Weekly Wrap: Giant Apple event, miniature iPad, and medium-sized Macs

27.10.2012
Dont adjust your Retina display; Im not Lex Friedman, but this is still The Weekly Wrap. This week, Apple announced a slew of new products for you to spend your hard-earned money on, we took a look at some great new software and hardware, and what week would be complete without us showing you how to do things that youve never done before.

Most of all, though, were just glad that .

Primadonna that Apple is, the company demanded our attention on Tuesday. If, somehow, you missed out on the dynamic duo of Tim Cook and Phil Schiller, you can relive the experience .

At the center of the event were, of course, updates to and . And here I thought that books were called television these daysat least that explains .

Okay, I guess, Apple also introduced a couple other things. A , for example, a , anddelivering on the little more to show you themea speed-bumped . Those last two include some -style , too.

And that was it. The end.

& Youre still here? The events over. Go home! Fine, okay, there was also too. Fortunately, the latter lived up to precisely what .

The more new products Apple launches, the more information there is for us to bring you. We , used every gadget on our utility belts , and determined you dont need to be Superman to (turns out it almost as much as .)

Elsewhere, we , and tried to determine if the iPad mini could hold a candleor, should I say, a lanternto . And, of course, we convened our own league of heroes to discuss the announcements on .

In case that wasnt enough, Apple also maderoughly speaking. It wasnt enough to afford , but at least it , and if theres one thing we can all agree on its that AT&T seriously needs some help.

It wasnt just Apple products on which we turned our unblinking eye this week. Some guy named Lex Friedman says the is the one AirPlay speaker to rule them all. Senior editor Roman Loyola , which lets you quickly adjust your Retina displays resolution from hobbit- to Balrog-size.

will prevent your email archives from turning into the mines of Moria, and that glows blue when in the presence of orcs.

Learning about new products is all well and good, but what do you do with them once you have them? Were here to help you out with their , and , and .

We also showed you how to fix ; ; ; and get

All this Apple news encourages some deep thought, so we turned to Michael Gartenberg to find out . (Hint: Lex Friedman says , though I think wed all prefer if the company didnt get back to the .) Yours truly, though, thinks .

As always, we rounded up the usual suspects: , , and . We also took a look at the variety of (bookmark that one for a look some time), and .