Apple launches iPad Mini, new MacBook Pro

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Inside The California Theater at an Apple event in San Jose, Calif, Oct. 23, 2012.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iBooks

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks iBooks during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New MacBook and iMac

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller introduces new MacBook and iMac computers on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New 13-inch MacBook Pro pricing

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces new 13-inch MacBook Pro at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller speaks at an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New MacBooks

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces new MacBooks at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces the new iMac during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New slimmer iMac

Apple's new iMac is just 5 mm thin on its edge.

According to Apple, special Friction stir welding helps the new iMac keep a trim profile.

iMac evolution

The evolution of the iMac is explained at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New iMac

Apple's new iMac is just 5 mm thin on its edge.

New iMac specs

The new iMac specs are introduced at an Apple event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

New iMac

The new iMac is shown at an Apple event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iMac ports

On back of the new Apple iMac are ports for headphone, SD card, four USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, and Gigabyte Ethernet.

iMac hard drive

Inside the new Apple iMac 2012 is up to 768GB of flash storage, NVIDIA Kepler graphics, and up to 3TB of hard drive storage.

iMac pricing

The new iMac is shown at an Apple event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iPad

Apple CEO Tim Cook comes back onstage to talk about the iPad at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

4th-generation iPad

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller retakes the stage to introduce the 4th-generation iPad.

iPad mini

Apple's smaller iPad Mini is a late, but hotly-anticipated entrant to the smaller tablet landscape.

iPad mini

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller introduces the iPad Mini. It's as thin as a pencil and light as a pad of paper, he says.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller shows the iPad mini at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iPad vs. iPad Mini size

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller shows the iPad Mini at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Inside the iPad Mini

Inside the iPad mini is a dual-core A5 processor; FaceTime HD front-side camera; 5 megapixel iSight camera on the back; LTE.

iPad mini vs. Google Nexus 7

Apple compared the iPad Mini to the Google Nexus 7. — James Martin/CNET

Apple's new iPad mini compared to the Google Nexus 7.

iPad mini camera

The iPad mini's camera being shown at an Apple event at at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iPad mini pricing

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller shows the iPad mini at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

iPad prices

iPad pricing explained at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012, in San Jose, Calif.

Apple's new 4th-generation iPad costs the same as the 3rd-generation iPad.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces the new iPad Mini during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on Oct. 23, 2012 in San Jose, Calif.