hi everyone apple has just wrapped up
their keynote event it was only an hour
long but it was very fast-paced and very
exciting and there was a lot of
announcements so let's break it down
together but as always this is not a
one-way conversation
do drop a comment down below and let me
know your thoughts about the event as we
work through this together
now i have the notes here on my computer
and i'm going to go through them in that
order
let's get started with the new apple tv
remote thank god i don't even care about
the new tv itself it does what says on
the tin the new a12 processor hdr
but let's talk about the remote 65 euro
it's quite pricey
but it's worth it for those who are
buying a new apple tv you know they're
upgrading from the tour generation 1080p
one or perhaps you're not even an apple
tv user and this will be your first one
i think
when it's built into the price of
getting an actual apple tv it's really
great but for those who already have an
apple tv particularly a 4k
one it's not worth the 65 euro please do
not pay that
and just get a um a third party one from
another manufacturer
i actually use my iphone and i've got
good at using my iphone to control the
apple tv because you can launch it from
control center but um i know that isn't
for everyone but do not spend 65 euro on
a new apple tv remote even though it
actually is quite good
because you know they fixed it it's it's
adequate it's good because it's adequate
what i actually am quite excited about
are air tags
i think these are quite decent very much
i feel like the homepod mini
and that these are essential iots
internet of things
that apple are selling because apple has
to be very competitive with pricing in
this matter
with other manufacturers and brands
because it's still so emerging even more
so than when apple announced the ipad
back in 2010 right
iots are harder sell because it's
ambient computing which is always harder
to sell you know people have to use it
first to see how it enhances their life
i do think being able to engrave and
customize with emojis is absolutely
fantastic
i love the efforts apple are making on
personalization and doing it on more
personal products like air pods and
apple watch
also the batteries are replaceable on
air tags i assume it's with those cmos
cr2022 batteries so it's not going to be
disposable you want to buy a new air tag
every year it just got a new
battery i think this will be a big hit
for pet owners you know for callers and
i think
you will see these propagate faster
around the world than expected again
kind of like airpods how they become an
overnight sensation
i actually do think air tags low-key
will be very
very popular this is a second recording
i completely forgot that apple announced
the purple iphone if you want a purple
iphone go get one it does what doesn't
thin
it completely went over my head now the
part of the keynote that i was most
excited for of course is the 24 inch
m1 imac i don't i didn't plan on buying
one before the keynote
and while watching it i was like damn it
what color should i get
but now that you know i have time to
reflect because that was very exciting
and very fast paced
while i think it's a great computer it
is surprisingly
opaque well transparent that's actually
transparent
about showing the limitations of the m1
chip
to begin with the imac doesn't have an
sd card reader the mac mini doesn't have
one either so i assume at this point
it's a limitation of the m1 design
in that it requires um a hub or usb type
controller to operate the sd card reader
i do think it's really interesting that
only two of the four usbc ports are
turner bolt enabled
even though the other power ports are
usb4
which i thought in itself was
thunderbolt because they said usb 4 and
turn the ball would be kind of one of
the same
so we already have some confusion there
about the differences because i tossed
you know usb4 was all about unifying io
and yet here we are seeing apple put
thunderbolt boat in the imac
and in the new ipad pro which i'll
discuss soon it's also
relatively pricey now i want to be clear
you do get a lot of bang for your buck
it's a very fast system i have the mac
mini with the same specs and
it delivers but it still begins at 40.99
and the next option is 17 19 euros
and all it adds there is a touch id
keyboard
ethernet and some more usb ports and the
new colors
i would have been much more on board
with more storage over you know the
higher end
touch id keyboard and i'm very
interested to see what the build to
order options look like but that was not
available when i recorded the video
for many it might be a situation of
getting the base model imac with either
more ram or more
storage now speaking of which comparing
imac prices is also more complicated
because you can't really compare this to
the previous imac which i know it's
replacing
you know to begin with but it has a
bigger screen size right so seeing the
base model package for 40.99 is actually
pretty good
when you consider that you get the same
storage and ram and probably even a
slower processor
on the base 27 inch imac the intel one
for 2000 euro
i think what's putting me off slightly
is actually the upsell of the imac to
get the touch id
keyboard because we know apple is
working on face id for mac computers
frankly i think most people would be
better off getting the base model imac
and an apple watch now because with the
apple watch you can sign
into your computer right from the apple
watch and it's only by going back 100
bucks more
than the uh the spect imac which has the
touch id keyboard i mean of course get
the imac
the base model and an apple watch to
treat yourself to all the amazing
features that has and
you know having a smartwatch right and
that's
what my financial advice would be for
considering purchasing one of these
it was also really interesting to see
apple talk a lot about continuity
which brings me to the audience that
this is for and it's firmly for
regular computer users these are ipad
and iphone customers who may still own a
windows pc and with the slick design and
the features they focused on
it's very clear they're actually
revamping their efforts to convert even
more people to the mac i feel like for
the past few years
apple kind of had you know just come
over to the mac if you want to
but with the new imac redesign and what
they focused on it was actually quite
aggressive at getting those pc converts
uh we know a big working revolution is
coming a lot of businesses are deciding
to permanently stay working from home
or have a mix both logitech and
microsoft have gone on the record of
being excited about record sales of you
know
webcams and other devices and you know
microsoft teams and other services
and apple wants to be there too so with
a really great design
product that fits into people's homes
and offices you know bedrooms and dance
with
they can have their own personality on
that note i would like to touch on the
design quite quickly
i like the design of the apple wentwish
and even keeping the chin of the imac
since the ports are still on the back
you frankly need to grab
onto something too you know while you
plug things in any imac user will tell
you that plugging usb
cables into your imac is not elegant and
you do twist and turn the computer to
plug in accessories
so i am a fan of the chin and i'm gonna
be very interested to see if the hinge
of the imac
can um withstand the stress of
constantly
twisting and turning it because you'd be
plugging plugging things in and out
quite a few times throughout the week if
not even daily
i do think it's not the obvious design
choice but still aesthetically beautiful
so i actually am a fan of the chin
what i'm not a fan of however is the
external power brick
even the freaking ps5 and the xbox
series x has managed to put their power
bricks inside
and you kept the chin so there was room
but you know here we are
there is an external power brick their
feature is that it has ethernet and it
will keep your wires off your desk
but where is the 10 gigabyte internet
option i feel unlike the mac mini again
this is an
m1 limitation you know if the 17 19 euro
upsell had 10 gig ethernet along with
the extra usb ports and the colors
i would have totally been on board you
know i i really would have i had 10 gig
in it i think we could have had
something there
base model no eating that the next
upsell internet a standard 10 gigabytes
i also love the colors and the bright
bezel green
pink yellow and silver are my favorite i
really like the yellow it reminds me of
being a child and having the game boy
color which i had a yellow one
and i know most people like things
darker like space gray i know mbk hd
wants everything to be matte black
but i really hope we see more color
options on the new macbook pro even if
they can only offer like a gold one
i'm really tired of dark computers and
you know black and really you know dark
space gray things i
hated my space gray macbook pro i want a
computer that can lift the space i'm
working in
and i'm hopeful that we'll see that
because even the new ipad pro got a new
white magic keyboard
and that actually brings me to the new
ipad pro this one is more
straightforward to the skus we use
because it's a really solid upgrade
m1 is super fast i'll perform fantastic
on the ipad pro apparently the battery
life is still as good as ever
and i am very excited about the pro
display xdr
we need more clarification from apple
that if we can plug this into our mac
with thunderbolt
can we use it as sidecar but accurate
color reproduction
that would be very exciting this could
be a fantastic
consumer level reference monitor
emphasis on consumer i'm not talking
about competing with you know flanders
scientific
but we need to be able to use pro
display xdr on ipad pro
in these type of scenarios if apple
wants to see more hdr content being made
it's also interesting that i can now be
upgraded to two terabytes of storage
because i have the 2018 ipad here with
256 gigabytes of storage
and i never get anywhere close to
filling it all up so it's interesting
because there's obviously some user
demand there for the two terabyte people
must be buying
the 1.5 terabyte model if it's worse
than that's favor to make it two
terabyte one and you know i never got
close to filling it up because for me
the scenario where i can see the ipad
being versatile
is being my ultimate youtube and netflix
and chill device but also being able to
use you know with sidecar
as a hdr reference monitor you can kind
of slip it in and out
to my tech workflow in all these
different ways
um so i think that'd be great for like a
consumer and lower end projects where
you're not needing a flander
scientific monitor or something that's
you know extremely color accurate
because it's high budget
my actual favorite thing about the new
ipad pro is the new
white magic keyboard it is so beautiful
a great
bright design language for the ipad but
i do wish we have function row keys
there's still no function row keys on
the magic keyboard
i think if apple had it that was also
you know so it's white and i had the
function row keys
it would have been so good so good and
yeah i know i kind of raced through that
but you know i kind of wanted to keep a
pace
like the keynote i love the mission
impossible uh reference uh they're
always a fan of mission impossible
they've referenced it
quite a few times throughout apple's
entire keynote history even back to
steve jobs
that's their soft spot at media
franchise it's not a marvel movie or
anything
but do drop a comment down below and let
me know what your thoughts were about
each section
because now i'm going to talk about i
suppose my own reflection and while it
was a very exciting keynote
i actually think that unless you easily
fit
into the products apple announced today
i am declaring that people
hold still because i see an even more
exciting future ahead
and this pro display mini led technology
is really exciting
and i am very excited about the future
macbook pro redesign with apple silicon
and mini led display i am also saying to
hold still because i want to see if a
new revision of apple silicon whether
it's called m1x or m2
adds support for sd cards and it works
out those first generation
kinks that professionals have observed
with m1 and you know being able to
connect to multiple monitors
having 10 gig easier met without a
dongle i really want to see what
apple can do with the silicon going
forward and that kind of brings me to my
more
longer term review of the mac mini which
i have reviewed on my channel do check
that out
i do really love it it's still as cool
as ever and i've been editing a heap of
things on it
but i think i will be going back to
using a portable mac mainly because the
ipad pro can't
do everything i needed to do right now
professionally
i work on video shoots i'm a producer
and on lower end projects i need a data
wrangling portable
and one usb port on the ipad pro just
can't cut it for me
i need at least two and usb hubs are not
reliable
i want to be clear though that's not a
failure on the ipad pro for me it was a
revelation when i was in university as
an economics and information computing
student
and how versatile it was with apple
pencil but you know frankly as our life
changes
and you know our needs changes lately
has been reduced just
me using it at the nighttime for netflix
and youtube a little like you know
portable viewer screen almost and i
think that's what's exciting about apple
products which i think i want to make
very clear
many people view apple products as a
treadmill that if i buy an
ipad i'm on that upgrade treadmill for
life whereas i think
now more than ever you can really get on
and off as it suits you because
they all run very similar software so
they're also incredibly easy to use like
if you know how to use an iphone
you can use an ipad and therefore you
should be really viewing
these products apple has so many now so
many
a solution to your needs and then buying
them accordingly
um again my takeaway is that i just want
this mini led technology on the mac
it didn't come to the imac today uh we
know it is coming to the macbooks and i
am
very excited for that redesign so i
would say you know to end it off to buy
accordingly to what you need
and again if it's not there today hold
still because i think it will be coming
very shortly so i'm going to leave it at
that thank you for tuning in and
watching my breakdown and reaction and
review of the apple keynote
i know the production quality today
isn't up to my usual standards i just
wanted to pull my green screen up and
record my webcam
and record this video quickly and so i
was looking at my notes i wasn't having
to memorize anything
but subscribe to the channel and hit the
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because honestly i am a big hypocrite so
don't be surprised if in a few weeks you
do see an unboxing of an imac on the
channel because that yellow one is just
so pretty
i just want to play with it i know it's
not for me but
it's so well designed uh i'm a sucker
for that type of thing
uh but otherwise keep safe and keep well
and i will see you all in a new video
very shortly
bye