March 2, 2026 – iPhone 17e is here
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Some Apple AI servers are reportedly sitting unused on warehouse shelves, due to low Apple Intelligence usage
- Apple officially announces iPhone 17e with MagSafe, 2x base storage, 'soft pink' color
- Apple unveils new iPad Air with M4 chip, RAM upgrade, plus C1X and N1
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Monday, March 2nd, 26. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Ben Q. |
| 0:12.6 | Leading off today, Apple has kicked off its big product launch week today, and one of the unveilings is a new iPad Air powered by the M4 chip. |
| 0:22.6 | The M4 is the biggest change in this new iPad air, which carries over many of the same features as the previous generation M3 model. |
| 0:31.5 | The main new features Apple touts with this new iPad Air are all related to the upgraded Apple Silicon. |
| 0:37.0 | The upgrade to the M4 is a nice change for iPad users, and Apple says it's up to 30% faster |
| 0:42.9 | than the M3 iPad Air and up to 2.3 times faster than the iPad Air with M1. |
| 0:49.0 | The M4 model also comes with more unified memory, with Apple upgrading from 8 gigabytes of RAM to 12 gigabytes of RAM with the new M4 iPad Air. |
| 0:59.0 | For cellular users, the new iPad Air also makes the transition from Qualcomm to Apple's own in-house 5G modem with the C1X. |
| 1:08.4 | Apple first launched the C1X last fall in the iPhone Air, and it later came to the M5 iPad Pro 2. So this is the third device with this C1X modem, and Apple says it uses 30% less energy than the Qualcomm chip in the iPad Air M3. It also uses the new N1 wireless chip, which features Wi-Fi 7, |
| 1:31.0 | Bluetooth 6, and thread connectivity. Apple says you can expect better performance when connected |
| 1:36.4 | to 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi networks, and improved overall performance and stability of features |
| 1:42.3 | like Personal Hot Spot and Airdrop. |
| 1:45.4 | The new M4 iPad Air is available in the same 11 and 13 inch sizes as before, and the same |
| 1:50.8 | four colors in space gray, blue, purple, and starlight. |
| 1:55.2 | The base storage remains 128 gigabytes. |
| 1:58.7 | The 11-inch model starts at 599 and the 13-inch model starts at 799. |
| 2:04.9 | Pre-orders begin on Wednesday, March 4th at 6.15 a.m. Pacific time, 9.15 a.m. Eastern Time. |
| 2:13.3 | The first orders arrive one week later on Wednesday, March 11th. |
| 2:17.7 | Next of today, Apple has also officially announced the new iPhone 17E. |
| 2:22.7 | The iPhone 17E is powered by the A19 chip, which is the latest processor also used in the base model iPhone 17, |
| 2:30.3 | and it also features the same C1X modem used in the iPhone Air, the M4 iPad Air, and the iPad Pro. |
| 2:39.0 | It features a more efficient six-core CPU that Apple says is up to two times faster than iPhone 11. |
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