apple announces new mac mini, macbook air, and ipad pros

you were disappointed — though Apple has promised that workstation design is on the way, any heavy-duty hardware release is now prospect at best.   By the in center to create build farm for, Instead, Apple emphasized portability, announcing MacBook Air with 13.3-inch retina display, new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros, and Mac Mini that can be stacked on the desktop or racked iOS apps..   Mac Mini box starts at $799, and power users can opt for six-core processing, up to 64 GB of RAM, and up to TB of flash storage.   For connectivity, the base system has Gigabit Ethernet, four Thunderbolt 3 ports, HDMI out, and two USB-A ports.   The size of the force-touch trackpad has been increased and the notebook ships with GB of RAM and GHz i5 processor as standard.   And then there's iPad Pro, option for creative types who value the ability to sketch or annotate with Apple Pencil that became more useful last year with the introduction of real split-screen and multitasking features.   That has allowed Apple to reduce the footprint of the device without reducing the size of the screen.   One thing that's not reduced is the price — the new top-of-the-line iPad Pro starts at $999 with 64 GB of storage, compared to $799 for its predecessor when it was launched last June.   iPad Pro can be had with TB of storage on board, and it'll set you back $1,749 — not including the redesigned pencil or keyboard ..   Apple justified the higher price point by touting A12X Bionic chip, featuring CPU, seven-core CPU and Neural Engine for Core ML  tasks.   Read more