iPad Mini 7.9-inch and iPad 4 announced

[Dohc-WP]

Apple announced the iPad Mini Tuesday at the California Theater in San Jose, Calif. The highly-anticipated tablet computer is a smaller, cheaper version of the tech giant's popular iPad, and a fourth generation iPad.

Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook started off the event saying, ""We have some very fond memories here, and we're going to create a few more today."

Apple senior vice president Phil Shiller took the stage to introduce a fourth generation iPad.

"It is a power house," Shiller said.

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The fourth generation iPad features an A6X processor, 5 megapixel iSight camera, expanded LTE chipset, front-facing camera with FaceTime and 720p video capture, faster Wi-Fi, and Lightening connector. The new iPad is prices at $499 for a 16 GB model, $629 for a 16 GB model with 4G LTE.

Shiller also introduced an iPad mini. The smaller iPad is 7.2 millimeters thick, 0.63 pounds, comes in white and slate black. The iPad mini's screen is 7.9-inches at 1,024 x 768 resolution.

Apple launched the original iPad in April 2010. The iPad has since dominated the 9-inch tablet market, with a reported 70 percent market share. Cook reported 100 million iPad sold.

The iPad mini starts at $329 for a 16GB Wi-Fi only model, $429 for a 32 GB model and $529 for a 64 GB model.

apparently its as thin as a pencil , the ipad mini features the same tech as the old ipad 2 so it should run all those apps flawlessly, an updated macbook pro has also been announced without an optical drive and a new range of Imac's.

Sources : Cnet, IGn, Twitter

[James]

iPad Mini 7.9-inch and iPad 4 announced

Apple has announced a new 7.9-inch iPad Mini and the iPad 4

[Grimspoon]

Gosh this is getting old. Apple are really pulling at straws here.

[McT]

The fact that there were relatively few surprises and most was "leaked" just makes it quite non event for me. There is no wow factor.

[McT]

The fact that there were relatively few surprises and most was "leaked" just makes it quite non event for me. There is no wow factor. Perhaps we have come to expect the extraordinary?

[James]

Gosh this is getting old. Apple are really pulling at straws here.

I don't think that's too fair. The iPad mini looks pretty slick to me. Updating the iPad 4 was inevitable and obvious.

The impressive stuff from their announcements is all under the hood.

People have been saying they are underwhelmed by the latest Apple product announces, but what are they really expecting? They are a gadget, PC, cellphone and software company - maybe they should branch out into hoverboards?

P.S. That new iMac looks gorgeous too!

[qornea]

I don't know how anyone CAN'T be impressed by the new iMac - even if you hate Apple, it's undeniably a gorgeous piece of tech. The iPad Mini wasn't a surprise, but it's definitely going to appeal to a lot of people; though I don't think the price-point will feed into the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 markets too much.

iPad 4 - or whatever Apple are calling it - was a bit unexpected; not sure if that's worth a look.

Overall, I think it was a cool event, but if its stock price is anything to go by (down over 3%) - investors weren't sold.

[Dohc-WP]

dissapointed that the new imac range chucked the internal optical drive, and the design isnt much different from the front if you compare it to the outgoing models.

[James]

dissapointed that the new imac range chucked the internal optical drive, and the design isnt much different from the front if you compare it to the outgoing models.

Optical drives are so annoying though! The stupid things take up so much space. I rarely use mine, and the last time I tried (installing Dishonored) the bloody thing wouldn't read the disc so I downloaded it through Steam. If that was 4 years ago I would have been so mad.

Sure, from the front it's merely a gorgeous screen :P

Those US price points aren't half bad - once that thing hits SA though, people will pay out of their ass.

I wouldn't mind having one of those (I'd just install Windows on it so I can play some games xD )

[SaiYaN]

Awesome announcements, just hating the fact that i bought an iPad 3 recently and then this happens.. and now i feel like i need to sell it for the "double the power" which doesn't justify an upgrade.. but still want it..