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WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 How to inside make MARKETPLACE • Win up to 10kg the best gold at Malabar Tortilla Gold & Diamonds P | 5 P | 6 HEALTH • Spanking tied to later aggression among kids P | 7 FILMS • 12 Years a Slave: A searing time Thinner capsule of cruelty P | 8-9 Lighter BOOKS • The Luminaries An intricately crafted novel Faster P | 11 Apple has updated its tablet range by TECHNOLOGY announcing the new • Nokia enters ‘phablet’ market iPad Air — the first with Lumia 1520 significant redesign of the 9.7in Apple tablet since its launch in 2010. P | 12 Learn Arabic • Learn commonly used Arabic words and their meanings P | 13 2 PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 COVER STORY Key facts and features Apple has announced its latest slew of product updates in anticipation of the Christmas rush. Here’s what you need to know. iPad Air • The new iPad is just 7.5mm thick and weighs 454g, making it the thinnest and lightest full-sized iPad to date. It is called the iPad Air. • The 64-bit A7X processor in the iPad Air has double the performance of the previous generation and adds performance and security benefits, along with potential reductions in complexity of both hardware and software, which should aid reliability. • The iPad Air will cost £399 ($499) and upwards, with the 4G version starting at £499 ($629). They will be available from 1 November. iPad mini • The iPad mini stays the same size as the previous generation, but receives the retina display and A7 processor of its bigger sibling. • As a result, the new iPad mini costs more than its pred- ecessor, from £319 ($399), with the 4G version starting at £419 ($529). They are also available from 1 November. • At the low end, both the iPad 2 and the original iPad mini stay in the line-up. The iPad 2 will sell for £329 ($399), and the original iPad mini gets a price cut down to £249 ($299). MacBook Pro • Also unveiled were new MacBook Pros. The 13-inch model now weighs 1.5kg and is 1.8cm thick, and has been fitted out with Intel’s Haswell CPUs and Iris integrated graphics. • The 15-inch MacBook Pro stays the same on the out- side, but also gets a speed bump to Intel’s “Crystalwell” Apple unveils new iPads CPU and Iris Pro graphics, as well as an Nvidia GeForce GT750M for gaming. • Both laptops have longer-lasting batteries, with the 13in increasing from 7 hours to 9 hours, and the 15in increas- amid crowded market ing from 7 to 8 hours. • The 13-inch MacBook Pro will retail from £1,099 ($1,299), and the 15in will retail from £1,699 ($1,999). They are By Adam Satariano available from today. new tablets, often at lower prices. The competition adds pressure to Apple because the iPad is its Mac Pro pple introduced new iPads in time for hol- second-largest source of revenue after its flagship iday shoppers, as it battles to stay ahead iPhone. Success of the new models will be critical as • The Mac Pro, which was first announced in July and has of rivals in the increasingly crowded mar- the Cupertino, California-based company attempts been teased since 2012, was given a shipping date: ket for tablet computers. to reignite revenue growth, which has slowed. December. It will retail for £2,499 ($2,999). A Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook debuted Apple also introduced new free Mac software, a new iPad mini with a high-definition screen, as called Mavericks. The company showed an updated Mavericks, iWork and iLife well as a thinner and lighter design for the larger high-end Mac Pro desktop computer aimed at pro- • Apple’s operating system, Mavericks, is available free for iPad named the iPad Air. The iPad Air goes on sale fessions that need extra computing power, such anyone with a compatible Mac. on November 1, with prices starting at $499. as graphic design and film editing, as well as new “This is just the beginning for iPad,” Cook said to MacBook Pro laptops. • The OS works with iMacs and MacBook Pros from 2007, a crowd of media and technology-industry insiders “We still believe deeply in this category and we’re with MacBook Airs, MacBooks and Mac Pros from 2008, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater not slowing down on our innovations” in Macs, and with the Mac Mini from 2009. in downtown San Francisco. “We have been busy said Cook. working on the next generation of iPad.” Apple is updating its products ahead of the lucra- • Additionally, its iWork productivity suite and its iLife media In the year since Apple last updated the iPad, tive holiday shopping season. As part of the lineup, suite are both available for free with any new Mac or iOS companies including Samsung Electronics, Asustek the company released new iPhones — the iPhone device. Computer, Google and Amazon.com have unveiled 5s and 5c — last month. PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 3 Yet more than three years after also roll out the new iPad Air in China Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, the at the same time as other markets, said growth of the global tablet market is Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presi- showing signs of decelerating. Tablet dent of product marketing. shipments are projected to increase 28 The companies are trying to adjust percent in 2014 to 301 million units, to what Jobs called the “post PC” era, after doubling in 2012, according to where preferences have shifted to Counterpoint Research. mobile devices rather than personal Competitors are cutting into Apple’s computers. The shift has decimated lead. The company’s tablet market the PC industry, with shipments of tra- share slid to 32 percent in the second ditional desktops and laptops projected quarter, compared to 60 percent a year by Gartner Inc. to fall 11.2 percent this earlier, according to IDC. year. The shift has hampered sales at Samsung, Asustek, Lenovo Group, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Acer and others are offering devices others. with prices starting at less than half Some rivals’ tablet efforts have of the iPad mini’s $329. Amazon.com flopped. Microsoft took an $900m writ- introduced new Kindle Fires last edown earlier this year after its Surface month with higher-resolution screens failed to catch on with consumers. at prices starting from $229, while Apple and other tablet manufactur- Microsoft and Nokia took the wraps ers are now attempting to win over off new tablets this week. new customers, beyond consumers Cook alluded to the competition who use the devices to browse the today, noting that “everybody seems Internet, watch videos or play games. to be making a tablet.” He added School districts, government agencies, that the iPad is used more than four pharmaceutical sales forces, airlines times more than all other tablets put and insurance companies are among together. Apple has sold 170 million those who have purchased thousands of iPads, he said. tablets in lieu of traditional computers. In a move to spur growth, Apple will WP-Bloomberg Mac Pro tower for power users redesigned and relaunched pple’s long-awaited successor to its “professional” tower desktop computer, the Mac Pro, has finally been released after having been banned in Europe The first iPad Asince March. The new Mac Pro, which resembles a black bin with a novel new tubular design and integrated turbine-like cooling system, will cost $3,000 and be available for purchase starting in December, built in the US. The new Mac Pro reduces the user’s ability to expand and upgrade the internal components of the computer for a more compact and efficient design. External expansion will be possible using the high-speed Thunderbolt 2 connection, as well as via USB 3.0. The new Mac Pro is capable of supporting up to three 4K ultra high-definition displays, supported by powerful twin- graphics cards, processors and high-speed flash storage, while being 70 percent more energy efficient and quiet. The old Mac Pro tower had been a staple of video and photo editing suites for years. However, an EU health and safety amendment put an increased regulatory requirement on computer manufacturers to put guards on cooling fans and extra protection around electrical ports. The old tower design of the Mac Pro lacked these additional safety features, leading to a sales ban in the EU, which took effect in March this year. The Guardian 4 PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2013 CAMPUS Future doctors Visiting programme directors with WCMC-Q officials. LEFT: Students interacting advised on their with the visiting experts. next career step esidency programme directors from elite US medical schools Rmet with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) students and faculty at the college’s annual medical education symposium recently. The symposium, which this year had the theme “Current Landscape In Graduate Medical Education”, brought 20 programme directors to WCMC-Q from a host of renowned medical schools and teaching hospitals, including the Johns Hopkins University, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, of Case Western Reserve University, for medical education, explained the Hospital McLean, Boston, was visit- George Washington University and Cleveland, Dr Shannon Scott-Vernaglia benefit of the symposium. “It’s an ing WCMC-Q for the first time. She the University of Rochester Medical of Massachusetts General Hospital for opportunity for the program directors said: “It is great to see such dedica- Center.

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