Nexus Special #62: Apple October Event 2018

Brian and Ryan discuss new MacBook Airs, mac minis, and iPad Pros!

Brian and Ryan discuss new MacBook Airs, mac minis, and iPad Pros!

Another month, another Apple event!

Apple Events – Keynote October 2018 – Apple

New hardware
01:40 | MacBook Air

2 Thunderbolt 3
TouchID
13” Retina Display (no P3 color gamut)
No TouchBar
100% recycled aluminum
8GB RAM by default; up to 16
T2
Processor: 1.6GHz dual-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5

An interesting note: previous versions of MacBook Airs had i7 options in BTO configs, but this standardization on i5 seems okay for the product

Thoughts:

How odd, to have the MacBook and MacBook Air be different things

The MacBook is by default, $1299 $1599

The MacBook Air is now by default $1199 $1399
I’d have to look more into technical differences, but it seems like a timing things and a market bet that maybe didn’t pan out?

12:51 | Mac mini

5x faster than old one

4 core i3
6 core i5
6 core i7

It’s configurable i7 8700

Intel® Core i7-8700 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz) Product Specifications

Up to 64GB of RAM; 8 by default

Looks like user-replaceable RAM?
T2

New Mac mini packs a huge punch – Apple

100% recycled aluminum

19:01 | iPad Pro

iPad Pro — Change — Apple – YouTube
New form factor!

Uniform bezels
No home button
2mm thinner than previous models
Comes with a camera bump
Another sizing change…?
Instead the 10.5’’ model again, it’s now an 11’’ model

Bringing the models to 10.5, 11’’ and 12.9’
An interesting note, is the 11’’ model does not have a 4:3 aspect ratio’

A12X

more powerful than 92% of available laptops on the market
1000x graphics improvements from the first iPad
Same graphics performance as the Xbox One S, but 94% smaller

No more TouchID
Comes with FaceID… with No Notch!
Lost the headphone jack…
Comes with a USB-C port…!

External display, up to 5K
Can charge your iPhone

Apple Pencil 2
102 magnets!
100% recycled aluminum

35:28 | Other

MacBook Pros

Available with Vega M discrete GPUs on November 14

Notably missing

New iMacs

iOS 12.1, watchOS 5.1, audioOS 5.1, tvOS 12.1, and macOS 10.14.1 out today

New emoji
Group FaceTime
Bugfixes
eSIM/dual SIM

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