Apple Event, 12:00 Noon CT -- March 8, 2022

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?