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hey i'm donald bell for cnet.com we're here at apple's ipad to launch event and I'm holding the iPad 2 in fact I'm holding the white version of the iPad 2 there's now two colors a white version and a black version all the same prices all the same capacities as last year's but you're now getting much thinner design a lighter design and also getting a faster processors there's there's a dual-core a5 processor in here it's promising nine times the graphics performance of the original iPad you're also getting a few new features you're getting a FaceTime feature for video calling you get HD cameras on the back and a VGA camera on the front Apple is also announcing two new applications for the iPad their own applications ones iMovie for the iPad which was available before on the iPhone and the iPod Touch it's now coming to the iPad is the most sophisticated version at least the most sophisticated mobile version of iMovie we've seen yet the other application that Apple announced today for the iPad is GarageBand this is gonna be a pretty cool application out there for you musical types does multitrack recording virtual instruments a lot of fun we're gonna see this thing March 11th so having played around the iPad 2 the little bit that I've had to hear I have to say the thing I like about it the most is how thin and light apples be able to get the design having seen a lot of their competitors this past year I haven't seen anything that's gotten this small and I think be able to preserve that 10 hour battery life is a big deal it's gonna be hard to be able to keep up with that so for cnet.com I'm Donald Bell showing off the Apple iPad 2