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what's happened in brian Tong here to welcome to the Apple by the place to be for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and I'm just happy I'm spending this moment with you alright let's get to the show and the reviews are in for the ipad air it's getting praise from the technorati across the board for its thinner and lighter design that you really have to feel to understand while retaining its impressive battery life now it was the highlight of the keynote for me so let's check out cnet's review of the ipad air hi everybody i'm tim stevens and this is the fifth generation ipad it's the biggest refresh to the ipad since the second generation came out in fact it's such a big change to the design that they've gone ahead and changed the name so meet the ipad air it still has the same 9.7 inch retina display up front that you've seen in the fourth generation and earlier generation is of the ipad but this generation is critically twenty percent thinner and forty percent lighter that may not sound like big numbers but actually it is a very noticeable difference let me pick up and hold this tablet it's incredibly light and incredibly thin much more so than before it really feels great much more close to the ipad mini than indeed to the fourth generation and the previous generation ipads that came before it has the a7 processor which we just saw introduced in the iphone 5s which is a 64-bit chip which gives really great performance we've actually seen noticeable improvements over the fourth-generation ipad which itself was quite a performer now we've got the same selection of ports as before which is basically just one port the Lightning port on the bottom of the device we do now have stereo speakers which is great however they're both still located on the bottom of the tablet we would have liked to see one of the speakers situated on the top so that when you hold it sideways and watch a movie you'll get proper stereo separation overall we're really big fans of the new iPad air it's nothing really that drastically different over the fourth generation but the thinness and lightness do make it much more of a portable tablet than before you barely will even notice it in your bag in terms of the competition it certainly does stack up pretty well in terms of specs and performance however it's still a fairly expensive tablet starting at 499 for the 16 gigabyte version and going up one hundred dollars each as you go to 32 64 and 128 gigabytes if you like the 3g or LTE versions of the tablet you can give those for an additional one hundred thirty dollars each again pricing very similar to the fourth-generation iPad thanks for that deep dive Tim now just in case you wanted to see if the air lives up to apples claims that it's about twice as fast as the 4th gen ipad John pool of primate labs posted the Geekbench 3 benchmarks for the new ipad air revealing apples 64-bit a7 processor running at one point 4 gigahertz and scoring a 1465 in the single core test and a 2643 on the multi-core test now fast don't lie and truth be told with these specific benchmarks it's over eighty percent faster and this is really the most impressive ipad yet even without touch ID except they should still call it the ipad pencil introducing the thinner lighter more powerful ipad air and you know it's a good thing Walter White was able to do the voiceover before well you know say my name alright apple announced their financial results earlier this week for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2013 the highlights apple sold a record 150 million iphones on the year up 25 million from 2012 it also sold a record 71 million iPads in the fiscal year for 2013 now the lowlights apple sold just over 16 million max its lowest total since 2010 and 26 million ipods its lowest since 2005 now there's always some nuggets of info to pull out from the Q&A session afterwards they're having plenty of reports that claim apples retina iPad Mini will be in short supply and when Tim Cook was asked the question he said he was unclear whether the big a will have enough supplies to meet the demand translation guys it will be in short supply now Koch didn't give a firm release date and it's still set for November you know that's also known as Movember the month-long event where people grow up their mustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer and you know I'm thinking of growing out 12 and never shaving it until the retina iPad Mini comes out and that could be a long time Shh truth now Tim Cook was also asked how Apple plans to address the lower price segments of the smartphone market and he said we're selling the iphone for us as our entry offer we sell the iphone 5c as a mid-tier and the 5s our goal is to have growth across the iphone ok Tim that answers that and cook also confirm because really he can't stop talking about the fact that Apple still plans on introducing new product categories within 2014 and yes we know those two categories are a TV and Apple's own SmartWatch now sticking with the iWatch talk according to the korea herald LG is reportedly close to a deal with Apple to provide o LED displays for their upcoming wearable bracelet that can tell time now the report also says that right X obsidia right display will be the key supplier for the rumored 1.5 inch screen with LG being the second supplier let's check out the quick bites an apple is told the New York Times that a manufacturing defect is responsible for some battery issues in some iphone 5s devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life the big a wasn't specific about the number of phones affected suggesting that it affects only a few thousand but they will replace the defective 5 s's with new ones an apple is sending a set of Mac Pro posters to a few members of the press including cnet's own Scott Stein in New York now here he is posing with them both of them and I'm not jealous at all because who really needs a really cool limited poster on their wall of the mac pro nope not me not jealous at all alright that's gonna do it for this week's show send me your questions and comments to the Alpha Beta cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong i'll get to as many as i can thanks so much for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you