19: Hold My Beer

Posted on Saturday, Jun 29, 2019
Clay, John & Vic are back to finish their discussion about Apple’s 2019 WWDC Keynote Event.

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Topic: WWDC 2019 Continuation

  • Mac Pro
    • Stainless steel frame and handles allow easy customization
    • 28 core 300 watt intel Xeon processor
    • 12 ram slots over 6 channels
    • 2933MHz ECC ram
    • 1.5TB of ram supported
    • Expansion
      • 8 PCI slots
        • 4 double wide
        • 3 single wide
        • 1 ½ length slot with io card
          • 2 thunderbolt 3 ports with 2 additional ports on the top of the case
          • 2 usb a ports
          • 3.5 mm audio jack
      • 2 gigabit Ethernet ports
      • MPX Expansion Module
        • Standard PCI connector reverse compatibility
        • Extended for thunderbolt, display port and power
        • That’s a heat sink
        • the worlds most powerful graphics card
        • Infinity Fabric Link
        • Supports two cards per module
        • Two modules supported
    • Afterburner
      • Hardware accelerated card for video editing in native formats
      • 3 8K streams
      • 12 4K streams
    • 1.4 kW power supply
    • 300 CFPM airflow via 3 fans
    • Optional wheels
    • Demo
      • new version of logic
        • 1000 tracks 🤯
        • 56 threads across 28 cores
      • final cut
        • 8K pro res raw
        • Real time effects rendering
        • 3 8K streams one hundred million pixels
    • Pro Display XDR
      • 32 inch 6K Retina display
      • 6016 x 3384
      • 218 PPI
      • P3 wide color
      • 10 bit color
      • Reference mode
      • Super wide viewing angle
      • Anti reflective coating
      • Matte option
      • Extreme HDR
      • rear lattice Heat sink
      • 1000 nits sustained
      • 1600 nits peak
      • 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
    • 4 of these supported on the Mac Pro
    • Pricing - all available in fall
      • Mac Pro starting config
        • 8 core Xeon
        • 32GB ram
        • Radeon Pro 580X
        • 256GB SSD
        • From $5,999
        • Available in rack mount
      • Pro Display XDR - $4,999
        • Nano Texture version $5,999
        • pro stand $999
        • vesa mount $199
  • macOS Catalina
    • iTunes
      • Music
      • Podcasts
        • Search powered by ML indexing of content
      • tv
      • iOS devices sync directly from Finder Sidebar
    • Sidecar
      • iPad as secondary display
      • Pencil support
      • 3rd party dev support
    • Accessibility
      • Voice control
        • Demo
        • Very powerful
    • Find My iPhone/Friends
      • Now available on Mac
      • Can locate devices that are offline
        • BT Beacon enabled
    • Activation Lock
      • Limited to T2 enabled macs
    • System Apps
      • Photos
      • Safari start page
      • Notes gallery view
      • Screen Time
    • Catalyst (AKA Marzipan)
      • UIKit apps on the Mac
      • Devs add a new target to existing iOS projects in Xcode and get a lot for free out of the box
      • Twitter is coming back 🤦🏻‍♂️
      • Atlassian senior iOS engineer Rob Chatfield
        • Jira coming to Mac
  • AR
  • SwiftUI
    • New declarative UI framework
    • significantly much less code
    • Interactive dev experiment Xcode
    • SwiftUI demo
      • this is pretty mind blowing
    • Available on all platforms including watchOS and macOS
    • Provides bindings to controls.

Hosts

Clay Daly

Clay Daly

CW (aka Clay) the father, husband, photographer, podcaster, human, these are some words that define me. Clay’s other podcast can be found at Cybrcast.

John Chidgey

John Chidgey

John is an Electrical, Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer, programmer, podcaster and runs TechDistortion and the Engineered Network. John has produced and appeared on many podcasts as well as Pragmatic.

Vic Hudson

Vic Hudson

Vic is the host of the App Story Podcast and cohost of most things BubbleSort.