MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ special event

Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will host the company’s “Scary Fast” special event today, Monday, October 30th, at 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT.

Apple’s event will be webcast from the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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Live notes from Apple’s “Scary Fast” special event in reverse chronological order:
• End of event.
• Only Apple does hardware, software, and custom silicon
• M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max are the most advanced chips every created for a personal computer
• Tim Cook: There’s never been a better time to experience a Mac
• Order today; available next week
• Starts at $1299
• 24-inch iMac gets M3. Design stays the same, same colors
• Order today; M3 and M3 Pro available next week; M3 Max available “later in Nov.”
• 16-inch MacBook Pro: starts at $2499
• 14-inch MacBook Pro: starts at $1599
• MacBook Pro potential uses reviewed
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters trailer shown
• MBP with M3 Pro and M3 Max comes in new pro color: Space Black (dark aluminum anodized, fingerprint-resistant)
• SDR up to 600 nits
• Liquid Retina XDR display
• 11 additional hours of battery life
• Up to 11X faster than faster than Intel-based MacBook Pro
• Up to 22 hours battery life
• Same performance on battery and plug
• Can drive four high res external displays
• MacBook Pro can now carry up to 128GB unified memory with M3 Max
• M3 Max MBP up to 2.5x faster than 16-inch M1 Max MBP
• M3 Pro MBP can drive two external high res displays
• 14-inch M3 MBP is up to 40% faster than 13-inch M1 MBP
• Advanced thermal system
• Kate Bergeron: With M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max
• The new MacBook Pro unveiled
• XDR display
• John Ternus: MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro laptop

• M3 Max: 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU (up to 128GB unified memory)
• M3 Pro: 12-core, 18-core GPU
• M3: 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU
• Neural Engine is up to 60% faster than M1
• Tremendous performance per watt
• Efficiency cores up to 50% faster than M1
• Performance cores up to 30% faster than M1
• 2X faster rendering performance vs. M1
• Hardware-accelerated decoding for AV1 video streams
• Hardware-accelerated ray tracing comes to the Mac for the first time
• M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max share GPU design which supports hardware-accelerated mesh shading
• Next-gen GPU – Dynamic Caching, an industry first, transparent to developers
• 3nm process
• Introducing three breakthrough chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
• First up: Johny Srouji
• Macs are the best in the industry, by far
• Apple silicon has driven the most capable lineup in the history of the personal computer
• Tim Cook: Tonight we celebrate the Mac
• Pirate flag spotted in opening video!
• Video showing Macs in action in real world situations
• Event begins
• AAPL After hours: $169.87, -0.42 (-0.25%) @ 07:57PM EDT
• AAPL After hours: $169.84, -0.45 (-0.26%) @ 07:42PM EDT
• AAPL After hours: $170.04, -0.25 (-0.15%) @ 05:02PM EDT
• AAPL @ the close: $170.29, +2.07 (+1.23%) @ 04:00PM EDT
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