Apple Event 2021: Mac And AirPod Features Unleashed

In the Apple event 2021, we saw a whole new generation of AirPods and Mac unleash their way.

The last MacBook offered us a 13.3 inch and 16-inch retina display along with the Apple M1 chip as its processor. It is the fastest laptop in the Apple lineup series with its storage capacity of up to 2 TB and sufficient battery backup of twenty-plus hours.

Apple Music And Siri: Apple Event 2021

Both Apple Music and Siri deliver effortless music by using just your voice. Ask for your favorite songs, albums, or artists, and there are times when you want to find just the right music for the moment. And that’s what Apple wants to help you with, Siri.

Music experts at the tech company have curated playlists for hundreds of moods and activities. Now you can ask Siri to put on a playlist for the dinner party, play a playlist to help you relax, play a playlist for hiking or outdoor activities.

Moreover, these new playlists are available to every subscriber of Apple Music so that more users can experience this. Their brand new subscription plan is the new Voice Plan. For this, you need to use only your voice and the power of Siri to access every song on the playlist.

Voice Plan: $4.99 per month across all your Apple devices.

This plan is currently available in 17 countries and regions, including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, India, etc. You can access these through three plans:

• Individual Plan: $9.99 a month
• Family Plan: $14.99 a month
• And the Voice Plan.

HomePod mini: Apple Event 2021

HomePod mini is a powerful smart speaker that delivers great sound, the intelligence of Apple’s Siri and becomes the foundation of your iOS smart home. Starting with bold colors of Yellow, Orange and Blue adds a pop of color to both your personality and personal space.

Featuring a beautiful mesh fabric, tinted touch surface, and explicit details like the volume icons and woven cable brighten up your home. Moreover, they will sync with multi-room audio, create a reminder to get what you need and use the intercom to call your family to the dinner table.

• Price: $99
• Availability: November

AirPods 3rd Generation

Listeners around the world enjoy listening to Apple music with AirPods, so there’s exciting news waiting for you. The third Generation of AirPods comes with spatial audio featuring Dolby Atmos in Apple music to give music a rawness like never before.

Move music from the simple left and right of traditional stereo sound and into three-dimensional immersive listening. Spatial audio will enhance your music experience to create truly multi-dimensional sound.

Power Of Spatial Audio

Get spatial audio with dynamic head tracking on AirPods Pro and AirPods Max and across all Apple devices. Featuring an all-new design inside out, with a force sensor that provides more control of your music and phone calls.

A brand new distortion driver delivers high-quality, powerful bass, crisp and high-frequency sound. Keep your music going while at the gym or running in the tracks; these AirPods are sweat and water-resistant.

New Adaptive EQ

Moreover, Apple has introduced a new contoured design and an adaptive EQ that delivers sound directly to your ears. The adaptive EQ was also available with the AirPods Pro that provides the best audio experience in real-time.

The one-touch set-up automatically pairs to all your Apple devices, making them always ready as you are. Now you get up to 6 hours of listening time, and five minutes of charge time gives you an hour of use.

MagSafe and wireless charging are here to make charging all the more convenient.

• Price: $179
• Available: next week

M1 Pro Chip: Apple Event 2021

People use MacBook Pro the most for developing apps, create music, movies, and much more. It appeals to those who want to change the world, and with this new chip, it gets seven better. Rearchitecting the chip fabric to enable the SoC to scale while doubling the width of the memory interface.

M1 Pro delivers up to 200 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth, and its custom package supports up to 32 GB of memory. The 33.7 billion transistors deliver 10-core CPU performance, with 8-high performance cores and 2 high-efficiency cores.

For graphics, it delivers 16-GPU cores makes it two times faster than its predecessor. Moreover, it has an industry-leading media engine that accelerates video processing using very little power. Using ProRes, they push it even further.
Therefore, it will now play 4K and 8K ProRes video while using just a fraction of the power.

M1 Max Chip: Apple Event 2021

The M1 Max takes M1 Pro to a new height as it starts with a much higher bandwidth on the chip fabric and doubles the memory interface. Thus, it delivers up to 400 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth, two times of M1 Pro and six times of the M1.

It supports up to 64 GBs of unified memory and 57 billion transistors. However, the M1 Max has the same powerful 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU, which is four times faster than before.

macOS

Compile more code or edit more video on a single charge with the all-new powerful chip in the mac. The macOS takes advantage of the new chip’s unified memory to launch apps faster and get your tasks done in four times the speed.

Get hardware-verified secure boot, runtime anti-exploitation technologies, and fast in-line encryption for all your files. Every app made by Apple is optimized and runs on Apple Silicon. They also have Rosetta 2, which makes it easy for intel-based apps to run smoothly.

Faster Processor With 2X Efficiency

So now you can get iPad and iPhone apps running on your mac, opening up greater possibilities. Moreover, you can recompile these apps to run natively as Universal. Logic Pro allows musicians to create massive spatial audio mixes on a notebook.

In Final Cut, Pro, video analysis for the new object tracking feature is up to five times faster. There are now 10,000 universal apps available, including Lightroom Classic, Cinema 4D, Capture One, Sketch, and many more.

MacBook Pro: Apple Event 2021

The new MacBook Pro comes in two different sizes, first the 16-inch model and a 14-inch model. The all-new Aluminum enclosure optimizes internal space for more performance and features.

The advanced thermal system can more than 50% more air at low fan speed, and you don’t even have to listen to them while working. The reason is that they won’t even have to turn on for most of your everyday tasks.

Furthermore, the new MacBook Pro is 16.8 mm thin and 4.7 pounds, and on the 14-inch model, it is 15.5 mm thin and 3.5 pounds. The full height function row is back on the keyboard. Here the physical keys replace the Touch Bar, which the pro lovers use.

More Ports For Connectivity

Moreover, the keyboard is set on a double-anodized black that highlights the backlit glyphs on the keys. Apple is adding more ports for a change which Pro users will love. On one side, there’s an HDMI port that allows you to connect to TV and display.

Furthermore, a thunderbolt 4-port, an SD card slot to connect to more peripherals and media. You also get a headphone jack on the other side, along with two more thunderbolt 4-ports.

• Price 14-inch model: $1999
• Price 16-inch model: $2499
• Available: Next week

Conclusion

In addition to all the above upgrades, MagSafe 3 is coming back to the MacBook Pro. You can now connect up to two Pro display XDRs, and with M1 Max, you can extend that to three along with a 4K TV all at the same time. Furthermore, the new MacBook Pro raises the bar with its 100% recycled Aluminum which makes it eco-friendly.