<\/a>Thou very much shalt covet.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The most recent iPad model has been replaced by a new model, officially named the iPad Air. iPad names have been a mess ever since what should have been called the iPad 3 was called iPad with Retina Display. Even better, the Air is actually thinner and lighter at just one pound. This is an insane achievement for a 10″ tablet. The Air is more than a pretty face; \u00a0running the 64 bit A7 chip, it’s crazy powerful. Starting at $499, the Air may make it worth upgrading from your existing iPad.<\/p>\n
The iPad 2 still available, making it the last current Apple device with a Dock connector instead of the new Lightning connector. Take the lack of Retina Display into account, and one has to wonder how Apple justifies $399 for this bit of aging hardware, especially in an age of affordable 10″ laptops from competing vendors with better screens (Nexus 10 and Amazon Kindle Fire, for example). The answer is likely apps, but it may not seem obvious to everyone.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the iPad Mini is available, with a price knocked down to $299. This is the cheapest price for a new iPad. You may want to spring the extra $100. Bloggers have been going on and on about wanting a Retina Display on the Mini and come November, they’ll have a chance to put their money where their mouths are with the iPad Mini 2, as seen at the top of this article. Running the same A7 as the iPhone 5S and the iPad Air, the only thing mini about this sucker is the size.<\/span><\/p>\nAs an aside, it was interesting watching the stream and seeing Tim Cook sneer playfully about competitors trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Those hoping for a touch-friendly iMac may be out of luck for some time. Then again,\u00a0Apple used to make those same shots at 7″ tablets. Now they make two of them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nAs for those wanting a wearable device, no such luck this time around. Keep iWatching for future Apple events though.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whenever there’s an Apple event, there’s a feeling of tons of information being thrown at you all at once. Let’s try to get through it together. While not the first thing mentioned, Mac OS 10.9 aka\u00a0Mavericks\u00a0is absolutely one of the most important. Mavericks is designed to be a more dynamic OS, freeing up systems resources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1916,31,35,38,12],"tags":[16,3,5024,105,5026,3420,5025,4978,2845,1499,5023,355,2746,2046,1217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20658,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions\/20658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}