At two o'clock in the morning today, Apple held an "Apple Special Event" online on time, if you did not stay up late last night, then this morning we also sorted out a reading "lazy bag" about this conference for your reference.
In addition to the Apple TV content updates that are not available in the mainland region, the hardware products first released at this conference are the Green Version of the iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 Pro that was leaked on the Network yesterday and the third-generation iPhone SE. The former just changed the color of the iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 Pro, while the latter basically took the shell of the previous generation of iPhone SE and replaced it with an A15 chip that supported 5G. Although the changes in the third-generation iPhone SE are really not big, it will be quite popular considering that only 3499 can bring home the third-generation iPhone SE running A15.
Next released was the iPad Air (fifth generation). Compared with the previous generation, the biggest upgrade of the fifth generation of iPad Air is to replace the processor with the M1 chip of the same model as the current iPad Pro, which not only improves performance by 60%, but also supports 5G cellular networks incidentally. In addition, the front camera has also been upgraded from 7MP to 12MP ultra-wide angle, and supports the character center function, priced from 4399 yuan.
As the product released as the finale, compared with the previous upgrades of "changing soup without changing medicine", the Mac Studio priced at 14999 yuan and the Studio Display from 11499 yuan are the real "king fried" products.
Compared to the M1 Max, M1 Ultra's doubling of the chip space brings: doubled the unified memory capacity (up to 128GB), doubled memory bandwidth (up to 800GB/s), doubled transistors (114 billion), and doubled the number of CPUs, GPUs, and Neural Engines. This series of "violent aesthetic" style specification upgrades brings the same near-double performance.
Mac Studio with the M1 Ultra chip can support up to 22 trillion operations per second and up to 18 simultaneous 8K ProRes video streams — in contrast, the M1 Max-powered version only supports 11 trillion operations per second and nine 8K ProRes video streams.
At the same time, Mac Studio maintains a compact body of 19.7cm wide and 9.5cm high, as well as up to six Thunderbolt 4 (requires M1 Ultra version) ports, a 10Gb Ethernet port, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and an "extremely advanced" 3.5mm headphone jack I/O configuration.
The configuration of studio display released at the same time is more "excessive". It features a 27-inch 5K Retina display, three-microphone array and six-speaker system that supports 600 nits of brightness and 10-bit color depth and P3 wide color gamut. The point is that this monitor even crammed an A13 chip into it to implement functions such as character centering and spatial audio for 12MP ultra-wide angle cameras.
(Proofreading/Aki)