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CultCast #360 - Our More in the Making hardware reactions!

Nov 2, 2018
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This week: Apple’s More in the Making hardware keynote was an action-packed ride stuffed with one hardware update after another!  We’ll tell you what we like (and what we don’t) about Apple’s newest product updates.  Plus: Apple quietly offers a big screw you to 2018 MacBook Pro owners… prepare for a rant.
 
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On the show this week
 
Everything you need to know about Apple’s Q4 2018 earnings call
 
USB-C for iPad Pro: Everything you need to know
 
All the ways the 2018 iPad Pro blows away its predecessors
 
iPad Pro
  • Super sexy new design.
  • Already sold out for 1-2 weeks!
  • Thinner, and even smaller.  12.9” now the size of a sheet of paper.
  • No headphone jack...
  • Big performance increases, big price increases. Start price is now about 20% higher.
    • 11-inch models start at $799 (Wi-Fi) and $949 (Wi-Fi + Cellular), while 12.9-inch models start at $999
  • iPad Pro comes with Apple's next-generation Neural Engine for advanced machine learning 
  • This is the first gadget besides iPhone that will include FaceID.  
  • Powered by the new A12X Bionic chip
    • A12X Bionic has eight cores (four performance cores and four efficiency cores) and per Apple provide up to 35 percent faster single-core performance. 
  • Seven-core GPU to deliver up to twice the graphics performance.  They say it’s now as powerful as an Xbox One S console.
  • USB-C connector is replacing the Lightning connector,
    • Allows iPad to charge your iphone
    • What can connect to the iPad?  USB Hubs?  Hard Drives?  Printers?  Even Apple said they weren’t sure when The

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