Screenshots of the Bananarama layout as completed by our tenth-grade high school soccer player:
My wife, who is brilliant at board games, fluent in several languages, with a Master's Degree from UCLA, refuses to play Bananarama with this granddaughter any more.
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Apple Event
In a long note like this, done on the fly, there will be typographical and content errors. For my use only.
First event of 2022. Hardware event.
AAPL: +$3.40. Trading at $16.271.
Apple TV+.
- Apple original movies.
- Hamlet and Coda: each with three Oscar nominations. The latter with mostly deaf actors.
- Hamlet: I may have to watch this.
- I'm watching on both 27" desk top and MacBook Air. Watching one; other in "pause" in case I lose streaming in one or the other .
- New: Friday night MLB. Two games each Friday night.
iphone 13:
- New: two new gorgeous finishes -- "pea green" and "alpine green."
Moving along very, very quickly.
Apple silicon:
- A15 and much, much more; 16-core neural engine.
iPhone SE:
- A15 now in iPhone SE! Wow!
- for existing users who want smaller, additional model;
- for new users looking for best bang for the buck
- fastest speed against any competitor
- midnight, starlight product red
- toughest glass in any smartphone, front and back
- home button with tough ID (that's what I want; I was afraid it was going to be taken away)
- 5G, of course
- iOS 15
- pre-order this Friday; available March 18, 2021
- $429 ($29 more than expected)
Wow, Tim is moving fast.
iPad Air:
- performance taken to the next level
- M1 chip, 8-core CPU;
- faster than Microsoft's fastest laptop which is 3x thicker and weighs 4x more than the iPad Air;
- 12 MP ultra wide front camera; hugely popular on other devices
- 5G, of course
- packed with connected, productivity apps
- pre-order this Friday; available March 18, 2021
- $599 -- starting price, 64 GB and 256 GB;
The Mac:
- Apple Silicon
- M1; M1 Pro; M1 Max
- now: one more chip -- the M1 Ultra -- I had not seen this leaked
- option + shift + K (⌥⇧K)
- too much technology to post; look it up
- 64-core GPU
- power efficiency is incredible
Mac Studio and Studio Display: yup, this is it. The premier piece of hardware
- Mac Studio
- the Mac Mini on steroids
- M1 Max, M1 Ultra
- about 4" x 8" x 8" (3.7" x 7.7" x 7.7") -- fits under most desktop displays
- water-filled, cooling radiator; just kidding -- air-cooled
- four Thunderbold ports
- ethernet port
- two USB ports
- HDMI port
- headphone jack
- two Thunderbolt ports
- SDXC camera disk port
- holy mackerel -- count the number and type of ports on a mini!
- pair with iMac Studio for which it is optimized
- beats the 27-inch iMac by wide margin; no comparison
- 48 GB video memory -- currently the largest graphic card available anywhere
- now: 64GB with Max1 Pro
- now: 128GG with Max1 Ultra
- somehow they need to dumb this down for someone like me
- so far, best news: no one has mentioned the word "meta" or "metaverse"
- so far, best news: no one has mentioned AR, but I'm sure it's coming;
- Studio Display
- in a class of its own
- wow, two stand versions -- very interesting
- 27-inch
- 14.7 million pixels
- 5K retina
- three USB-C ports
- one Thunderbolt port
- Mac Studio: $1999 starting, $3999 starting
- Studio Display: $1599
- order now; available March 18, 2022
One of the fastest presentations ever. Packed with new stuff.
AAPL: drops below $160; up only 55 cents; Dow has dropped from being up 500 points to being up 150 points
- is Jay Powell talking today?
- how high did oil go?
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