What a crazy night. And it’s been fifteen years, fifteen events celebrating the best of international technology. Last night we were able to attend the Xataka NordVPN Price 2024 at the Capitol Cinema in Madrid, presented by Joaquín Reyes and our colleague Ángela Blanco. And we can say two things: that Apple is back in force and that Apple can still raise the bar for next year.
But let’s not anticipate events. Let’s just remember the seven awards won in 2022 and the 3+1 (three from the jury and one from the public) in 2023. In 2024, Apple was able to better position itself in categories where it was already starting to fall and maintain its position. is establishing itself where it knows best: in office systems, boosted by the power of its M3 and M4 chips. There is no rival that comes close.
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Apple wins best laptop award
A close category, full of equipment that strives to transform laptops into real control stations. But it was clear that Apple had done its homework with the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip, a brown beast capable of running triple A video games business as usual and move high workloads in audio, video and image.
We said it was a total team, a system that leaves its predecessors behind with unparalleled performance thanks to a unified architecture and design perfected year after year. Those from Cupertino had many guarantees to win gold in a team that also already has an unstoppable successor, the MacBook Pro M4.
Best tablet: an iPad, of course
The same can be said of the Apple iPad Pro: it’s not a tablet, it’s “a complete computer”, with a dizzying Ultra Retina XDR OLED display capable of reaching peak brightness of 1,600 nits . And of course, what do you do about it? Many manufacturers have opted for versatile two-in-one convertibles, and Microsoft continues to try to make the Surface family niche among executives and homes. But, today, iPad Pro is the all-in-one that “makes the impossible possible.”
In fact, its most limiting aspect is its operating system: it is so powerful (let’s not forget that it can mount up to 2 TB of storage and has a lot of speed and RAM) that we have want to install a macOS and activate it. , de facto, in the standard computer for many.
The best super high-end mobile phones
Last year, the iPhone 15 Pro Max failed to win gold. But money, many will say, means nothing, it is the first to lose. And among the 23 usual categories, we didn’t see Apple in the juiciest, most prosperous one. However, what many perceive as a sense of continuity does not actually work against them: It is difficult to perfect what is already almost perfect.
And the same thing happens with the best headphone section: the verdict given by the team of experts determines that the Nothing Ear are ahead of the Apple AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation. Many voices say that even AirPods Pro 2 They are a safe bet in 2024
Either way, we congratulate him Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra which takes the lead, while the Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max comes in second place. Its “more natural” treatment when mapping skin tones or even its zoom seem to have convinced the most exhaustive critics. Regardless, Apple still has an ace up its sleeve: an iPhone SE 4 that could blow up the mid-range.
And perhaps we feel a certain orphan in the face of a device as disruptive as the Apple Vision Pro: they deserve a reward for themselves, for pushing a nascent technology to a new point on the mixed reality path. But unfortunately they have not yet officially arrived in USA and their distribution has worked against them. We therefore close this review as we do every year. In Xataka you can view the full list of winners, which also includes community awards.
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