Apple Event (October 2013) - Live Blog
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on October 22, 2013 11:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Tablets
- Mac
- Apple
- MacBook Pro
- Mobile
11:23AM PDT - And we're done! Hands on time now!
11:21AM PDT - Showing their new iPad ad now
11:21AM PDT - Recapping the event now, looks like we'll be going hands on soon
11:20AM PDT - Brian "no TouchID"
11:19AM PDT - Both cases come in Product RED versions as well
11:19AM PDT - $69 for mini version
11:19AM PDT - iPad case for $79, available for both Air and mini
11:19AM PDT - $39 iPad cover works for the iPad mini and Air
11:18AM PDT - New covers/cases
11:18AM PDT - Original iPad mini sticks around at $299
11:18AM PDT - Available later in November
11:17AM PDT - New iPad mini priced at $399 for 16GB/WiFi
11:17AM PDT - Comes in silver/white, and space grey/black
11:17AM PDT - 2x faster WiFi with MIMO (300Mbps 802.11n)
11:17AM PDT - 10 hour battery life
11:17AM PDT - That's A7 powering iPad Air, iPad mini and iPhone 5s
11:17AM PDT - Up to 4x faster CPU than iPad mini 1, up to 8x faster graphics
11:16AM PDT - Also powered by A7
11:16AM PDT - Same number of pixels as iPad Air
11:16AM PDT - 7.9-inch Retina Display
11:16AM PDT - 2048 x 1536
11:16AM PDT - Retina Display on iPad mini
11:15AM PDT - Now talking about iPad mini
11:13AM PDT - Smaller battery than iPad 4
11:13AM PDT - Bigger and smaller?
11:12AM PDT - So while this plays let's brainstorm a bit...iPad Air, next would be multiple display sizes of the iPad Air?
11:12AM PDT - Video about iPad Air
11:12AM PDT - China will get iPad Air WiFi on Nov 1st as well
11:11AM PDT - iPad Air starts shipping on November 1st
11:11AM PDT - iPad 2 is still available at $399
11:11AM PDT - $629 16GB Cellular
11:11AM PDT - $499 for 16GB WiFi configuration
11:11AM PDT - Comes in silver/white, and space grey/black
11:10AM PDT - 10 hour battery life
11:10AM PDT - dual mics, improved backside illumination
11:10AM PDT - 5MP iSight Camera, 1080p HD video, new FaceTime HD camera with larger pixels
11:10AM PDT - Expanded LTE support
11:10AM PDT - 802.11n 300Mbps
11:10AM PDT - First iOS with MIMO
11:10AM PDT - 2x faster at opening files
11:09AM PDT - Up to 8x faster CPU perf compared to iPad 1, up to 72x faster GPU perf than iPad 1
11:09AM PDT - Same 2x increase in CPU and GPU performance as the 5 to 5s transition
11:09AM PDT - M7 included on the iPad Air
11:08AM PDT - Yep, no A7X
11:08AM PDT - A7 SoC
11:08AM PDT - Lightest full sized tablet in the world
11:08AM PDT - vs. 1.4 lbs for iPad 4
11:08AM PDT - iPad Air weighs 1 pound
11:07AM PDT - vs 9.4mm, 20% thinner across the entire device vs iPad 4
11:07AM PDT - 7.5mm thick
11:07AM PDT - 43% thinner bezel
11:07AM PDT - Bezel around it is smaller
11:07AM PDT - 9.7-inch retina display
11:07AM PDT - Wow...implications aplenty
11:06AM PDT - New name?!
11:06AM PDT - iPad Air
11:06AM PDT - Thinner, lighter, more powerful
11:06AM PDT - "Biggest step yet in delivering the vision that is iPad"
11:05AM PDT - Spec-dump imminent
11:05AM PDT - Phil is back on stage
11:05AM PDT - "We've been busy working on the next-gen of iPad"
11:02AM PDT - Video playing celebrating iPad usage
11:01AM PDT - Over 475K iPad apps on the app store
10:59AM PDT - 170 million iPads sold
10:58AM PDT - Now onto iPad
10:58AM PDT - This is really the only way to keep hardware prices high
10:58AM PDT - "We want our customers to have our latest software and access to the greatest new features"
10:57AM PDT - "We are turning the industry on its ear"
10:57AM PDT - My guess is iPads are next
10:57AM PDT - Tim is back on stage
10:56AM PDT - All available today
10:56AM PDT - With the purchase of any new Mac or iOS device
10:56AM PDT - iWork is completely free now
10:54AM PDT - Adding collaboration to iWork for iCloud
10:51AM PDT - All transitions are updated with new physics
10:51AM PDT - Object based animation
10:51AM PDT - Today's presentation was done using the new Keynote app
10:51AM PDT - New effects and animations in Keynote
10:50AM PDT - New format panel on both iOS and Mac
10:49AM PDT - Brand new UI
10:49AM PDT - 64-bit as well
10:49AM PDT - Full file compatibility across iOS/Mac
10:49AM PDT - Pages, Numbers and Keynote are all redesigned for iOS 7 and completely re-written on the Mac
10:49AM PDT - iWork is next
10:48AM PDT - All available today
10:48AM PDT - All iLife apps are free with the purchase of any new Mac or iOS device
10:47AM PDT - You can add new instruments or virtual drummers via in app purchases
10:45AM PDT - Garage Band demo
10:45AM PDT - New look on the Mac version of Garage Band as well
10:44AM PDT - If you have a 64-bit device you can do up to 32 tracks on iPhone/iPad
10:44AM PDT - From 8 tracks to 16 tracks
10:44AM PDT - New UI for iOS 7
10:44AM PDT - GarageBand next
10:44AM PDT - Integrated with iCloud, movies created are automatically available on all devices
10:44AM PDT - Takes all of your movies/trailers/clips, puts them in a single place
10:44AM PDT - iMovie Theater
10:43AM PDT - New UI on the Mac iMovie
10:43AM PDT - Desktop class effects to iOS version of iMovie
10:43AM PDT - Please announce QuickSync support
10:43AM PDT - Now on to iMovie
10:42AM PDT - iPhoto on iPad now gets photo books
10:42AM PDT - Going through iPhoto updates
10:42AM PDT - Brand new versions of iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band for iOS and Mac
10:41AM PDT - iLife update
10:41AM PDT - Eddie Cue is on stage now
10:41AM PDT - That's all the Mac hardware news today
10:39AM PDT - New Mac Pro video
10:38AM PDT - Over 2000 people across 20 states helping to prepare to build the new Mac Pro
10:38AM PDT - Designed in California, assembled in the US
10:38AM PDT - (at idle)
10:38AM PDT - No louder than a Mac mini
10:38AM PDT - Idles at at 12dBA
10:37AM PDT - Up to 70% less energy consumption than previous Mac Pro, 43W at idle
10:37AM PDT - Available in December
10:37AM PDT - 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon, 12GB RAM, dual FirePro D300, 2GB VRAM each, 256GB SSD
10:36AM PDT - New Mac Pro costs $2999
10:35AM PDT - New version of FCP X optimized for Mac Pro
10:35AM PDT - Dual audio out, 4 USB 3, dual GigE, BT 4.0, 802.11ac, 6 x Thunderbolt 2.0
10:34AM PDT - Up to 3 x 4K displays supported, single and dual-input displays, automatically configured, HDMI 1.4
10:33AM PDT - Thunderbolt 2, up to 6 devices per port
10:33AM PDT - PCIe SSD, up to 1.2GB/s reads, up to 1GB/s writes, up to 1TB capacity, user accessible
10:33AM PDT - Up to 12GB of GDDR5 memory
10:33AM PDT - 2 x AMD FirePro GPUs, up to 4096 SPs (D300, D500 or D700)
10:32AM PDT - 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, quad-channel interface, up to 60GB/s of mem bandwidth, up to 64GB of memory, user accessible
10:32AM PDT - Intel Xeon E5, quad, 6, 8 or 12 core, up to 30MB L3 cache, 40 lanes of PCIe gen 3
10:32AM PDT - "The future of the pro desktop"
10:31AM PDT - Previous gen had 8 fans in it, new Mac Pro has a single fan
10:31AM PDT - Mac Pro update!
10:31AM PDT - That wraps up the MacBook news
10:31AM PDT - MBA and rMBP are the new notebook lineup, the non-retina MBP is not getting updated?
10:30AM PDT - Also shipping today
10:30AM PDT - That includes 2GHz quad-core i7, 8GB of RAM, Iris Pro, 256GB SSD
10:30AM PDT - Previous gen started at $2199, new one starts at $1999
10:29AM PDT - 802.11ac, Thunderbolt 2
10:29AM PDT - PCIe based SSD
10:29AM PDT - Up to 8 hours of battery life
10:29AM PDT - GT 750M is optional though
10:29AM PDT - "discrete GPU perf at 1/4 less power"
10:29AM PDT - Haswell + Iris Pro Graphics (with Crystalwell)
10:29AM PDT - Crystalwell shoutout!
10:28AM PDT - 15-inch rMBP next
10:28AM PDT - New 13-inch rMBP starts shipping today
10:28AM PDT - for a 2.4GHz dual-core i5, 4GB of memory, Iris, 128GB SSD
10:28AM PDT - Previous gen started at $1499, new model starts at $1299
10:27AM PDT - Thunderbolt 2
10:27AM PDT - 802.11ac
10:27AM PDT - 60% faster than previous gen
10:27AM PDT - PCIe based SSD
10:27AM PDT - Up to 9 hours of battery life
10:26AM PDT - up to 90% faster than previous gen graphics
10:26AM PDT - Includes Intel's Iris Graphics
10:26AM PDT - 13-inch rMBP gets Haswell
10:26AM PDT - Thinner: 0.71" thin
10:26AM PDT - 13-inch rMBP even lighter at 3.46 lbs
10:25AM PDT - Now talking about MacBook Pro
10:25AM PDT - Recapping the Haswell MBA
10:24AM PDT - Now it's Phil time, on stage to talk about the MacBook
10:24AM PDT - For free
10:24AM PDT - Mavericks available today
10:24AM PDT - Whether you have Mountain Lion or if you're running Lion or Snow Leopard, Mavericks is free and a single step update
10:23AM PDT - Wow
10:23AM PDT - New era for the Mac: Mavericks is free
10:23AM PDT - the days of spending hundreds of dollars on an OS are gone
10:23AM PDT - Talking about pace of OS releases
10:22AM PDT - Done with the Mavericks demo
10:21AM PDT - I'm excited about Mavericks
10:20AM PDT - Showing off the new Calendar app
10:20AM PDT - The new Safari in Mavericks really is an improvement
10:19AM PDT - iCloud keychain in Mavericks manages passwords across websites for you
10:19AM PDT - Website notifications are supported in Mavericks
10:18AM PDT - Responding to notifications in Mavericks without changing app focus
10:18AM PDT - Talking about document/file tagging in Mavericks
10:17AM PDT - iBooks demonstration, not going to bother live blogging the demo :-)
10:16AM PDT - Mavericks demo now
10:15AM PDT - New apps: Maps and iBooks
10:15AM PDT - Big improvements in multi-display handling
10:15AM PDT - Tags in Finder (and tabs in finder!)
10:15AM PDT - Enhanced Safari, notifications
10:15AM PDT - Now going over app enhancements in Mavericks
10:15AM PDT - Up to 1.8x acceleration when leveraging OpenCL on integrated graphics
10:14AM PDT - this is probably the biggest endorsement of integrated graphics ever
10:14AM PDT - OpenCL support for integrated graphics as well
10:14AM PDT - In the past OS X allocated static memory for graphics, Mavericks allows dynamic scaling of integrated GPU memory size
10:13AM PDT - "focused particularly on integrated graphics"
10:13AM PDT - Graphics perf updates
10:13AM PDT - "Fit 6GB of data in 4GB of RAM"
10:13AM PDT - Mavericks can compress inactive parts of your memory contents
10:13AM PDT - Compressed memory
10:13AM PDT - Up to 1.5 hours longer playing iTunes video
10:13AM PDT - If you take a 13-inch MBA and install Mavericks, you'll get up to an hour longer web browsing on a single charge
10:12AM PDT - One of the biggest missions was to fundamentally upgrade your hardware, get more out of your battery, more out of your memory, and more perf out of your GPU
10:12AM PDT - Three major focus areas: core technologies, features and apps
10:11AM PDT - Craig F is taking the stage to talk about OS X
10:11AM PDT - "Really hard at work on the Mac, exciting new products to show you this morning"
10:11AM PDT - "We still believe deeply in this category, not slowing down on our innovation"
10:11AM PDT - "We have a very clear direction and a very ambitious goal"
10:11AM PDT - "Who knows what they will do next"
10:10AM PDT - "Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs"
10:10AM PDT - "They chased after netbooks"
10:10AM PDT - Talking about Mac competition now
10:10AM PDT - Talking about seamless integration of services across all Apple devices
10:09AM PDT - Mac update
10:09AM PDT - Over $13B paid out to developers
10:09AM PDT - 60 billion cumulative downloads
10:09AM PDT - Over 1 million apps in the app store
10:09AM PDT - App Store update
10:08AM PDT - Over 1 billion songs played
10:08AM PDT - Over 20M listeners of iTunes Radio
10:08AM PDT - Woo?
10:08AM PDT - Justin Timberlake quote on screen about iTunes Radio
10:08AM PDT - Now talking about iTunes Radio
10:07AM PDT - 64% of iOS devices are running iOS 7 as of today
10:07AM PDT - Fastest software upgrade in history
10:07AM PDT - 5 days after launch over 200M devices were running iOS 7
10:07AM PDT - Now recapping iOS 7
10:06AM PDT - Maybe a Mac Pro preview, but I don't think that'll be shipping this month
10:05AM PDT - I'm fully expecting rMBP Haswell announcements today
10:05AM PDT - I see Mavericks loaded on a couple of iMacs and Mac notebooks on stage
10:05AM PDT - There's going to be a lot of recapping before we get to the new stuff
10:05AM PDT - Playing a video showing off the 5c/5s launch
10:04AM PDT - Biggest iPhone launch ever, 9M sold as of last month
10:03AM PDT - Recapping the 5s/5c launch
10:03AM PDT - A few updates beginning with iPhone
10:02AM PDT - Tim Cook just took the stage
10:00AM PDT - We're starting!
10:00AM PDT - Engadget spotted us in the audience: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/10/apple-live-0188.jpg
09:56AM PDT - "Our presentation will begin shortly"
09:51AM PDT - And the WiFi is amazing: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3050067240
09:51AM PDT - We just got seated!
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teiglin - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
So no hands-on with the new MacBooks? I'm pretty disappointed by the 13" rMBP--I was hoping they'd squeeze either a i7-4750HQ or at least 4702HQ into that chassis--and after checking the product pages, it's $300 to go from the i5-4258U to the i7-4558U (a clock speed bump of only 400MHz). At least the upgrade from 4GB RAM/128GB SSD to 8/256 is only $200. Still, absent a quad-core CPU or competent GPU for games, it's just not appealing to me compared to high-res ultrabooks.Bob Todd - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
I'm not sure 4702HQ would really make sense with HD 4600 graphics. And i7-4750HQ doesn't really make sense with a sizable TDP jump from 35W to 47W. The price drop was very welcome, as the 8GB/256GB model would be my bare minimum config. It will be interesting to see what the Zenbook Infinity gets priced at, but I imagine we now know their ceiling for various configurations.About the high res ultrabook comparison, those are still over $1K, and outside of the aforementioned Zenbook Infinity, nobody seems to want to even include HD 5000 let alone HD 5100. The 13" Sony Vaio Pro would be interesting with better WiFi performance and HD 5100, but I'd want a higher res screen so I could use the desktop at 200% scaling.
teiglin - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - link
HD4600 should be plenty to push 2560x1600 for non-gaming--I mean, that same screen has been running for a year on the Ivy rMBP's HD4000, not to mention the ultrabooks with HD4400 and 3200x1800 screens (though not having used any, this could be a horrible argument).Lenovo's Yoga 2 (w/ 13" 3200x1800 screen) is currently $1150 for the 8GB RAM/256GB SSD model. Yeah, you step down to a 15W i5-4200U, shaving 300MHz off max clocks, and of course, Lenovo decided to skip 802.11ac this time around for unfathomable reasons--but it still is higher-res for $350 less. That said, I have heard that 200% scaling is still rather problematic even on Win8.1--not that I've tried it myself.
I only mentioned the 4750HQ because the chassis can at least theoretically accommodate it if they were so inclined--I mean, if Razer can cool a 37W i7 plus a discrete GPU in a slightly longer and wider yet thinner chassis, Apple can certainly cool a 47W CPU by itself. I think it remains a matter of differentiation as others have mentioned--the 15" rMBP remains the premium one, with the quad-core and the (optional) dGPU, while the 13" remains in some strange middle space above the Air/ultrabooks but still saddled with low-end mobile silicon.
Bob Todd - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - link
I wasn't so much worried about the potential for the chassis to handle the 4750HQ, but for what that would do for battery life. The 15" has a 23% higher capacity battery to squeak out that 8 hour run time. From a product management/marketing perspective, I think 8+ hours was a good goal for both machines. Having a cpu in the 13" with a 68% higher TDP might have made that goal impossible, and the 13" should obviously be the more mobility focused of the two.extide - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
I am a little bit disappointed to not see Crystalwell in the 13" rMBP. :(Bob Todd - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
Well there's still no sign of dual core Crystalwell parts, and I don't think there was any reason to expect quads in the 13". That's one of the big differentiators to step up to the 15". And it's $200 cheaper than last year.skiboysteve - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
anyone else notice the usual aura around mavericks like it is so innovative... but literally windows already has all of those features? memory deduplication: check. timer coalescing, check. optimized video pipeline: check...vol7ron - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
Agree on some of that. Windows doesn't get much credit, but does Windows have reduced drawing of layered objects? That is, no drawing when not visible. This is a neat feature that can save lots of battery and free up GPU ops.fteoath64 - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - link
But Windows8 lacked a friendly UI with nice and easy keyshortcuts and a BSD kernel that is a 'Nix. Windows kernel is an ancient NT done a decade ago with little changes. If only Windows would bring their framework to Linux, it would be perfect and gives a real choice to all other Linux distros out there!. ie Windows like RT on top of Linux kernel so my 3.11.3 kernel runs and the rest is just like Win8. Rock solid and allows any number of different window managers to run.This is where people can emulate OSX as closely as they wanted legally. MS is too stubborn to do this with all their resources. Just a pure waste of mind power ....
tipoo - Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - link
I'm confused. A7 just bought the iPhone to iPad 4 graphics levels with the A6X (a6X had double the GPU resources of the A6, thus the same-ish performance as the A7), but they're saying the same A7 doubled it from the iPad 4...? Yet it's not an A7X?Both claims can't be true. Unless they doubled performance without calling it an X series, or if the new claim takes different metrics, Apple themselves also claimed the A7 was double the A6 during the 5S announcement, so now turning around and saying it's also double the performance of the A6X is a bit underhanded.
If it's the same old A7, that's less performance at hand per pixel than the iPhone 5S, seeing as they have a lot more pixels to push in retina iPads.