25 minutes about TV
13 and 14 inch pros, 14% thinner and comes in at 4 pounds – that’s extreme! Also 12% thinner than a MacBook Air, and 13% less volume
67% Brighter
25% more colors
Core i7, Quad-core 2133MHz
4GB VRAM
3.1GB/s storage, up to 2TB, 50% faster storage
New thinner thermal architecture, quite
New Speakers, 2x dynamic range audio
130% 3d graphics
60% Gaming
57% Video Editor
Intel Iris Graphics
4 Thunderbolt 3 ports
100Gbps, all those ports can be USB, thunderbolt, etc – AND OMG a headphone jack
Phil didn’t iron his shirt
Function keys are now different
Force Touch Trackpad
2x larger
Butterfly switch mechanism, responsive and “a greater sense of keyboard travel”
Above the keyboard, we get no function keys, but instead gesture-driven responsive Touch Bar, that’s “application specific”
No escape key (it’s on the app bar)
Touch ID – Apple T1 Chip brings Secure Enclave to Mac
Dedicated Siri key, shown by HAIR FORCE ONE
Formatting controls for text
Predictive text and emoji on that bar, not sure if there’s one for Courage
The TV app
Fast user switching based on touch
“Fantastic finger work, Phil”
Touch Bar support on Terminal
Just mentioning Video editing again, showing FCP enhancements with touchID. Nice.
Creatives should love what was being demo’d
So as sysadmins:
Will the same policies available around TouchID via MDM be available for the Mac now?
The T1 is another step towards an iOS-centric OS. Secure Enclave means real crypto the way iOS does it.
Signed boot means you can now lock a device to IPSW-based images and use SIP to block ANY changes to /System.
Can you manage the Control Strip with an MDM policy
Expect toggling users on iPads with touch, eventually
IT Depts are going to have to stock so very much adapters, offsetting the smaller/lighter computer
