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it's the apple news run down in less than three minutes I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Apple dished out a ton of news tuesday at its press event yes Apple announced the ipad mini we can finally put the years of mini ipad rumors to rest but apple also unveiled a new macbook pro I Mac mac mini computer and the biggest surprise of all Apple came out with a fourth-generation iPad and the third-generation iPad that came out in March this year that's just six months ago poof it's gone and replaced but before we get into that drama first details of the ipad mini this super light and thin tablet has a 7.9 inch screen and a price starting at three hundred and thirty dollars for a Wi-Fi only version with 16 gigs of storage that model arrives november second if you want one that has a 4g wireless connection it's going to cost you four hundred and sixty dollars it comes out two weeks later on november 16th the online pre-orders begin this Friday the iPad Mini has the same screen resolution as the ipad 2 so no Retina display they had to leave off something right it comes in white and black and you can do all the same things you could with a larger iPad the big competition in this space has been Google's Nexus 7 which is cheaper at two hundred dollars so Apple took a few jabs at the nexus 7 showing that the iPad Mini is lighter since it's made of aluminum and it has more screen real estate the mini has 10 hours of battery life which is the same as the new fourth-generation ipad it has even been a year an apple just revamped the ipad line again this fortune ipad has twice the computing and graphics power of the previous model it has that new lightning connector as you would expect the price stays the same starting at five hundred dollars and it can also be pre-ordered friday reaction to this fourth ipad has been mixed on twitter and in our chat rooms you have people upset that they didn't get a full year before their version is deemed outdated and others aren't too bothered since it's just a speed boost desktop computers also got a refresh the imac all-in-one machine has a crazy razor thin screen five millimeters thick on the side keep in mind it does curve out in the back so it's got some junk in the trunk but it's still slim it starts at thirteen hundred dollars shipping november the more portable mac mini desktop also got an upgraded processor with more storage it starts at six hundred bucks available now and the 13-inch macbook pro laptop now has a Retina Display it's thinner and lighter than the last macbook the 13 inch pro is Apple's best selling macbook so of course it was getting a boost it starts at seventeen hundred dollars shipping now lots packed into today's show but if you want more details we got links to all these stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey