MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ special event

Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives are expected to host the company’s “Let Loose” special event today, Thursday, May 7th, at 7am PDT / 10am EDT.

Apple’s event will be webcast from the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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During Apple’s event, MacDailyNews will offer live notes on this page below.
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Live notes from Apple’s “Let Loose” special event in reverse chronological order:
• AAPL: $182.55, +0.84 (+0.46%) @ 10:39AM EDT
• End of event.
• Cook promos WWDC next month
• “The biggest day for iPad since its introduction.”
• Cook recaps announcements
• iPad 10th-gen price reduced to starting at $349
• 13-inch iPad Pro: Starts at $1299
• 11-inch iPad Pro: Starts at $999
• Apple Pencil Pro: $129
• Magic Keyboard: $299 / $349
• iPad Pro: 256 GB base storage
• Apple Pencil Pro works with iPad Air, too
• M4 allows for computationally intense effect in ProCreate
• Squeeze to select layers while drawing/painting
• Pairs and stores magnetically to new iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil Pro: New sensor allows for new interactions, just squeeze Pencil to bring up menu; roll Pencil to change shape of brush, etc.
• Larger trackpad – feels like using a MacBook
• Includes Function row
• Silver and Space Gray
• All-new Magic Keyboard – completely redesigned
• 12MP ultra-wide camera moves to landscape
• Uses AI to remove shadows when taking scan of documents
• iPad Pro 12 MP camera (back), LiDAR Scanner, new adaptive True Tone flash
• “Stem Splitter” separates tracks
• “Chromaglow” plug-in (add warmth to digital audio)
• Logic Pro 2: Drummer gets “Session Players” – all new bass and keyboard player
• M4 offers support for 4X ProRes RAW streams
• Final Cut Camera – attach iPhone sand other cameras, syncs to iPad Pro; external project support
• Live multi-cam (up to four cameras)
• Final Cut Pro: Record, edit, and share professional videos all on iPad; Final rendering up to 2X faster than M1
• Next-gen Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
• Core ML makes it easy for developers to tap into the Neural Engine
• 20% improved thermal performance; up to 4X faster than M2 iPad Pro
• M4 is an outrageously powerful chip for AI
• M4’s Neural Engine – dedicated to AI – 16-core design; 38 trillion operations per second; 60X faster than first Neural Engine in A11
• Up to 4X faster graphics performance than M2 iPad Pro
• Powerful new CPU, 10-core GPU
• All-new display engine
• M4: Second-gen 3nm technology
• iPad Pro is the first Apple product to get the all-new Apple M4
• The world’s most advanced display
• Nano-texture glass option comes to iPad Pro
• Superior HDR
• Both 11- and 13-inch displays are OLED; “Ultra Retina XDR” features two OLED panels – Tandem OLED – combines the light from two OLED panels – 1000 nits; 1600 nits peak
• Silver and Space Black; 100% recycled aluminum
• Thinner than iPad nano; the thinnest Apple product ever
• 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro, 5.3mm thin and 5.1mm thin, respectively
• All-new, impossibly thin New iPad Pro: For anyone who wants to world’s best iPad experience
• Order today and available next week
• 13-inch iPad Air: Starts at $799
• 11-inch iPad Air: Starts at $599
• 128GB base storage (512GB and 1TB avail)
• Supports Apple Pencil Hover
• Supports Apple Pencil
• New Air works with Magic Keyboard
• AI and powerful machine learning (ML)
• M2 chip
• Blue, Purple, Starlight, Space Gray – 100% recycled aluminum case
• Landscape stereo speakers with Spatial Audio
• Front-facing camera on landscape edge
• 13-inch iPad Air inspired by the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
• 11-inch iPad Air and 13-inch iPad Air
• New iPad Air: Two sizes
• Cook lauds M3 MacBook Air: “Our users are loving it.” “MacBook Air is the world’s best-selling 13-inch laptop and the world’s best-selling 15-inch laptop.”
• Cook touts Apple Vision Pro in the enterprise
• This event is all about iPad – the biggest day for iPad since its introduction
• Apple CEO Tim Cook welcomes audience in pre-taped message
• Event begins
• Apple Store Online is down ahead of the event
• APPL: $184.06, +2.35 (+1.29%) @ 09:59AM EDT
• AAPL: $184.64, +2.93 (+1.61%) @ 09:44AM EDT
• AAPL Pre-Market: $183.74, +$2.03 (+1.12%) @ 9:04AM EDT
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