Friday November 4, 2022 12:10 p.m. PDT by

Apple successful October introduced an updated mentation of the Apple TV 4K, which is disposable arsenic of today. We picked 1 up to instrumentality a look astatine the caller features and to find whether it's worthy the upgrade for MacRumors readers who already person an ‌Apple TV‌ 4K.

The third-generation ‌Apple TV‌ 4K looks a batch similar the second-generation model, but it is simply a spot thinner and lighter. It's not truthful bladed that you're going to announcement a large difference, but if they're side-by-side, you tin tell.

As for diagnostic set, there's a overmuch faster A15 spot that offers up to a 50 percent betterment successful CPU show and up to a 30 percent betterment successful GPU show compared to the A12 spot successful the anterior model. Whether you'll beryllium capable to announcement that velocity quality depends connected what you bash connected your ‌Apple TV‌.

If you play graphics intensive games, you whitethorn spot a bully woody of improvement, but it should velocity up animations, app load times, and much crossed the tvOS operating system. The updated models besides see 4GB RAM alternatively of 3GB, and basal retention starts astatine 64GB with a 128GB enactment disposable arsenic an upgrade.

Apple has besides added HDR10+ support, which joins HDR10 and Dolby Vision. So if you person a TV that supports HDR10+, you whitethorn privation to upgrade. As for the Siri Remote, it's the same, but it does complaint implicit USB-C alternatively of Lightning now.

So is it worthy upgrading? It depends. If you conscionable usage your ‌Apple TV‌ 4K for watching shows and the show is fine, it's astir apt not worthy shelling retired other money. If you tin instrumentality vantage of the features similar HDR10+ oregon the velocity improvements, it's a bully upgrade. If you person an older exemplary similar the ‌Apple TV‌ HD, it's decidedly worthy checking retired the caller model.

There are 2 variants, and pricing is little than it has been successful caller years. Apple is charging $129 for the 64GB version, and $149 for the 128GB model, which besides comes with Thread and a built-in Ethernet port. If you request Ethernet, you should wage the other $20, and you should besides spell up and get the amended exemplary if you person a astute location setup for the Thread integration.

What bash you deliberation of the ‌Apple TV‌ 4K? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

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