Gezixuan News on November 19, technology media MacRumors released a blog post yesterday (November 18), reporting that in the latest research report released by Jeff Pu, an analyst at Haitong International Securities Group, it is believed that Apple's "iPhone 17 Air / Slim" is about 6 mm thick.

If this data is true, the iPhone 17 Air will be the thinnest iPhone ever, and it will be thinner than the current record of 6.9mm held by the iPhone 6.

According to the news, the thickness of the iPhone 17 Air is about 6 mm, which is significantly thinner than the 8.25 mm of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro series.

iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max: 8.25mm

iPhone 16 and 16 Plus: 7.8mm

iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max: 8.25mm

iPhone 15 and 15 Plus: 7.8mm

iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max: 7.85mm

iPhone 14 and 14 Plus: 7.8mm

iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max: 7.65mm

iPhone 13 and 13 mini: 7.65mm

iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max: 7.4mm

iPhone 12 and 12 mini: 7.4mm

iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max: 8.1mm

iPhone 11: 8.3 mm

iPhone XS and XS Max: 7.7mm

iPhone XR: 8.3 mm

iPhone X: 7.7 mm

iPhone 8 Plus: 7.5 mm

iPhone 8: 7.3 mm

iPhone 7 Plus: 7.3 mm

iPhone 7: 7.1 mm

iPhone 6s Plus: 7.3 mm

iPhone 6s: 7.1 mm

iPhone 6 Plus: 7.1 mm

iPhone 6: 6.9 mm

iPhone 17 Air (exposed): 6mm

Even though the iPhone 17 Air may be the thinnest iPhone, it still can't surpass Apple's thinness record for the rest of the products, such as the 5.1mm of the 2024 13-inch iPad Pro.

At the moment, there are still some different rumors about the design and specifications of the iPhone 17 Air. Most sources agree that this device will come with a display of around 6.6 inches.

Jeff Pu also mentioned that the iPhone 17 Air is expected to feature an aluminum frame, Face ID, a single rear 48-megapixel camera, a 24-megapixel front camera, and 8GB of RAM, and Apple is expected to officially release the iPhone 17 Air in September 2025.

Gezixuan reported on November 15 that Ross Young found that Apple's newly launched 2024 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot display technology.

He said Apple uses a quantum dot film in the display of the new MacBook Pro instead of the red KSF phosphor film, resulting in a more vivid and accurate display.

It is claimed that Apple has been using KSF because it does not contain the toxic element "cadmium", and it is more efficient and less costly.

In fact, back in 2015, when Apple launched the first-generation Retina MacBook Pro model, there were Apple executives who said that quantum dot technology was considered at the time, but it was rejected because of cadmium.

With suppliers developing cadmium-free quantum dot display technology that also brings the same or even higher color gamut and better dynamic display than KSF, it's no surprise that Apple is turning to quantum dot display technology.

However, Gezixuan noticed that Apple's official website did not highlight the improvement brought by the M4 MacBook Pro in terms of color, but the maximum SDR brightness was indeed increased to 1000 nits (the previous model was 600 nits).

Gezixuan reported on November 10 that, according to 404 Media, earlier this week, the police found a strange phenomenon in the seized iPhone devices - these devices would restart themselves without operation. At that time, the cause of the incident was not clear. However, experts are now beginning to unravel the mystery.

Gezixuan noticed that the unexpected restart of these iPhones was not a bug, but a new feature. Dr. Jiska Classen of the Hasso Plattner Institute said Apple has added an "inactive restart" feature to iOS 18.1. Classen posted a screenshot of the code on social media to further confirm this.

In addition, Christopher Vance, an expert from Magnet Forensics, revealed in a private chat group of law enforcement and forensics experts that they found a code that triggered the inactive timer, explaining: "When the timer goes to zero, the device restarts and the status changes from AFU (Authorized File Access) to BFU (Unauthorized File Access). ”

This feature is designed to prevent thieves from easily accessing user data on locked devices. But for now, it seems that this feature has also caused some inconvenience to law enforcement.

Gezixuan News on November 11, the source sources Jukanlosreve and yeux1122 revealed that Apple and Samsung's ultra-thin and high-density battery projects have failed, and the two companies have previously tried to take the lead in using relevant batteries in their iPhone 17 Air / Galaxy S25 Slim mobile phones, but due to the failure of the project, the iPhone 17 Air / The Galaxy S25 Slim is facing a "thickening" situation.

In the case of the iPhone 17 Air, Apple will now apparently use the same battery technology as existing phones, with sources revealing that the iPhone 17 Air will be more than 6mm thick after Apple's ultra-thin high-density battery development fails, and for comparison, Gezixuan learned that Apple's iPhone 16 is 7.8mm thick.

As for the Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim, the exact thickness of this model is currently unknown, but it is likely to have a similar thickness to Apple's competitors.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor is on the market today, and pre-sale is now open, the processor uses Zen 5 architecture, has 96 MB L3 cache, and is priced at 3799 yuan.

According to reports, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor is based on the "Zen 5" architecture and uses the second-generation AMD 3D V-Cache technology for the first time.
Officially, combined with the "Zen 5" processor architecture, AMD 3D V-Cache technology can achieve an increase in the average frame rate of games by up to 8% compared with the previous generation of X3D products, and an increase of more than 10% in some games.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor has 8 "Zen 5" processor cores / 16 processing threads. The processor's base clock frequency of 4.7 GHz is combined with a maximum boost clock frequency of 5.2 GHz.
The attached parameters of 各自选 are as follows:

October 29 that Apple's 2024 Mac mini was officially released, with a small volume of only 12.7 cm square, equipped with M4 / M4 Pro chip, memory starting at 16GB, up to 64GB, which will be available for pre-order from October 31 and officially on sale from November 8.

Mac mini with M4 starts at $4,499 and Education starts at $3,749.

Mac mini with M4 Pro starts at $10,999 and Education starts at $10,249.

The new Mac mini with the M4 chip delivers up to 1.8x faster CPUs and up to 2.2x faster GPUs than M1 models.

Apple says the Mac mini is 1/20th the size and up to 6x faster than best-selling PC desktop computers in the same price range.

Compared to the Intel Core i7 Mac mini, the M4 Mac mini:

Up to 2.8x more audio plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Play World of Warcraft: Battle for the Center of the Depths with up to 13.3x faster performance.

Up to 33x faster upscaling performance with Photomator's image optimization upscaling.

Compared to Mac mini with M1, Mac mini with M4:

Run tabular calculations up to 1.7x faster with Microsoft Excel.

Flatten holograms up to 4.9x faster with Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Apple says that "M4 Pro is the world's fastest and lightning-fast single-threaded performance", with up to 14 cores integrated, including 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, while the graphics processor integrates up to 20 cores, which can deliver up to 2x the performance of the M4 graphics processor.

According to reports, the two chips are also the first time to introduce hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology to Mac mini devices. The built-in Neural Engine on the M4 Pro chip is also more than 3x faster than the M1-powered Mac. Of course, both devices also support Apple Intelligence, but the English version is currently only available in the United States for macOS Sequoia 15.1 users.

In addition, the M4 Pro chip supports up to 64GB of unified memory with a memory bandwidth of 273GB/s, which is equivalent to twice the bandwidth of any AI PC chip, effectively speeding up the processing of AI tasks.

Elsewhere, the M4 Pro chip also supports Thunderbolt 5 ports, so the new Mac mini can transfer data at speeds of up to 120 Gb/s, which is more than twice the throughput of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

Compared to a Mac mini with an i7 chip, a Mac mini with an M4 Pro chip:

Use Microsoft Excel to run spreadsheet calculations up to 4x faster.

Run scene edit detection up to 9.4x faster in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Up to 26x faster base recognition when using Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW for gene sequencing.

Compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, Mac mini with M4 Pro:

Up to 1.8x more sound plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Use Motion to render motion graphics in RAM up to 2x faster.

Render 3D models up to 2.9x faster with Blender.

In terms of connectivity, the new Mac mini offers two USB-C ports with USB 3 support and a 3.5mm audio jack with high-impedance headphones on the front. On the back, there are three Thunderbolt ports, including Thunderbolt 4 for Mac mini with M4 chip and Thunderbolt 5 port for Mac mini with M4 Pro chip.

IT Home noticed that both models of Mac mini are equipped with Gigabit Ethernet ports as standard, and up to 10Gb Ethernet ports can be selected; There's also 1 HDMI port, no adapter required, and direct connection to a TV or HDMI display.

According to reports, Mac mini with M4 chip can drive up to 2 6K displays and 1 5K display at the same time; The M4 Pro model can drive up to three 6K displays simultaneously at a 60Hz refresh rate, outputting a total of more than 60 million pixels.

According to Apple, the new Mac mini also reached an important environmental milestone, becoming Apple's first carbon-neutral Mac device, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from production, transportation and user use by more than 80%.

Apple has launched the M4 Max chip, which is designed for data scientists, 3D artists, composers and other professionals who often face extremely heavy tasks. It is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

This chip is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores, including up to 12 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores; the graphics processor has up to 40 cores.



各自选 quoted Apple's official press release and attached the relevant data as follows:

CPU performance is up to 2.2 times faster than the central processing unit of the M1 Max chip, and up to 2.5 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

GPU speed is up to 1.9 times faster than the M1 Max chip, and up to 4 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

M4 Max chip supports up to 128GB high-speed unified memory and up to 546GB/s memory bandwidth, which is 4 times the memory bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip

M4 Max chip enhanced media processing engine includes 2 video encoding engines and 2 ProRes accelerators, making it the best choice for professional video creators.

Like the M4 Pro chip, the M4 Max chip supports Thunderbolt 5, with data transmission speeds of up to 120Gb/s.



The AI ​​PC chip mentioned above refers to the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V tested on the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo A2VMG-014US using specific industry standard benchmarks.

At the new product launch conference this afternoon, the OnePlus 13 mobile phone was officially released, with a starting price of 4,499 yuan.

The OnePlus 13 phone will be officially available for sale tomorrow (November 1) at 10 am

12GB + 256GB is priced at 4,499 yuan
12GB + 512GB is priced at 4,899 yuan
16GB + 512GB is priced at 5,299 yuan
24GB + 1TB is priced at 5,999 yuan

OnePlus 13 is available in Silk Glass (White Dew Morning Dawn), BabySkin skin-friendly velvet leather (Blue Moment), and Ebony Grain Glass (Obsidian Secret Realm) colors. The glass version is 8.5mm/213g, and the plain leather version is 8.8mm/210g, supporting IP68/69 protection.

OnePlus 13 is the first to launch the second-generation 2K Oriental screen, equipped with a 6.82-inch 2K BOE X2 highest customized equal-depth four-micro-arc straight screen, supporting 120Hz 8T LTPO display, and "Android's only "Sun Display" technology".

In addition, the OnePlus 13 phone will also be equipped with "Crystal Shield Super Ceramic Glass", and the official claims that "drop resistance is improved by 500% and impact resistance is improved by 70%."
In terms of imaging, the OnePlus 13 is equipped with Hasselblad's ultra-light flagship triple camera:

50 million super flagship main camera, Sony LYT-808 flagship sensor

New generation 50 million LYT-600 periscope telephoto, 50 million multi-prism reflection periscope structure

50 million flagship ultra-wide angle, Samsung S5KJN5, 120° wide field of view

"The only one in the same class" high-precision sensor, 13-channel multi-spectral sensor

New support for the same "shadowless capture" as the Find X8 series

OnePlus 13 is equipped with Super Signal Engineering 2.0, supports 400-meter ultra-long-distance smart Bluetooth, and also uses a new 360° surround antenna.

In terms of other configurations, OnePlus 13 supports multi-function infrared remote control, full-area multi-function NFC, USB 3.2 Gen1, 0916 Turbo motor, single-point ultrasonic fingerprint, 4-microphone call AI noise reduction, ultra-linear stereo dual speakers, and three-stage switch.

OnePlus 13 mobile phone and OPPO Find X8 launched ColorOS 15 together, supporting one-touch transfer with iPhone.

OnePlus 13 has three magnetic cases, namely Polar Wood, Geometric Aramid Fiber, and Classic Sandstone:

Polar Wood Magnetic Case (199 yuan): Two colors, Polar Night Black and Polar Day Brown, original wood texture, half-wrapped design, thin as 1.5mm, built-in N52 thinnest strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging.

Geometric Magnetic Case (199 yuan): Woven Night Blue color, aramid fiber full-wrapped design, built-in hidden N48 strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging, high-strength material.

Sandstone Magnetic Case (99 yuan): Full-wrapped design, built-in strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging.