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?

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

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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