In the early morning of October 19, Apple held the second autumn press conference of this year. The new 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook Pro was officially released with the new self-developed chip M1 Pro/M1 Max, as well as the AirPods 3, which has been rumored for a whole year.
The appearance of the AirPods 3 is basically the same as that of the previous network transmission. The half in ear structure and short earphone handle design make the cavity thicker and more suitable for ear contour. The earphone handle and the AirPods Pro can be operated by pressing. The front width of the charging box is between the AirPods 2 and the AirPods Pro. There is no active noise reduction function, but it supports spatial audio and adaptive equalization functions. The built-in dynamic unit is said to enhance the bass performance.
In terms of battery life, the single AirPods 3 headset can play for up to 6 hours, and the integrated battery life with a charging box can reach 30 hours; In addition to Lightning wired charging and Qi wireless charging, the charging box of the AirPods 3 also supports MagSafe magnetic charging.
AirPods 3 is priced at 1399 yuan in BOC, and the reservation has been opened at present. At the same time, the 999 yuan AirPods 2 is still sold on the official website.
Before talking about the new MacBook Pro, Apple first introduced its new self-developed chips - not the rumored M1X or M2, but the M1 Pro and M1 Max, both of which use 5nm processes, and are built on the basis of the M1 architecture and the number of transistors.
（M1 Pro）
Among them, M1 Pro integrates up to 10 core CPUs (8 performance cores and 2 energy efficiency cores), 16 core GPUs and 16 core neural network engines, up to 33.7 billion transistors, supports 200GB/s memory bandwidth and up to 32GB unified memory. According to the official statement, its CPU performance is 70% higher than that of M1, and its performance at the same power consumption level is 1.7 times that of the latest eight core notebook CPU on the market, GPU performance is twice that of M1.
(M1 Max)
The number of M1 Max transistors has increased to 57 billion. It integrates 10 core CPUs (also 8+2 core specifications), up to 32 core GPUs, and 16 core neural network engines. It supports 400GB/s memory bandwidth and up to 64GB unified memory. The GPU performance is four times that of M1.
Of course, the energy consumption ratio between M1 Pro and M1 Max is also a major advantage in addition to performance. The official PPT claims that the power consumption of the M1 Max GPU is 100W lower than that of the laptop with the same performance. At the same time, M1 Pro and M1 Max can also maintain high performance operation without plugging in the notebook, which is not available in other X86 chip laptops.
Then came the new 14/16 inch MacBook Pro. The biggest surprise (although there was some news before the press conference, many people may not think so) should be that Apple has adopted the fringe screen design on the new product. Of course, Apple has not integrated the Face ID on the fringe (just a 1080P camera), probably just to match the new three narrow border design, However, at present, in the full screen state, the two sides of the fringe will be directly black screen.
In terms of screen, the 14/16 inch MacBook Pro has been upgraded to Liquid retinal XDR display using mini LED technology, with resolutions of 14.2 inch, 3024 × 1964, 16.2 inch and 3456 × 2234, and supports the maximum 120Hz ProMotion adaptive refresh rate. The screen supports 1 billion color displays and the maximum brightness of the full screen is 1000 nits, The peak brightness is 1600 nits.
The Touch Bar return to entity function button is canceled on the keyboard surface, and a six speaker system supporting spatial audio is built in.
In terms of configuration, both 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook Pro can choose M1 Pro or M1 Max version. At the same time, there are many chip versions cut out this time. M1 Pro is divided into full blood version of 10 core CPU+16 core GPU, residual blood version of 10 core CPU+14 core GPU, and "beggar version" of 8 core CPU+14 core GPU; M1 Max is also divided into 32 core GPU and 24 core GPU versions.
As for the heat dissipation specification, according to the schematic diagram provided by Apple, it should be double fans+dream single heat pipe.
In terms of endurance, the 14 inch MacBook Pro has a built-in 70 watt hour battery, which supports up to 17 hours of Apple TV video playback; The 16 inch MacBook Pro has a built-in 100 watt hour battery and supports up to 21 hours of Apple TV video playback.
There are also significant changes in the interface. First, the new MagSafe 3 port (equipped with a maximum 140W adapter) is used as the power interface. Apple no longer insists on the All Thunderbolt interface, but instead provides three Thunderbolt 4, one HDMI, one SD card slot and one 3.5mm headphone interface.
In terms of price, the minimum configuration version of 14 inch MacBook Pro (8-core CPU, 14 core GPU M1 Pro, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD, 67W adapter) is sold by Bank of China at 14999 yuan.
The minimum configuration version of 16 inch MacBook Pro (10 core CPU, 16 core GPU M1 Pro, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD, 140W adapter) is sold by Bank of China at 18999 yuan.
The launch time has yet to be determined.
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