iPad Mini: What we learned from the Apple launch APPLE announced a range of new features and products at its biggest product launch in two years at the California Theatre in Cupertino - including the iPad Mini. Here's what we learned... iPad mini unveiled: Screen resolution is 7.9" diagonal, 1024x768 (same as iPad 2) 7.22mm thin (as thin as a pencil) 0.68 pounds (as light as a pad of paper) comes in black and white iPad mini will start at £269 in the UK expected to started retailing on November 2nd A fourth generation of the iPad with an A6X processor, doubling graphics performance 100 million iPads have been sold in two and a half years A new ultra-thin iMac, with an edge that is 80% thinner than the previous generation An updated Mac mini with dual or quad-core i5 or i7 processor, with up to 16GB of RAM, Intel HD graphics 4000, Bluetooth 4.0 and either a 1TB HDD or 256GB SSD Both iMac and Mac Mini come with Apple Fusion Drive - 128GB flash storage and 1 or 3TB HDD New 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro - 20% thinner and one pound lighter than previous generation, costing $1699 in the US iBooks 3 with better iCloud integration and continuous scrolling As of last month, there were over 700,000 apps in the App Store 35 billion apps download from the App Store 28,000 iMessages are sent per second 200 million devices are now running iOS 6 The iPhone 5 was the fastest selling phone in history, shifting more than 5m units in first weekend The iPad Mini is Apple's attempt to muscle in on an area of the market already staked out by Google (with its Nexus 7) and Amazon (with its Kindle Fire, which finally launches in the UK this week). This was the first new product launch since the death of talismanic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last year.