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Apple just announced its MacBook Air updates. As expected you get Ivy Bridge, as well as up to 8GB of on-board DDR3-1600 memory and up to a 512GB SSD. USB 3.0 support is now native across both ports. The camera has been updated to 720p. Full specs are below. Prices have been dropped by $100 across the board. Available today.
Gallery: Apple Updates MacBook Air: Ivy Bridge, Up to 8GB of RAM, USB 3.0, 512GB SSD




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Tim Cook just took the stage at WWDC and shared a few updates on the health and growth of the app store:
- 400M app store accounts with stored credit cards, making it the largest collection of accounts + credit cards on the web
- 650K apps in the store, 250K optimized or made specifically for the iPad
- 30 billion cumulative app downloads from the store
- a total of $5 billion paid to developers



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This is a very cool feature from the new version of Safari shipping with Mountain Lion. Clicking the new iCloud tabs button will give you a live listing of open Safari tabs on all iOS and OS X machines - a great way to deal with the problem of switching between your iPad and your Mac.



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Here's the default configuration for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and it starts shipping today.



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Two Thunderbolt ports, HDMI out, MagSafe 2 (thinner), SD card reader, headphone out, and two USB 3.0 ports.



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More forthcoming.
Intel Core i7 (Ivy Bridge)
Up to 768GB SSD
Up to 16GB of RAM
Up to 7 hours of battery life, 30 days of standby
802.11n (3x3:3) and BT 4.0



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Alongside updated Ivy Bridge MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, Apple is introducing a third member of its notebook lineup. This is the next generation MacBook Pro with Retina Display. It's priced at $2199 (8GB memory, 256GB SSD) and available starting today.
Internally the next-gen MacBook Pro features a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 CPU (likely Intel's i7-3615QM, turbo boost up to 3.3GHz, 6MB L3 cache). NVIDIA's Kepler based GeForce GT 650M comes standard with 1GB of memory.
The new unibody shell is just 0.71-inches thick and weighs 4.46-lbs. The big feature of the next-gen MacBook Pro is its Retina Display. Available in one size configuration at 15.4-inches, the new panel is a 2880 x 1800 IPS model. Apple is boasting up to a 75% reduction in glare and reflections. The display is now integrated into the unibody, allowing Apple to remove its cover glass.

The MacBook Pro with Retina Display ships with OS X Lion but features updated apps (Mail, iPhoto, iMovie, Safari) for proper DPI scaling to deal with the higher resolution display. Final Cut Pro and Aperture will also receive updates for Retina Display support.
Apps have to be updated to take advantage of the display, however pixel doubling is supported for scaling those that haven't been updated.
Gallery: This is the next generation MacBook Pro





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FaceTime in iOS 6 will work over both WiFi and Cellular networks. Enough said.



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Facebook in iOS 6 is more heavily integrated. You can now like apps in the app store and see what your friends like. You can now update to Facebook (and Twitter) directly from the notifications menu. Shared contact information from your friends in Facebook now auto populates in your address book on your phone.
Gallery: Facebook Integration in iOS 6




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Apple is going through its demo of Siri in iOS 6. Siri is getting significant updates, Apple is now demonstrating Siri's extensive knowledge of sports statistics. Player stats, league standings and results from games across basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball and football are all included.
Siri now includes more details about restaurants including average prices for meals. There's also integration with Yelp (reviews present in Siri) and OpenTable to make reservations.

Siri now knows about movies. You can ask it about actors and directors.
Siri can now launch apps and games.

A number of car makers will be including support for Eyes Free operation with Siri. A button on supported vehicles will activate Siri on a car-docked iPhone without turning on the display. The manufacturers pictured below plan to deploy support for Eyes Free within the next 12 months.

Siri in iOS 6 will come to the new iPad, as well as support all of the languages featured below:

Gallery: Siri in iOS 6





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