Apple closed out its week of product announcements with its “Pro and tell” event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to its big reveal. We’ve rounded them all up here.
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: Everything announced this week
Along with a new touchscreen MacBook Pro, Apple also took the wraps off an OLED iPad Mini and M6-upgraded Macs this week.
Along with a new touchscreen MacBook Pro, Apple also took the wraps off an OLED iPad Mini and M6-upgraded Macs this week.
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Apple CEO John Ternus revealed the company’s first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, allowing you to perform gestures on your screen like scrolling, swiping, and pinching. The company says the touch sensor is “built directly into the display panel,” not on top of it, which helps to reduce latency.
The device also offers a tandem OLED display, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 2,000 nits of brightness. It’s also lighter than previous MacBook Pro models, with the 14-inch model weighing three pounds. The device brings back the illuminated Apple logo on its lid as well, and is the first to come with a Dynamic Island for viewing real-time updates, searching for files, and using Siri AI.
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starts at $2,899 with a 14-inch display and M5 Pro chip, while the 16-inch version starts at $3,399 with an M5 Pro. There are also configurations available with an M5 Max chip. The touchscreen MacBook is available to preorder starting today, with availability starting November 6th.
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Apple has upgraded its iPad Mini with a larger, 8.5-inch OLED display. The device is just 5.4mm thick, with bezels that are 24 percent slimmer than the previous generation. It also comes with a new “Acoustic Display”, which Apple says includes woofers paired through the display for better bass and more volume.
Along with these updates, the iPad Mini also comes with Apple’s more powerful A20 Pro chip, a 12-megapixel camera in landscape orientation, and an IP67 rating for protection against water and dust. The iPad Mini starts at $699 for Wi-Fi only and 128GB of storage, and comes in “midnight” and “starlight” colors. There’s also an option for a glare-reducing nano-texture display with the pricier 256GB and 512GB configurations.
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The 14-inch MacBook Pro now comes with Apple’s new M6 chip, along with the company’s in-house N1 networking chip that adds support for Wi-FI 7 and Bluetooth 6. The device also has three Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports with support for charging and DisplayPort connectivity, ports for MagSafe 3 and HDMI, as well as an SDXC memory card slot.
Similar to its predecessor, the M6 MacBook Pro also offers a Liquid Retina XDR display with a nano-texture option, as well as a 12MP Center Stage camera. You can preorder the new MacBook Pro today, which starts at $1,999 with a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 1TB of storage. Devices start shipping on November 6th.
Apple’s latest lineup of iMacs comes with the company’s new M6 chip as well, which the company says “delivers up to 5x faster on-device AI performance” than the previous M4-powered iMac. It also sports Apple’s new N1 wireless networking chip.
Not much else has changed with the M6 iMac, as it offers the same design and color variations as its predecessor. It also still comes with up to four Thunderbolt ports. The M6 iMac starts at $1,499 with a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, 256GB of storage, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports. Preorders open today, with availability starting November 6th.
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Apple is updating Keynote, Numbers, and Pages with an AI chatbot that the company says can understand the context of the document you’re working on. The chatbot is built using models from Apple and OpenAI, allowing it to do things like design and animate slides in Keynote; create and restructure drafts in Pages; and calculate and visualize data in Numbers.
The company is also bringing an AI-powered fill feature to Pixelmator Pro, a new AI assistant in Logic Pro, and direct access to MotionVFX in Final Cut Pro.
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