eyes
through the already impressive internal display,
which is a micro-OLED with 23 million pixels.
What?
It also contains a ton of sensors
to keep track of not only your eyes,
you can supposedly select icons and objects
just by looking at them, but your head, your hands,
and your environment with precise tracking
and real-time 3D mapping.
Plus, did I mention that you can look into the headset
and have it scan your face into a digital persona.
It looks like Meta's cartoony avatars
are even more DOA than they were already.
To do all of this,
Apple needed both an onboard M2 processor
that's running computing-related tasks through visionOS.
That's Apple's new AR operating system.
And they needed their new R1 chip,
which is dedicated to all the cameras, sensors,
and microphones that make the headset work
in virtually real-time.
Apple's claiming that you're going to experience
only 12 milliseconds of latency when using the device,
which if true would mean that the experience
should feel basically instantaneous.
Wen they're boasting the ability to recreate the world
around you in real time using LiDAR scanning
and TrueDepth cameras from the headset you're wearing
while it supposedly runs cool and quiet,
man, even at that price point
and with the fact that you have to have a tether
running to a pack, I'm pretty blown away.
And while I still think it's worth noting
that you can get a great computer and a monitor
and even a basic VR headset for less than $3,000,
considering the cost of Apple's other devices
with M2 family chips, it's actually kind of compelling
to enthusiasts who might have bought
an XDR Pro display anyway.
And it's doing all of this wirelessly
with about two hours of battery life,
with support for hundreds of thousands of apps on day one.
Insane.
Almost as insane is the fact that we might be losing
GPU support on the Mac desktop for good.
I mean, "Don't worry," they say.
The shiny new M2 Ultra chip
"has the power of seven Afterburner cards,"
so who would want an RTX 4090 anyway?
And besides, you know, you've got so many other things
that you wanna put in those seven PCIe gen 4 slots,
why a GUP?
(Linus sighs)
I mean, should we just be grateful
that unlike the new Mac Studio,
it at least has PCIe expansion?
Maybe.
It also has a 24 core CPU that they claim
runs nearly twice as fast
as the previous gen 28-core Intel chip,
and support for up to eight displays,
all of which can stream 8K ProRes video.
Now, they haven't outright stated
that there will be zero support
for dedicated graphics cards,
but based on the lack of reference to them
when directly talking about the versatility
of PCIe expansion and the fact that they acknowledged
in the keynote very technical stuff,
like the fact that you are locked in
to the up to 192 gigs of memory that you configure
right from the get-go, no memory upgrades,
it's not looking great, just like the price.
Per usual, the top spec machine is gonna cost you
an arm and a leg.
With all the bells and whistles, so the better chip,
max memory, and eight terabytes of storage,
you're looking at just under $12,000,
which, oh, wait, only a $1,000 bucks per month for a year?
Huh, well that's much better.
But then you tack on a display, your add-in cards,
maybe wheels for the case
and you're looking at even more than that.
Even the base unit, which does at least have
respectable hardware this time around,
starts at 7,000 bucks.
With that said, the old Mac Pro started closer to $6,000
and could skyrocket even higher if you kept adding memory,
so considering all the inflation we've seen
over the past few years, maybe it sounds pretty reasonable.
We're not gonna know for sure
just how much better or worse it's gonna be
than having a few dedicated 4090s,
but you can bet your butts
that we're gonna figure that out once ours arrive,
so stay tuned.
And I guess we're gonna have to have
some gaming comparisons too.
They pushed Metal 3 support pretty heavily,
and even brought out Hideo Kojima
to help influence developers to please jump on board
and start porting games to Mac. (breathes heavily)
They showed off their new game porting toolkit,
and, you know what?
I gotta give 'em credit.
I am all for this and hope that everyone
using an Apple product can benefit from it.
I mean, just 'cause I'm a PC guy doesn't mean
that I wanna sit on my computer and laugh at the Apple plebs
for not being able to run many games
outside of "Minecraft" and "The Sims".
This is a really good thing overall.
I'm glad to see Apple treating gaming more seriously
and I hope to see developers porting more and more games
in the years to come,
especially if this new M2 Ultra GPU
can push real FPS and it's not just Apple hyperbole.
Now, if you're not interested in a desktop
that costs as much as a car or a house down payment,
they also announced the 15-inch MacBook Air.
And at just 11.5 millimeters thick with a no-wedge design,
they're claiming it's not only
the world's thinnest 15-inch laptop,
but also the world's best 15-inch laptop,
despite it not actually being available for another week.
It starts at $1,300, which is a lot of money,
but only $200 more than the 13-inch,
has a display with support for a billion colors
that reaches 500 nits of brightness,
supports a 1080P webcam
and offers up to 18 hours of battery life.
Huh, that last point.
Quite a few folks here at LTT
have actually switched to MacBooks
just for their objectively superior battery life,
and this seems like it's gonna be,
well, just more of a good thing.
And Apple kept things rolling with a few OS updates
for both macOS and iPadOS.
We were all waiting for the big announcement at the end,
and then they just kind of glossed over
the usual iPad OS updates, like lock screen customizability,
a new Notes app, supposedly great for PDFs,
a new health app, and last but not least,
the ability to set multiple timers at once.
- We truly live in an age of wonders.
- That's right,
Apple's finally giving the people what they want.
It just took three, five, maybe 10 years. No big deal.
As for macOS, it looks like the new update,
Sonoma, is getting a bunch of features
that were already present on iOS and iPadOS,
like screen savers and widgets.
You'll also no longer have to say "Hey" first.
You can just say her name, which feels a little rude
considering that our future AI overlords
may remember the way we treated them.
They talked a little bit about how Safari
is the world's fastest browser and will be getting profiles
like we've already had with Google Chrome for a while now.
It's kind of weird how Apple refuses to admit
when someone else comes up with a good idea.
Then they just wait a few years, implement it,
and then don't mention the competition at all,
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- If you enjoyed this video,
maybe check out last year's WWDC coverage
to see just how far we've come in only a year.