Speaker 1: Apple gives the iPad its most drastic makeover yet.
Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, sitting here in New York City,
Speaker 1: just getting out of Apple's event in Brooklyn where the
Speaker 1: company got right down to business, showing off a new Macmini,
Speaker 1: new MacBook Air, and the new iPad pros.
Speaker 2: We all knew we're coming. Now.
Speaker 1: These devices aren't as sexy as the iPhone. Yes, their
Speaker 1: designs are beautiful, but these are more utility devices. They're
Speaker 1: not the things that make the giant headlines. But when
Speaker 1: you go into an Apple store, you need one of
Speaker 1: these things, or you want one of these things.
Speaker 2: That's when you become interested. Now I've never.
Speaker 1: Owned an iPad Pro or a Macmini, but now I
Speaker 1: kind of want both. And no, I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: give up my MacBook Pro just yet, but the divide
Speaker 1: between the MacBook Air and the Pro is slowly closing.
Speaker 1: Now let's start with the iPad Pro. This got the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten treatment. Gone is the home button and face
Speaker 1: ID is now the way to unlock. Apple stretched a
Speaker 1: screen all the way to the edges, and the design
Speaker 1: is now reminiscent of the iPhone four or five if
Speaker 1: you can believe it, think squared off edges instead of
Speaker 1: smooth and round. That's not a bad thing. These new
Speaker 1: iPad pros are beautiful, and they keep getting closer to
Speaker 1: the ideal of that paper thin display that becomes whatever
Speaker 1: you want it to be, a movie screen, a book,
Speaker 1: a photo viewer, whatever in hand.
Speaker 2: They are just perfect.
Speaker 1: The twelve point nine inch model is still enormous, but
Speaker 1: it's thin and light. The eleven inch model is about
Speaker 1: the same size as the old ten point five inch model,
Speaker 1: maybe the size of a piece of paper, but you
Speaker 1: do get more screen on the new model. Now the
Speaker 1: other change, the lightning poor is gone. This is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: It's now replaced with USBC, which Apple says will help
Speaker 1: you connect more accessories. It's also kind of nice since
Speaker 1: the world is turning towards USBC and now it seems
Speaker 1: like Apple is as well.
Speaker 2: So the question is.
Speaker 1: Will they drop lightning on the next iPhone At this
Speaker 1: point it seems like all signs are pointing in that direction.
Speaker 1: One cool side effect of this you can now use
Speaker 1: the iPad pro to charge your iPhone. Yeah, the iPad
Speaker 1: pro is kind of like a giant mofy.
Speaker 2: If you have a lightning to USBC cable, which I do.
Speaker 1: You can just plug your phone into the iPad Pro
Speaker 1: and yes, it will charge. I tried this out in
Speaker 1: the hands on demo area and it worked now. To
Speaker 1: be fair, I also did this last night with two
Speaker 1: Android phones when my brother needed a charge for his phone. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Apple also has a habit of dropping certain ports, and
Speaker 1: the headphone jack is gone from the iPad Pro. Kind
Speaker 1: of sad considering it's a nice thing to have in
Speaker 1: a pinch. Plus, you're paying a really high premium.
Speaker 2: For these iPads, but it is gone.
Speaker 1: You can now get up to a terabyte of storage
Speaker 1: on the iPad Pro. They start at eight hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for the eleven inch model with sixty four gigs of storage.
Speaker 1: The twelve point nine inch model starts at nine hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars for sixty four gigs, and again
Speaker 1: Apple is playing the pricing games with its storage. The
Speaker 1: next step up above sixty four is two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six gigs, which I think is a much better
Speaker 1: fit for an iPad Pro, something that you are paying
Speaker 1: a premium for. You're gonna be doing a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on this, maybe loading a lot of movies as well,
Speaker 1: so you definitely want.
Speaker 2: That extra storage.
Speaker 1: Now, if you max it out, you can go all
Speaker 1: the way with cellular and one terabyte of storage. You
Speaker 1: are now looking at nineteen hundred dollars. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that does not include the two accessories you're gonna want
Speaker 1: if you're spending this much on a tablet. Those two
Speaker 1: accessories are the Apple pencil and the keyboard case. The
Speaker 1: Apple pencil picks up some new tricks. It is now magnetic,
Speaker 1: so it sticks right on the side of the iPad,
Speaker 1: and when it's sticking there, it's also wirelessly charging. That's
Speaker 1: handy because it seems like every time I go to
Speaker 1: use the Apple pencil it is dead.
Speaker 2: And I must not have been the only one.
Speaker 1: Because charging that thing was such a chore. The Apple
Speaker 1: pencil is now also tap sensitive, so you can tap
Speaker 1: it twice quickly, and it will do certain things like
Speaker 1: switch between the pencil and the eraser tool when you're
Speaker 1: in notes. This is not a button on the side
Speaker 1: of the pencil. It's pretty much you can tap it anywhere.
Speaker 1: You can also tap the iPad screen when it's sleeping
Speaker 1: with the Apple pencil and it will spring to life
Speaker 1: and fire up notes instantly. Now where have I seen that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Microsoft Surface and the Galaxy Note nine both
Speaker 1: do this. But again, it's not a bad thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just giving you some perspective on what other gadgets are
Speaker 1: able to do. The Apple Pencil also gets a price bump.
Speaker 1: It is now one hundred and thirty dollars instead of
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. The keyboard case, meanwhile, starts at one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty dollars. I'm not even gonna do the
Speaker 1: math for you to add it all up. This is
Speaker 1: an expensive proposition.
Speaker 2: But I'll be clear here.
Speaker 1: If I wasn't producing so much content on my MacBook Pro,
Speaker 1: like editing video and audio, and I was just doing
Speaker 1: emails and spreadsheets and things like that and surfing the
Speaker 1: web and watching movies, I would much rather have an
Speaker 1: iPad pro that works as both an entertainment screen and
Speaker 1: a productivity device.
Speaker 2: When you need it. Now, let's move on to the
Speaker 2: MacBook Air. This got a nice upgrade.
Speaker 1: It finally has that retina display folks have been wanting
Speaker 1: for a long time. According to the mac Rumors Buying Guide,
Speaker 1: which is the handy website. By the way, The last
Speaker 1: time this device was updated was in June twe twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: or over five hundred days ago, and that wasn't even
Speaker 1: a big update. The MacBook Air now has a thirteen
Speaker 1: inch screen. It's a great size, with two Thunderbolt three
Speaker 1: ports which also double as USB C ports, and they
Speaker 1: do other things as well. But this one does have
Speaker 1: a headphone jack, so a little bit of a head
Speaker 1: scratcher there. Apple doesn't hate the headphone jack completely. The
Speaker 1: power button also doubles as a fingerprint sensor, so there's
Speaker 1: touch ID to unlock your computer and also make purchases
Speaker 1: online with Apple Pay. Apple says they also improve the keyboard,
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I typed on it for a
Speaker 1: little bit and I did not feel like it's very
Speaker 1: improved over my MacBook Pro, which I find really tough
Speaker 1: to type accurately on, especially when I'm typing fast. In fact,
Speaker 1: I feel like the keys on the MacBook Air had
Speaker 1: even less travel than my MacBook Pro, which is how
Speaker 1: far they pressed down. Kind of seems worse to me,
Speaker 1: but maybe I just need to get used to the
Speaker 1: new design. The MacBook Air starts at twelve hundred dollars
Speaker 1: but still comes with the paltry one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight gigs of storage. You'll fill that up really fast,
Speaker 1: but you can max it out with up to sixteen
Speaker 1: gigs of memory and one point five terabytes of storage.
Speaker 1: You might not need all that storage, but my advice
Speaker 1: with laptops is always to get the most memory and
Speaker 1: the most storage that you can afford. Because these things
Speaker 1: last a good four years. You want the best possible
Speaker 1: specs right.
Speaker 2: From the get go. One neat thing about the MacBook Air.
Speaker 1: The body is made from one hundred percent recycled aluminum,
Speaker 1: so that's a pretty neat feat by Apple.
Speaker 2: Way to go.
Speaker 1: Finally, the Mac Mini. Not much to say about this
Speaker 1: one except it's not dead. You can outfit it with
Speaker 1: quad and six core processors, up to sixty four gigs
Speaker 1: of memory and two terabytes of storage. On the backside,
Speaker 1: you get a ton of stuff. You get an Ethernet port,
Speaker 1: you get four thunderbolt, three slash USB C ports, an
Speaker 1: HDMI port, two USB A ports. Those are like just
Speaker 1: your standard USB and a three point five millimeters audio out. Yes,
Speaker 1: this thing has all the connections you need. I think,
Speaker 1: let me think, is there anything missing? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I was really excited to get one of these things
Speaker 1: to set up as my home server and replace my
Speaker 1: Synology NASS and dump all my photos and other documents
Speaker 1: on here until I heard about the new price tag.
Speaker 1: It now starts at eight hundred dollars. I think the
Speaker 1: old one used to be closer to four hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. I still kind of want one, though,
Speaker 1: but it might be overkill compared to Asynology ness if
Speaker 1: I'm using it in that capacity. And that's about it.
Speaker 1: No mention of AirPods, no mention of airpower, no new
Speaker 1: iPad Mini. But guess what, friends, there's always twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: But let's go back to the iPad Pro for a second.
Speaker 1: It's a really, really nice design, but very expensive for
Speaker 1: the average person. The standard three hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 1: dollars iPad is going to be just fined. But now
Speaker 1: that we see what's happening on the high end, the
Speaker 1: design for that iPad Pro will probably trickle down to
Speaker 1: the low end iPad as well. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I get this question all the time, the iPad yes
Speaker 1: is still the best tablet out there, hands down, mainly
Speaker 1: due to the design, the accessories, the speed, the performance.
Speaker 2: And the apps.
Speaker 1: You just won't find a better selection of apps on
Speaker 1: any other tablet. So there you have it. Updates from
Speaker 1: Apple's big event in Brooklyn. Just want to tell you
Speaker 1: one funny story before I go. So the event was
Speaker 1: held in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This is a
Speaker 1: grand old theater outside Manhattan and just a few blocks
Speaker 1: away from where Samsung had their August event for the
Speaker 1: Note nine. Now irony aside, Apple ended the event with
Speaker 1: a performance from Lana del Rey, who sang live on stage,
Speaker 1: but she told the audience she wasn't allowed to swear,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny. I'm sure Apple didn't want
Speaker 1: her to say that, but this goes along with Apple's
Speaker 1: notoriously clean cut image. But the funny part, both her
Speaker 1: new album and the name of one of the singles
Speaker 1: she's saying have swear words in them, so she couldn't
Speaker 1: mention the title of either. Kind of tough to promote
Speaker 1: your new stuff when you can't say the name of it.
Speaker 2: Well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: If you have questions about the new devices, feel free
Speaker 1: to drop me a line. You can find me on
Speaker 1: social media at rich On tech or my website richontech
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Speaker 1: and watch my hands on with a new iPad pro,
Speaker 1: or watch my KTLA TV segment on all.
Speaker 2: The new gadgets. Thanks so much for listening. I'm rich Chamiro.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon