Not only iPhone SE 2020: what else Apple showed

Apple's spring event, which was due to take place on March 31 and at which Apple was supposed to present “iPhone 9, which is SE 2,” took place yesterday, April 15th. In the so-called “virtual mode”. The most important thing (“presentation” of the new iPhone SE) has happened. In addition to the iPhone SE, at this event new options for the Mac Pro were announced, saying that the Magic Keyboard for 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Pros would fall into the hands of users next week. For the time of "slow news" - very worthy. That this is a “virtual event”, Apple told selected journalists. So it was, it was a super-virtual event that no one noticed. Is this the “new format”?

This was Apple's first “online presentation”

The spring event nevertheless took place, although in fact it was not there. Two press releases have been issued, one of which, strictly speaking, is not even a press release, but an “update”. And in the online store of the company there was a series of updates about which it would be appropriate to tell in more detail. Apple, traditionally, did not promise anything, it has nothing to do with it, there’s nothing to blame it for. She promised "a new format in June, and the calendar is still April. About the" new format "we’ll finish here, we’ll try to reconstruct the spring event from the available fragments. For apple scriptwriters and directors this would have worked better, but they are not yet available.

What's New in iPhone SE 2020

In short, the iPhone SE 2020 is an iPhone 11 without some parts in a newly designed case that looks almost identical to the iPhone 8. So much so that apple cases made of genuine (believe?) Leather for the iPhone SE appeared on the shelves of the Apple online store officially recognized as suitable for the iPhone 8. Prices for the iPhone SE, as in October 2016, start at $ 399. No taxes and fees, of course. In Russia, the iPhone SE 2020 costs from 39,990 rubles. The dollar has fallen in price over the past three and a half years since October 2016. In fact, the new iPhone SE with 64 gigabytes of flash memory is cheaper than the first SE with 16 gigabytes.

And at the same price as his classmate Google Pixel 4a with the same amount of flash memory. In response to the threat from the iPhone SE, Google is about to increase the flash memory capacity of the Pixel 4a for $ 399 to 128 GB. Although, at first glance, the Pixel 4a should not be afraid of SE. But - they are afraid and take measures.

Something tells me iPhone SE 2020 will sell better than Google Pixel 4a

Magic Keyboard for 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Pro officially released

A month ago (it seems that several centuries have passed since that day) Craig Federigi, a famous virtuoso from Cupertino, talentedly performed the solo on this instrument, causing audience delight. Not only by what he showed - he showed a new variation of the “online cursor-mouse” paradigm, but also by what he did it all on.

Many even went through a shock from the price of this product (for a magic keyboard with a trackpad for 11-inch iPad Pros), the focus of indignation shifted from prices to the time this keyboard was released. She was promised in May. Managed to do this before. Broken up by quarantine and the closure of factories in China, the supply chains are returning to normal, it would take years to eliminate the consequences of the epidemic, but everything worked out with the keyboard now.

Magic Keyboard has backlight

Sales will begin in a week. Layouts are available for 15 languages (including Russian). The product includes a cover, a stand with a variable angle of inclination of the tablet (playing the role of a display), a keyboard with backlit keys and a mechanism such as “scissors” and a trackpad. Apple's trackpads are the best in the world, this one of them. In a week we will find out if the “magic keyboard” is really magical, or is it nothing more than an epithet.

Feet and castors for Mac Pro

The musculoskeletal system of the most professional in the history of the company Mac Pro not only caused well-deserved criticism, it turned into almost a joke. The decision about what the limbs of a masterpiece of engineering, wheels or legs should be, could be made at the time of its acquisition. The wheels (their purchase cost the buyer an extra 400 dollars), as it turned out, on an inclined plane are simply dangerous - the weighty Mac Pro rolls down in the direction of the inclination.

Those who invented the Mac Pro on wheels obviously did not think about it. The wheels had no braking system, and still haven't. But the solution to the most pressing problem Mac Pro still found. Because of this, in the previous text I use the past tense. A simple and effective solution that cost Apple a mere penny (in the sense, in "cents").

Now a set of legs (for secure Mac Pro) and a set of wheels (for pokatushek) can be purchased separately. No matter what design the customer chooses when placing an order, he can now buy an alternative and customize the Mac Pro musculoskeletal system as he pleases. When replacing the chassis, “installation is required” and tools - one of which, a non-standard hex wrench, is included in the package. When you replace the wheels with the feet, the height of the Mac Pro is reduced by one inch.

Wheels for the price of iPhone 11 - how do you like it, Tim Cook?

Mac Pro Update

Mac Pro brings new graphics cards!

In December, Apple promised to add the graphic Radeon Pro W5700X, “coming soon” to the list of Mac Pro options. The nearest time has come: you can install one or two of these cards. 16 gigabytes of GDDR6 each, it (or they) is installed by the employees of the online store instead of the standard Radeon Pro 580X graphics card with 8 gigabytes of GDDR5. Apple promised that the Radeon Pro W5700X cards will be sold separately, but so far this has not happened.
On February 17, 2020, the German network resource iPhone News reported that, according to information from a very reliable source, Apple’s “spring event” is scheduled for March 31, and that iPhone SE 2020 will be presented on it. The coronavirus invasion of Europe and the US has already begun, but more on that no one knew yet. But the source at the German site was really reliable, the event was planned - it was moved “to a later date”. And information appeared, also from a reliable source, that the spring event will be held in the same “new virtual format” that is being developed for WWDC online, and will outshine its old-fashioned public events with its coolness. There was no event so far, only press releases.