Apple's October 16th event: new iPads and 5k iMac

[Dietrichw]

Apple's live stream

The Verge's live blog

 

 

Victorious Secret and I both covered this. If there are changes or new information on these products I will update this to keep people from spamming separate threads for every little detail

 

iPad lineup pricing 

 

New Mac Lineup

 

Apple Pay

  Apple has signed up 500 more banks with Apple pay, and has 3 major credit companies on board and is available on Monday

 

Apple Watch

Apple has created WatchKit for developers to make apps for Apple watch before the product launch in early 2015

 

OSX Yosemite

Apple reviews many of the new features shown at WWDC 2014. It is Free and available today 

 

iPad Air 2 - $499/$599/$699 for 16/64/128GB

It is even thinner

 

Now features a laminated screen with an AR coating

 

 

A8X chip is 180 times faster than the OG iPad in graphics.

 

 

Updated camera which also supports Slow-mo

 

802.11AC with MIMO 

 

Now has Touch ID 

 

Even supports Apple pay for online purchases

 

Pricing 

 

iPad mini 3 - $399/$499/$599 for 16/64/128GB

Still uses an A7 chip instead of an A8   unless that is a mistake on Apple's website

 

 

 

 

5k iMac starts at $2499

 Retina iMac is coming with a 5K 5120x2880 resolution

 

 

 

up to a 4.0 GHz i7

 

 

up to a M295X

 

 

 

Full line up

 

Mac mini! - starts at $499

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Victorious Secret]

I will handle whatever my dodgy internet allows me to handle today. We both will be following the same theme, so if you don't like orange, well, TOO BAD! 

 

@Dietrichw if you want to just straight up copy these once I fill them out back into the OP, that would probably be great.

 

iPad Air 2 - $499/$599/$699 for 16/64/128

PRICING

 

We also have TouchID, AC WiFi with MIMO and more LTE bands (20 LTE bands, upwards of 150Mbps)

 

Newer camera and it also gets the slo-mo ability 

 

It carries 180 times the graphics performance of the original iPad, 40% faster (they didn't say if iPhone 6 or iPad Air, just 40%)

 

The LCD, glass and touch sensor are optically bonded, with an AR coating

 

Thats one very thin device, if I may say so, and it comes in gold.

 

It is 6.1mm thick

 

 

225 million iPads sold.

 

 

 

 

iPad Mini 3 - $529/$629/$729 for 16/64/128

Apple blew right past this one. Only difference is a 5mp camera vs. the 8mp on the iPad Air 2.

 

 

 

 

iPods

 

 

Macs

 

New Mac Mini which starts at 499.

 

R9 graphics with the 3.5 Ghz i5 standard, 4Ghz i7 optional, starts at 2499 and comes with a M290X

 

 

iMac w/ Retina Display, resolution of 5120x2880

 

5mm thin

 

 

Yosemite

It is available TODAY! 

 

Safari brings about even better efficiency, 2 more hours according to Apple. 

 

 

iOS 8.1

There will be a public beta for iCloud Photo Library, Camera Roll is coming back, and of course Apple Pay integration. 

 

It will be available Monday

 

Photos public beta coming with iOS 8.1. First 5GB are free, then fairly cheap pricing for more storage.

 

 

 

Watch

WatchKit is app making for the Watch, still listed as Early 2015 launch

 

 

 

Apple Pay

Apple has signed on over 500 banks as supporters of Apple Pay, not too shabby at all.

It rolls out on MONDAY! 

 

Random Info

Cook says its the fastest selling iPhone in history, the most orders in 30 days by a large margin.

 

It will launch in China in a few hours! Going on all 3 major carriers and ready for the 4G rollout there, they are calling it the biggest iPhone launch ever (no surprise given the Chinese market) 

 

 

[AlexGoesHigh]

i hope this super early post, reduce the imminent flow of repost, though yesterday where few despite the big news

[Victorious Secret]

i hope this super early post, reduce the imminent flow of repost, though yesterday where few despite the big news

 

It worked very well last time, there wasn't much reposting at all since there was this verifiable juggernaut of a thread that didn't die down the entire time. 

 

If it keeps all the discussion in a single place and reduces the nonsense, I'm all for doing this for large events going forward. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

It worked very well last time, there wasn't much reposting at all since there was this verifiable juggernaut of a thread that didn't die down the entire time. 

 

If it keeps all the discussion in a single place and reduces the nonsense, I'm all for doing this for large events going forward. 

agree, we could have done the same thing yesterday if it didn't come a surprise, google literally opened the floodgates when no one was looking

[Imabigmac]

Could be interesting but I'm not holding my breath, maybe we will get a new Beatles album for free......

[Valentyn]

Well they already beefed up OpenGL performance in the Yosemite beta, but since this isn't the developer conference I doubt they'll go into any details of OpenGL or OpenCL benefits and if there are any new big features.

 

Fingers crossed though. 

[Dietrichw]

Could be interesting but I'm not holding my breath, maybe we will get a new Beatles album for free......

People would still bitch about it. It would taint their hipster curated music collection. 

[Snickerzz]

People would still bitch about it. It would taint their hipster curated music collection.

lol! hipsters love free stuff, but they also want to choose what they get. Guess theyve never heard of the saying beggers cant be choosers

[Victorious Secret]

Alright, here we (almost) go. 

 

Hopefully they go rapid fire through hardware like last time, made for a far more interesting event thats for sure. 

[Dietrichw]

Alright, here we (almost) go. 

 

Hopefully they go rapid fire through hardware like last time, made for a far more interesting event thats for sure. 

it was interesting as my fingers were about to fall off trying to keep up

[AlexGoesHigh]

since we are talking apple, i been wondering what happened if apple released OSX to everyone that isn't using a mac but for a fee, like 30$ and you get to put OSX on any machine you want, probably a crazy and stupid idea, but i have got stuck this in my head for quite some time

[Victorious Secret]

since we are talking apple, i been wondering what happened if apple released OSX to everyone that isn't using a mac but for a fee, like 30$ and you get to put OSX on any machine you want, probably a crazy and stupid idea, but i have got stuck this in my head for quite some time

 

Honestly, very unlikely. Apple prides itself on having too firm a grip on the hardware they use and having software made just for that small selection of hardware. 

 

It would open Apple up to a whole bunch of "DAE APPLE OSX IS TERRIBAD AND SLOW AND SHIT" and whatever else it is that people even say about Windows on machines that are weakly specced these days. 

[Snickerzz]

since we are talking apple, i been wondering what happened if apple released OSX to everyone that isn't using a mac but for a fee, like 30$ and you get to put OSX on any machine you want, probably a crazy and stupid idea, but i have got stuck this in my head for quite some time

that would never happen plus, it would mess up a lot of things people love about osx

[AlexGoesHigh]

Honestly, very unlikely. Apple prides itself on having too firm a grip on the hardware they use and having software made just for that small selection of hardware. 

 

It would open Apple up to a whole bunch of "DAE APPLE OSX IS TERRIBAD AND SLOW AND SHIT" and whatever else it is that people even say about Windows on machines that are weakly specced these days. 

ik is likely the last thing apple could do, was just a though i shared and for your last statement, well i suspect the flames to be much bigger vs windows, my bro runs a mac mini whit 2gb of ram, and it takes its time to respond

[DildorTheDecent]

Apple store is being updated. Can't configure or 'purchase' anything. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

really, they pulled a comparison against android installs, that bit low for something that its dealt very different

[Victorious Secret]

The increased battery life is something I really am looking forward to. 

 

Chrome shit the bed on my laptop, Safari has really held in well giving my 6+ hours of continuous use, doing browsing + streaming just like I'm doing this today. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

they just roiled out a bunch of stuff at the same time, wonder if the servers won't go kaput now

[ivhyn]

Apple didn't learn anything... iPad Air 2 - even thinner now with the same stupidly low battery capacity as ever.

[AlexGoesHigh]

and they keep prompting the ipad camera as a DSLR replacement -__-

[Toddwjp]

i love how they always compare to the original and not last years model

[Victorious Secret]

Apple didn't learn anything... iPad Air 2 - even thinner now with the same stupidly low battery capacity as ever.

 

I need to know how they are measuring batteries now. 

 

My iPad 4 was rated to 10 hours. So is this a new test? Or a capacity decrease? Or what the hell is going on. 

[AlexGoesHigh]

500$ for 16gb, demn wallet rape on storage doe

and the ipad mini is more expensive 0_o nvm typo

HOLY SHIT 5k display imac, that really surprised me

[Heisenbleurgh]

The new iMac with retina display has a 5K resolution <3