Apple's "Hello Again" conference just ended and announced the latest MacBook Pro devices. The device came with a basic feature, which is the new touch bar. Here is a summary of the conference ...
Apple started its conference by showing its interest in people with special needs. And the creation of a site that contains all the technologies that are of interest to people with special needs, to be an important reference for them to benefit from the technology in the best way.
Then Tim Cook started the conference and spoke as usual about Apple products and their recent achievements, then compared the tenth Apple system, which now accounts for 60% of the devices compared to less than 1% for the seventh Android system, 19% for the previous “sixth” system, thus bringing the acquisition of the latest Google systems to less than 20 % Compared to 92% at Apple.
This was followed by recent updates, transportation provision and payment by Apple Pay in Japan. Then he moved on to talk about Apple TV, which reached 8000 applications designed for it. He explained that the popular MineCraft game is coming to Apple TV.
Then a leader from Twitter went up to talk about a new feature of Twitter on TV where you can watch tweets about the sporting event you are watching.
Then Tim Cook reviewed a new application for Apple devices called TV, which makes it easier for you to use your device, watch, organize, follow your views on your various devices, and other matters of interest to TV users. It was mentioned that this application is coming at the end of the year.
Then Tim Cook moved on to talk about the MacBook and explained that they are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the company's first MacBook computer. And that Apple led the development in this category of computers since its inception, and it was a pioneer, and it will do it again today.
Therefore, they are happy to present the new generation, which comes with an important feature, which is a touch bar on top of the keyboard and it is called a multi-touch bar or Touch Bar, and this bar features that its content changes according to what you do.
For example, if you open the Safari application, you will see options for navigating to favorite sites or a search button. If you switch to maps, it will show you access to the nearest services around you. And while watching the videos, it switches to controlling the volume and playing and pausing the content. Even in conversations, he suggests responding or shows you emoji.
If you get a call, the option to answer it appears. And many of the uses that Apple focused on in detail for more than half of the conference time.
The bar also includes a special button for running Siri and the far right of it contains a fingerprint sensor through which you can pay your purchases and also it is wonderful to move to your user. For example, you and your wife use the same device, and each of you has his own account by fingerprint that is transmitted to the desired user.
Then Apple mentioned that there are important changes in the design, such as doubling the size of the Trackpad, and for the screen, it has become brighter 67% and includes colors higher than 25%.
And internally, the device comes with two cooling fans, to enable it to reach maximum cooling with minimal noise. As for the hardware, it comes with a processor starting from i5 for the 13-inch version and i7 for the 15-inch version, and a screen card up to 4 GB, which makes games 60% better and 130D graphics are XNUMX% faster
Of course, the thickness of the devices has been reduced as well as their weight. It comes with 4 multi-use ports i.e. up to 3.1Gbps USB 10 Gen C Type C or 3Gbps Thunderbolt 40. And you can use any of the four ports as the charging port. The new devices support 5K screens.
After that, Apple reviewed three programs and their advantages, such as the Photoshop application, the Final Cut application, and a third application for music. And Apple explained that Microsoft supports the new tape in Office applications as well as Skype.
New devices start at $ 1799 for the 13-inch version and $ 2399 for the 15-inch version, with the provision of a Mac Pro version with lower specifications and without the touch bar at a price of $ 1499.
It can be booked now from the Apple website, and it will be shipped after 3 weeks.
It ended with this conference and Apple did not remember the Mac mini and Mac Pro devices that had not gotten a significant update in years.
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