HUGE Apple Unboxing Extravaganza 2021 By Unbox Therapy

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This is a bunch of new products from apple we have a new Apple TV. We have a new magic keyboard. We have the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro and, of course, we have the ultra slender iMac, the new 24 inch iMac, which comes in like a wild number of colors. The unit I have in front of me here is in the blue, which I think is the most popular color anyway, I'm curious to check it out. Let's kick it off with actually one of the smaller items, this Apple TV, I actually use Apple TV.

A lot I have maybe four of these set up at my house different locations, well, the old model and Apple finally made some improvements here that uh might just save my life, because uh the remote on the current model has kind of drove me crazy, a little like it's just with the touchpad, and it's very easy to lose. This one is still easy to lose, but they just they changed it. They made a little taller. They changed the input method. Also, we have 4k HDR on here.

You have the TV calibration stuff uh, look at this a little advertising on the back for Disney plus Netflix the competitors. Of course, starting with Apple TV plus airplay, is a nice thing to have from your other Apple devices. It works really well uh onto your Apple TV. If you have any of their audio products as well as the HomePod, I don't have any of those I do have AirPods well anyway, those things interact. Well also.

So this comes in two different storage configurations. This is the 64 gigabyte model. This is an expensive streaming device, it's kind of unnecessary unless you're going to take advantage of some of that airplay stuff, because otherwise you could look at the likes of Roku and such that have more budget friendly options, but this is going to have your typical apple finish and integration to it. Here is the Apple TV itself. That is a very nice.

You see, there's no peel like that on the Roku. That's a that's like a couple of hundred dollar peel right there as far as I'm concerned, actually, the back of it. It all looks very similar. We have our power port, a HDMI port, and then you have uh for wired networking. You have an Ethernet port as well.

Another peel for you, oh yeah, it's very nice and that's really what you're paying for right there. You get big Apple logo right down there, so glossy black on the outside matte black on the top. This is what I am most curious about the new remote, so it is fatter. Imagine that apple making a product fatter, not slimmer, and it's more robust to hold on to it's uh confidence inspiring. Dare I say you have your microphone button over here on the side, a dedicated power button up at the top uh, you have almost an iPod, like click wheel situation, going on so still touch sensitive, but just different from the pad that they currently have.

And then your key buttons are over here as well for volume a mute switch and a back button. It still charges over lightning, so you're going to have to have these cables around and accessible. That's a little annoying, but that's how they do it, and some were surprised that this remote didn't feature any tracking similar to air tags or air tag integration, because these are things that get misplaced quite frequently, uh, I'm actually considering, with the later case brand to maybe make something for this remote to make it trackable, I'm not committing to that. But I'm gonna look into it either way, it's already an improvement. I think it's going to be tougher to lose just because it's fatter anyway.

Also in the package, we have uh. What is this? That's your power cable right there, and do they give you a lightning cable, or they just expect? Oh, they do okay, so you get an USB to lightning cable, couldn't remember if they expected you to have that and that's just going to be used to charge up the remote all right now, since this is an unboxing extravaganza, it is time for us to move on to our next item. I think I'm going to go to the magic keyboard, the new magic keyboard. This one was kind of a controversial item because apple came out and said: hey. If you have the old uh 12.9 inch magic keyboard from the last generation iPad Pro, then the new iPad Pro, if you upgrade to this one right here, it's crazy that this boxes they feel like they're the same way if you pick up the new iPad Pro, because you want a new display and m1 chip and all that you're going to need a new magic keyboard as well, because it doesn't really work on the old one. People were like what are you talking about.

I spent so much money on the old magic. I got to upgrade both every single time. Yes, in order to accommodate this new display, it got ever so slightly fatter enough, so to throw off the tolerances on the previous version of the magic keyboard. That's what this one here aims to fix. It also comes in white, so it's a little annoying.

I saw some people saying it kind of does work, but it's just when you close it everything the fit and finish is not quite there. If you use the new iPad Pro 12.9 with the old magic keyboard. What this does are it kind of gives you a laptop like experience with your iPad Pro this one, on the other hand, looks like it'll work with third, fourth and fifth generation. So this is the more accommodating version. It will be backwards compatible because it has a little more room to work with now.

The one thing I should mention, because I've, I tried to go iPad, only ditch the laptop by the time you get the keyboard case and everything going. It can get surprisingly heavy like beyond MacBook Air territory, and so that's something to just prepare yourself, for you are no longer iPad light once you've added this particular component. But if you need to touch input, if you love having an iPad, and you want a keyboard to sort of give you the uh laptop like experience well, this is a way to do it. This white looks nice right now, I'm a little concerned long term because it looks so clean, oh so, clean at the moment. Can it stay? Looking? Oh, so clean? I don't know all right, so it has a couple different, a couple, different positions to be, and I guess really only two- that's open that's closed.

The iPad will fit on the inside of it. This little section here you plug in USB type c. The metallic connectors here will make sure to pass power onto the iPad itself. It's a chicle style keyboard. There is a trackpad there, little trackpad, the quick brown fox.

Now, because it's laying flat on the table, it's got a pretty sturdy feel to it. You don't get any type of angle. Typing angle. It's very flat, but because it's so thin it means your palms can kind of rest on the table and not feel any type of harsh edge. So that's a nice little thing, cool, so silver.

It's got some silver and some white. How is the bottom of this not going to get messed up, though? Let me place that down on the table. I don't know I feel like it's got to at some point all right. Let's leave that there for a moment and get on to the iPad itself, so the m1 chip makes its debut in an iPad and obviously from a performance standpoint. This thing is going to be on another level, you're talking about the same chip that you're, seeing in all those mac books that people are loving and surprised by the performance associated now you're, seeing it in the iPad.

The other big thing here is the display. It's now got all these little dimming local dimming sections attempting to mimic OLED performance and actually before I even get into this box, there's some people that are saying it's not quite on that OLED level. They're seeing blooming and things like this, but that's for the pixel peeping at a later date, either way uh, probably a stopover technology for apple they, I would assume they're going to get to OLED at some point. Okay, so here is the iPad Pro 12.9. This is the space gray color I mean if you've seen the iPad Pro incredibly thin and light.

This one doesn't feel any fatter to me. That goes to show you just how small those differences are. One of the things I like about this tablet is the multimedia performance for me just sitting back watching content. They put a lot of attention into the speaker performance, which you don't see all the time in crazy slim and thin devices, but this one actually sounds good to watch content for extended periods of time. You have.

Obviously, your pen input can live up there if you want to or a pencil if you want to use the Apple Pencil, we have our camera unit over here apple, making all sorts of conversation around the AR future utilizing their camera units. Oh USB type, c connector. Thank goodness something to remind you, one of the few devices, the iPad Pro supporting USB type c from apple at least mobile devices. I guess the laptops do all right, also inside the package, a little of paperwork. Here's your power brick as well as your type c, to c cable to charge it up very nice.

Let me boot this up real quick. I want to check out this display. It should be more vibrant. No doubt about that. Oh, another thing I should mention at this point.

This is the 12.9 inch model. It got the new display, but the 11-inch model, which I've probably used more at this point- did not get the new display. So it's still the old technology old IPS technology, though based on some uh reports, I'm seeing with this blooming stuff. Maybe some people are going to opt for the old tech. I don't see any problems with it now.

The way to experience the effect some are complaining about is on a black background, with a bright some bright text or something that's how many are picking up on it, but you kind of need the right conditions to see it we'll get there in a moment all right. Let's do a purple iPhone real quick. Why don't we do the standard purple iPhone 12 since we're covering so much ground? Now, I'm going to keep this package nice and tidy for someone who might win this purple iPhone because I'm going to give this one away, oh wow, that that is a very it's hard. What is it like? A lavender thing going on it's a lighter purple as far as purples go, of course you have purple around the frame as well. This is a bit darker, the metallic portion, and then you have this pastel style purple over here.

I think I mean it's kind of a nice. Look to it. It's noteworthy because Apple wouldn't normally uh, take a moment at a different product launch and be like oh yeah. We got an iPhone in another color. I suppose they've done that sort of with the red stuff in the past, but just hey.

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I think it's about time in this extravaganza to make our way to the biggest unit baby, the new iMac, which is well it's uh, quite a departure from the old one. This is the newest item of the new items. I haven't used an iMac extensively in a while, but I'm very familiar with them. I've used them in the past. Furthermore, I used to repair them.

Furthermore, I used to upgrade them in previous businesses, so I do have a history with IMAX. This is the first time it's one size fits all. There used to be a big one and a small one. Maybe they'll do a pro version eventually, but for now it's 24 inches. You can see the thunderbolt ports as well as the type c ports.

Very simple I o over here there is an Ethernet port, but it is on the power brick portion of the power cable. That's right! There is a brick. It's no longer integrated another topic of conversation. I saw my pal Detroit Borg talking about that, how he would rather have an integrated power supply, but this thing is so crazy, slim, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. I don't need a knife, because we have the famous pull tab here.

We go you ready mo ooh. That is very satisfying. Now again, this is the blue model, but it comes in about a thousand colors. Oh, I don't know they're silver, there's orange, there's, yellow, there's so many colors. Actually, this is supposed to open up the other way.

Oh, that's the other item that many are mentioning the chin, the no logo chin. I mean people were surprised by they say: okay, why you got a chin. First, it's 2021 your apple and then, second of all, if you're going to have the chin where's the Apple logo, we're used to seeing it, I think in it with this device they kind of did the opposite of what they did with the remote on the remote they're like okay, let's make it fatter, we don't care, it can be fatter. It's fine! This one was like, let's compromise whatever necessary in order to make it as slim as possible. I should probably check the spec on this eight core CPU, eight core GPU, uh, AGB, unified memory and 512 storage.

I think that's the base model, you can spec it higher, or you can wait for the pro one, because they'll probably do that if you plan on video, editing or and whatnot all right, holy big box going on, oh cool, see the way that happened there. This is the closed position. I pull here, and it triggers the movement of those other pieces. Bang, bang. Oh man, it's like a giant iPad on a stick.

I think I said that on an episode of Lou later it actually that's exactly what it is. It's a giant iPad on a stick just I could just like a little briefcase. It's not that light, though it's tiny, but a lot of metallic components. Furthermore, it feels substantial all right also in the package. Ooh, look at the accessories in here.

Color match keyboard, typical apple styling, but now we have the fingerprint scanner, so white keys on a bluish aluminum bluish backing very slim charging over lightning. Once again, let me just crack into this right now. Why don't I kind of nice to have the touch I'd right on the keyboard, people on the desktop feeling left out, everybody unlocking their computers on the laptops, just with the fingerprint okay? Now we can do that there, that's a nice little touch, ooh, look at the stylish cables as well, just pop that out braided USB to lightning. I guess it's for this. It matches the whole motif.

Very nice same goes for the power cable. Now, as mentioned they had to put the power brick onto the outside. They weren't able to fit it into the actual construction in order to keep it super slim, but the benefit there. I don't even know, am I in the camera right now, I'm just talking. Am I anywhere my head's cut off right? Okay, I should probably just get this stuff off here this.

This look at this is like a mastery of product packaging, a little slot for everything, just folding paper in magical ways, lovely. I think I got everything out of that package now before I get to the main unit. I just want to cover all the accessories your apple stickers are in here. The cable that I mentioned. Am I supposed to just rip it? It's like a baby blue North Carolina, tar heels type, look to it.

The mouse is also I don't use. I don't ever use these, but certainly stylish the power cable. Okay. Let's talk a little more about the power cable power, brick. So, to make the device super slender, you got to put the power brick on the outside.

That's a hotly debated topic, but Apple did something interesting with this. They were able to integrate an Ethernet jack so that you can still have a wired internet connection which many people with a desktop want, and you can have it on the floor. So you have fewer cables going up to your unit, so that's kind of a nice little touch. They also created this magnetic connector. So if it was to get kicked uh, it would pop out presumably uh.

I don't know I'll give it a little test I'll give it a little run, see if that's how it works. That seems less important on a desktop compared to a laptop where we've seen MagSafe before. But who knows where people are going to set these up. It's a nice little thing to have in the event that that happens, and you don't have to watch your iMac slam to the ground. But yes, to get something that thin.

You got to have a power brick on the outside. It's uh, that's just the nature of the thing at the moment, there's also an extension cable included, so you can get a little further away from the wall. This is standardized, even though apple's is a little flashy standardized three pin connectors into here, so you get a little more room to work with. Okay, so here is the new iMac, as mentioned behold, the slenderness of it all its more unboxing discovery. Here we pull those tabs, and then we pull down, and then we pull up, and it all unfolds.

Wow, okay, there's a giant Apple logo on the back, so certainly we're missing it on the front, but we get it on the back. This is a is a peel. This is definitely this qualifies as appeal. Wow. That is strange in person.

Logo list front is a bit of a shock to the system. If you've ever looked at an iMac before there's, usually a giant logo there. I didn't expect it to be noticeable to me now. I'm actually not going to complain about I kind of like the minimal approach to it, but the chin does feel a little strange. It has.

The color has the baby blue, but then you have the remainder with this white bezel. It's kind of a funny look, but the takeaway for me is more around the physical characteristics, the dimensions than it is around any individual color. Just how I mean like. Let me just hold up. This is an iPad Pro, the new 12.9. If I hold that up, I mean you can see it ain't all that different.

It's not it's, probably two, two of these max, it's very slim for an entire desktop computer. It's slimmer than I think any monitor I own at the moment, and it's got a m1 in there. I don't know exactly what that was protecting, and then I got more plastic over here, and now we see the true blue coloring. That's a very nice blue! You know what I can get. I can get behind that blue.

That is a dark. It's a deep! It's a dark and a deep blue! Oh, and look at this another pull tab around the outside many poles all very nicely protected. Oh, that was close all right. So as far as ports, it's just four type c connectors. Two of them thunderbolt, would be nice to see a little of versatility.

I don't know maybe SD card slot, something like that, but anyway, simple approach, large power button over here. Let's check out this magnetic connector. Oh, that's it! How easily does it come out not that easily? So I do not think it's a kick factor at all. That's a strong magnet! It's definitely not a kick factor. Oh my goodness, gracious.

That is an it's a strong magnet. They did in there I'll tell you what there's a strong magnet they did in there. So it's just a convenience thing. I suppose, because of the way you have this small cable gap, novelty of magnetic connection points, they could have probably just done a bet, some sort of barrel connector, it would have been possible, but this is certainly more fun, especially when it's color matched oh, and they also reworked the front-facing camera they've uh. They claimed to have better video conferencing, which is an area that's kind of lagged previously, so people are doing a lot more of that.

You can see the microphone array up on the top over there as well, very deep blue, certainly all right. So I went and collected some older versions of these refresh products in order to do a quick comparison, see if I could spot the differences uh well, obviously, with the remote, it's pretty easy to spot the differences. Now this is the thing I had to do back in the olden days. Actually I still do this to this day. I put this super flimsy cheap case onto the Apple TV remote, so it's slightly less likely to get lost because in my house it's madness, there's many people in there they do what they want, and then I got to go hunt this thing down, and I got kind of got sick of that.

So I purchased this thing off Amazon, but it's not the most fun to hold on to, and it actually doesn't really fit the remote all that well, but this makes it fatter, so it can't slide between the cushions as much, and I think this one also glows in the dark, but it obviously removes the aesthetic of the thing now Apple went ahead and just made theirs fatter. So it's almost as fat as this one. In the case now- and I'm sure part of that has to do- I mean it's not the components taking up the space. I'm sure part of that has to do with people requesting such a thing, and maybe the battery life is a little better. But anyway, that's your I'm gonna.

Take this back out! That's your design difference! This thing was just crazy, slender, so taller fatter, maybe ever so slightly more slender, but a much bigger remote. Now. The more important comparison here is right in front of me. This is the new 12.9-inch m1 iPad Pro and the comparison the closest comparison I had been the previous generation 11 inches accessible to me at the moment. Uh.

This is the 11-inch iPad Pro previous gen, though they kept the same display technology into the current generation.11 inches that one did not get the mini led technology, so this is IPS versus a mini led and for all the mean it's not even a controversy for all the conversation around the blooming, uh aspect defect the thing that people don't like about the uh performance on the mini led or at least they've, been pointing out on a black background. It is a superior technology from a contrast perspective. I don't know if you can see it, but to my eyes this is more contrast. It almost feels like OLED. Now, the only potential for problem that occurs is when you launch into something that happens, to have a really dark area, pressed right up against a very bright area.

Now what happened on the old tech? Because you had fewer dimming zones? Are you would get a kind of garishness to the entire black background near a particular section? In this case, people were noticing a glow around individual areas, almost like a spotlight sort of glow effect. Now this is emphasized when you have the lights off, if you're like watching a movie or something you can see here, it's not really all that prevalent. Is it a little nitpick yeah to a certain extent, I understand these things are expensive. Everyone has a different take on how much that is going to impact or affect them. It's not OLED, but I can tell you just based on this brief comparison.

It looks a lot more like OLED from a contrast perspective, and even with that blooming aspect for my use, I still would probably prefer it over the old tech. The old IPS display, which is just lacking a little of vibrancy OLED, would be awesome, maybe uh, maybe next time around oh by the way I should mention. I don't know if I mentioned this. The keyboard case situation, another topic of conversation, because the magic keyboard for the iPad Pro apple said hey. It doesn't really work with the old version of the magic keyboard case for the previous generation 12.9. I happen to have the old version over here.

I don't know if they clarified later on, they say: well, it will work, but it's not exactly perfect. It's pretty close to perfect. Now I can't speak to whether or not it's a safe thing to do with your iPad. It doesn't quite click exactly as well. It's very tight tolerances and this thing got ever so slightly fatter, but look at it in the old keyboard case.

I mean it's in there. I don't know if people are going to feel compelled to buy a whole new keyboard case as well, when it's just slightly less precise on the fit, but I'll just show you the difference so that one it clicks down with a little less attitude with a little less clamp. This one is just ever so slightly tighter, it's very subtle, but anyways, it's worth noting if you're in the market. Also, this white one is kind of terrifying to me, I'm starting to realize that, as I slap it down on different surfaces, I can't imagine how this is going to stay this color, but funny enough. Even if you look at the old darker color, it's all kinds of wear marks and stuff.

I really wish apple would put little feet on the bottom of this keyboard case for durability purposes, but I presume they went for slimness at all costs. Okay. The last major piece of hardware here we have been the new iMac. This is truly a style piece. Some have called it a style icon.

That's what Kirk said. It's a super slim nice little desktop with a tremendous amount of horsepower. Considering how tiny it is. I mean it was the same thing we could say about the MacBook Air current generation MacBook Pro, even the current Mac mini anything with m1 in it. It's its just it's wild.

What they're able to pull out of it in these super slim form factors. I was thinking of mounting this up, mostly as a monitor. Just because I mean it's hard to even find a monitor, that's this slim, and then you start to look at the prices. I'm not going to lie. I didn't pay a lot of attention to this iMac.

Furthermore, I wasn't really in the market for it outside this channel and making this video, but when you start to compare it to other displays that are as pixel dense as this and have no computer and have no m1 inside you're, like oh, my goodness, you've got a lg product over a thousand dollars for a 5k display at 27 inches. Now this is not quite 5k, but it's very close to 5k, and it's in 24 inches. So we've gathered around we're looking at it like damn, that's some. That's a pretty dense display over there. It's pretty nice to look at I'll.

Tell you what it is compelling. Almost from the display standpoint alone. It is a very nice display, experience uh, it's still a tough purchase. I think for matter many individuals. I don't know everybody in here, for example, because cost wise you're looking at something close to any of those laptops, and then you're like well.

Wouldn't you, if you had the same amount of power? Wouldn't you want something? That's portable, but it turns out the conversation. The competition here is actually more around display. If you want a nice display to go with your m1. Well, that's how you get here, it's a little less portable, but it's still, I mean kind of portable. It's super! It's one cable into it.

Maybe some company's going to engineer a case and then Kirk can just like slap this in there and also be editing wherever he goes. I remember the old days at CES, where some people would actually pack these things up would find some sort of specialized bag for it because they wanted a bigger display to edit on once they got to the hotel room, so I'm sure some people can buy these uh. I say my main takeaway and this brief experience with it is uh being surprised by the caliber of the display 4480 by 2520. Furthermore, I would say my one uh I don't want to even I mean it's a criticism, but it's kind of a foregone thing like it's obvious. This is direct the direction things are going, but I just wish there was like one USB, a port just for some old peripherals' audio interfaces, all kinds of devices that still exist out there that utilize it because it's so clean to begin with that, if you start going with dongles and docks you kind of spoil the product, so just I don't know, maybe one USB-C, or even you've got the Ethernet jack down on the power.

Brick, maybe throw USB-C down there as well. I don't know its kind of too crazy all right anyway. The other thing here, that's kind of nice to have. I still don't know why it's no face unlock because you have the face unlock on the phone and the iPad and all the other products and windows has the face unlock with the windows. Hello, that'd be really cool for to have a couple components there face ID, login, wonderful stuff anyway, it's not there, but we have a fingerprint scanner, which is a bonus and an improvement for a desktop users feeling left out.

Well now we sleep it and wake it up and touch ID, and we're in its nice. I take it. It's a nice little bonus, we go to sleep, wake back up, touch ID or password touch ID is more convenient, and we're unlocked. So it's a nice little touch there you have it. It is a mega massive apple unboxing, video featuring the new, delicious iMac m1 iMac in blue available in a wide variety of colors.

If blue is not suitable for you, we have the new Apple TV that was featured as well with the new remote, which is somehow maybe the most exciting thing for me because of how irritating the old one was. So that's kind of nice, obviously there's also the new iPad m1 iPad, so much power in an iPad, no macOS over here, but man if you're into iOS. This is well or a tablet in general. This is going to get things done for you, that's for certain, and the display is an improvement, although any new technologies, not without its downsides. We have the white keyboard case as well, and then don't forget the purple iPhones, even the one that I unboxed here on this video.

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