My N Thoughts on the Apple "Spring Loaded" 2021 Event
Apr 21, 2021I’ll cut right to the chase. This was a very well produced event in terms of visual quality on the live streams. Lots of cool stuff in there, a lot of Easter eggs (did you spot the iPad Nano when the guy falls into his couch finding his keys?)
What stood out to me in this event is that Apple allows… nay… enables its presenters to put up a very professional look whilst bringing their individualistic styles to the screen.
I want to now discuss the new releases (completely out of order).
M1 iMac
Stunning colours. I doubt we’ll meet anyone who does not like any one of these colours. Perhaps a dark grey coming in the winter? 😏
Two of my favourite features from this release were:
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The Power Brick of the M1 iMac now comes with an integrated Ethernet port. That makes two cables coming from under the desk into a single one. This is particularly useful where a lot of schools, colleges and offices have ethernet ports under the desks on the floors. It seems like Apple’s own offices were designed this way and prompted for this design choice.
You can also now get a 10G Ethernet port on the M1 Mac mini. Source
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The M1 iMacs also come with a new keyboard with integrated TouchID. You can also separately purchase these keyboards (in all their glorious colours) for your M1 Mac mini (or even Hackintoshes 😏)
What irked me the most is that the iMac’s design went back by a decade for its front panel. This could have been avoided completely. The back looks absolutely stunning with the new colour options, all of them. But the front is going to be hard to work with, especially for photographers.
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