Another Apple Event, and a Few New Things to Show Off
It’s only been a few weeks since their last one, but Apple held another event today.
It wasn’t the kind of snazzy roll-out for a new product line, like last month’s Apple Watch event, but the tech giant did unveil some snazzy new stuff.
Here’s a quick rundown:
Users can download Yosemite today:
Yosemite is the latest version of Apple’s operating system, and is available at the App Store.
From a Verge review about the newest update:
After downloading and installing the update (which took about 25 minutes and a little over 5GB of disk space), I had a new wallpaper, the mountain face against pink and purple sky. All the fonts were suddenly a little smaller and a lot more Helvetica Neue (and also pretty pixelated unless I was on a Retina screen). All the icons were a little flatter. I’d love to say I have feelings about the translucency in the sidebars and menu bars of Apple’s apps, which shows a bit of the app behind whatever you’re looking at, but I don’t. I stopped noticing it almost immediately.
With Yosemite you can make calls or send iMessages from your Mac (as Stephen Colbert helped to demonstrate at Thursday’s event).
It’s also easier to pick up work started on one device (for instance, your iPhone) on another (like your iPad).
The iPad Air is super skinny
Apple debuted the new iPad Air 2. It’s so thin that you could stack up two of them together and they’d still be skinnier than the original iPad. It has an antireflective screen and can hold up to ten hours of battery life. The front of the camera has a more advanced face recognition (hello, selfies). It also includes a Touch ID—so you can use your fingerprint as a passcode to get access. Price starts at $499.
iPad mini 3 isn’t that different from the other minis
iPad mini 3 is pretty much like the other Apple minis except it includes a Touch ID sensor and is available in gold. Price starts at $399.
27-inch iMac with Retina 5k display has higher resolution than televisions
This new iMac has 7 times more pixels than an HD TV. The sides are only 5 millimeters on the edge. You can get the iMac for $2,499.
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