made while keeping the same prices
(and even lowering it in the case of the
mini). There’s plenty more I want to see
- most of all a better webcam in the
notebooks – but I’ve never been more
excited for the Mac. Grade: A
Jason Cross: This is a hard one to give
a grade to. The M1 is an absolute
triumph, and has injected real
enthusiasm and excitement into the
Mac for the first time in years. But is
the only thing preventing the Mac
from completely treading water. Apple
is behind the industry on industrial
design, display technology (no HDR or
high/variable refresh rates?), and Face
ID should have come to the Mac, along
with a much better webcam, a long
time ago. Grade: B
Roman Loyola: The Mac was having
a failure of a year until the M1 was
released, but you could also say that
the M1 was the reason the Mac was
failing until November 2020. The
M1 release was monumental, and
2021 for the Mac is going to be even
bigger. Grade: BiPAD
New products: iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPadMichael Simon: Like the Mac, Apple
completely redeemed a lacklustre
year for the iPad with the launch of
the completely unexpected, fully
redesigned iPad Air. Among the
highlights, the new iPad Air has a
fantastic iPad Pro-style design, has a
Touch ID scanner built into the power
button, is as fast as
the iPhone 12, and
comes in colours
other than space grey
and rose gold. It’s so
good, there’s really
no reason to buy a
Pro. Grade: AJason Cross: The
hardware itself
isn’t really stepping
forward a lot, but
Apple’s M1 Macs are an absolute triumph. the new iPad Air is