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the iPad has a new name and Apple is making waves with Mavericks I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the new full-size iPad goes by a new name the ipad air it's thinner lighter and more powerful this nearly 10 inch screen has a Retina display with a more narrow side bezel and it only weighs one pound before it was nearly 2 pounds in sight there's an a7 chip which is the same that's in the iPhone 5s it's 64 bit and it comes with the m7 motion coprocessor in short it's got twice the processing power as the previous model and graphics are twice as fast apple also improve the cameras on the front and back the ipad air comes in silver and Space Gray and it starts at five hundred dollars for a 16 gig model with Wi-Fi only but these days 16 gigs really doesn't cut it if you want to load videos on a tablet you'll be adding a hundred dollars to the price for every jump up and storage and if you want to add the option for a cellular connection tack on another hundred and thirty dollars to the price it'll go on sale november first along with new covers and cases apple is still keeping the old ipad 2 around for four hundred dollars which happens to be the same price for the brand new upgraded ipad mini with retina display this new iPad Mini is four times faster than last year's model and eight times faster at graphics processing also available in silver or Space Gray it's coming out later in November apple also made several software announcements the iwork and ilife suite of productivity apps are now included for free when you buy a new iOS device or a new mac laptop or desktop Apple's also offering up a document sharing feature for iwork it lets multiple users edit and collaborate on a document apple also revealed details of its new high-end powerful mac pro desktop machine this thing is a powerhouse of a workstation primarily for people who are serious about editing videos or music and it starts at three grand this new Mac Pro will be assembled in the US and it'll be available before the end of the year also getting up eight are macbook pros the new laptops are running the latest Intel chips that improve battery life and with the upgrades come a price drop the 13-inch model starts at thirteen hundred dollars and these new macbook pros are now on sale but even if you're not in the market for a new mac computer current mac users can feel like they're getting something new with a free upgrade to the OS 10 mavericks operating system that was a bit of a surprise and mac users can get it now even if they have an older version of the operating system like Snow Leopard that's your tech news update for more details head to cnet.com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey