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Though it has been rumored to be in the works for a few years now, the big Apple announcement on Sept. 9 was the iPad Pro, a 12.9" tablet with a screen resolution of 2732×2048. The price starts at $799 for the 32 GB Wi-Fi version, increases to $949 for 128 GB of storage, and $1079 for 128 GB and LTE cellular connectivity. Two accessories are available: a $99 Apple Pencil with a 240 Hz input scanning rate, and a $169 Smart Keyboard, a form and price which may be familiar to you if you have seen Microsoft's Surface. Battery life of the iPad Pro should reach 10 hours, comparable to previous iPads. The iPad Mini 4 is a 7.85" tablet. Mini 4 weighs up to 304g (0.670 lbs) while the Pro weighs up to 723g (1.594 lbs).
The A9X chip in the iPad Pro will be built on either Samsung's 14nm or TSMC's 16nm FinFet process. Apple claims the CPU is 80% faster and the GPU is twice as fast compared to the A8X SoC. This would make the CPU 22 times more powerful than the one in the original iPad, and the GPU 360 times more powerful.
The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus replace the previous iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models. The new versions use the Apple A9 SoC with 70% faster CPU and 90% faster GPU performance than the A8. The M9 motion coprocessor is built onto the SoC, and Apple has added always-on Siri activation, similar to the Moto X. The display adds a "precise force sensing layer" called "3D Touch," similar to the "Force Touch" on Apple Watch. The front-facing camera has been increased from 1.2 to 5 megapixels, and can use the display as a flash to enable... low light selfies! The rear camera can now record 4K resolution (presumably Ultra HD) video.
The new Apple TV will cost a minimum of $149, more than double the $69 price of previous versions. The SoC inside has jumped from Apple A5 to Apple A8, and RAM has been quadrupled to 2 GB, which should allow it to act as a console, running a broader selection of more powerful games and apps. The tvOS UI can be controlled using voice recognition (Siri) or by remote. The remote comes with a "touch surface" and dedicated Siri button to initiate voice input.
iOS 9 and watchOS 2 will launch on Sept. 16. OS X El Capitan will launch on Sept. 30 with unchanged system requirements from the previous version, Yosemite.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by isostatic on Thursday September 10 2015, @03:40PM
The only use for Apple products is recreation. It is an expensive hobby though. Wow.
That's exactly right. Certainly can't edit tonights news on one. Certainly can't. Certainly can't do all those very important spreadsheets and stuff that people on the train seem to do. Certainly can't run up eclipse or vim.
What can you do on an IT related "non-apple-product" than you can't do on an "apple product".
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:47PM
I suppose you are right if tonight's news is your shitty blog or twitter account or if those very important spreadsheets are your shitty grocery list.
I can honestly say I've never seen a Apple user with eclipse or vim open. Ever.
And the IT people using Macs that I have seen are usually doing nothing but viewing websites or they are remoting into a real machine to do real work[Linux/Unix/Windows].
Real computers are joined to a domain managed by Active Directory.
They work remotely via Cisco VPN clients.
They use MS Office, because Apple's shit replacements suck as much as the others do.
Then there is Visual Studio, SSMS, and on and on and on.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Friday September 11 2015, @09:06AM
Tonight's news I was referring to had 6 million viewers and the package was edited in a field in Syria on FCP X. There's a built in Cisco VPN client but we use f5. The package is fed back by a Java program which controls ffmpeg and fires stuff via http.
But sure, edit your "shitty blog" on windows if you want. A lot of work nowadays is web related and doesn't matter what you use.