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Are the fruit fans ecstatic today?
Apple 2022 WWDC is finally here!
The popularity value is full, occupying the hot search list. After reading these updates and new products, there are only seven words in my mind:
Update now! Buy now!
New Macbook Air: Beggar version 9499, the top match is less than 20,000
Apple said that the new MacBook Air is equipped with a new M2 processor, but it is a residual version.
The new MacBook Air comes in four colors: Space Gray, Starlight, Midnight, and Silver. Prices start at $1,199 (7,996 yuan).
This is the price in the United States. The national version is priced from 9499 yuan. At present, Apple’s official website in China has been updated.
Meanwhile, the M1 chip version of the MacBook Air will continue to be sold.
Of course, what Apple didn’t explicitly say is that the starting price is for the residual blood version of the M2. The GPU has only 8 cores. If you want to use the full blood version of the 10-core GPU, you have to pay extra.
In addition, if you take a closer look at the parameter table above, it is not difficult to find that the original charger of the beggar version is only 30w, which is still residual blood.
The residual blood GPU, with the residual blood charger, can only be said to be a good match.
The charger is still a dual port, have you felt the love of Cook’s father?
Let’s just say, in 2202, what is the concept of a notebook equipped with the current highest-end chip and a 30w charger? And it’s not that it doesn’t support higher power.
Not to mention, it supports MagSafe charging, and under 67W fast charging, it can charge 50% in 30 minutes.
So, Cook’s meaning can’t be more clear, continue to add money, fruit fans! As long as you add 150, you will get a 67w fast charge.
Of course, this is the beggar version. If you have already paid for the full-blooded 10-core GPU version, you can choose a 67w charger, the single-port one, without paying extra.
Apple says the new MacBook Air is 25 percent smaller than the previous generation. The weight is 1.22 kg.
Equipped with a 13.6-inch retina display, supporting 2K resolution, the screen border is narrower than the previous generation, and bangs are added.
Inside the bangs is a 1080p FHD camera, the screen brightness is upgraded from 400nits to 500nits, and the color depth is upgraded from 8bit to 10bit.
Marquee border – narrow border bangs – water drop screen – full screen, this is the road that a friend’s mobile phone has traveled in recent years, I don’t know if Apple will go through it on a notebook.
Apple didn’t provide an exact launch date, other than saying it will be released next month.
We calculated an account, from the beggar version of 9499, to how much money needs to be added to the full configuration.
The result was good, and it added less than 10,000.
Ha ha, no wonder netizens are calling it too expensive!
It can only be said that the layout is too small, and the users who are willing to spend 10,000 small to try the M2 are still short of this billion?
In comparison, Xiaobian’s 14-inch Macbook Pro, with 64GB of memory, 1TB of storage, and the top-of-the-line M1 Max, is just over 20,000…
Of course, in terms of battery life and portability, the new Air is definitely more fragrant.
For the 13-inch Macbook Pro, it is estimated that the 14-inch Macbook Pro has a new design. Apple has not updated the design this time.
However, the new M2 chip did not fall.
After all, the top configuration is only 18999, which is hundreds of dollars cheaper than Air.
If you are an Old-School with bangs, this one must be the best choice.
In fact, if you are used to it, bangs are still very useful.
The strongest chip M2 blasts the field!
What is the most important thing about hardware?
Of course the core!
Apple just announced its latest M2 chip at WWDC last night.
The new M2 chip continues Apple’s traditional custom Arm architecture, uses a second-generation 5-nanometer manufacturing process, and is equipped with 20 billion transistors.
Compared with the M1, the performance of the neural network engine is increased by 40% and the memory bandwidth is increased by 50%
The number of M2 transistors is 1.25 times that of the M1 chip, and the transistors are the source of performance and computing power.
Compared with the chip of the latest 10-core notebook computer of a friend, the performance of the M2 chip is 1.9 times that of the former at the same power. Under the same performance, the power consumption of M2 is only a quarter of the former.
(A certain blue factory: Why did you pull me out to shoot again!)
In order to obtain better performance than M1, Apple uses a new performance and efficiency core on the M2 chip, with a memory bandwidth of 100Gbps and a maximum support of 24GB LPDDR5 memory.
The new CPU is 8 cores, including 4 high-performance cores and 4 energy-efficient cores.
The performance core comes with 16MB of shared cache, while the energy efficiency core has 4MB of shared cache.
Apple’s M2 also features a next-generation Secure Enclave and Neural Engine, as well as a new-generation Media Processing Engine that supports 8K H.264 and HEVC video.
This means that a system with the M2 chip can play multiple 4K and 8K video streams simultaneously.
On the GPU side, Apple has once again made improvements.
The new CPU mentioned above is 8 cores, while the GPU is 10 cores, two more cores than the M1.
The new generation of GPU has more cache and higher memory bandwidth, which greatly improves graphics performance.
Apple says the M2 chip is 18 percent faster for the CPU and 35 percent faster for the GPU than the M1.
The MacBook Air equipped with the M2 chip achieves 1.4 times the performance of the M1 chip in video and image tasks (such as video editing, video transcoding, photo stitching, etc.).
Camera resolution too low? iPhone to get together!
Look at a picture first:
You might ask, isn’t this just an ordinary laptop… Wait, what’s up with the camera protruding from it?
Is there a possibility that the head above is an iPhone…?
Novelty is right. This is the whole apple live.
In the future, macOS users will be able to use the iPhone as a camera on their computer.
The feature, called Continuity Camera, is part of macOS Ventura, an upcoming update to macOS that Apple announced at WWDC.
Apple’s vision is that MacBook users can clip their iPhones to the top of their laptops and use them as cameras to improve the quality of video calls on FaceTime, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, and more.
Achieving this feature is also very simple, users only need to take the signal of the rear camera from their iPhone at hand and convert it into a webcam that can be used in the macOS application.
Continuity Camera even includes center stage and portrait mode support.
Therefore, there are many different video modes to choose from.
Meanwhile, Apple said it is working with Belkin to design a stand that is expected to be released later this year.
The purpose of the stand is to make it easier for users to fix the iPhone on the top of the MacBook display.
Users also do not need any other new hardware, existing devices will be updated via software.
Apple says the Continuity Camera feature will be available later this year.
However, the seemingly cute design is not everyone buys it. For example this one:
The user with the online name Laoliu said that it is better to make the notebook thicker and give me the whole real camera and sensor… This function looks good, but if you think about it carefully, a Mac is much more expensive than an iPhone, and you have to pick it up iPhone to improve video quality…
Some netizens asked boldly, did you mean to publish this to say that the Mac camera is just like this, don’t expect us to update…?
Gradually Androidized IOS?
WWDC always has Apple’s software system updates, and this time is no exception. Craig Federighi, Apple’s vice president of software development, said: “This iOS 16 update will change the user’s iPhone experience.
The biggest functional change is related to the lock screen, and Apple admitted in the press release that the change was inspired by the related functions of the Apple Watch.
The lock screen interface itself can be added with multi-layered different filter effects. The objects and portraits in the photos are enhanced by the intelligent algorithm with the depth of field effect in the lock screen interface.
Of course, you can also change the time display font and character color of the lock screen interface.
iOS 16’s inspiration from the Apple Watch (or Android?) doesn’t stop there. Various schedules, weather reports, battery levels, alarm times, time zone reminders, astronomical astrological widgets are now displayed on the lock screen page.
In addition to these static prompts, the dynamic activity function also presents dynamic status changes such as outdoor sports, car-hailing, and food delivery on the lock screen interface.
Messaging apps are gradually keeping up with the functions of other world-class instant messaging software competitors.
Users can edit the content of the message they just sent, or withdraw it directly, as well as select chat conversations and mark them as unread.
In addition, various live video or audio excerpts can be sent during chat conversations.
Before this WWDC, Guo Mingchi and Mark Gruman, the two leaders in the world of fruit fans, said: Although there will be no AR/VR headset this time, Apple will definitely highlight the visual effects of AR in the system update.
Sure enough, Apple’s live text and video editing features are highlighted in this iOS update.
Apple’s live text function, which can use the intelligent algorithm loaded on the device to recognize the text in the on-screen image, then make embossed text, translate content, currency conversion, etc., has now been extended to video.
By the way, this macOS update no longer supports pre-2017 computers.
It’s you, trash can.
Oh yes, and the first-generation Macbook Pro with the Touch Bar.
Low-key release of MR heavy functions
In addition to major software and hardware updates, Apple has also released a variety of intimate gadgets. (Obviously this is the point)
For example, RoomPlan has drastically reduced the workload of advertisers, real estate agents, and graphic modelers.
Just turn on your iPhone/iPad equipped with RoomPlan and scan the room with a lidar ring to instantly generate a proportional 3D model of all the objects and structures inside the room.
Model files can also be imported into commercially available modeling programs for further modification.
There are also gamers who have complained for a long time that the Apple chip is very powerful, but running games is a scumbag problem. This time Apple has also dealt with it.
In this macOS update, Apple emphasized the update of Metal 3, its own software that supports game running and development. Among them, the resolution enhancement function is specially designed to benefit the game house.
Intended to compete with NVIDIA’s driver software, the resolution enhancement function of Metal 3 allows Apple to quickly render images with low computing power requirements, and concentrate the high performance of its own chips on images that require fine processing, such as anti-aliasing, light-chasing synchronization, etc. on request.
Metal 3’s fast-loading resource API also facilitates game developers, so that game software resources made and run on Apple computers can be called by the chip faster.
This update makes the 3A masterpiece running on the Mac much smoother in look and feel, with clearer textures and quicker and more timely operation feedback.
The days when game nerds relied on Windows emulators to play games on Macs may gradually become a thing of the past.
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