Apple Spring Event Highlights: iPhone SE 3rd gen with 5G support, iPad Air with M1 and Mac Studio with M1 Ultra launched

And that's a wrap for us too. Thank you for joining your live coverage of Apple's first product launch event of 2022. Good night, and good luck.

Indian pricing for the new Apple products

3rd generation iPhone SE: Starts at Rs 43,900 for the 64GB variant, Rs 48,900 for the 128GB variant, and Rs 58,900 for the 256GB variant. Comes in Product Red, Midnight and Starlight colours. 

iPad Air: Starts at Rs 54,900 for the 64GB Wi-Fi variant and Rs 68,900 for the Wi-Fi+5G variant; Rs 68,900 for the 256GB model with just Wi-Fi and Rs 82,900 for the model with Wi-F1 and 5G support. 

Mac Studio: The M1 Max variant starts at Rs 1,89,900, while the M1 Ultra variant starts at Rs 3,89,900.  

Tim Cook's back on stage to wrap things up

And wrap them up, he does. This is the end of the stream, but not the blog. Hang back for the Indian pricing of all products announced today. 

And now for the price

Mac Studio will set you back $1999 (M1 Max) and $3999 (M1 Ultra); Studio Display costs $1099

Studio Display sports four Thunderbolt 4.0 ports. 

Now, the Studio Display

A 27-inch screen, with 14.7 million pixels, making it a 5K Retina Display. Supports P3 Wide Colour Gamut, TrueTone. The display as the A13 Bionic chip inside. This is the chip that was in the iPhone 12 series. The display has a 12MP front-facing display with Centre Stage, and a three-mic array for better voice quality. A six-speaker, high-fidelity sound system promises room-filling sound. 

Introducing the Mac Studio and Studio Display

First, let me eat my words. 

Mac Studio: Looks like two Mac Minis stacked on top of each other. comes with M1 Max or M1 Ultra chips. Sports four Thunderbolt 4.0 ports, a 10Gb ethernet port, two USB A ports, an HDMI port and an earphone jack at the back. The M1 Ultra variant sports a further two USB C Thunderbolt 4.0 ports in the front and an SDX cart support. The Mac Studio can support four XDR displays and a 4K TV. The M1 ultra viarant is faster than the currently fastest Mac. Supports up to 64GB of unified memory (M1 Max) and 128 GB (M1 Ultra). The SSD can go up to 8 TB of storage. 

Looks like i'm about to eat my words, readers. 

M1 Ultra

Right now, it increasingly seems like this "game-changing" chip is the only Mac announcement we're going to get. Unless Apple makes me eat my words in a few minutes. Let's find out.  

M1 Ultra is eight times faster than the already too-powerful M1 chip

The M1 Ultra supports up to 128GB of RAM

Basically, Apple has fused two M1 Max chips together to create a "monster of a chip"

Currently, the focus is on the M1 family of SoCs.

The new addition to the family is M1 Ultra, a "monster of a chip". 

Now we move on to Macs

Tim Cook brings up the existing Macs in Apple's lineup, leading me to think none of these will get a refresh today. I could be wrong, though.

Available March 18. Indian pricing will be available soon.