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In this week's best stories: All that Apple has announced at its October event, iOS 12.1 has arrived, we are spending time with the iPhone XR, and more. Read below all the main stories of Apple.
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After a month of speculation, Apple officially hosted its October event this week in Brooklyn. The event allowed the introduction of a new Retina MacBook Air, a new Mac mini and a pair of new iPad Pro.
The price of the MacBook Air retina starts at $ 1,199 and is available in three colors for the first time: silver, space gray and gold. Under the hood, it is powered by an 8th generation Intel Core i5 process with 8GB of RAM. You also have Touch ID, Apple's T2 security chip, USB-C and a Butterfly keyboard.
Meanwhile, the new Mac mini is only available in gray space and is powered by default with a quad-core processor. It is also possible to upgrade to a six-core processor if you need more power. Just like the MacBook Air, you get the Apple T2 security chip. The Mac mini starts at $ 799.
The new iPad Pro line complements this week's material announcements. As expected, the new iPad Pro is available in 11 and 12.9-inch sizes, with no home button or face recognition support. This time, the display extends further and Apple has launched a new Smart Keyboard Folio and Apple Pencil to accompany the new iPad Pro.
The new 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $ 799, while the 12.9-inch starts at $ 999.
This week also marked the release of iOS 12.1, as well as the beginning of the beta period of iOS 12.1.1. iOS 12.1 includes new features such as dual SIM support, Group FaceTime, the new Emoji, and more.
Last but not least, Apple has announced its fourth quarter results this week. The company generated revenues of $ 62.9 billion and a profit of $ 14.12 billion from 46.89 million iPhones, 9.69 million iPads and 5.3 million Macs sold. Read our full coverage here.
These and the rest of Apple's main stories this week below …
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