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.

Links for this episode:

• 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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