this
is a great computer it changed how we
think about mobility and probably saved
the spines of an entire generation of
latte sipping college kids
so why is it then that apple is so
determined to make it the worst product
in their lineup
we weren't even sure that there would be
an apple event this spring due to the
global silicon shortage but such mortal
follies are beneath apple apparently and
leading up to the event there were
tantalizing rumors of new ipads with
mini led backlights air tags trackers
redesigned imacs with ipad-like displays
and apple silicon inside a new apple
pencil
for some reason and more as for what we
got it was most of the above
and i have got some thoughts
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yes yes we do mac address and you should
subscribe to it for a more apple-centric
experience but that doesn't mean that i
don't have my own opinions now i said
most of the predictions ahead of the
event were true but there were still
some unexpected moments like oh i don't
know a thunderbolt equipped ipad
both sizes of the new ipad pro come
equipped with apple's m1 soc meaning
they're not only much more powerful than
previous gen a13z models they are now
able to use thunder freaking bolt for
things like fast direct attached storage
full resolution 6k output to the pro
display xdr numerous connected
peripherals and presumably more
so thunderbolt docs then will suddenly
be an extremely compelling add-on for
anyone whose workflow incorporates an
ipad and
that's about to be a lot more people now
that the
liquid retina display xdr is a thing
unnecessarily long branding aside apple
is boasting a thousand nits full screen
brightness and
1600 nits peak in hdr mode on this thing
with a million to one contrast ratio
thanks to the new mini led backlight
that provides 2500 local dimming zones
what that means is that whatever the
results of the uk advertising
authority's investigation into apple's
pro-display xdr performance claims
this screen matches that one according
to apple's own internal metrics which
frankly is good enough for me to be
pretty darn stoked
another side bonus is that higher sdr
content brightness will come in handy if
you're in a brightly lit coffee shop the
bottom line then is that if apple is to
be believed here the new ipad pro is
basically a little tiny pro display xdr
and then a top model m1 macbook air
clipped to the back of it in a slim
package and that is a huge deal it even
comes with the same 8 or 16 gigs of ram
depending on your storage option and
there's a new 2 terabyte storage tier
just like on the m1 max i just wish it
didn't cost eleven hundred dollars extra
price aside though these changes make
this new ipad more of a computer than an
ipad has ever been and quite frankly if
it performs anywhere near what apple
claims it will it may be outright
preferable to the venerable macbook air
depending on your use case especially
considering that you get more computer
for the starting price of just 7.99 on
the 11 inch model i mean it doesn't run
mac os but with the way the lines
between ipads and macbooks have already
blurred it's probably a matter of time
before most of your favorite apps are
cross-compatible i cannot wait to get my
hands on one of these just like you
should get your hands on a desk pad
before they're ltt store.gone
now ipads of course weren't the only
major announcement the new 24-inch imac
is
well okay when you take an ipad and give
it the performance and i o of an
ultrabook i'm impressed when you take a
desktop and you do the same thing it's
just it's a little less wow i mean it
looks awesome the chunky bezels of
yesteryear are basically gone which
means that while it's got roughly the
same frame size as a 21 and a half inch
imac you're getting a 23 and a half inch
retina display with the same pixel
density at four and a half k res now the
chin bar did manage to stick around but
overall thickness of the device is
ridiculously thin and the ipad-like
sharp but rounded industrial design is
so refreshing to see after basically no
fundamental changes since 2007
the fact that it comes in so many colors
rather than just silver is also probably
going to make it a hit among college
students and families and the newly
designed magsafe like power connector
gives it a very cohesive look on the
desk
albeit that comes at the cost of having
an external power brick for the first
time on a desktop mac
one benefit of this approach is that the
brick can be equipped with gigabit
ethernet in it for a cleaner look on
your desk although the drawback of
course is that the base model imac
actually does not come with a wired
ethernet connection
the one saving grace i can think of of
this
innovation is that if you clue in at
some point that wi-fi just cannot
achieve the speed and more importantly
the reliability of a copper cable you
can either hang a dongle off of your
sexy machine or just upgrade your power
adapter later on down the line
if you're getting chromecast ultra
flashbacks you're not alone
bringing us to another sourcebot
specs
as a result of the limited i o thanks to
the unmodified m1 soc that apple is
using for the new 24 inch imacs the
lower end model the one with no ethernet
out of the box has just two thunderbolt
slash usb 4 ports and a headphone jack
that's it then for 200 more the up model
version gets an extra gpu core that
gigabit ethernet power adapter and two
extra usb 3 ports
both of them come with wi-fi 6 and
bluetooth 5 though and
to be fair this is marketed as a basic
family or dorm computer so chances are
good that many potential buyers may have
no desire to use ethernet although the
chances are also good that they're going
to gripe to geek squad about crappy
performance and the solution to it will
be
plugging in a cable if i was being
realistic though this is all i could
have expected and for someone
considering an imac 21 and a half inch
certainly this is a huge step up i just
hoped that by the time desktop apple
silicon machines arrived the m1's i o
limitations would have been in the rear
view mirror one welcome arrival from the
m1 though is the new webcam or more
specifically the mobile image processing
routines that for years have been better
than any desktop so we're expecting more
natural lighting and color balance like
we saw with the 720p facetime cameras on
the m1 macbooks except better because
this is now a 1080p webcam and also
they've paired it with what apple calls
the best microphone ever on a mac so it
should be exceptional for
teleconferencing we'll have to see of
course but apple has a pretty good track
record here on their m1 devices
another area apple has a good track
record is sound and it's here that we
discover the reason that the chin bar
managed to stick around a total of six
drivers embedded in the chin claimed to
deliver room-filling audio in any space
and while that's obviously horseshit
it's probably going to sound pretty darn
good if recent macbooks are any
indication this this is just this is one
of those
why
marketing moments from apple like unless
they've managed to bend time and space
itself the idea that spatial audio can
be done with what are effectively down
firing stereo speakers is
a little out that like all they had to
say was it sounds really great from four
feet away which is probably where you're
gonna be sitting and we wouldn't have
had to call them on such an insultingly
obviously false statement anyway we're
definitely gonna test it for ourselves
so get subscribed so you don't miss our
full review when we get our hands on one
to round things out literally the imacs
come with a redesigned color matched
keyboard with a dedicated emoji key and
a refreshed magic mouse to go with it
refreshed magic mouse you say linus did
they finally move the brain dead bottom
charging port that we've been mocking
for years
no no apple actually spent r d money
adding color to the magic mouse and then
didn't put in the extra effort to retool
the chassis and redesign the pcb to put
a sensible charging port that lets you
use the mouse while you're charging it
and how dare you question their choices
by the way the included tenkeyless
keyboard looks all right however and the
higher tier versions of the imac get a
version of the keyboard that comes with
touch id for those of you wanting a full
size layout apple does have it available
and both versions also have the emoji
key honestly though touch id is
so convenient on the macbook that for me
that would be a tipping point to just
pay the extra 200 because of course you
get all those other benefits and apple
already charges a hundred dollars for a
new keyboard as it is so if you ever
wanted to add touch id you're half of
the way there even without properly
reviewing these things i'm gonna come
out and say
don't buy the base model if you're
looking to buy a new imac if you are
looking to buy a new imac though there's
a chance that you're in the market for
an apple tv as well and there's a new 4k
model coming with support for 4k 60 hdr
video and what apple's calling enhanced
airplay that allows an hdr capable i
device to display hdr content on the tv
there's a new remote that has a click
wheel like scrubbing feature and a
dedicated siri button on the right side
but the real magic comes from what apple
is calling color balance
using an iphone's camera the apple tv
can actually adjust its output to
basically calibrate your tv for you
that is so cool as long as the content
is available on the apple tv because it
doesn't touch the actual tv settings why
this isn't a more common feature on
i don't know say
samsung tvs and samsung phones i will
never know and i mean for that matter
what about lg tvs and lg for
oh
too soon anywho it probably won't be as
accurate as calibrating with a
colorimeter but the reality of it is
most people won't notice the difference
and just want their content to look good
enough and this should probably do the
trick following something resembling a
fever dream apple also announced another
new product air tags what are they
they're tiles they hook directly into
apple's find my system and use the u1
ultra wideband directional sensors to
pinpoint the exact direction and
distance away from your tiles excuse me
sorry air tanks
apparently they have unwanted tag
detection so you can't use it to track
people and they've got a range of rather
expensive leather holders
at 30 a pop it's a little cheaper than a
tile and apple offers free engraving for
them so
good job
i guess
actually yeah good job apple claims a
year of battery life on a standard user
replaceable cr2032 battery i mean
this should be the bare minimum for a
product like this but hey
apple is not manufacturing e-waste for
once we got to give them credit where
it's due
right
come on
all right thank you on that subject i'm
not sure if apple is doing the world a
solid with the whole merge and build
credit together apple card family thing
but if you're getting one of those
anyway it's not a bad perk i suppose you
can use it to pay for the new podcast
subscription that they're rolling out
that works sort of like early access or
premium service to support creators that
you enjoy kind of like patreon or
say floatplane
i don't know what their revenue split is
though so again it's hard to say if
that's a hooray or
not really a hooray um
see what else did they announce oh right
uh the iphone 12. um now it comes in
purple
neat
that damp squib of an announcement was
actually the first product of the event
so
um
yeah
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