Apple Inc. is expected to unveil a fifth-generation iPad and second-generation iPad Mini at its fall product event to be held Tuesday afternoon at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Reports predict Apple will introduce a thinner, lighter iPad inspired by the iPad mini, with a faster chip inside and an improved camera.
The new iPad mini is also expected to have a faster processor and will be outfitted with a retina display.
Apple hopes the new devices will be the shot that revivies sales. During the last quarter, sales of iPads declined to 14.6 million units from 19.4 million units the previous quarter and 17 million for the same quarter last year.
In part, the drop was because Apple has taken longer than usual to introduce new tablets. And sales of tablets overall showed declines last quarter.Besides new tablets, Apple will also likely refresh its line of MacBook Pro Retina laptops. The company is expected to introduce new versions that will use Intel's new Haswell chips, which are designed for efficiency. That means this year's version of the MacBook Pro Retina should have better battery life than before.
Another product Apple has already unveiled but not yet released is the redesigned Mac Pro. The company introduced the sleek heavy-duty computer this summer, and it will likely announce its release date as well as price on Tuesday. Apple is also expected to give a release date and price for its Mavericks OS X, the latest version of its computer operating system. Reports say Apple could release Mavericks OS X as early as Tuesday or as late as Friday. It will likely cost around $19 to download, which is the same price as last year's Mountain Lion OS X.
Apple shares were up $4.04, or 0.77 percent, in premarket trading after climbing 2.45 percent to $521.36 in trading Monday.
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