Our Cheat Sheet on the New MacBook Air, Mac mini & iPads Pros

Apple’s keynote earlier today at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, brought a raft of new and updated product announcements. Here’s our cheat sheet as usual to help you catch up with the details…

New MacBook Air

• Now with Retina Display
• 13.3″, 2560 x 1600
• 50% Thinner (Black) Bezels
• Touch ID Finger Print Sensor
• T2 Security Chip on board
• Butterfly, Backlit Keys
• 20% Larger, Pressure Sensing Trackpad
• 25% Louder, 2x more bass
• Three microphone array
• 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports
• 8th Gen Intel Dual-core i5 CPUs
• up to 16GB RAM
• SSD up to 1.5TB, 60% Faster
• 12 hour battery life
• 17% less volume (15.6mm)
• Made from 100% Recycled Aluminium
• From £1,199
• Order from today – ships next week

New Mac mini

• 4-core or 6-core 8th Gen Intel CPUs
• Up to 5x faster
• Up to 64GB RAM, 2666Mhz SODIMMs
• SSDs up to 4x, up to 2TB
• T2 Security Chip on board
• Double the airflow for quiet cooling
• Standard Gb Ethernet, 4 Thunderbolt ports, HDMI
• 10Gb Ethernet optional
• Space Grey
• Made from 100% Recycled Aluminium
• From £799
• Order from today – ships next week

New iPad Pro

• LCD Liquid Retina Display
• A12X Bionic CPU, 7nm, 8-core CPU,
• 35% faster single core, 90% faster multi core
• 7-Core GPU, 2x Faster
• Neural Engine
• 11.0″ (bigger screen in same sized body)
• 12.9″ (same sized screen in smaller body)
• Rounded corners, thinner bezels
• Face ID (No Home Button, so swipe UI like iPhone)
• All day battery life
• Up to 1TB Storage capacity
• USB-C instead of Lightning, connect to 5K monitor
• Charge OUT of USB-C (recharge your phone from your iPad)
• New 2nd Gen Apple Pencil, Magnetically attaches, auto pairs, charges wirelessly
• 4 speaker audio in each corner
• 10 hour battery life
• New Keyboard
• 11.0″ from £799
• 12.9″ from £999
• Order from today – ships next week

Misc

• 100 Million Mac Active Install Base
• Today at Apple – 60 newly designed in-store sessions coming in 2019
• All retails stores now run on 100% Renewable Energy
• 400 Million iPads Sold

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