There’s a lot to love about the new 24-inch iMacs, and Jason Snell has put together an excellent article showing how many of those reasons have to do with the past:
The new iMac, like the original, has the fortune to live in interesting times. Things may be a bit stressful and unsure, but at least we can look at the pretty colors.
Federico Viticci has, as you would have imagined, written the definitive review of the new iPad Pro:
The perception since the iPad Pro’s introduction is that its hardware has consistently leapfrogged its software, leaving many to wonder about the untapped potential of iPadOS and a third-party app ecosystem that could have been vastly richer and more powerful if only iPadOS allowed developers to write more complex apps. Effectively, “too good for its software” has long been the iPad Pro’s hardware mantra.
There’s a ton in his report about upcoming MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros and even the Mac mini, but I passed out at this subhead:
Company developing Mac Pro desktop with 40 cores
Jason Snell’s review of the new iMac is up, and it makes me all the more excited to get one in my studio later this week.
I standby my statement that orange is the right color.
Obviously hardly anyone can do this, so Jeff Nadeua has the rest of us covered:
Personally I think the best way to test out all of the different hardware-matched colors is to buy one of each iMac, but if that’s not in the budget, I guess you can look at this. I really love that teal-ish green color. pic.twitter.com/ECdP3QYBcB
A few years ago, I started writing down my dreams in Day One. This morning’s entry shows what’s on my mind, I suppose.
We were all back at WWDC. Myke and I didn’t have press access, but several of our friends were able to talk Eddy Cue into it. This conversation took place near the theatre across the street from the middle school I attended.
We then went inside, and ran into Craig Federighi. He was tense and and seemed a little on edge. I asked him if he still got nervous before keynotes and he said he did. We then talked a little about sports and he brought out a soccer ball from behind the check-in desk.
So, uhhh, this thing is quiet. 7 decibels is practically inaudible.
Sami Fathi, writing at MacRumors:
Apple supplier TSMT, a key vendor involved in the production of mini-LED displays in the newly announced 12.9-inch iPad Pro, has been able to address technical challenges for the production of mini-LED displays to be used in the upcoming 14 and 16-inch redesigned MacBook Pros.
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The redesigned 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros are expected to feature next-generation Apple silicon chips, the removal of the Touch Bar, the return of the MagSafe magnetic power cable, and an overall new design with an HDMI port and SD card slot.
From a press release about pre-orders opening tomorrow:
iMac configurations in green, pink, blue, and silver will be available to purchase directly at apple.com and Apple Store locations, and all seven colors will be available at apple.com.
I guess people won’t be able to just walk in off the street and buy the orange iMac, which will be the best one.
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2021 second quarter ended March 27, 2021. The Company posted a March quarter record revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40. International sales accounted for 67 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
“This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days ahead for all of us,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple is in a period of sweeping innovation across our product lineup, and we’re keeping focus on how we can help our teams and the communities where we work emerge from this pandemic into a better world. That certainly begins with products like the all-new iMac and iPad Pro, but it extends to efforts like the 8 gigawatts of new clean energy we’ll help bring onto the grid and our $430 billion investment in the United States over the next 5 years.”
David Sparks, writing about what could come after M1:
On the marketing side, I’d be surprised if they call it the M2. Presumably, they will make a successor to the M1 one at some point as the current lower performance/more battery life chip for things like the MacBook Air. Naming the higher performance chip M2 would put them in a weird place where an M3 (for MacBook Air) could be slower than an M2 (for MacBook Pro). The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that the performance chip currently in production will get an entirely different name, like X1, allowing them to have two chips for Macs. (Or possibly three once the Mac Pro releases.)