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Independent showcase

Five products. One obsession with the details most people will never notice, and always feel.

01The ultimate canvas

iPhone17 ProMax

A grade 5 titanium chassis wrapped around the brightest display Apple has ever shipped. Turn it in the light and watch the polish break across the rails in one unbroken line, the kind of detail that only survives when the tolerance is measured in microns.

Titanium railBead-blasted, then polished
Fusion camera48MP, 5x tetraprism
Ceramic ShieldFront and back
01Machined, not moulded

2000nits

Peak outdoor brightness

The frame starts as a solid billet and leaves the mill as a shell. Every antenna break, every button seat and every speaker perforation is cut rather than cast, so the seams land exactly where the eye expects them, and nowhere else.

01Specification
Chip
A19 Pro
CPU
6 cores
GPU
6 cores, ray tracing
Neural Engine
16 cores
Chassis
Grade 5 titanium
Display
6.9" Super Retina XDR
Refresh
Adaptive 1–120 Hz
Camera
48MP Fusion triple
Video
4K120 Dolby Vision
Weight
221 g
02Unrivalled power

MacBookPro

Open it. The hinge holds anywhere across its arc, the display wakes before the lid finishes moving, and the whole machine stays silent doing it. On battery, it performs exactly as it does plugged in, a claim almost nothing else in the category can make.

Liquid Retina XDR1600 nits peak HDR
Unibody deckMachined from one piece
Six-speaker arrayForce-cancelling woofers
02Silent under load

22hours

Battery, at full performance

The thermal system is sized for the work, not for the benchmark. A full export runs at the same clock in the fortieth minute as in the first, while the fans stay below the noise floor of a quiet room.

02Specification
Chip
M5 Pro
CPU
12 cores
GPU
18 cores
Memory
24 GB unified
Display
14.2" Liquid Retina XDR
Refresh
ProMotion up to 120 Hz
Battery
22 hours
Ports
3x TB5, HDMI, SDXC
Thickness
15.5 mm
Weight
1.55 kg
03Sound, redefined

AirPodsMax

Forty millimetres of dynamic driver, a canopy of knitted mesh, and a frame of anodised aluminium. Nothing here hides behind a cover. The mesh is the structure, the aluminium is the finish, and the engineering is the design.

Knitted canopyDistributes headband load
Telescoping armStainless steel, notched
Memory foam cushionAcoustically sealed
03The mesh is structural

20hours

With cancellation and spatial on

The canopy spreads the weight of the headband across the top of the head instead of concentrating it on one line. It is a textile doing a mechanical job, so it can stay this thin and still hold its shape after a year of daily use.

03Specification
Driver
40 mm dynamic
Motor
Dual ring magnet
Chip
H2, one per cup
Microphones
9 total, 6 outward facing
Cancellation
Active, with Transparency
Audio
Spatial with head tracking
Frame
Anodised aluminium
Canopy
Knitted mesh
Battery
20 hours
Weight
384 g
04The next icon

MacBookNeo

The thinnest enclosure ever machined from a single billet. Nothing was added to make it look light. Everything unnecessary was removed until it was, leaving no fan, no vent, no moving part anywhere in the machine.

Single billetRecycled aluminium
FanlessThe shell is the heatsink
Thunderbolt 5120 Gb/s, either side
04Nothing left to remove

988grams

Lighter than the display it replaces

Removing the fan removed the vents, the ducting and the dust path with it. What remains is a sealed aluminium shell that is also the heatsink, thin enough to disappear and still run at full clock in a warm room.

04Specification
Weight
988 g
Thickness
9.1 mm
Enclosure
Single billet aluminium
Cooling
Passive, fanless
Display
13.6" Liquid Retina
Refresh
Up to 120 Hz
Ports
2x Thunderbolt 5
Charging
Either side, 70 W
Battery
18 hours
Keyboard
Full-height, backlit
05Pure silence

AirPodsPro

Open the case and the world goes quiet. Adaptive Audio reads the room a hundred times a second and decides what you should still hear. A siren stays, a train does not, and you never touch a control to make that happen.

H3 chipOne per earbud
Vent systemEqualises pressure
Skin-detect sensorOptical, not capacitive
05It decides what stays

96,000samples/s

Computational audio rate

Cancellation used to be a switch. Here it is a judgement made continuously. The sound of a room is sampled, classified and reduced selectively, so a conversation beside you survives while the extractor fan above you disappears.

05Specification
Chip
H3
Processing
96,000 samples/s
Cancellation
2x the previous generation
Modes
Adaptive, Transparency, Off
Conversation
Automatic detection
Fit
Four tip sizes, from XS
Tips
Memory-foam infused
Battery
8 hours, 30 with the case
Case
USB-C, MagSafe, speaker
Rating
IP54, dust and water