Apple has announced a refreshed version for the popular iPad mini. This November will see the release of the iPad mini with Retina display. The 7.9-inch iPad mini features the 2,048 x 1,546-pixel resolution and the same specs as its new sibling, the iPad Air. It comes with a 64-bit A7 chip that gives it 4x faster CPU processing and 8x faster graphics processing.
Best of all, these new additions come with the same 10-hour battery life as the original iPad mini. The iPad mini Retina will come in silver/white and space gray/black colors. Prices start at US$399 for a 16 GB mini Retina with WiFi, and storage is available up to 128 GB for the first time.
In other exciting news, the original iPad mini will still be available for sale, now at a reduced price of $299. However, as standard with older versions of iOS devices in the store, the original iPad mini is only available with 16 GB of storage.
iPad mini with Retina display announced, original iPad mini sees a price drop originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use -- For more information read the original article here.
Apple wowed video and graphics professionals with the Mac Pro pricing today. Most seemed to be expecting a starting price of about US$4,500, but $2,999 will be pretty attractive to pros and semi-pros.
Apple also got industry leaders who have been using the Mac Pro to enthuse.
"From the blazing-fast performance of DaVinci Resolve to real-time video capture with UltraStudio 4K, Mac Pro is a revolution in pro desktop design and performance," said Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design.
"At 20 Gbps, Mac Pro's Thunderbolt 2 blows away anything on the market and completely changes the external storage landscape," said James Lee, CEO of PROMISE Technology.
The new Mac Pro features four-core, six-core, eight-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processors running at Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz that deliver double the floating point performance of the previous-generation Mac Pro. Two workstation-class AMD FirePro GPUs with up to 12GB of video memory provide up to seven teraflops of compute power and up to eight times the graphics performance of the previous-generation Mac Pro. OpenGL and OpenCL are optimized in OS X Mavericks to leverage the full computing power of the Mac Pro CPU and dual GPUs.
Apple also announced new versions of Final Cut Pro -- For more information read the original article here.
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If you turn on your Apple TV you may notice a new channel called iMovie Theater. Apple quietly added the channel tonight.
The channel itself is an extension of a feature in the new iMovie app for iOS and OS X that allows users to share clips, movies, and trailers to iMovie Theater and watch them anywhere -- on the Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple TV.
If you don't see the new iMovie Theater channel, simply restart your Apple TV and it should appear.
iMovie Theater channel added to the Apple TV originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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