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iPad Mini: Everything You Need to Know

The iPad Mini is here. It’s a sleek, thin and light 7.9-inch tablet made of anodized aluminum and glass that follows the format reduction pioneered by Google and Amazon. This thing is really neat. Really light and thin at 0.68 pounds and 7.2 millimeters. In a nutshell: it has better specs and it’s thinner and…

Would You Rather Have a Super-Thin iMac or a Retina iMac?

Apple’s new iMacs are crazy thin. But for all that svelte design, the machines lack Retina display. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-are-crazy-thin-5953775 Would you give up some girth for a better display?

What Is Apple Fusion Drive?

While introducing the new ridiculously thin iMac, Apple also revealed its new Fusion Drive. What is it? It’s a new storage system that supposedly combines the best of SSD and HDD. Basically, the speed of a SSD with the storage space of a big spinning HDD. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-are-crazy-thin-5953775 The Fusion Drive is made of a 128GB…

Apple’s New iMacs Are Crazy Thin

Apple has defied that assumption that the desktop is on the outs and dropped refreshed super-thin iMacs at its event today. They were expected this summer at WWDC, but the wait might have been worthwhile—this refresh is far more significant than we thought. The new models are 80 percent thinner (just 5mm) and about eight…

The New, Speedier, Ivy Bridge Mac Minis Are Here

A new tiny iPad isn’t the only little-big news out of today’s Apple extravaganza. Here’s a the brand new set of upgraded Mac Minis that’ll be delivering that Apple love at sub-$1000 prices—Now with upgraded Intel Ivy Bridge processors. They’re available for purchase now. Apple claims the new Ivy Bridge Mac Minis are two times…

13-Inch MacBook Pro Gets a Retina Display

Great news for anyone who’s lusted after the gorgeous retina display on the MacBook Pro—but has been hesitant to drop $2,200 or make room for a 15-inch laptop. Apple has officially announced a 13-inch version of its portable workstation, with a 2560 x 1600 Retina Display. That’s just a slight drop in resolution from the…

There’s a New Version of iBooks with Synced Pages and Continuous Scrolling

Apple just announced a new version of iBooks. It’s got a continuous scrolling reading option, which is pretty great. It’s also got its own iCloud-enabled version of Whispersync, that will sync your current page across any device you’re reading on—iPhone, iPad, etc. You’ve also got more sharing options, like copying and sharing quotes. It’s got…

Our iPad Mini Apple Event Liveblog Bonanza Kicks Off RIGHT NOW

Starting right now, Apple will finally lift the veil on its iPad Mini, lock in new iTunes goodies, and maybe intro a new iMac. And we’ll be covering it all right here. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mini-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-u-5948203 While you may think you know what the iPad Mini looks like by now, nothing’s official until Tim Cook waves it around…

Watch the iPad Mini Livestream Right Here

We’ll be liveblogging our butts off today when Apple drops new goodies, but if you want to watch what’s happening in California too, we’ve got your video right here. We know the tiny tween-sized iPads are coming—but what else? New MacBooks! New Mac Minis! A new iPhone? No, definitely not. Will Foo Fighters take the…

This Clunky iPhone Accessory Measures Distances With Laser Accuracy

The carpenters of the world might want to consider adding an iPhone holster to their toolbelts. Because Prexiso’s new iC4 iPhone accessory promises to make tape measures obsolete, replacing them with an iPhone laser measuring accessory that works alongside an accompanying app. It assumes that construction types aren’t necessarily on the bleeding edge of new…

This Is Our Apple Liveblog Playlist

You want to get pumped up on certain occasions—before a big game, when you’re preparing for a fight, and of course, when you’re liveblogging. Seriously. We get in the zone just like everyone else. That’s why we made a Spotify playlist specifically for today’s Apple event. Subscribe and enjoy! These news-filled event days are a…

Retina Display 13-inch MacBook Pro Appears on Google Before Today’s Apple Event

If Google’s web crawlers are correct, there will be a new Retina display 13-inch MacBook Pro announced today. The Apple Store is currently down, so we can’t follow the link, but a Google search for “13-inch macbook pro” returns results at the official Apple site referring to the new model. All we know right now…

The Apple Store Is Down As a Nation Trembles in Confusion and Fear

Much like the eclipses of old would rattle the marrow of the ancients, the online Apple Store has traded its wares for a parading GIF of away multilingual away messages and left us all existentially afeared. Apple! Apple! Why have you forsaken us?!?!?!?!? Oh, wait what’s that? Small iPads? Some other stuff? Oh, right. Sorry,…

Today’s Apple Event Will Be Streamed Live to Apple TVs All iOS Devices and Safari (Updated)

For those eager to hear what Tim Cook has to announce later on, good news: today’s Apple event will be streamed live, direct to Apple TVs. Apple TV owners should see a new “Apple Events” icon on their homescreen. Click that, and there’s a page offering up the stream from 10am PT. It will be…

The US Patent Office Has Invalidated Apple’s Bounce Scroll Patent

Foss Patents is reporting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively invalidated Apple’s bounce scroll—sometimes referred to as “rubber banding”—patent possibly affecting the recent ruling in the Apple v. Samsung trial. The patent in question concerns the bounce scroll feature in iOS: scroll too far, and whatever you’re looking at bounces back into…

The iOS Dropbox app no longer downscales images when you upload them to the cloud. Praise be. [App Store]

Samsung Refutes Report and Says That It Will Still Sell LCD Panels to Apple

Earlier today, The Korea Times reported that Samsung would stop selling LCD panels to Apple. That report seems to be wrong. Samsung has come out to say that, “Samsung Display has never tried to cut the supply for LCD panels to Apple.” https://gizmodo.com/report-samsung-wont-sell-lcd-panels-to-apple-anymore-5953747 Basically: if the LCD panel relationship has ended between Apple and Samsung…

Analyst Claims That the iPad Mini Has Two Cameras and Can Fit Inside Your Pocket

Though analysts usually know nothing more than regular ol’ John Apple Fan at home, they do sometimes get access to tech factories and shredded supply chain documents hinting at upcoming products. One analyst, Topeka Capital’s Brian White, claims to have actually held an iPad Mini prototype and even put it in his pocket. Fortune details…

iPad Air or iPad Mini, That Is the Question

The 7.85-inch version of the iPad that will be presented tomorrow, but there’s something that we don’t know yet: what will be its name? There’s been some talk about iPad Air, which makes sense and I like quite more than iPad mini. What do you think it will be? iPad Air or iPad Mini? https://gizmodo.com/apple-event-ipad-mini-13-inch-macbook-pro-retina-new-5953184…

iPad Mini Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

Now that the iPhone 5 is out, there’s just one more thing for Apple nerds to freak out over: The iPad Mini. Rumors have been cropping up like crazy the past few weeks—enough to start putting together what we’ll actually see from a 7-inch Apple tablet. And once Apple’s event gets started in earnest, you’ll…