19: Hold My Beer

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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
  • RealityKit
    • Native swift api
  • Reality Composer
    • Build AR models and experiences in Xcode or iOS
  • ARKit 3
    • People Occlusion
    • MineCraft Demo
• 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.

Links:

• Clay’s display suggestion: BenQ PD2720U DesignVue Designer 27" 16:9 HDR 4K IPS Monitor
• Promise Pegasus Storage Custom-Designed for New Mac Pro
• Mastonaut: Simple, elegant, and native Mastodon client for Mac