On November 11, it was reported that Apple held its third online press conference in the second half of the year after the majority of hand cutters emptied their wallets this morning, officially releasing the first self-developed Mac chip Apple M1 and three new Macs equipped with M1 chips, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13 and Mac mini.
In WWDC this year, Apple has predicted that it will turn to self-developed Apple Silicon chips on Mac, and Apple M1 is the first chip of this new system.
The M1 chip is built with the latest 5nm manufacturing process, integrated with 16 billion transistors, and has an 8-core CPU (4 cores+4 small cores), an 8-core GPU, and a 16 core neural network engine. The official said that on the MacBook Air equipped with the M1 chip, the speed of transcoding using Final Cut Pro is 3.9 times faster than the previous generation of MacBook Air, and the 3D caption rendering speed is 5.3 times faster.
At the same time, based on the ARM architecture, the Mac equipped with M1 chip can obtain lower power consumption, longer endurance and the ability to wake up instantly like iPhone and iPad, and can also run iPhone and iPad applications and games on the macOS Big Sur.
The new MacBook Air with M1 chip has no change in mold appearance compared with the Intel version before it. It has a full metal body design, weighs 1.29kg, and is equipped with an IPS retina display screen with 13.3-inch, 2560 × 1600 resolution. It supports P3 wide color gamut and original color display, with a maximum brightness of 400 nits; The M1 chip it carries has two versions. The low configuration version has cut off one GPU core, that is, seven core GPUs. Both adopt the fanless cooling design.
Due to the lower power consumption of M1 chip, the new MacBook Air can last 18 hours when playing video, which directly increases 6 hours compared with the previous generation when the battery capacity (49.9Wh) is the same. The standard configuration is 30W PD charger; In addition, the keyboard is a new scissor foot keyboard, which supports touch ID and WiFi 6 network.
In terms of interface, the new MacBook Air provides two Thunderbolt/USB 4 interfaces, both supporting PD charging and video output, as well as a 3.5mm headphone interface.
The selling price of Bank of China has been released at present. The selling price of 8GB memory/256GB SSD/7-core GPU M1 version is 7999 yuan, and the selling price of 8GB memory/512GB SSD/8-core GPU M1 version is 9799 yuan. You can choose dark space gray, gold and silver colors, which are not available for purchase at present.
The MacBook Pro 13 also uses the old mold. The whole machine weighs 1.4kg and is equipped with a 13.3-inch 2560 × 1600 resolution IPS retinal display. It supports the original color, wide color gamut and the maximum brightness of 500 nits; The transcoding speed of MacBook Pro 13 Final Cut Pro using M1 chip can reach 2.8 times that of previous generation products. Compared with MacBook Air, it also retains a cooling fan, which will perform better under high load; Built in 58.2Wh battery, video playback life up to 20 hours, standard 61W charger; It provides two Rayleigh/USB 4 interfaces and one 3.5mm headphone interface, supporting WiFi 6.
On the price of the Bank of China, the 8+256GB version sells for 9999 yuan, and the 8+512GB version sells for 11499 yuan. Silver and deep space gray are available.
The Mac mini is also an existing mold, weighing 1.2kg. The processor is a full blood 8-core GPU, supporting WiFi 6 networks, starting from 8+256GB. It provides two Thunderbolt/USB 4 interfaces, two USB-A interfaces, one HDMI 2.0 interface, one gigabit network cable interface, and one 3.5mm headphone interface. It supports the simultaneous connection of one 6K display and one 4K display.
The 8+256GB version of the Bank of China sells for 5299 yuan, and the 8+512GB version sells for 6799 yuan. This is a good introduction to the Apple Silicon system.
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