Live Coverage of Apple's October 2013 iPad and Mac Event [Event Ended]

[niic]

Still keeping around a two and a half year iPad 2 for $400? Really?

 

[macduke]

Well at least they seem to be doing the Mini right with Retina.

 

[Jiftyrealm]

iPad mini with Retina, here it comes!!!!!!

 

[PaulOBrain]

Mini gets retina.

 

[bobright]

iPad 3 remains the ugly red headed step child.

How so its better than the iPad 2 which they're still selling?

 

[kramjam]

Retina mini. Finally.

 

[bkribbs]

Retina, yes!

 

[0029937]

Why? Macbook Air was smaller? No. It was lighter and thinner.

To me Air=11"+13" screens(smaller). Pro=13"+15"(bigger). I think if they renamed the iPad to iPad Pro it would have gotten a better reaction than Air, just look at everyone's reaction here on the forums. Everyone's confused.

 

[D.T.]

The *weight* is killer. I thought they'd shoot for 1.2, maybe stretch to get 1.1lbs.

< 500g is pretty damn impressive.

 

[Nevaborn]

iPad mini Retina is cool

 

[The Toddfather]

16 gig? Sad

 

[DowdyFick]

Retina Mini!!

 

[Leonard1818]

If they are only putting the A7 in the air and no touch ID. I don't think we are getting a retina mini (just not enough to make them diff...).

uh huh.

 

[Rogifan]

Retina on the mini! Woo hoo!!

 

[bunnicula]

Audience seems underwhelmed.

I saw one dude dozing.

 

[gotluck]

That was true in the past, when you had to get a gaming card for gaming, and a pro card for editing. These days I get the impression that GPUs have homogenized a bit, and the only difference between the two is that pro cards generally have more ram and stream processors on them.

A pro card be about as good at gaming as the generation line it's based off of, though getting one just for gaming would be WAY overkill. You wouldn't be getting a lot of bang for your buck there.

The drivers still seem to be a bit less 'optimized' for gaming, especially game specific bugs. At least such is the case with the workstation card on my laptop. I'm sure the gap has narrowed though and they are still great cards for all purposes. I'm speaking of nvidia. I've been away from ati for a few years.

 

[rhett7660]

Mini gets retina.

I think a lot of people were waiting for this! Good to see it happen.

 

[ctdonath]

Only A7 chip and still 802.11n wireless. I would have thought it would get AC and a jacked up processor. Oh well.

What, twice the processing rate and twice the antennas (i.e. doubled bandwidth) isn't enough for you?

 

[PaulOBrain]

Wow the mini gets A7 64bit.

 

[Am3r1ca16]

iPad air huh

 

[apolloa]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha an iPad 2 for $399 with 16GB! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

That's the best joke I've heard all year, I actually laughed at that one!

 

[bunnicula]

Ok. Retina. They sold it to me. That's all I wanted anyway.

 

[TouchMint.com]

And on the retina mini announcement aapl stock goes positive for the first time today.

 

[chirpie]

I'm as big a fan an Apple as any, but WHY would you get the iPad 2 over the mini with these new specs?

 

[TOYSTER17]

Wtf....