Today’s iPad Mini event was incredible. Tim Cook and the gang just unleashed a tsunami of new Apple products on the world for the second straight month. Yes, the iPad Mini made an appearance, but there was so much more sweet stuff that it’s hard to keep up with all the details.
Rather than getting lost in the flood of thousands of different posts that will be written about the Apple event today, we’ve broken down all the necessary info into delicious bite-size information nuggets just for you, so you can know all the essentials.
Here’s everything that Apple announced at today’s keynote:
iPad Mini
- 7.9-inch screen with 1024-by-768 resolution
- New aluminum glass enclosure
- 23% thinner than 4th gen iPad at 7.2mm thin
- 0.68 lbs (half the weight of the 4th gen iPad)
- Dual-core A5 chip
- FaceTime HD camera
- 5MP iSight camera on the back
- LTE wireless with 802.11a/b/g/n dual-band WiFi
- Lightning connector
- 10-hour battery life
- Comes in black and white models
- 16GB Wifi starts at $329
- Pre-orders start October 26th
- Wifi models available in stores Nov. 2nd. Wifi+4G available mid-November
iPad (fourth generation)
- A6X processor doubles CPU and graphics performance
- 10 hours of battery life
- FaceTime camera is 720p
- Retina display
- Lightning connector supported, and 802.11a/b/g/n dual-band WiFi and LTE
- Black and white models available
- 16GB Wifi starts at $499
- Preorders start October 26th
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
- 20% thinner than previous model at 0.75 inches thick
- 3.5lbs. Lightest MacBook Pro ever
- No optical drive, 2 Thunderbolt ports, MagSafe 2, SD Card slot, HDMI out and 2 USBs
- Retina display is 13.3 inch on the diagonal and a 2560 x 1600 resolution
- Up to 768GB of flash storage, 8GB of RAM, Intel HD 4000 graphics, and Bluetooth 4.0
- 7 Hour battery life
- Starting price is $1699
- Ships today
New iMacs
- 5mm thin at the edge
- 45% thinner display is laminated to the glass with 75% less reflection
- 27-inch and 21.5 inch models available
- FaceTime HD camera, Dual microphones, and stereo speakers
- Up to 768GB flash storage, 32GB of RAM, Core i5 or i7 processor and NVIDIA graphics
- Four USB 3.0, three Thunderbolt ports
- Fusion Drive combines 128GB Flash storage and either 1 or 3TB HDD
- 21.5-inch iMac starts at $1299, 27-inch iMac $1799
- 21.5-inch available in November, 27-inch iMac available in December
Mac mini
- New base of 2.5 GHz quad-core i7 processor
- 4GB of RAM
- Dual 1TB HDDs
- Starts at $599
- Available today
iBooks
- New continuous reading option
- More iCloud integration saves the spot you were reading
- Sharing features available for Facebook and Twitter
- 40 new languages supported
- Available today
iBooks Author
- New templates
- Embedded fonts for custom look
- Mathematical expressions can be directly rendered
- Multi-Touch widgets
- iBooks updates can grab latest version of textbooks
- Available today as a free download
Numbers
- 5 Million iPhone 5 units were sold the first weekend (most ever)
- 3 Million iPods have been sold so far
- 200 Million devices have been updated to iOS 6
- 300 Billion iMessages have been sent in the last year
- 275,000 iPad Apps in the App Store now
- 35 Billion Apps have been downloaded
- $6.5 Billion has been paid to developers for their apps
- 1.5 Million books available via iBooks
- 100 Million iPads sold
- iPad accounts for 90% of tablet web traffic
- iBooks Textbooks are now available for 80% of high school core curriculum
- 94% of Fortune 500 businesses are deploying iPad programs
