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hey how's it going Dave Judy here so WWDC for 2017 just happened and that's Apple Developers Conference that they have every year it's normally more software focused and this year I mean there was a bunch of software that was announced but the one thing that kind of stuck out for me was the adoption of a file system for iPad so iOS 11 will have a new app called files and I think for a lot of laptop users that have tried to switch over to iPad to replace their laptop they hit that obstacle where they just can't manipulate files the way they want to but this new files app looks pretty cool but I want to focus on the hardware that was announced and this year there were quite a few so first the entire MacBook and iMac lineup has been updated to cable eight ships these KB Lake CPUs are basically chip drops into the 2016 MacBook Pro so they were just you know put in a new CPU into the existing architecture that was pretty simple the advantages of KB Lake well there's three big ones the first that you'll notice is the faster clock speed so these base clocks are about 15% faster than the previous generation it's not a huge difference in terms of actual user experience it'll benchmark faster but the 2016 models will feel pretty similar another thing that you'll have with the KB the chips are the speed shift technology so that's running a new version of speed shift and when you launch an app or do anything that needs a short burst of speed these CPUs use something called speed shift to fire up a turbo the KB League processors turbo up quite a bit faster the last thing is video encoding and decoding so the cable chips have hardware on the chip to decode and encode h.264 and vp9 codecs and the end result is that you'll have better battery life when you're streaming 4k content on your laptop the integrated graphics on the MacBook Pros are awesome a new version so instead of the IR s 540 and 550 the new ones have iris plus 640 and 650 in regards to a performance increase for 3d gaming or 3d applications it's pretty insignificant but in general the KB Lake chips are nice it's just more focused on energy efficiency more than anything else so if you're running I guess the 2016 models there's really no real reason to upgrade but if you have one of the older ones like the 2015 or 2014 models there's just a bit more to upgrade now the IMAX also received a kb lake upgrade and they have more options for ran and the screens and video cards have also been updated the base model has an integrated GPU the higher res models have some new Radeon Pro GPUs they're going to have similar TDP to the previous generation so it's not going like a massive increase in performance but it's nice to have new IMAX I will be doing a full review of those new IMAX when I get them in I want to see what those video cards are capable of now the thing I was most interested in was a new IMAX pro it launches in December and it's pretty expensive it's going to start at five thousand dollars loaded out with nice hardware and packaged in a very compact iMac shaped case but what makes it special is a processor like this is the first iMac that has more than four core for the processor and I mean that's special because it's difficult to cool something with six eight or ten cores and in this case they're top-end model has 18 cores which is insane I find it difficult to believe that they can cool a properly utilized 18 core Xeon processor in that chassis I'll be impressed with they do but the other thing that kind of sucks about it is the price tag they haven't revealed like the full top-end price but you know that it's Apple and the price jumps up exponentially when you go up in core count so 18 cores I think is going to top out of like 10 grand crazy the iPad pro also had a hardware revamp 10 and 1/2 inch screen with smaller bezels a bunch of nice new features the standard thing for me though is the 120 Hertz refresh rate so 120 Hertz panels are really nice for gaming animations look really smooth stuff just looks very fluid on it movies and videos will still look the same but any kind of high frame rate stuff will look really fluid provided the developer or the creator of that content has allowed for higher frame rates so things like UI animations and possibly some games those are just going to look really smooth now the faster refresh rate is going to allow for a faster response time with the Apple pencil the old versions had a response time I think of 38 milliseconds so noticeable lag when you were using the pencil this has an advertised rate of 20 milliseconds so quite a reduction in response time as for whether or not 120 Hertz panel is useful otherwise they can aside from the artists application I would say no way it's really difficult to justify the extra frames that just an aesthetic thing but it is nice to look at the Apple home pod I don't know how I feel about this thing at $350 it's not crazy expensive but the integration feels I don't know I'm not that impressed by it I mean there's cool tech in it there's seven tweeters there's technology inside this thing to kind of measure and map the room that you're in for adjustment of the sound waves and stuff like that it's cool it's just that I feel like any kind of high-end Bluetooth speaker could have done something very similar to this with your phone now the one thing I can say is that this is the first generation of it if they add stuff to it so if they add like an Apple TV built into this home pod thing so let's say home pod to this and built in Apple TV or there's built in like mesh Wi-Fi into these units and you can place them all over your house that's kind of cool that's cooler but in its current iteration I'm not that impressed by it anyways that's the end of this video I mean there's a lot of hardware from just WWDC I've covered like a very small amount of it just the superficial stuff I will be doing individual reviews for anything that I personally find super 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