M4 Macs, new iPads, iPhone SE are all coming — even Vision Pro 2! (CultCast #667)
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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This week, EVERYTHING that’s coming next — new Macs and iPads, the iPhone SE, Vision Pro 2 and a brand-new smart display with Apple Intelligence. Finally, we’ll wrap it up with Erfon’s week-long review of AirPods 4!
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This week’s stories:
What Macs and iPads to expect at Apple’s rumored October event
- Rumors say an Apple event should bring new MacBook Pro and Mac mini models with the M4 chip, with a new iPad mini and budget iPad also on the agenda.
iPhone SE 4 with Apple Intelligence on course for early 2025
- iPhone SE 4 should debut early next year with some major upgrades.
iPad Air could be in for a quick performance upgrade
- The revamped iPad Air debuted in May, but there’s already word that a replacement is on Apple’s drawing board.
Next-gen Vision Pro with M5 chip will support Apple Intelligence
- Ming-Chi Kuo detailed some planned improvements from Apple for the next-gen Vision Pro.
Apple smart display with Apple Intelligence coming in 2025
- Apple might launch a new smart display running a new operating system called homeOS early next year. The device could feature FaceTime integration and act as a smart home controller.
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| 0:00.0 | All of us use laptops and smartphones now. |
| 0:05.7 | Everybody uses a laptop and or a smartphone. |
| 0:10.1 | And the question is arisen lately. |
| 0:13.0 | Is there room for a third category of device in the middle? |
| 0:18.0 | Something that's between a laptop and a smartphone. |
| 0:22.0 | And of course we've pondered this question for years as we between a laptop and a smartphone. |
| 0:22.6 | And of course, we've pondered this question for years as well. |
| 0:26.1 | Now, some people have thought that that's a netbook. |
| 0:32.5 | The problem is netbooks aren't better at anything. |
| 0:36.7 | They, they're slow, they have low quality displays, and they run clunky old PC software. |
| 0:47.7 | So they're not better than a laptop at anything, they're just cheaper. |
| 0:52.1 | They're just cheap laptops. And we don't think |
| 0:55.4 | that they're a third category device. But we think we've got something that is. |
| 1:03.2 | And we'd like to show it to you today for the first time. |
| 1:07.2 | And we call it the iPad. Thank you. And welcome to the Cold Castee Best 30 Plus. |
| 1:15.0 | It's been out of conversation. |
| 1:19.0 | You're going to here. |
| 1:20.0 | All week long, I'm your host, Air Air Frontalice join me today. |
| 1:23.0 | He's programmed the Kolomac World Headquarters' turrets to match the movements of his |
| 1:27.2 | Head Mountain Visit Pro. |
| 1:28.6 | It's going to be handy. |
| 1:30.0 | Making tracking and aiming and escaping riders so much faster and quicker. |
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