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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte it's everything inside the world of Apple let's get to it now Apple's latest iPad air is getting all the attention since you know it's apple's latest new shiny toy so we'll get to all the news around it but we always like to look forward to what's coming from Apple and even if the new mac pro looks like an idea co tubular trash can you can actually buy this online right now primate labs is added again with their Geekbench 3 benchmarks and have estimated the new Mac Pro performance based on apple's mac pro specification page now you can dig in deeper for yourself but their estimations show that single core performance will be similar for 46 and eight core models but will be fifteen percent slower for the 12 core model because of its lower turbo boost frequency now obviously in multi-core performance the 12 core model will perform the best with heavily threaded applications that can take advantage of it this thing is really beast then primate labs also matched up the new mac pro's and how they're expected to perform compared for the last generation of mac pro's with single core performance being up to 50 and 75 percent faster in some cases and multi-core performance being up to forty seven percent faster than current 12 core models the new mac pros are still expected in december so we'll see how these results match up all right onto iPad news and AT&T says iPad activations have more than tripled compared to last year's ipad launch the new iPad Mini is still not available yet and it doesn't mean Apple has sold three times the amount of iPads but it's a good sign so far now also a breakdown of the latest iPad air from I supply reveals that Apple is able to move to Sharp's IGZO display technology shrinking down the backlight assembly of the air using only 36 LEDs compared to 84 in the earlier generation and allowing for a sleeker and lighter tablet this is also allowed for a smaller battery while still getting similar battery life results now I'm loving the lighter feel and design of the ipad air and if you're still hunting to find out if an apple store has the model you're looking for it might be a little tougher that's after website Apple tractor calm was served a dmca takedown notice by Apple now the site offered a more efficient way of checking product availability for all ipad air models by color capacity and connectivity at the closest 20 apple retail stores nearby now the big a notice use jargon like you may not use a deep link page scrape robot spider or other automatic device program algorithm or methodology blah blah blah but let's just keep it real guys that's a bad apple and there's still the bigger iPad rumor floating around after chinese website pad news reports that Foxconn is in the advanced stages of testing out a new large format ipad that would support a display of either 11.4 or 12.9 witches and could be targeted for a march 2014 release really giving credibility to the product name maxi pad that the apple byte coined as far back as 2009 now in some other cool developments after we'll be building a new 700 employees sapphire glass manufacturing plant for Apple components in mesa arizona according to the state of arizona which is also home of the Grand Canyon National Park it leads the nation in copper production and petrified wood is the official state fossil I don't know if that's something to be proud of the big egg continues to push its initiative for assembling and now manufacturing some of its products in the United States an apple already uses sapphire glass to protect its cameras on I devices and the home button for the touch ID equipped iPhones now the connection that everyone wants to believe is the potential for it to supply parts for the rumored iWatch especially since sapphires already used on high-end watches and could be more feasible on a smaller screen compared to an iphone or ipad and this may not be the sexiest story out there but apple recently released a report called a report on government information request after all the recent news about online surveillance conducted by the united states national security agency now in the report apple says the vast majority of requests it gets are related to lost or stolen devices but a small fraction of requests were related to personal information on iTunes iCloud or your game center account now Apple reiterated that their business does not depend on collecting personal data which is true to a certain extent alright guys on the quick bites Apple's responding to complaints about the entire iwork suite after its recent facelift removed features that long time I works users were used to apple says they'll be offering software updates over the next six months to address important things like customizing the toolbar across all apps and bringing back many other features but Apple suggest using I works oh nine that was previously installed on your machine yikes also check out this new iPhone app called knock that works in combination with a mac app the app uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate and when the two are near each other just knock on your phone and it unlocks the mac without having to enter in any password it's kind of gimmicky and kind of cool at the same time so check it out the knock app is 399 and here's a clip from the Jimmy Kimmel show worth watching five-year-old boy genius arden Hayes who can talk politics and world geography again this kid is five years old also knows a little bit about tech hey Guillermo bring out the presence we have some presents for you alright guys you're probably wondering what is going on here but I'm gonna tell you the day after we shot the show ABC took down that clip and then reposted it without the ending so here's what happened the boy genius he got a sony xperia tablet but then gave it back to jimmy and said he was gonna get an ipad for christmas instead so it makes me wonder why would ABC take down that video did sony give him the tablet hmm back to you Brian alright before we go you all know I'm a huge NBA fan and the season just kicked off so call it a gift from me and my friends at 2k sports to you I'm giving away two copies of NBA 2k14 one for the ps3 and one for the xbox 360 all you guys got to do and gals is send me a picture of you rocking your best NBA gear pose do whatever it takes and I'll pic and show off the winners next week just email me at the Apple via cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong that's gonna do it for this week's show thanks for watching we'll see you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you