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Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

Many outlets are reporting on Apple's iPad event today. Highlights include:
  • Apple pay will launch Monday.
  • WatchKit -- a way for developers to make apps for the Apple Watch will launch next month.
  • iOS 8.1
  • Messages, iTunes, and iWork updated and many more new features in OS X Yosemite.
  • You can send and receive calls on your Mac if you have an iPhone with iOS 8 that's signed into the same FaceTime account.
  • iPad Air 2: New camera, 10 hour battery life, 12x faster than the original iPad.
  • iPad mini 3.
  • iMac with Retina display.
  • And a Mac mini update: Faster processors, Intel Iris graphics, and two Thunderbolt 2 ports.

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  1. Re:Yosemite by Ackmo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yosemite Sam was the hootinst, tootinist, shootinist bobtail wildcat in the west!

  2. Re:Confucius say: by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has been my experience, too. They make good quality hardware, and you will save in the long run, even if they make an insane profit from you in the short term. I'm sure someone on here can point out similar quality PC hardware, but I find other manufacturers to be very uneven. For instance, I got my mother-in-law a high-end HP in 2004 and she is still using it. But some HP machines are absolute garbage.

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  3. Re:Confucius say: by chispito · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.

    My XPS from 2006 is still with me, but the equivalent Macbook would have been far more expensive. What is your point?

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  4. Re:What's with the performance comparisons? by gnasher719 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is Apple so embarrassed by their lack of meaningful CPU performance improvements that they feel the need to compare the latest iPad to a 5 year old obsolete brick to impress me? I think that they think I'm stupid.

    Lack of meaningful improvements? 40% faster than the iPad Air. Which was a lot faster than the iPad 4. And trying out how fast I could make that run, i got 7 GFlops out of an iPad 4 with plain C code.

    If you think that Apple showing the best possible numbers is a sign of "embarrassment" then you absolutely need your head examined.