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the holidays fast approaching Apple announced its newest technologies at a well-timed invitation-only event in San Francisco Tuesday morning these amazing products are great examples of the type of innovation that only Apple can deliver headlining the event a full-sized iPad with not only a new look but a new name iPad you can see the bezel is forty-three percent thinner than the previous version making it more comfortable to hold in your hand they were talking about how the iPad needs an evolution and this is more of a fine a small evolutionary step not a big leap in rewriting what the ipad is to people a 16 gig ipad air runs five hundred dollars and is available november first as for the ipad mini its dimensions remain the same but it now sports a crisper Retina display and of course a higher price four hundred dollars for 16 gigs it hit stores in late November Apple will still sell the original iPad Mini though at a lower price of three hundred dollars in addition to updated 13 and 15 inch macbooks with faster processors and longer lasting battery life Apple revealed the specs of its new Mac Pro its professional desktop machine the three thousand dollar black cylinder is a dramatic departure from previous models it is our vision the future of the pro desktop and today we'd like to tell you even more about it so inside this new generation Mac Pro is the fastest processor we've ever put in a Mac a new generation intel xeon e5 comes in 4 6 8 or 12 chord designs software updates took center stage for part of the event in an unexpected move Apple announced that customers could download Mavericks its latest mac operating system free of charge yeah the idea might be that it's more worth it for everybody to be up to date than it is to try to collect money for that I think that's probably the strategy and a smart one so you don't have people going oh it doesn't work on my Mac what am I going to do Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed confident as he left the event but will ipads and macs be the go-to gift of the season that's for customers to decide in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet for CBS News