Many sources have suggested that the company will present an updated iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro Retina and an updated The New iPad. And, it was believed that the main bet of the presentation would be the iPad Mini. Still, with one point the sources were wrong, but let's go through the points.
From the very beginning, the company traditionally began to brag about its achievements for the year. "At the moment, iOS 6 works 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 sent per second
“There are 160 million accounts registered with Game Center. More than 70 million photos in total photo streams » And loaded 35 billion applications Developers paid 6.5 billion dollars.
Macbook pro retina
“Six years of growth in the PC market.” - Tim Cook Phil Schiller came on the scene: "Today is a big day for Mac" "Our best-selling laptop is a 13-inch MacBook Pro." We want to introduce our new Macbook Pro 13 ". It is 20% thinner The mass of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro - 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-display in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro technology is IPS. All programs are already optimized. “There has never been a small laptop for photographers. Now he is.
Seven-hour asymmetric battery in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro A 13-inch Retina display MacBook Pro costs $ 1,699 for a model with 128 GB SSD. Sales start today. The slogan of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro: "For professionals inside 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. Price - 600 dollars.
Nothing more is said. Go to iMac
iMac
Here it is - an updated iMac and surprisingly thin IMac no longer has a DVD drive. "This is the most beautiful Mac we have ever done." The thickness of the new iMac on the edges - 5 mm The resolution of the new iMac 21.5 inches is Full HD, and the iMac 27 is 2560x1440. Reflections of the display of the new iMac reduced by 75%. Dual microphones and stereo sound The new iMac costs up to 32 GB of RAM, up to three terabytes of HDD and the Fusion Drive option - sharing 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 start in November. The new iMac 27 inches costs $ 1799 for minimal packaging and will go on sale in December
Tim Cook: "And now I want to talk about the iPad"
iPad
It was about the biggest expectation of the evening.
"Two weeks ago, the 100 millionth iPad was sold." Tells about iPad in schools "80% of schools in the US use books and textbooks iBooks Author." Show new version of iBooks Author. New templates, new fonts, multitouch widgets, math formulas
94% of Fortune 500 companies use the iPad New iBooks Author is coming out today.
Phil Schiller returns to the stage and suddenly ... "We want to talk to you about the iPad 4th generation." No, this is not a Mac Mini The “new generation iPad” has an A6X processor chip installed - twice as fast as an A5X The new generation iPad has appeared Lightning-connector and accelerated Wi-Fi. The iPad 4 generation outwardly repeats the iPad 3, but features a greatly improved internal. The prices are the same.
Apple told 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 a new iPad mini. "Thickness - 7.2 mm." A quarter thinner than a regular iPad and twice as light. It is as thin as a pencil.
The back panels correspond to the front.
The size of the screen in the iPad mini is 7.9 inches. IPad mini resolution is 1024x768, just like on iPad 2. The processor, by the way, too. A5. Apple compare 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 an A5 processor, has a front-facing HD camera and a rear 5-megapixel camera, and also supports LTE. Work time - 10 hours Began to show ads
Announced a new Smart Cover for iPad mini without metal parts “Little Smart Cover available in 5 colors” IPad mini cost: 329 dollars for 16 gigabytes without 3G and 459 dollars for a model with 3G / LTE iPad mini goes on sale on 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 innovations. We kept our promise. ”