Apple Hardware takes center stage at WWDC
06/23/17 Filed in: Hardware
With more than 5,000 developers in attendance, Apple introduced a new iMac®, a powerful new iMac Pro, an iPad Pro® in a new form factor and a smart speaker called HomePod — the first new product since the Apple Watch® was unveiled in 2015.
HomePod created the loudest buzz. It’s Apple’s answer to the popular Amazon Echo and Google Home wireless smart speakers, and delivers amazing audio quality that competes with the best Wi-Fi speakers on the market.
The seven-inch high cylinder is powered by Apple’s A8 chip, driving a four-inch woofer, seven beamforming tweeters and a six-microphone array that optimizes audio quality and creates immersive sound from every angle in the room. HomePod, together with subscription-based Apple Music®, enables owners to control Siri® for access to one of the world’s largest music catalogs, as well as receive answers to queries and commands in true Siri fashion. And thanks to HomePod’s integration with the Apple ecosystem, owners will also be able to send messages, make reminders, set alarms and control HomeKit™ devices.
HomePod smart speaker is wrapped in a 3-D acoustic seamless mesh and available in black or white. It ships beginning in December for $349.
Apple refreshed the entire iMac line with new processors, the latest graphics technologies, increased storage and higher bandwidth connectivity — all coming to life on the brightest Retina® display ever created for the Mac® platform.
The 21.5-inch iMac with 4K Retina display sees the most performance gains, now equipped with seventh-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and the latest Radeon Pro 500 series graphics. Plus, RAM doubles to 32 GB and two Thunderbolt 3 ports are now standard on all iMac models.
Available now, you can buy the new 21.5-inch iMac with 4K Retina display starting at $1,299 and the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display starting at $1,799.
In December also comes the all-new iMac Pro, an 18-core beast that satisfies the power appetite of even the hungriest of scientists, animators, musicians, researchers and software developers. It packs a collection of workstation-class graphics, processors, storage, memory and I/O of any Mac ever while retaining the now iconic all-in-one iMac design. The iMac Pro will also debut the Radeon Pro Vega chip — processing 3x the speed of any previous iMac GPU.
The smaller iPad Pro has bulked up. The new 10.5-inch model features a display nearly 20% larger than the 9.7-inch model — and what a display it is. The redesigned Retina display on iPad Pro is brighter, less reflective, more responsive and more immersive, whether users are gaming, surfing or spreadsheeting. Yet, this new iPad Pro remains one pound light.
Both the 10.5 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models get the enhanced Retina display, along with several new hardware capabilities that improve speed, graphics, refresh rate (now a blazing 120 Hz) and response time for Apple Pencil®. Both models get new cameras that match those in the iPhone® 7 — a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera with optical image stabilization and True Tone® flash, plus a 7-megapixel FaceTime® HD camera on the front.
Available now, pricing begins at $649 for the 10.5-inch display and $799 for the 12.9-inch display. iPad Pro takes another performance leap come this Fall, when Apple releases iOS 11 as a free download.
HomePod smart speaker is wrapped in a 3-D acoustic seamless mesh and available in black or white. It ships beginning in December for $349.
Apple refreshed the entire iMac line with new processors, the latest graphics technologies, increased storage and higher bandwidth connectivity — all coming to life on the brightest Retina® display ever created for the Mac® platform.
The 21.5-inch iMac with 4K Retina display sees the most performance gains, now equipped with seventh-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and the latest Radeon Pro 500 series graphics. Plus, RAM doubles to 32 GB and two Thunderbolt 3 ports are now standard on all iMac models.
Available now, you can buy the new 21.5-inch iMac with 4K Retina display starting at $1,299 and the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display starting at $1,799.
In December also comes the all-new iMac Pro, an 18-core beast that satisfies the power appetite of even the hungriest of scientists, animators, musicians, researchers and software developers. It packs a collection of workstation-class graphics, processors, storage, memory and I/O of any Mac ever while retaining the now iconic all-in-one iMac design. The iMac Pro will also debut the Radeon Pro Vega chip — processing 3x the speed of any previous iMac GPU.
The smaller iPad Pro has bulked up. The new 10.5-inch model features a display nearly 20% larger than the 9.7-inch model — and what a display it is. The redesigned Retina display on iPad Pro is brighter, less reflective, more responsive and more immersive, whether users are gaming, surfing or spreadsheeting. Yet, this new iPad Pro remains one pound light.
Both the 10.5 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models get the enhanced Retina display, along with several new hardware capabilities that improve speed, graphics, refresh rate (now a blazing 120 Hz) and response time for Apple Pencil®. Both models get new cameras that match those in the iPhone® 7 — a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera with optical image stabilization and True Tone® flash, plus a 7-megapixel FaceTime® HD camera on the front.
Available now, pricing begins at $649 for the 10.5-inch display and $799 for the 12.9-inch display. iPad Pro takes another performance leap come this Fall, when Apple releases iOS 11 as a free download.