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iPad pro the MacBook Air the Mac Mini no iPad Mini sadly also Lana Del Rey was there like I mean she was great but it was kind of a weird vibe because right there like an energetic event and then it was like let's bring it back hey check out all these great news here comes some sad song so I don't want to get started or not but we can stay here just chatting all day otherwise yeah I don't know I guess our done let's go ahead and knock this out we're gonna come back and see you folks in the chat in 3 minutes and 59 seconds so get your questions ready here we go in 3 2 welcome to the 359 I'm Afra ring I'm Joni Sussman I'm Shara Tipton we're a little more than 24 hours fresh from Apple's event in beautiful Brooklyn New York where Tim Cook announced new iPad pro and updates to the MacBook Air and a new Mac Mini so let's start with the iPad pro there's some pretty big changes there Shara you were at the Apple event yesterday in beautiful Brooklyn what were some updates that we should know about with it yeah so oh the kind of the biggest changes that we saw in the iPads this time was they're getting a lot of the iPhone 10 technology so the screens is stretching across the entire front of the device there's no home button anymore you use face ID the Apple pencil was was redesigned and now instead of charging it you know sticking it out through the bottom of the iPad charging plus you it like wirelessly charges it's like yeah it's like oh great now I know where to put this thing the way it should have been yeah from the beginning I saw that it's USB see now too so what if you want to listen to music yeah I don't know it's funny like the like headphone fragmentation like you're the new MacBook Air still has has a headphone jack the new iPads don't have a headphone jack and so it's USBC headphones but Apple doesn't make USBC headphones and then your iPhone is still lightning and then there's air pods so basically like you're carrying a lot of stuff with you all the time it's a dongle world out there next up the MacBook Air now it gets an update with touch ID and it's also $200 more the only thing I was really geeked out about was the t2 security chip which it has touch ID now and like it's encrypted on that security chip and it also disables your microphone now when the lid is closed but I'm also a security nerd about stuff so yeah they finally did what everybody's been wanting for literally years which is a retina display in this thing like I think we've been I mean a cent as long as I've covered them I've been writing like please people want this people want this so they finally did it you know they have different colors - I think there's a rose gold version you know it's then it's light it's you know there's there's not there aren't as many ports so you're not gonna be able to use like an SD cards or is a regular USB it's USB see there is the headphone jack but yeah and they also have the new redesigned keyboard so we'll see how that works because the previous ones there's been a lot of problems with them there's been lawsuits they're replacing all of them basically for free if you've had issues because if you know if one key with their butterfly mechanism if one key gets sticky you're kind of you have to replace the whole thing so I don't know if this will solve that but it'll be interesting to see when like Dan and people play with these I'm disappointed and bring out the manila envelope again Hey look how thin this is I don't really know like like if they can even get thinner than that I mean I I don't know what are they what are they gonna insert it like imitates paper yeah I mean but then then like how do you charge it it's you it would have to be like a wirelessly charging charge every day is to charge yeah yeah so I think at this point it's probably as thin as it can be but I think people were really really wanting this kind of the downside is it's more expensive than the old MacBook Air so instead of $9.99 which is kind of like the sweet point for like students and businesses to you know obviously we have them I think that $9.99 is really great so $200 more than that it's you know it's not insane but it's it's you know it's it's more and then you know the smallest news of the day the Mac Mini getting announced that tiny computers first update in four years now starts at $7.99 $300 more than its previous model and we were talking earlier you said this was pretty much expected from Apple that hasn't been updated in a while and this was supposed to be coming yeah I think people were we're hoping for this it's you know it's a popular computer it's kind of the this computer you can get from Apple and you know note it is one it is like the last computer where you have all the ports now there's you know there's an Ethernet port there's regular the old USB which right now I don't remember what it's actually called whatever the regular normal USB everybody yes yeah so you know I think this will end up being pretty popular all right that's all the time we have for today's show if you'd like to adjourn check us out and see net I'm Alfred hang I'm Johnny Salzmann I'm sure I said Kim never thank them thank you John for being formal and cordial none like somebody on the show I never minded my P's and Q's apparently alright so as always it's time to jump into the chat and pull out some questions and comments from folks who are interested in what Apple unveiled yesterday at the big keynote I would just want to say like I got a kind of a kick out of their their station for the Mac Mini how it was kind of like a music producers booth I was like oh that's relevant to my interests but that's about my biggest takeaway from it let's go ahead and take a question right up the front from Benjamin he's asking can the iPad pro run laptop apps know the difference Apple has said and they are still doing this that the iPad and the Mac are not the same software they're still separate software the big difference with this iPad is a lot of those apps that you would get on your Mac you're gonna be able to get on the iPad like Adobe Photoshop yeah thanks for that right yeah it's not it's not you know what you just have on your computer it's for the iPad but it's not like you can just take any any Mac app and use it on the iPad but they're doing a lot more with making sure that some of these more like powerful apps work on their tablet I completely forgot about that when they were talking up all the games that you can play on the iPad pro now saying like this has better graphics than like the Xbox one which I don't doubt but I'm also curious like what that does for its battery and just essentially like who's making all these games I mean they showed off like NBA 2k but like I don't think you're gonna see something like Assassin's Creed but it was not like the normal assassin square was like these like little cute versions of these adorable assassins go plan a murder but like we also mentioned like AutoCAD for yeah architects which is really like it's a really intense yeah kind of computing program that you can do on iPad pro but it's not what you would use if you're sitting at a computer then there was that deejay thing which I have like Auto tuning and beat matching for seven different songs at once or 17 different songs or something I don't know but yeah I mean I don't know do you think that do you think that people that use those programs on a Mac would want to do the modern iPad I could see like something like anything where you'd want a pencil or you know like a Silas to be able to do that I could see you wanting to do that you know one of the things that was kind of cool that they showed with I think it was photoshopped was if you you know you can zoom clear into the pixel level to change things but then if you like double clicked the Apple pencil it would jump back out to the full view and that's nice instead of having to like you know zoom zoom in and out constantly I think that you know i i'm assuming adobe has put a lot of thought and time into what it really works on a tablet and what works with the stylus versus what works on a computer and you know i think for a lot of people like using a pencil is kind of a natural a natural thing yeah visually yeah yeah i've never used any stylus on any device and what is your experience been using pens and pencils well on my nintendo DS play a lot of brain age you can't really just type in those numbers when you're doing the math challenges so the stylus is very important would i pay $130 for it which is how much the Apple pencil cost no because you can just get a Nintendo DS for that much there you go before I move on with relevant content there are some people in the chat who want to know what Alfred's costume is actually do just dress like this every day if you notice the pill on the back I am Canada yeah thank you Brian yes from the movie Akira so that's what it is the only one in the spirit today you know usually I dress up too but I don't have the energy anymore wait that's the same to me some cat ears on the 3d printer that was in six hours if only for a while has been doing like if you on Halloween some sort of promotion it used to be you get a free burrito now too many people have taken advantage of that so now it's just like three dollars instead Oh too many two people took advantage of the three I might have to look into this later but before then let's take some more questions from Mike Shaw my only question about the iPad pro that I love is there a good solution for editing video on the new iPad pro it would seem logical for them to put Final Cut on there right now we were talking about there there's some semblance of Adobe available on iOS but it's restrictive right I honestly don't know the answer to this question they don't they only showed off Photoshop yeah on it there's no like video editing I for me I would make the assumption that it's because video editing takes up a lot of you know memory and in your processor and you don't really have that on your on your iPad and if that would be my assumption though I can't say like that's why Adobe hasn't really done something in those terms but there's iMovie so yeah I mean there's iMovie there's like the Clips app yeah you know for making stuff I mean we it doesn't mean we won't see something I think you know Photoshop was obviously what they showed right away and that was probably the focus but it's you know it's not to say that this won't come later but I honestly don't know what there is right now let's just say it's not powerful and software wise for me to do the robust amount of editing on this show just on the note about the the Photoshop on the iPad 2 I feel like professionals are very used to like hotkeys for Photoshop where like I I know I like memorize all this stuff to like zoom in and zoom out that like to do that like I feel like it'd be more frustrating and I getting used to if the Apple pencil and things like that with the USB see you can connect like yeah you know you can probably connect alright moving on from Ricky be do they include a type c2 headphone jack dongle oh god we're gonna get this question till the end of time until they make a USB I don't know if it's included yeah I think it's on sale for nine dollars or whatever nine or eleven dollars I do know that Google stopped including theirs with the pixel three yeah Apple doesn't include the dongle with the new iPhone yeah yeah I mean this is this is a new one obviously so maybe they do but I'm not sure we may not know that until they actually one of the DJ's gonna do now they can't listen to futures I think it's kind of entertaining as I'm watching in the chat how many people are actually reveling over the design of the new iPad they say reminds him of the iPhone 4 similar yeah and the flat edge sides oh yeah totally and that was what I thought when I picked it up to like it felt like you know it looked like the front of an iPhone 10 but like this sides kind of the shape of like yeah like an iPhone 5 or the SE or whatever they kind of it was funny how they'd kind of gone from this like you know kind of like not rounder but you know just kind of like sleeker side iPad to this one that's now kind of like definitely like rectangular with the sides how come this iPad pro doesn't have a notch where's the notch hashtag where's the notch because they get started they have enough space at the door that they don't they don't need it if the notch wasn't like a it wasn't like a hey we really like the way the notch loads yeah hey we need to have a camera in here and their knees we need someplace to put that you know we'll be able to try out the face ID on it at all yeah because you have to set it up and everything yeah set it up they don't really like I don't know if if anyone else did I didn't set that up so I didn't try that when you finally got to the dimmer what were some of the things that really struck you when you got to touch and feel some of these yeah I mean I was really excited to try the MacBook Air like I've been you know that's the computer I've been using for a very long time and I've needed to upgrade for a long time as well so I've been waiting for this and you know it was interesting it was interesting that they don't have touch or the touch bar all right which do you know a lot of people have do not love scoffed at yeah and you know and that would have raised the price of it as well but they were able to get touch ID which is kind of like the best thing of the judge bar yeah without but it but it also is funny to me they're just like it's so why isn't their face ID and the Mac if if they're putting that now and all of their other products but then this one still has touch ID and then you can get this one headphone here but not here and it's just like I don't know it's just there's just so much feels disconnected it feels disconnected yeah yeah from each other like part of the same family yeah yeah it's an unhappy family I think yeah universe that we live in where the MacBook Air is gonna be the last Apple product that has touch ID they're phasing it out on all their phones yeah like obviously the iPad new iPad doesn't have it but there I mean there could be a future I mean and I don't know if they'll go to this but we're seeing like a lot of the Android guys going to the fingerprint readers that are under the screen so one plus had an event earlier this week and they had a new phone that has it and it uses like an optical sensor so it has a light but then next year there's new technology coming where it's more like ultrasonic so it uses sound waves so there could be something like that that Apple is working on to bring back something like the touch ID but they could also just be going all in on face ID and you know the next Mac Book Pro update could have that you know like let's save something a little more Premium for bats I don't know I like the touch ID on the MacBook I think it's basically a built-in security key you don't have to buy the little like USB thing to stick it anymore and you can use that to login instead I love that I forget my password yeah yeah before we move on valuable information coming in from mark dybul Alfred you can download an app that will give it a notch luck what am I not surprised that is that is exactly what I want side notch watch that app cost like $50.00 it's from Apple one thing I wanted to kind of talk about is those bezels so alright for me I don't like I'm still kind of getting used to having a relatively edge to edge screen on a phone I don't like having a safe place to hold it you know I just know it's exact same conversation with someone last week where I feel like bezels almost have a place on an iPad because you want somewhere to hold on to it without getting finger prints over your entire screen or accidentally triggering something yeah or accidentally triggering something yeah but I wish you could put like a no area that would would not be touch sensitive I don't know just tap the screen with a hammer and nail like it should kill the phones yeah right that's actually our new screen durability test that we do here all right we got a few more questions to knock out before we call the day from Christopher Osborn why do you think the Apple made the USBC change on the iPad before the iPhone I know the little MacBook uses it but I really feel like the iPhone would make best use of the USBC jump well I think with iPad they're so they're keeping it separate from computers but they also want people to use this as a computer and USBC lets you do a lot of things like you can add a lot of accessories and a lot of peripherals and faster it's faster and you can do a lot of things with it I think that they'll probably move to us BC R I mean I don't know they maybe they never well but I would think if they would do it it would probably be with the next iPhone because you have to remember this was an S year yeah and they you know they already came out with a bigger phone size and then the cheaper phone and I feel like they could be saving that for later yeah the next generation but we were talking Star Trek now now you have my attention you can watch on CBS all access that way all right here's a question from a chain at the name can anyone tell me if you can increase the RAM memory after purchase in the new Mac Mini I can actually answer this one no not without voiding the warranty now you can go of course and take it to the Genius Bar and have them do it for you but there is no friendly way to do it that won't possibly land you in quote-unquote trouble I'm sure there are plenty people are more than capable of doing that themselves but there's no nice way per se to do it nope never will be never has been here's a good one what's the deal would this Mac Mini stack isn't there a cheaper way to build the cluster now it took me into the process what he's talking about but this is kind of from our friend Matthew - he's talking about this mess right here I thought honestly at first glance that this was a design for the new Mac Pro no no that but they showed you know servers farms that are using these so yeah I mean maybe you know you're not going to Apple cuz it's the cheapest that is because it's the cheapest popular yeah yeah there's a lot of other thing options that are cheaper out there so it's it's you know why ever love the fat stack of Mac minis yeah yeah it's funny in the video they showed before they launched it it made it look like it was gonna be round it's kind of like a spaceship thing and then it was like oh no it's actually still I was like they got me on that one I thought it was gonna be redesigned but they really at this same sort of design because they do know people put these and they need this sort of configuration alright we are just about out of time but I want to stage a an appropriate joke riddle on our way out the door for for Halloween what do you call an iPhone that isn't kidding around dead serious thanks everybody it's been a fun Halloween hopefully you get lots of candy tonight but we're gonna call it a day we'll be back tomorrow for another episode of the 3:59 but until then Alfred you want to take us on out of here I absolutely do after that joke so if you like what you heard here today the 3:59 podcast is available on toon in stitcher not soundcloud Google Play Feedburner Google Play Google podcasts at the Amazon echo and of course cnet.com am I missing anything I think you got it alright thanks for listening I say that this time around and we'll see you tomorrow bye folks