Live Blog of Apple's October 18 'Unleashed' Special Event

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Thanks for joining us!

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It looks like that's it. No Mac mini update announced.

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I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone at Apple for their unbelievable effort this year.

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What a huge day for the Mac

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Tim is back

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Silver and Space Gray

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Available next week

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Order today

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Starting at $2499 for 16-inch

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Starting at $1999 for 14-inch

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Up to 8TB of storage

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Video on new new MacBook Pro

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100% recycled aluminum enclosure

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New MacBook Pro now supports fast charge. Up to 50% in 30 minutes

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Battery life. 14-inch up to 17 hours of video playback. 16-inch up to 21 hours of video playback

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Storage is getting faster. 7.4GB/s read

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M1 Pro is up to 2.5x than prior MacBook Pro in graphics, M1 Max up to 4x faster

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supports spatial audio

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80% more bass

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16-inch pro has 6 speaker sound system with 2 tweeters and 4 woofers. tweeters are nearly 2x larger.

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three-mic array, 60% lower noise floor

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Camera delivers 2X better low light performance

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1080p FaceTime camera

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1000 nits sustained brightness, 1600 nits peak

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Liquid Retina XDR display features mini-LED technology

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1 Billion colors

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ProMotion is coming to the Mac with refresh rates up to 120Hz

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3456x2234

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16.2" display

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Menu bar is raised to either side of notch

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Retina display. Smaller bezel 3.5mm on left side

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MagSafe 3 has new design that supports more power and you can still charge via thunderbolt ports

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On the other side, headphone jack, 2x thunderbolt 4 ports

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HDMI port, thunderbolt 4 port, SD card slot

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Black keyboard well

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No Touch Bar

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Touch ID at top right

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Keyboard has full height function row

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16.8mm thin

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Delivers sustained performance

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Advanced thermal system

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16-inch and 14-inch models

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Seems thicker

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There's a notch

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New MacBook Pro unveiling...

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Here it comes

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"4x the performance in Davinci Resolve"

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Developer feedback on new chips

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Updates to Logic, Compressor, Motion

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Talking about how Apple's apps are optimized for Apple Silicon

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This improves battery life

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Talking about how macOS assigns tasks to CPU cores

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Craig is up

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Touting power consumption of M1 chips versus PC chips

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2 ProRes accelerators

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32 cores of GPU

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Up to 64GB of memory

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Doubles memory interface. Up to 400 GB/s.

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Also launching M1 Max processor!

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Up to 2X graphics performance

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16 GPU cores

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10 core CPU. 8 high performance, 2 efficiency

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33.7 billion transistors, more than twice M1

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Up to 200GB/s of memory bandwidth

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Johny is up to talk about the M1 Pro chip

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This is M1 Pro

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It starts with the first pro chip designed for the Mac

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Today we're completely reimagining MacBook Pro

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John Ternus is up

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We're a year in to a two year transition starting with M1

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Tim is back. Now let's talk about the Mac

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AirPods 2 will continue to be sold.

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Orders starting today. Availability next week.

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$179

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MagSafe wireless charging

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Up to six hours of listening time. 5 minutes of charge time gets your one hour of use.

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Contour design that delivers sound directly to your ears. Adaptive EQ

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Sweat and water resistant

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Low distortion driver

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All new design inside and out

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Video introducing AirPods 3

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We want to bring the full spatial audio experience to even more of our customers. Announced third generation of AirPods

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Spatial audio brings music to life with sounds that surround you.

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AirPods are next

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$99

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New colors will be available in November

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Pop of color

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More ways HomePod mini can complement your home.

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Talking about HomePod mini

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Available starting in 17 countries later this fall.

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4.99/month

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Brand new subscription plan for Apple Music. Voice plan.

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New playlists for hundreds of moods and activities.

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This fall we're taking the Apple Music experience even further

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Starting with music

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Today were focusing on two important areas: Music and the Mac.

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Welcome back to Apple Park for our second event in just over a month

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Tim Cook is up

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Creating a song in a garage

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Video intro

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We are getting started now!

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We will be providing coverage of Apple's upcoming 'Unleashed' special event right here, beginning October 18, 2021 at 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT.

Apple is widely expected to unveil new MacBook Pros at the digital event. We're expecting new 14-inch and 16-inch models with an M1X processor, mini-LED display, flatter design, 1080p FaceTime camera, SD card reader, three thunderbolt USB-C ports, MagSafe, and HDMI. Some last minute rumors suggest the notebook's display could feature a notch similar to the iPhone; as well as, a 1000nit display, 120Hz refresh rate support, no TouchBar, Touch ID with backlight, no Face ID, black keyboard area, and more.


It's said Apple will debut two new chips. Both will reportedly have a total of 10 cores comprised of eight high-performance cores and two energy-efficient cores; however, one chip has 16 graphics cores while the other will have 32. In addition to the MacBook Pro, Apple could also bring its more powerful processor to the Mac mini.

Finally, Apple could launch new AirPods 3 at the event. AirPods 3 will likely look similar to AirPods Pro but may not have key features like noise cancellation and transparency mode.

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