STORY HIGHLIGHTSApple announced a new iPad, named the iPad AirFull-sized model is lighter, thinner; ...

1. Apple unveils lighter iPad Air
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Apple announced a new iPad, named the iPad Air
Full-sized model is lighter, thinner; it weighs only 1 pound
The new iPad Mini has high-resolution retina display
Microsoft, Nokia also launched new tablets on Tuesday
San Francisco (CNN) -- Thinner. Lighter. Faster. That's what Apple promises in its newest iPad,
which also has a new name: the iPad Air.
The company rolled out the fifth generation of its market-leading tablet Tuesday. Among its new
features, the iPad will weigh 1 pound, down from 1.4 pounds. It's 20% thinner and 28% lighter
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"This is our biggest leap forward ever with a full-size iPad," Schiller said.
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad

2. A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
A brief history of the iPad
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The iPad Air will go on sale November 1. Prices will start at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi-only model and
go up to $629 for a 16GB with 4G LTE connectivity.
Schiller also announced a revamped iPad Mini starting at $399. It will be available later in
November in silver or space gray and will pack a speedy A7 processor and the same high-resolution
"Retina display" as bigger iPads.
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The older iPad Mini is still around and will cost $299. And the full-size iPad 2, launched in 2011, is
still available for $399.
Apple took another new direction on Tuesday, announcing that the newest version of its Mac
operating system, OS X Mavericks, is available now for download and will be free.
Selling Mac software has never been a huge money-maker for Apple, and the price of OS X upgrades
had been dropping in the past few years. The move can be seen as a shot at Microsoft, which relies
more heavily on revenue from sales of Windows.
New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops also were rolled out and go on sale immediately. They
get the usual incremental updates: better graphics, longer battery life, faster flash storage and next-generation
Wi-Fi. Apple also announced that both iWork and iLife, their suites of office and creative
software, are now free with the purchase of every new Mac.

3. And the super-powerful Mac Pro, the desktop computer geared toward high-end graphics and video
editing, finally got a price point -- $2,999 -- and will be released before the end of this year,
according to Apple's Phil Schiller.
The Pro was designed in California and assembled in the U.S. across 20 states. The pieces are
probably manufactured out of the country and shipped to the U.S. for the building stage.
Apple's not the only tablet manufacturer with news this week. Microsoft officially launched its
Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets on Tuesday morning, as did Nokia with its own Windows 8
device, the Lumia 2520.
The Surface 2 starts at $449, while the more powerful Surface Pro 2 will start at $899.
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The Lumia 2520 http://www.bernoonsub.com costs $499 and is Nokia's first full-sized tablet. It's also
Nokia's first big product rollout since it was announced that Microsoft was going to purchase part of
the company.
But as rivals catch up to the once-dominant iPad and the marketplace gets flooded with new tablets,
it's getting harder for competitors to set themselves apart.
"Tablets are a maturing market; there's not much competitors can do to differentiate at this point,"
said Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
"Replacement sales are growing much, much faster than new sales worldwide," she added. "You're
competing for customers you already have."
At Tuesday's event, Cook took a swipe at competitors with a reference that seemed most aimed at
Microsoft's hybrid Surface tablets.
"They chased after netbooks," he said. "Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into
PCs."
The iPad Air will go on sale Friday, November 1 at Apple retail stores in 42 countries and territories:
the U.S., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China (Wi-Fi models only), Croatia, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (Wi-Fi models
only), Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania,
Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
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