CultCast #329 - The new iPad EXCITES us 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

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🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week: Apple has powered up the new iPad so much, it’s hard to resist! Plus: what you need to know about iOS 11.3; everything Apple revealed at its “field trip” event; report says  Watch Plus is incoming; and you asked, we answer—from the best Home apps, to our Mac Mini predictions, to Commando Vs. Predator—we answer your most burning questions.

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Apple is finally selling a space gray keyboard and mouse

https://www.cultofmac.com/537711/apple-is-finally-selling-a-space-gray-keyboard-and-mouse/

Mac fans that love the look of the new space gray iMac Pro — but don’t want to plop down four grand — can finally buy the computer’s coveted accessories separately.
The space srey keyboard costs $149. That’s $20 more than the normal silver keyboard Buying a space gray
Magic Mouse will set you back $99, while the normal version costs just $79. The black Lightning cable that comes with the iMac Pro is still exclusively available to iMac Pro owners, though.

New in iOS 11.3

New Animoji
Battery tools
Privacy popups
HomePod update

Everything Apple revealed at its ‘field trip’ event

https://www.cultofmac.com/537703/everything-apple-revealed-at-its-education-field-trip-keynote/

New 9.7inch iPad
Updates to iWork
Updated Classroom and new Schoolwork Cloud Apps
ClassKitAPI
More iCloud storage for students and teachers

iPad vs. iPad Pro: Which is right for you?

https://www.cultofmac.com/538053/ipad-vs-ipad-pro-which-is-right-for-you/

According to early benchmarks, the new iPad is the fastest Apple device behind the iPad Pro and the latest iPhone lineup. It also outperforms both the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus.
$329 for 32GB, $429 for $429
Three times faster than iPad Air, and almost twice as fast a as the Air 2. Almost 80% faster than the 2017 iPad.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's powerful.
0:03.0	responsive.
0:05.0	It handles beautifully.
0:08.0	And it'll blow the doors off anything else in its class. And right now we'll let you take one out for a test drive overnight.
0:20.0	Just visit an authorized apple dealer and test drive a Macintosh.
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to Cole Cassie Best 30 plus minute minute Apple conversation you're going to hear all week long
0:36.0	I'm your host Air from Elijah joining me today now back on a Macbook no longer writing his
0:40.7	stories on his iPhone.
0:43.2	Buster.
0:44.2	Tiny is here.
0:45.5	Heyo!
0:46.6	Heyo!
0:47.1	sounding sexy as ever.
0:50.6	All right, also with us.
0:52.4	He's running Colt-Amak while he under cries in the fetal position over his looming book deadline.
0:57.0	Louis Wallace is here.
0:59.0	Hey, so many tears.
1:01.0	Such a good friend, you go over there and tap his cheek with a tissue.
1:05.0	Tell him it's going to be okay.
1:07.0	Yeah, it's really sad.
1:09.9	And also with us, another new Coltrimack writer after the show we're going to haze him
1:15.6	probably strip him down to his skivies covering with egg whites and flower
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