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Apple announces updated iPad Air, iPad mini units, will go on sale this Friday

The new iPads were announced today. And it looks like there’s some good stuff coming your way at a decent price. Apple has bolstered the low end of its iPad lineup and discontinued the iPad Air 2. In its place is a new model that looks exactly the same, with a 9.7-inch retina screen, Touch […]

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Apple quietly pulls first-gen iPad mini from its online store

The original iPad mini has disappeared into the night from the Apple online store. Early Friday, Apple unceremoniously removed the first-generation iPad mini from its website, including product pages and the online store, leaving only the iPad mini 2 and 3, both of which feature high-resolution Retina displays. The company offered no explanation as to […]

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Rumor: A8X processors allegedly feature three cores, 2GB of RAM

While Apple has yet to reveal the exact specifications of its A8X processor, it seems to feature some sexy tech traits. Per AppleInsider and Gizmobic, a new benchmark purports to show the horsepower of the CPU, revealing a triple-core processor with 2 gigabytes of RAM. The purported details on the A8X chip claimed to show […]

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Initial iPhone 6 Plus benchmarks show lower FPS rate, new benchmarking tools, additional pixels taken into consideration

In spite of some nifty new hardware, the iPhone 6 Plus may in fact generate a lower frames per second rate than the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5s handsets when it comes to rendering 2D and 3D graphics at its native resolution. Per AppleInsider, a set of GFXBench 3.0 GPU benchmarks published in an initial […]

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Rumor: Apple’s upcoming “iPad Pro” model could feature A8X processor, other improvements

The iPad Pro rumors are coming in. And they’re pointing to some interesting stuff. Per G for Games and MacRumors, Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet is rumored to be landing as soon as early 2015, reports suggesting that the tablet will feature an improved A8X processor. Similar to Apple’s previous A5X and A6X processors, the […]