Hello everyone, I'm David Stay.
October 19, 2021, 1:00 a.m. Beijing time. Apple actually held a press conference again.
The opening of this conference is not as peaceful as in the past, but the dynamic dance music plus the cool special effects of the Apple logo.
After the official start, the first is the opening song composed of all the apple product sound effects, which is quite distinctive.
Then Uncle Ku appeared. An introduction to Apple's achievements in music.
Next up is something new related to music.
The first is that Siri can provide songs according to the scene, such as saying to Siri: "Let's have some music suitable for sleep", and will play a playlist of songs to help sleep.
But it seems to only work for Apple Music, and if you don't buy an Apple Music membership, you probably won't be able to use it. Then Apple Music members added a cheaper subscription plan called Voice Plan for $4.99 a month.
The HomePod Mini came next, but only with the addition of a few colors.
Judging from the above content, I thought it would be a very watery conference.
But then the highlights came one by one. And it's explosive!
The first is the third generation of AirPods. New exterior design.
6 hours battery life. And you can charge 5 minutes to talk for 1 hour, no, it is 1 hour to listen to songs.
The charging case can provide 4 charges for a total of 30 hours of use. Supports Magsafe wireless charging. Available from $179.
Available today, it's on sale next week.
Next came the explosive-grade content.
A new CPU is here!
Previously, the media has been rumored that the new CPU is called M1X. But it's not, it's called the M1 Pro, a 10-core processor.
200GB/s bandwidth, which is 3 times that of M1.
The 5-nanometer manufacturing process contains 33.7 billion transistors, more than twice as many as M1.
Speed increase up to 70%!
The 16-core graphics processor has 8 more cores than the M1. Graphics processing performance is up to 2x faster than the M1!
Built-in media engines boost 4K and 8K video encoding and decoding speeds while keeping power consumption low, and a variety of other engines are also built-in.
The performance of this CPU can already hang the CPU on many PC laptops. You think that's the end of it, no, there's something even more brutal.
The M1 Max is even stronger than the M1 Pro.
The memory bandwidth doubled again on the M1 Pro to a staggering 400GB/s.
Supports up to 64G ram.
Contains 57 billion transistors.
Like the M1 Pro, it is a 10-core processor, but the GPU reaches 32 cores.
GPU performance is 4 times faster than M1! From this figure at the press conference, we can see that the M1 can already achieve higher performance than the 4-core CPU on the PC and significantly reduce power consumption.
This time, the M1 Pro and M1 Max are competing against the 8-core CPU on the PC. Also under the premise of higher performance, the power consumption is reduced by 70%, and at the same power consumption, the performance is 1.7 times ahead.
I just don't know what level of 8-core CPU on this PC refers to, and I will know it when I get the real machine test.
The GPU is equally good, with the M1's GPU performance and power consumption far better than the core display on a PC notebook. The performance of the GPU on the M1 Pro can be directly compared to the notebook alone, and the energy consumption is also reduced by 70% The GPU of the bM1 Max can compete with the high-performance unique display of the game book, and the power consumption can be reduced by 40%.
And the top notebook unique comparison, can achieve similar performance and reduce energy consumption by 100W.
This is the veritable "black technology". This will surely greatly improve the battery life of the laptop. However, it should be noted that the English used here is "laptop graphics", that is, the graphics card of the laptop, and is not compared with the desktop unique display.
Next, there's software compatibility and the performance gains that come with the new CPU.
In FinalCut, the tracking plug-in is accelerated by 5 times, and the rendering encoding is accelerated by 10 times.
Other professional software also has significant performance improvements.
Having said that, it's the turn of the new MacBook Pro to debut.
Naturally equipped with the latest CPUs just mentioned: "M1 Pro and M1 Max".
The new cooling system keeps the whole machine quiet.
The 16-inch model is 16.8mm thick and 4.7 pounds, or about 2.1 kilograms. The 14-inch model is 15.5mm thick and 3.5 pounds, or about 1.6 kilograms.
Such a high-performance weight can be said to be quite thin and light.
The keyboard side cancels the previous Touch Bar and returns to the entity key.
1 HDMI, 1 lightning interface, 1 SD card reader on the right side of the fuselage, 1 headphone jack on the left side, and 2 lightning interfaces.
There is also a new Magsafe3 charging interface.
The version of the M1 Pro supports connecting 2 monitors at the same time. The M1 Max version supports connecting 3 monitors plus a 4K TV at the same time.
The screen has also been greatly improved, the bezel is narrower, and the camera adopts a flowing sea design.
The same as the iPhone 13 Pro's highest 120Hz dynamic high screen.
Mini-LED display panel.
The contrast ratio is 1,000,000:1.
It should be the best screen on the laptop at present.
The front camera has been upgraded to 1080P, and the picture quality has been greatly improved.
New studio-grade noise-cancelling microphone.
The sound system has also been greatly upgraded, with a 6-speaker system.
In terms of performance, I have just talked about the CPU for half a day, directly hanging the i9 model. Up to 2x increase in performance.
Graphic performance, the M1 Pro version is up to 2.5 times higher than the previous generation of 5600M. The version of the M1 Max is up to 4 times higher.
For the i7 model, it can only be described as crushing.
The new MacBook Pro mentioned here has a unified memory of up to 64G. It should be CPU and GPU sharing memory.
However, with the high bandwidth described earlier, there will be no performance bottlenecks.
The M1 Max version can handle up to 30 4K ProRes encoded videos simultaneously, or 7 8K ProRes encoded videos simultaneously.
It is even possible to color grade 8K videos with batteries.
SSDs also reach 7.4GB/s read speeds.
In the case of these improvements, the battery life has even increased by 2 times.
30 minutes can be fully charged 50% of the electricity.
Finally, the price, the 14-inch model starts at $1999. The 16-inch model is available from $2499.
Available in silver and space gray. It can be booked today and will be released next week.
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