Report from the presentation of Apple on October 23
Today, October 23 was the presentation of Apple.
Many sources suggested that the company will introduce the updated iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro Retina and the updated The New iPad. And, it was believed that the main bet of the presentation would be the iPad Mini. Nevertheless, the sources were mistaken with one point, but let's go through the points.
From the very beginning, the company traditionally began to show off its achievements for the year.
“Currently, iOS 6 runs on 200 million devices.”
“125 million documents are stored in iCloud, and 3 million iPods are sold.”
“Users have already sent 300 billion iMessage messages. 28 thousand messages are sent per second. ”
“ 160 million accounts are registered in the Game Center. More than 70 million photos in common Photo Streams ”
And downloaded 35 billion applications
Developers paid 6.5 billion dollars.
Macbook Pro Retina
“Six years ahead of the PC market in terms of growth.” - Tim Cook
Phil Schiller went on stage: “Today is a big day for the Mac.”
“Our best-selling laptop is the 13-inch MacBook Pro.”
We want to introduce our new Macbook Pro 13. "
It is 20% thinner
The weight of the new 13 "MacBook Pro is 1.6 kg. There is no DVD drive, but there is a Retina Display.
The screen resolution in the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro is 2560x1600 pixels. Significantly more than Full HD.
Retina- the display in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is IPS-enabled. All programs are already optimized
"There has never been a small laptop for photographers. Now it is ".
Seven-hour asymmetric battery in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display costs $ 1,699 for a model with 128 GB SSD. Sales begin today.
The slogan of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro: "For professionals within us."
Mac mini
Now switch to Mac Mini
“This is our smallest Mac”
Mac Mini: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor, 4 GB of RAM, 500 GB HDD. The price is 600 dollars.
Nothing more is said. Go to iMac
iMac
Here it is - the updated iMac and surprisingly thin.
The iMac no longer has a DVD drive. “This is the prettiest Mac we've ever made.”
The thickness of the new iMac at the edges is 5 mm. The
resolution of the new iMac 21.5 inches is Full HD, and the iMac 27 is 2560x1440.
The display reflections of the new iMac are reduced by 75%. Dual microphones and stereo sound
The new iMac has up to 32 GB of RAM, up to three terabytes of HDD and the Fusion Drive option - shared use of SSD and HDD.
Fusion Drive on iMac: system core - SDD, documents - HDD. The system distributes everything itself without your participation.
Price of the new iMac: 1299 dollars for 21.5 inches. Sales begin in November.
The new 27-inch iMac costs $ 1,799 for the minimum package and goes on sale in December
Tim Cook: “Now I want to talk about the iPad”
iPad
We were talking about the biggest expectation of the evening.
“The 100 millionth iPad was sold two weeks ago.”
Talks about the iPad in schools
“80% of schools in the US use the books and textbooks of the iBooks Author.”
Show the new version of iBooks Author. New templates, new fonts, multi-touch widgets, mathematical formulas
94% of Fortune 500 companies use the iPad The
new iBooks Author is released today.
Phil Schiller returns to the scene and suddenly ... “We want to talk with you about the 4th generation iPad.” No, it's not the Mac Mini.
The “new generation iPad” has an A6X processor chip - twice as fast as the A5X
Lightning appeared in the new generation iPad -connector and accelerated Wi-Fi.
The iPad 4 generation externally repeats the iPad 3, but has much improved internals. Prices are the same
Apple said very little about the new iPad, and began to show the iPad Mini.
With the name guessed. This is an iPad Mini.
Phil Schiller is holding the new iPad mini. "The thickness is 7.2 mm." A quarter thinner than a regular iPad and twice as light. It is thin as a pencil.
The rear panels correspond to the front ones.
The screen size in iPad mini is 7.9 inches. Resolution iPad mini - 1024x768, exactly the same as on the iPad 2. The processor, by the way, too. A5.
Apple compares iPad mini with Nexus 7
“iPad mini is lighter, has a larger display. He has all the applications - extended versions of programs for smartphones. ”
iPad mini runs on the A5 processor, has a front HD camera and a rear 5MP camera, and also supports LTE.
Hours - 10 hours
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Announced a new Smart Cover for iPad mini without metal parts
“Small Smart Cover are available in 5 colors”
Price for iPad mini: $ 329 for 16 gigabytes without 3G and $ 459 for a model with 3G / LTE
iPad mini comes out on sale November 2 in a huge number of countries. Russia is absent.
Tim Cook returned to the scene. “At the beginning of the year, we said that we would show a lot of innovation. We kept our promise. "
The presentation is over, and in the meantime, the Apple site is updated.
Apple added a few videos about the iPad Mini to their YouTube channel.