Apple Shows Off iPad Mini, New MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iPad

So there is an iPad Mini after all. Apple?(NASDAQ: AAPL) announced the much-anticipated and long-rumored iPad Mini, measuring 7.9-inches (you can hold it in one hand) and less than one pound (.68 pounds, to be exact). It?s a smaller, lighter version of its iPad cousin that some market analysts believe will be a huge seller ? 34 million this year and again to 67 million in 2013.

?You can hold it in one hand,? Apple chief executive Tim Cook said of the iPad Mini. ?It?s not just a shrunken down iPad. It?s an entirely new design.? As a side note, Cook said Apple has sold 100 million iPads in the last 30 months.

Here are the iPad Mini?s details (turns out much of what was leaked was accurate):

• 7.2mm thick, 23 percent thinner than generation four of the iPad. ?Thinner than a pencil,? said Cook
• Weighs .68 lbs., about half as much as the iPad
• Display screen resolution 1,024 x 768, as on first two iPad revs. Apple?s Phil Shiller, senior vice president, noted developers won?t have to modify apps to make sure they map to the screen
• Runs iOS 6
• 275,000 apps download-ready
• Dual-core A5 processor
• 5-megapixel iSight camera in the back
• FaceTime HD camera on the front
• 10 hours of battery life
• Wi-Fi and LTE support
• 16GB storage version priced at $329, $100 more for each 16GB increment. LTE adds $130
• Preorders begin Friday, Oct. 26
• Wi-Fi only models ship Nov. 2
• LTE version in stores Nov. 16

At $329, the iPad Mini costs about $130 more than its nearest competitor Google?s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus 7. Apple, not one to concern itself with being the high-priced spread, isn?t likely to blink in that regard unless sales start to flag once its core constituency is done buying the new device.

What else did Apple bring to the party?

The fourth generation iPad, featuring a Retina display, 2048 x 1536 resolution, 3.1 million pixels, which is four times the number of pixels in the iPad 2 and 1 million more than an HDTV. Here are the details:

• Dual-core A6X and quad-core graphics.
• 5-megapixel iSight camera
• Front-facing camera with FaceTime
• Lightening connector
• 10-hour battery life
• LTE support
• Priced at $499 for the 16GB model and $629 for the 16GB model with 4G LTE

A 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina Display, weighing 3.57 lbs., priced starting at $1,699, available now. Here are some more details:

• Lightest MacBook Pro to date ? Schiller called it ?super thin and light?
• At 0.75 inches thick it?s 20 percent thinner
• 13-inch 2,560 x 1,600 resolution display
• Base configuration dual core i5 processor, 256GB memory 8GB RAM
• FaceTime HD camera
• Backlit keyboard
• Connectivity: MagSafe, Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, HDMI, SD Card reader, Headphones and dual microphones support

Apple also debuted a new Mac Mini in three models, running in price from $599 to $999. The base configuration:

• 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
• 4GB memory
• 500GB hard drive
• Intel HD Graphics 4000
• OS X Mountain Lion

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