Few hours earlier, Apple has finished its Keynote , and it brought amazing products along with some great surprises. So, if you missed it, don't worry we gathered all the things that Apple announced here :
OS X Mavericks For Free
Apple announced tonight OS X Mavericks for free, its new operating system for Mac. It is available today on the Mac App Store. Mavericks brings many improvements under the hood without knowing a visual change. Performance is improved through better memory management as well as power management. In addition, the Finder gets tabs, tags, with the addition of iCloud Keychain in Safari to save passwords, credit card numbers and more.
Apple in Numbers
The Apple keynote began with the announcement of the number of installations of iOS 7. Despite its radical change, the new OS is installed on 64% of iOS devices, or 200 million iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It is updating the fastest in history, according to the firm.Concerning the iTunes Radio , reserved for the United States at this time, is already used by 20 million users who have listened to one billion pieces.Tim Cook finished his series of numbers with the App Store , announcing that the application store now had 1 million apps. 60 billion downloads have been made since its opening and Apple has paid a total of $ 13 billion to developers.
New Versions Of iLife And iWork
On the Mac, it is the first major upgrades for a long time, respectively in 2010 for iLife and 2009 for iWork. It's Garageband that seems to be the the most radical update: the music creation software consumer has a new interface clearly inspired from the recent Logic Pro X and taking 64-bit support. The iOS version can now record up to 16 tracks or 32 on the iPhone 5s and the new iPad Air. New redesigned versions of iPhoto and iMovie are also available.
As for iWork , we note the arrival of dynamic graphics in Numbers and Keynote, the latter is also provided with new animations, a new popup panel in Pages and full compatibility between iOS, Mac,PC and online versions included in iCloud.
All the iLife and iWork applications are now free for all purchases of new Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
MacBook Pro Retina
After the update of the MacBook Air and iMac, Apple released a new version of its MacBook Pro with Retina display. The classic model goes out the window, Apple doesn't offer it on its online store anymore - except the 13-inch 2.5 GHz.
MacBook Pro Retina 13" is more thinner and faster, it features a Haswell processor Intel Core i5 dual-core 2.4 GHz. It comes with a Turbo Boost up to 2.9 GHz. RAM is 4GB, the graphics processor is the Intel Graphics Iris, storage is a 128GB SSD. The MacBook Pro also includes the Thunderbolt 2, Wi-Fi 802.11ac. Of course, as always, the components can be improved. Several configurations are available from Apple with more storage, more RAM for example. The new MacBook Pro Retina 13"starts at $1 299.
The New Mac Pro
Apple introduced a new design of Mac Pro at the last WWDC in June. Mini format that had seduced design lovers, but tonight it is the technical specifications that are revealed.
The new Mac Pro is very powerful, starting with Intel Xeon E5 processor, available in 4, 6,8 or 12 cores. To support this core chip (CPU), Apple relies on a very fast memory (ECC DDR3 1866 MHz, up to 64 GB), but also a high-performance graphics chip signed AMD. Witch means that more and more calculations are deported from the CPU to the graphics card, the Mac Pro will be equipped with two AMD FirePro, a combination that goes up to 4096 number of processing units, all shipping to 12 GB of RAM (depending on version)!
iPad Air ( iPad 5 )
Apple launches new iPad called "Air". The features of the new iPad have therefore evolved as expected. To start, the device is more thinner by 25% (7.5mm). It is also more powerful, using the same processor A7 as the new iPhone 5S, allowing it to increase its performance compared to the last iPad. The camera has a 5 megapixel sensor, the videos can be captured in 1080p. Regarding the autonomy, it remains 10H. The design is evolving a bit. The edges of the screen are reduced, you can say that its a big iPad Mini. Unfortunately, no Touch ID for this version , its a big disappointment for all Apple fans.
The iPad Air is available in two colors: space gray and silver. The price is $499 for the16 GB Wi-Fi model and $629 for Wi-Fi+cellular model. This device will be available for sale starting November 1.
iPad Mini 2 With Retina
The rumors were right, the iPad Mini 2 made its arrival with a Retina display. With a new screen of a resolution of 2048 × 1536, it becomes the same as the iPad 3, 4, and Air. This is not all, the mini tablet take this opportunity to renew its interior with the arrival of the A7 64bits chip given as four times faster CPU and 8 times GPU than the preceding generation, a FaceTime camera 1080p, wi-fi (MIMO with two antennas) and the expanded 4G LTE support.
The iPad will start sales on November 1in two colors : space gray and silver with a new capacity of 128 GB . Prices start at $399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and $529 for the Wi-Fi+ 4G model.
The first iPad Mini is still in the store, but now starts at $299 in its 16 GB Wi-Fi model or $429 Wi-Fi + cellular model in also silver or space gray.
