John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the new hardware announced at the October 23rd Apple event: the latest Retina MacBook Pro, whether the new iMac is too skinny or too fat, the little information we currently know about Fusion Drive, and, of course, the new iPads, both mini and Retina.

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Intel Z68 Chipset & Smart Response Technology (SSD Caching) Review - AnandTech
Hypercritical #17: Intruding Gooseneck
AnandTech - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
Macminicolo Blog (Impressions of the 2012 Mac mini (updated))
Does this aluminum back make me look fat?
Hands-on with the thumb-able iPad mini and the ultrathin iMac - Ars Technica
Apple Fusion Drive—wait, what? How does this work? - Ars Technica
A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
Hypercritical #57: Computational Skeuomorphism
B-Trees, Shadowing, and Clones (PDF) - Ohad Rodeh
Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive - Apple.com
Apple's white iPad mini sells out in 20 minutes - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
Strange Game - The Magazine
AnandTech - Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive
Apple Special Event October 2012

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