[TechRepublic] Apple October surprise: iPad Mini sticker shock, iPad hardware refresh

Cracking Open TechRepublic Member | October 23, 2012

Apple October surprise: iPad Mini sticker shock, iPad refresh Bill Detwiler gives you the details and his first-take hardware analysis on the new iPad Mini, fourth-generation iPad, 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, redesigned iMac, and updated Mac Mini. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Michigan Voting Apps Scale to Support National Elections Join senior project manager for the State of Michigan, JP Jackson, as he provides an overview of the enterprise monitoring team with specifics on how they improve application performance, availability and problem resolution with APM. Additional TechRepublic resources   PS3 Super Slim teardown reveals hardware changes, but no real upgrades Bill Detwiler cracks open the PlayStation 3 Super Slim, shows you how Sony redesigned the popular gaming console, and compare the new machine to older PS3 models. Read more iPhone 5 teardown: Redesigned case and interior simplify repairs Bill Detwiler tears down the iPhone 5 and shows you how its redesigned case and interior hardware layout make the phone easier to disassemble and repair. Read more Apple hardware bonanza: iPad Mini, 4th-gen iPad, 13in. MacBook Pro Retina, and more Apple's big event today offered a fall cornucopia of new hardware with the expected announcement of the iPad Mini, a slightly more surprising 4th-gen iPad, and updates to MacBook Pro, iMacs, and Mac Mini. Read more Motorola doesn't disappoint with the Droid Razr M Jack Wallen takes a look at the Motorola Droid Razr M. Find out why he thinks it stands out above many of the other smartphones currently on the market. Read more Made in the USA: A practical consideration for the Apple brand? Mary Shacklett considers the issue of Apple's overseas manufacturing operations, which recently came up in a Presidential debate. Read more Make Google Apps more secure with Marketplace Apps Much of computer security can be boiled down to management of access, sharing, and storage. Andy Wolber highlights some apps that can help. Read more Don't panic, we've been though Windows interface changes before In terms of changing the entire look and feel of Windows, do you remember when Windows 3 arrived? Read more 10 IT relics I really miss Do you remember the days of BBSes and shareware subscriptions, magazines full of BASIC code for your CoCo, and true desktop cases? Take a techie stroll down memory lane. Read more Featured multimedia   Apple unveils fourth gen. iPad, iPad Mini Apple's new Macs of all stripes Five SSH-ready clients for Windows and UNIX IT pros can manage systems with five free iOS tools Cracking Open the PlayStation 3 Super Slim Featured multimedia   The Popular Mechanics 2012 Breakthrough Awards winners (photos) The magazine's editors award its highest honors to 109 products and a group of innovators whose work is changing the world. View on site Project 1794: Plans for an Air Force flying saucer (images) Recently declassified U.S. National Archives images confirm that the Air Force once hired Canada's Avro Aircraft to build a flying saucer. The project never quite got off the ground, it would seem. View on site Humanity's 'last pictures' in space disc The Last Pictures Project is a photo exhibition that will launch on a satellite and enter permanent orbit around Earth. It's designed as a message to future aliens who discover the remains of our civilization. View on site Today's recommended downloads What Is Your Big Data Strategy? Tell us and you could win $500. (ZDNet) The Coolest Data Center in Town (APC by Schneider Electric) The advantages of row and rack-oriented cooling architectures (APC by Schneider Electric) Business Transaction Management (Compuware) Oak Hills Local School District Virtualizes Desktops to Save $1.27M (NetApp)   About this newsletter I dissect the latest business tech products and analyze the internal components in order to help IT leaders make smart hardware purchasing and deployment decisions. Bill Detwiler Head Technology Editor My Twitter feed: @billdetwiler Connect with TechRepublic Photos: Computers that defined the information age brought back to life This photo gallery is a tour of rebuilt machines that laid the foundations for modern computing -- from the Ferranti Mark I to the PDP-1 -- that made the shortlist for the inaugural Tony Sale Award for computer conservation. TechRepublic newsletters   Get technical tips and tutorials, IT industry analysis, geeky discussions, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Smartphones Tablets in the Enterprise Geekend TechRepublic UK Big Data Analytics -- Launching soon!

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