the 7 biggest announcements from apple’s event – bgr

T2 chip powers Touch ID, and MacBook Air gets the keyboard from MacBook Pro.   Force Touch trackpad from MacBook Pro can be found on Air as well, and new louder speakers are built in too..   8th-generation dual-core Intel CPU powers MacBook Air, and RAM has been doubled to 16GB. It also ships with up to 1.5TB of storage, and it features life of up to 13 hours of playback.   Amazingly, the new model is 17% smaller and it weighs just 2.75 pounds..   Mac mini has all new design that's more in line with the rest of Apple's Mac lineup, and it's far more powerful than the previous-generation model.   Mac mini supports up to 64GB of RAM, up from just 16GB in the previous-generation model.   The new display on iPad Pro is called Liquid Retina display, just like the screen on iPhone XR.   Apple's new iPad Pro comes with either 11-inch screen in the footprint as the old 10.5-inch iPad, or with 12.9-inch display that's much smaller and thinner than the previous-generation model.   Both new iPad Pro models get Face ID to replace Touch ID that used to be in the button.   As the rumors suggested, iPad Pro models ditch Lightning port favor of USB-C port.   Read more