Mac in Education
Mac has been empowering the world’s leading engineers, artists, scientists, designers and musicians for decades. And it’s been doing the same for students too. Now, powered by the Apple M1 chip along with macOS Big Sur, Mac brings higher level performance graphics and processors, silent fanless design, advanced storage and memory, and a breathtaking Retina display designed to give teachers and students the power to create amazing things.
Performance
M1 brings incredible performance, custom technologies and industry-leading power efficiency to the Mac. It features an 8-core CPU for leaps in processor performance, up to an 8-core GPU for stunning graphics performance and a 16-core Neural Engine for powerful machine learning (ML) performance. And all that power is encased in an incredibly thin and light design, so students and teachers can get work done almost anywhere.
Speed and Responsiveness
macOS Big Sur is engineered, down to its core, to take full advantage of all the capability and power of M1. Waking from sleep happens in an instant, launching apps is lightning fast and the whole system is snappy and smooth, giving students and teachers instant access to their work — no waiting required
Battery
Mac puts unprecedented performance into an impossibly thin design, yet it still provides all-day battery life up to 18 hours — the longest battery life ever. So teachers and students are free to keep building, designing, developing or composing, without being tethered to the closest outlet.
macOS
macOS Bug Sur is the most advanced desktop operating system for Mac. It’s designed alongside the hardware so everything works together seamlessly. Every Mac comes with Keynote, Pages and Numbers, which are compatible with Microsoft Office formats.
Creative Apps from Apple
iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iBooks Author – for movies, music, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and Multi-Touch books are all free with every new Mac.
Create Interactive Books
Easily create a Multi-Touch book for iPad or Mac – complete with rich graphics, movies, photo galleries, Keynote animations, 3D objects and more with the free iBooks Author app.
Coding with Xcode
Coding unlocks creativity, develops problem-solving skills and prepares students for future careers. Swift is a powerful programming language created by Apple developers to make writing code simple and intuitive, so it’s a perfect first language for teaching real-world programming. Xcode 7 has everything students and teachers need to start building their own incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Accessibility Features
Powerful assistive features are built into Mac to complement vision, hearing, motor skills, learning and literacy to create opportunities for all learners. Conveniently stored together under Accessibility in System Preferences, here are just three of them.
Switch Control
Another macOS feature for those with physical or motor skill limitations. It gives the ability to navigate the screen using “scanning”, using a variety of adaptive devices like switches, joysticks or even a keyboard space bar.
VoiceOver
VoiceOver offers support for more than 30 languages and quite simply will tell you exactly what is happening on the screen of your Mac or iPad, when you can’t see it. Giving auditory descriptions and helpful hints, the speaking rate and pitch can be adjusted to your preference.
Get In touch
For more information about Apple Deployment in Education and our transformational Services, please get in touch with our Education team. A memeber of our team will come back to you as soon as possible.
