How to choose new products for Apple’s September autumn conference?

       Apple has just held its 2020 fall new product launch online. The absence of the new iPhone is a bit regrettable, but the launch conference was full of useful information, including the release of two watches, Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE, as well as the colorful iPad Air and the eighth-generation iPad equipped with Apple's latest A14 chip, a total of four new hardware products.

　　So how do you choose from so many new products? Let’s talk about it in this article.

　　Apple Watch 6: Keeping you healthy

　　Apple Watch 6 is one of the products released today, and it has many highlights. The most obvious one is that Apple continues to implement the fitness and health functions of the watch. In the past, there have been many stories of users discovering fatal diseases in time because of the heart rate detection alarm of Apple Watch.

A blood oxygen monitoring device has been added to the back of the watch, and the software has added a parameter to the Apple Health system.

　　This time, Apple has taken health to the extreme and added a blood oxygen concentration detection function to the Apple Watch 6.

　　Apple Watch 6 also adds a new sensor on the back that emits infrared and red light through the skin and measures blood oxygen levels by analyzing the reflected light, up to once every 15 seconds.

Cook introduces Apple Watch's health features

　　Apple Watch 6 adds the ability to measure maximum oxygen uptake, and users will receive a notification when it drops to a low value range.

　　Sports and fitness are relatively core functions of Apple Watch. This time, Apple Watch 6 has added Apple Fitness+ service for users who love fitness, saving the money of going to the gym to find a personal trainer.

　　After turning on the service, users can see various body indicators on the watch face and send the data to the TV screen. Even when on a business trip, users don't have to worry about interrupting their fitness plans and can learn with Apple's online private trainer anytime, anywhere.

　　There are more ways to enjoy fitness and it is more interactive. Sharing joy with others is worse than enjoying it alone, and it can also motivate you to exercise better.

Apple Watch Series 6 uses a more powerful processor

　　In terms of hardware configuration, the Apple Watch 6 has been upgraded with a new processor S6, which is built based on the A13 chip, which is the main processor on the iPhone 11. Its performance has been improved by 20% compared to the previous generation.

New watch faces arrive

　　In terms of appearance, Apple Watch 6 has added blue, red and jet black, and Apple claims that this is the most colorful Apple Watch product line ever. The dial is also a major focus of this upgrade. Apple Watch 6 not only provides a rich selection of dials, but also supports emoji expression dials and various artistic dials.

　　Overall, the upgrade of Apple Watch 6 is not very big, and some core functions have not changed significantly compared with the 4th and 5th generation watches. If you are a heavy fitness user or care about your health, then you can consider upgrading. Otherwise, you should keep your wallet and wait for the next major update.

　　Apple Watch SE is more suitable for early adopters

　　In addition to the Apple Watch Series 6, Apple also launched the "small cup" product in the Apple Watch series for the first time - Apple Watch SE. It can be regarded as a cheaper version of the Apple Watch, with a starting price of 2,199 yuan, and it is expected to be a big seller.

Apple Watch SE is here

　　It continues the appearance design of the Apple Watch 5 series. As a replacement for the Apple Watch Series 3, the Apple Watch SE uses the S5 chip, which is twice as fast as the Watch 3 series. There will also be a cellular network version.

　　Overall, Apple Watch SE still has functions such as heart rate, exercise, and fall detection. It just has fewer sensor functions, no ECG electrocardiogram, blood oxygen saturation and other functions, and the chip is not as high-end.

　　However, considering the starting price of 2199 yuan, Apple Watch SE is still a very attractive product. If you don’t have an Apple Watch, it’s a good idea to buy an Apple Watch SE to try it out.

　　Students can also enjoy performance - the eighth generation iPad

　　Another main character of this conference, Apple is targeting iPad. Looking at the current iPad product line, there are the flagship iPad Pro, the mid-to-high-end iPad Air, the mid-range iPad, and the small-size iPad mini. This autumn conference mainly updates the iPad and iPad Air.

The eighth-generation iPad is more suitable for students

　　The iPad released this time is already the eighth generation. Unfortunately, it still looks the same as we are familiar with, with wide borders and a Home button integrated with Touch ID. The eighth generation iPad is not upgraded in appearance but in interior. The performance has been upgraded to the A12 Bionic chip, which is the same as the 2018 iPad Pro, so there is no need to worry about performance. In addition, the combination of the supported full-size keyboard and the third-party full-size keyboard + Apple Pencil also makes this iPad a powerful productivity tool.

8th Generation iPad

　　The eighth-generation iPad is more suitable for students. The 10.2-inch split screen allows you to get twice the result with half the effort. The most important thing is that the price starts at only 2,499 yuan, which is not expensive for students but opens another door to innovation for you.

　　The new favorite of professionals - the new iPad Air

　　The update of iPad Air is beyond your imagination. The new iPad Air finally no longer uses a non-full-screen design, but a design closer to the iPad Pro. The equilateral rounded corners make the visual impact stronger. It uses the same screen as the iPad Pro, but lacks a high refresh rate. Face ID is replaced by the side Touch ID + lock screen button, so that you can quickly unlock the iPad Air even if you are wearing a mask.

New iPad Air

　　Of course, the new iPad Air is even better in performance. This is also the first time that Apple has used the latest processor in the iPad before launching the iPhone. The new iPad Pro uses the A14 bionic chip, which is also the world's first chip using a 5-nanometer process. It has a 6-core CPU, a 4-core GPU, and its transistors are measured in atoms, with 11.8 billion transistors. The iPad Air equipped with A14 has a 40% increase in CPU speed compared to the previous iPad Air; the graphics performance is twice that of similar Windows notebooks, and it can perform 11 trillion operations per second; the neural engine increases machine learning performance by 2 times.

New iPad Air

　　In other words, the performance of the new iPad Air should be the highest among all current iPads, even surpassing the existing iPad Pro. Apple has given the new iPad Air better gaming and processing performance. Of course, the second-generation Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard supported by the new iPad Air also take its office capabilities to a higher level.

　　Finally, the new iPad Air has 5 more colors, especially green and sky blue may become popular colors in the future. Of course, the weight of the new iPad Air is no longer light and thin, and the weight of 495 grams is also close to that of iPad Pro.

　　The new iPad Air is suitable for more advanced users, such as painters, mobile office workers, or students who use it to play games. The starting price of 4,799 yuan is nearly 2,000 yuan lower than the iPad Pro, and of course the performance is not worse than the latter, or even higher. Why not?