But while tech savvy people will surely have no trouble getting around the Apple Watch and are already pretty familiar with its array of interesting features, the Cupertino giant has kept with traditions and has gone the extra mile to familiarize as wide an audience as possible with the upcoming gadget. Much like with the original iPhone, Apple has prepared a series of how-to videos, which show and explain the Apple Watch in all of its aspects in a clear and, naturally, stylish manner.

The set of videos, dubbed a guided tour, begins with a brief introduction and moves on to quite detailed explanations of various features, like Messages, Watch Faces and Digital Touch. The aforementioned clips are already live on both the apple website and YouTube and, it appears, there are still more to come, 7 more, to be exact.

These range from dealing with calls and playing music, all the way to Apple Pay and even navigation on the wrist companion. This sort of video campaign has become quite typical of Apple and definitely serves quite well, both as a source of information and a promotional tool, reaching out to a wide range of consumers. Advertisement money well spent!

For those of you, who can’t possibly stay away from the Apple Watch, we have also prepared a quiteconcise explanation of what the various Sport and Steel models will cost you, as well as a glimpse into the realm of the incredibly pricy Apple Watch Edition.

Apple gave the new iPad Air 2 a heap of time on stage because of its new 8MP iSight camera, its over the top 6.1mm frame, its new A8X chipset, its TouchID home button and its gold option. And the iPad mini 3 got a couple of quick slides – as if the company didn’t want to talk about it. And after digging a bit deeper into its specs sheet we think we know why – that’s by far the smallest step forward a device has needed a year to take. No A8X chipset, no new display or camera, no new thinner body but hey, you get TouchID (which is yet to prove it’s worth anything on a tablet) and cool golden version now.

The Apple iPad mini 2 made a lot of sense when it first came out. It replaced an iPad mini that was nothing more than a rushed, old iPad 2 fit into a smaller body. The mini 2 ushered-in the Retina display and shared the all-important 64-bit A7 chipset with the iPad Air. The same chipset it now shares with the iPad mini 3, its successor, only it doesn’t look nearly as impressive in 2014. It begs the question, what has the iPad mini team been doing this past year?

The news isn’t all bad – if you want a very good iPad mini with Retina display and decent chipset the iPad mini 2 has gotten $100 cheaper.

What Apple is doing is taking away the option to have a great compact iPad tablet with properly powerful internals and top-notch screen. If you want the spanking new iSight camera or latest mobile chipset by Apple in your hands you have the single option of iPad Air 2.

Last year’s iPad lineup was a happy dynamic duo that shared all its key selling points. This year saw Apple enabling the iPad Air 2 to bully the iPad mini 3 and keep the goods for itself. Even the iPhone 6 Plus will rightfully look down on its larger but obviously less gifted stablemate.

The latest iPad mini saw the company voluntarily give up on the compact tablet battle, by serving us a half-baked excuse of an upgrade. In a market which evolves every day and week, serving a quickly repainted last-year’s device is no way to maintain your lead.

The internal setup of the new iMac closely resembles that of the previous model, save for some of the new components it features. It shares logic board and Bluetooth controller with its predecessor.

That stunning 5K screen is made by LG. The display board behind it is dominated by chips from Texas Instruments.

In its repairability score breakdown, iFixit praised the new iMac for its user-replaceable RAM, CPU, and modular (easy to remove) components. However, the LCD screen and the glass are fused together, thus making potential repair quite a hassle. Resealing the desktop in its original condition is also said to be a difficult affair.

Check out iFixit’s walkthrough video of the new iMac’s disassembly below.

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Just as Google was busy announcing its new Nexus family, Apple managed to confirm the names of the two new tablets that it will introduce at its special event tomorrow.

They will be the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, the latter being the successor to the iPad Mini with Retina Display from last year and thankfully returning to a more concise naming scheme.

The names surfaced on iBooks via screenshots in the iOS 8.1 user guide for iPads. The screenshots have since been pulled, as you'd expect. They also confirm that the design of the new tablets will be mostly unchanged compared to their predecessors.

That said, both the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3 will sport Touch ID fingerprint sensors in their Home buttons, as has been leaked extensively until now. The iPad Air 2 will also get a new Burst Mode for the camera, a feature first introduced on the iPhone 5S from last year.

Since Apple's getting ready to publish the user guide for iOS 8.1, we assume this version of the OS will be released tomorrow alongside the new tablets. And it should support Apple Pay.

A new A8X chipset has been recently rumored to feature in at least one of the new iPads, along with a gold color option and improved camera performance.

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Intel has joined forces with MJFF to gather statistics that will aid in monitoring Parkinson’s symptoms.

The devices, powered by Intel hardware, will track motion statistics. This data will then be used to help shape drug research and development for Parkinson’s patients around the world.

What will the wearables track? Sleep quality, seriousness of tremors, and how slow patients are moving. There’s also a mobile application currently in development that will allow patients to give feedback regarding their medication and how they are feeling overall.

It’s always good to see when technology is used for bettering people’s lives. Hopefully wearable tech can be used for more than just reading a text message; it might be able to make a significant impact in medical research as well.

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But that might change soon though, as rumor has it that Apple is planning on refreshing its little computer-that-could.

So what gave the alleged upgrade away? Well, a screen shot of the Boot Camp support page showed support for the “Mac Mini 2014″, that is, until it was updated and removed.

Could it be a regular error? Probably not, considering that the Mac Mini hasn’t received an update since 2012. Also, since Apple has bequeathed its Macbook pro line of laptops with brand, spanking new Intel chips, an update to the Mac Mini line with top-of-the-line, core i7 Haswell processors doesn’t seem that out of the question.

If the update doesn’t turn out to be true, then it could very well be that Apple doesn’t plan on keeping the Mac Mini around much longer. Without a proper refresh since 2012, the Cupertino-based tech giant may just consider phasing out the little computing box completely.

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That’s 43% increase compared to the first two weeks after the iPhone 6 launch, and it’s hardly surprising. The iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s managed to accumulate $195 million of revenue for the same period with just a 17% spike for the second fortnight since launch.

Cases are the most demanded accessories for the latest iPhone 6 duet. Their manufacturers bet on the initially leaked iPhone 6 design and as a result managed to offer e plethora of options at the phone’s launch and this proved move proved successful, according to the research.

However, screen protectors are also on the rise and revenue from them grew by 120% compared to the pre-launch period. Other accessories didn’t bring so much revenue back with microphones going up by 10 percent, and Bluetooth speakers grew 5 percent.

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Apple’s biggest iPhone yet carries the biggest expectations for good performance and also the biggest battery among its peers (not counting iPads) so it should be able to outlast the smaller iPhone 6 easily. And it does – the numbers are inside.

The new iPhone 6 Plus can last almost 24 hours of 3G calling which is a little better than the new Sony Xperia Z3 and better than the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 by almost 6 hours. We’ll watch eagerly as the Galaxy Note 4 battery test get underway to see how the Apple phablet’s biggest rival fares in this regard.

The iPhone 6 will give you some 11 hours less – that’s a big difference indeed.

If you’re going for a big-screened smartphone with a high resolution a solid web browsing experience should be high on your list of priorities.

The Apple iPhone 6 Plus kept on browsing for little over 9 hours. While an impressive score on its own it doesn’t get the iPhone 6 Plus a mention near the top in our list. To put things in perspective the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 achieved the same result (1 minute less). The Apple iPhone 6 gathered and hour and a half more in this test, though.

We’ve already concluded that the 401ppi screen of the Apple iPhone 6 Plus is really good. It’s great for watching video and thankfully it will grant you over 11 hours of screen on time for your favorite clips. The Galaxy Note 3 gets 2 hours more while the smaller iPhone 6 lasts the lesser 9:24 h.

When we add up the numbers we get a 79 hour endurance rating. That’s the number of hours you can last on a single charge if you do an hour of calling, browsing and watching video per day before you’d need an outlet. That result places the Apple iPhone 6 Plus in the top 20 of the phones we’ve tested. It also means the iPhone 6 Plus is in the top 10 of the phablets we’ve tested.

Most importantly it means the iPhone 6 Plus has the longest-lasting battery of any iPhone to date and the first properly good battery among Apple’s smartphones. At the end of the day the most important thing aren’t the bezels, pixels or clock speed – it’s the percentage count of your phone’s battery – and the iPhone 6 Plus is unlikely to disappoint there.

If you want to see all the other phones we’ve tested head on over to our battery test page.

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