0:00 Intro 0:13 Beats Flex Price Increase 1:07 Personal Update 1:56 MacBook Air M2 - What we THINK we know. 2:11 What is M2 Anyway? 2:31 Which devices will get M2? 2:59 Apple M2 Chip Core Layout 3:22 MacBook Air M2 Design changes 3:46 MacBook Air M2 Release Date 4:36 MacBook Air M2 Pricing 4:52 MacBook Pro M1X Expectations 5:36 Breaking news- MacBook Pro chargers OOS 6:15 MacBook Pro M1X Colour options 6:27 MacBook SE - Could it happen? 7:06 Could 128GB be enough for a MacBook SE? 7:36 Why Apple CAN price a laptop that low 8:04 What would you buy? 8:17 iCaveAnswers coming later today MacBook (Air) M2 in Q3 2022? A couple of days ago news broke from Ming Chi Kuo that the redesigned MacBook Air would be entering production in Q3 of 2022, which doesn’t exactly line up with what we had expected. So let’s talk about it. The MacBook Air is expected to be powered by Apple’s M2 chip, the A15X if you will, or a more multicore, more thunderbolt and more speedy bigger brother to the A15, just as the M1 was to A14, rolling out to Apple’s first, more efficiency focussed Macs to take advantage of the new Apple Silicon architecture. So expect to see a MacBook Air, Mac mini and iMac with M2, though wether Apple will keep around a MacBook Pro with M2 is less clear - Is the addition of a fan in a world where the TouchBar is going away enough to earn a pro badge? Let me know in the comments. The M2 itself will have a similar layout to the M1, with a balance of 4 Blizzard efficiency cores and 4 Avalanche high performance cores, as well as a 10 core GPU which will likely have some binned chips with a single inactive GPU core available too at a lower price point for entry level devices, which helps Apple increase chip yields and lower overall prices. We’re also expecting to see a full redesign, featuring a flatter design which drops the iconic MacBook Air wedge design, prompting some to wonder if this is truly a New MacBook Air or actually a revival of the pure MacBook name. The design will also likely feature white display bezels and keyboards along with colourful aluminium chassis, along the lines of the iMac refresh we’ve seen earlier in 2020, at the Spring Loaded event in April. And… we don’t know for sure, what order those products will sit in Apple’s line up, as Air seems to mean “The Cheapest one” in laptops, but “the midrange” in iPads, sitting above the standard iPad in the range, but on the Mac side, having sat much cheaper than the MacBook when it was introduced, even though it was originally a premium option. I just hope Apple decides what Air means one of these days. The MacBook Air is expected to be introduced at around the current starting price of $999, though there is a chance that like the 12.9” iPad Pro, if Apple adds a ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJhL_Iuxfc

0:00 On today's Apple Daily: 0:42 In display Touch ID in 2021 iPhones 2:20 March Event, what to expect? 6:51 iCave Answers: 7:05 MacBooks following iPhones lead? 8:54 Post Jony Ive, what happens to Apple Design 11:34 Apple Buying Games Studios? 12:43 And Wireless charging Macs? 14:59 #NotificationSquad In Display Touch ID being tested for 2021 iPhone range Apple is reportedly testing multiple (okay, two) prototype iPhones that feature under display Touch ID ahead of finalising the hardware for the 2021 iPhones, whether that becomes iPhone 12S or iPhone 13. While some reports call these optical sensors, the more reliable ones have mentioned ultrasonic sensors being used to detect the and verify fingerprint, using very high frequency sound waves. The returning waves from these are then measured as mechanical stress on across the scanner, building a 3D image of the finger print that is more difficult to fool than the 2D capacitive fingerprint scanners, and existing components from Qualcomm take around 250 milliseconds to unlock - similar to the speed of capacitive scanners. These ultrasonic scanners can also work through thin material layers, including not only glass but also aluminium and other metals, is not affected by sweat like capacitive scanners and can even be used for heart rate and blood flow measurements - which fits with Apple's Health objectives, even if as an occasional check rather than the constant monitoring of Apple Watch. March event - what to expect. We're predicting an Apple event for March 26th this year, kicking off what Rene Richie is calling Season 2 of Apple's Digital event bonanza - and let's be honest they did a FANTASTIC job of creating these digital events in 2020. I don't see Apple going all the way back to simply standing on a stage with product demos in the future. iOS 14.5 This is probably a weird prediction, but I think Tim Cook may introduce this one personally as it includes the privacy upgrades with App Tracking Transparency that made Facebook oh so sad. AirTags. Surely AirTags. I mean, is there anything else to say about these? We've had years of teases and leaks, many coming directly from Apple themselves with chunks of code poorly hidden within iOS and MacOS code, as well as now videos being leaked via Jon Prosser that are allegedly direct from Apple themselves. Just in case you're somehow not aware, AirTags are Apple's location tracking tags that use the Apple Find My network to locate themselves geographically and if lost, securely report their location. iPad Pros - We could well be getting new iPad Pro models with our first look at A14X, assuming you don't count M1 which was exactly in line with the expected A14X performance... a coincidence? Changes are likely to include, beyond the System on a chi ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjHj7jbh-k

New AirPods & MacBooks Due later this year says Economic Daily times. Shipment momentum “significantly stronger” from the third quarter of the year - which begins… tomorrow? New renders from Apple Tomorrow - MagSafe, HDMI, SD Card reader, M1X 10 core SOC. Mark Gurman, no major Apple product announcements for the next several weeks - 3 takes us to July 20th. Just saying. Setups! Team Kinetix @iCave_Dave messy setup with 11” M1 iPad Pro plugged into a Dell WD19tb thunderbolt dock. 24” monitor, 3 external storage drives, keyboard & mousepad as well as speakers. All ready for a 14” M1X MacBook Pro when they eventually appear Lars Andersen Hi Dave :-) This is Lars Andersen from Denmark. Thank you for delivering videos with high quality content. Keep up the good work. Here is my setup. The setup has gone through a few stages since I bought it a year ago. The first picture is the oldest, and the last picture is the newest. If you look closely, nearly all my devices has become flowers by now. Yup! I’m happily married! :D I guess the next surprise will be a huge flower pot on the middle of the desk instead of my computer when I come home from work some day. (This is the setup you see on the last picture) MacPro 2013, 64 GB RAM, 4 Core Xeon, 512 GB SSD, dual AMD FirePro D700 (need a 6 or 8 core CPU and a faster SSD/M.2 drive). 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display Sennheiser HD 800 S headphones Aune X7s headphone Amp (I need a DAC also) Mark Livingstone • 6 hours ago Hi Dave, When do you think we will see ArmV9-based Apple silicon? #iCaveAnswers #NotificationSquad The Duke of Kidderminster #iCaveAnswers Do you think Apple will release a touchscreen MacBook? Video question from Team Kinetix Legacy features coming back? Marcin Kowalczyk #icaveAnswers I wonder if Apple would ever consider 'hiring' a leaker to stop the leaks and gain an asset instead? sweealamak • 17 hours ago (edited) #iCaveAnswers Talk of RISC-V has been circulating the news lately with Intel planning a 7nm CPU to rival Arm. Could you share your thoughts on this open-source architecture and should Apple even consider jumping on board? Euri Tech • 21 hours ago #iCaveAnswers Do you think it will be the end of apple leaking because of apple lawyers telling leakers to stop leaking apple products? David Black #iCaveAnswers This is a more speculative, "out-there," question, but what is the understood theoretical limit as regards the thinness in nanometer terms of the M-chip manufacturing process, appreciating that the current M1 chip is 5 nm? And as those limits are explored, what possible gains do even thinner M-class chips bring in terms of performance and power efficiency? Join the conversation http://iCaveDave.com/twitter​ http://iCaveDave.com/facebook​ http://iCave ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFiwdZ69NY

Is Apple REALLY working on a bigger 30+” iMac, and if so, why? and When? And… Who? What will Apple’s M3 rollout look like, And, AirPods, the next frontier for Apple Health? I thought I’d get back to our roots with this one and i ‘m trying to use it as a reset too, so get your questions in with iCaveAnswers in the comments, and let’s get into it. Big iMacs. According to Marc Gurman, Apple is currently working on a bigger, “30+” iMac” which I think we’d all been hoping for when the iMac redesign happened with the M1 model at 24”. Prior to the M1 iMac release, Intel based models were offered in 21.5” and 27” variants with 4k and 5k resolutions respectively, and the new M1 model boasts 4.5k resolution. But remember when it arrived and everyone was hating on the off-white bezels? Well, I love them and hope they’re here to stay, but, is it possible that Apple’s skipped the M2 chip for iMac while it reworked these to have darker colours and bezels? It’d look pretty epic in Midnight like the MacBook Air I have to say. I was kind of convinced that Apple was doing as they did with the OG iMac and just having the one size for the consumer desktop, but the addition of a 15” MacBook Air makes me think this could be real. Even though there’s been no mention of this thing from Ross Displayman Young as far as I know - Apple was working on more displays, and perhaps their designers have pivoted to include a computer with this display. 30+ inches could easily enough be 32, which is 6K Pro Display XDR territory, and if the display is going to be physically larger than the old biggest iMac, It stands to reason the resolution would be likely to increase too. I wouldn’t hold your breath for an iMac Pro however, not in the way we had before. Apple’s Intel iMac Pro was a stop-gap measure while the Trashcan Mac Pro was taken out to the field, shot and melted down for glue ahead of the current design Cheesegrater that they released a couple of years later. That spot in the lineup is being held down now by the Mac Studio, paired up with an Apple display. That holds the more powerful chips, M2 Max and Ultra, though now the Mac mini is configur able with up to an M2 Pro chip, there’s a decent chance that could appear in both sizes of iMac going forward from the M3 generation. The 24” version features active cooling, so there would be little difficulty putting a pro level chip in there and even more thermal capacity in the 30+” version. In essence, don’t expect a Max or ultra chip in an iMac, but base level and pro chips make sense to me. And speaking of M3, what’s that rollout going to look like? Well I think the iMac may well be at the forefront of the releases this time, and perhaps as soon as this fall, but only in the current 24” chassis as the larger version is likely to be a little way out yet. MacBook Air is the only model likely to be limited to only the base M3 chip, but given the recent 15” model release and price drop on the 13” model, I can’t see these getting the new chip until at least early 2024, and I certainly don’t see just the 13” model getting a chip bump before the 15”. An M3 Mac mini could be on the cards, with an M3 Pro model coming early in 2024 alongside the M3 Pro and Max MacBook Pros, but we’re also hearing that the 13” MacBook Pro still won’t let go and move towards the light - so this could be the portable model that Apple releases with M3’s first round, touchbar and all. I don’t see a good reason for anyone to choose it right now, but being the only laptop with an M3 at the outset may well be one of the few ways to make it mildly interesting. And onto AirPods, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is developing multiple threads of health features for the AirPods Pro. First, Gurman doubles down on the Temperature sensors, the ear is an ideal place to get a core temperature reading, far better than the Apple Watch’s wrist measurements. That said, its pretty uncomfortable trying to get the Apple Watch in your ear. Believe me. While the Apple Watch is able to get continuous measurements as it’s worn pretty consistently, most people use their AirPods multiple times a day so there should still be enough data, and given the more accurate measurement position, these could alert you to a fever with good reliability. Of course, there’s something else your ears can be useful for, which is hearing. Apple, according to Gurman is working on not only the ability to use the AirPods as a form of hearing aid, but also for assessing your hearing by playing different tones and sounds. Evan Rodgers: #icaveanswers will Microsoft ever offer a Gamepass streaming app for Apple OSes? TVOS, in particular, seems a perfect candidate for the service. Join the conversation http://iCaveDave.com/twitter​ http://iCaveDave.com/facebook​ http://iCaveDave.com/instagram​ http://iCaveDave.com/youtube​ http://iCaveDave.com/merch​ http://iCaveDave.com/discord​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fy0vKM9LY