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Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes

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Today's "Peek Performance" event was more exciting than we initially thought it would be, with Apple debuting a new Mac Studio machine and Studio Display alongside a 5G version of the iPhone SE with A15 chip and an M1 iPad Air with 5G chip.


It took Apple an hour to go over all of today's announcements, but we've summarized all of the new product details in a quick seven minute video. Below, we've also rounded up all of our coverage today so you don't miss anything.
Mac Studio

Studio Display

M1 Ultra

iPhone SE

iPad Air

iOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3

Mac Pro

Other News

The Mac Studio and Studio Display can be ordered starting today, with orders set to deliver on March 18. The iPhone SE and the iPad Air will be available for preorder this Friday, with a launch following on March 18.

Article Link: Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes
 
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No XDR on the Studio Display though. I really like the Mac Studio and the M1 Ultra chip.

I guess there won't be a 27" iMac or 27" iMac Pro with Apple Silicon now...

Vadim Yuryev at Max Tech called this M1 Ultra (duo M1 Max chip) many months ago. He noticed the chip interconnect that Apple held back describing until today.
 
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I am so curious to see what is taking up so much space in the Studio that they need to add a second story.

Also, does anyone know if macOS is smart enough yet to disable monitors set to different input?
 
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I am happy the display is finally here.
I think the price seems to be fair and glad to see the nano and stand are cheaper BTO options now. This is a good sign that maybe the upcoming XDR display might be cheaper than before. Let's hope so.
 
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My one quibble about using the M1 in iPads is that at least a small chunk of that silicon is a sort of a pre-parser for x86 instructions that is a hardware accelerator for Rosetta 2. That's worthless on the iPad.
 
Kinda happy that I was right about:

- no M2
- no MacPro
- no Quad-M1
- that there will be a "Mac Mini Pro / Pro Mini" closing the gap between the Mini and the Pro

Just didn't expect them to actually drop the iMac as a "professional" Machine entirely. But it kinda makes sense now that you can just buy your display and turn any mac into an iMac. Sorta. Kinda. At least you can not "just" upgrade your screen or computer, depending on what needs upgrading, and don't have to do both. Plus: finally sub 10K multi-monitor setups! ?

Also ..... 2K for the "BigMac" actually is almost decent considering it's almost a whole grand cheaper than an equally specced MBP. I just would have liked to have an M1 Pro option for that machine around 1500, or see an M1 Pro option for the Mac Mini.
 
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How did they want to expand the M1 chip to create M2 and other variants that would allow a 1.5 TB Mac Pro capacity? Can anyone guess?
 
bobtem said:
Did anyone notice that the presentators, and the user stories, were all women except for Tim Cook and that other guy? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
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Yup. It's 2022 alright.

nsayer said:
My one quibble about using the M1 in iPads is that at least a small chunk of that silicon is a sort of a pre-parser for x86 instructions that is a hardware accelerator for Rosetta 2. That's worthless on the iPad.
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I don't think that the M1 has a pre-parser for x86. That's why Rosetta takes ages to analyze and translate binaries. What M1 actually has is the ability to run the x86 memory consistency model. But that is so little silicon - and I wouldn't be surprised if A14 had it as well. It's probably a feature of the architecture itself.
 
california_kid said:
20 sec version

Apple TV+ - zzzzzzz
Green iPhones - meh
M1 iPad - hmmm
M1 Ultra - now we're talking
Mac Studio - Yep, exactly what I needed
Mac Studio price - hmmm maybe not
Studio Display - really want it, but damn $1600 clams
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I'm willing to pony up for the Max studio, but the Ultra is beyond me.

If I had a use for the Studio Display, I'd think it was a good value. I just don't personally have a workspace where it makes sense.

One thing that has gone unspoken that I find interesting is that the high end iMac seems like it's being chucked out in favor of the combination of the Studio and Studio Display. So no more high end Pro all-in-one desktop.
 
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I think the Ultra kind of is, though. Remember, the M1 Max is a sort of a dual M1 Pro. And the Ultra is a dual Max.
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If you wanna bend it that way ...... ye....ah. If you look at everything BUT CPU.... M1 Ultra kinda is Quad M1 Pro. But it's not really the Jade-4C Die that was rumored a while back, and it's still a 16(+4) core CPU without SMT. Although, yes, you can realistically make the case that most everything you'd need more than 16 CPU cores for is better run on hardware that is better suited for that - and Apple Silicon has a thing for pretty much everything the typical Mac-Professional would do.
 
I guess a lot of people on this site are very, very unhappy campers right about now. The frenzied talk about M2 really surprised me. There was no way they were releasing M2 Macs.

I assume that we'll get a Mac Pro and 27" iMac around WWDC (if they want to follow the 2 year release roadmap) and that will complete the transition. Then from October we'll start to see 2nd Gen of M machines.

Edit: I didn't realise that the 27" iMac has been taken off the table. Wow. Didn't see that coming.
 
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