Perhaps now not all iPad users will look quite akward as they take photos using their tablet computers: the new iPad mini small and light enough to be held and used with one hand — “as thin as a pencil and as light as a pad of paper,” Apple says.

The iPad mini features a front-facing HD camera and a 5-megapixel camera on the back “with advanced optics for taking sharp still pictures and recording full 1080p HD video,” the company says. The iSight camera includes video image stabilization, and both cameras feature backside illumination “to let users capture great pictures in low light.”

The mini’s 7.9-inch display has the same number of pixels as the original iPad and iPad 2. The device is housed in aluminum and glass that is 7.2mm thin and weighs only 0.68 pounds — 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third generation iPad. iPad mini pricing starts at $330. More information is here.

Also newly announced: the fourth generation iPad has a faster processor that delivers up to twice the CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of the previous model [which this reporter bought just a few short months ago…]. The iPad starts at $500.

“With vivid colors, razor sharp text and more pixels than anyone else’s 15 or 17-inch notebooks, the Retina display completely changes what you expect from a notebook.”

That what Apple has to say about its new 13-inch MacBook Pro, which adds a Retina display. The new MacBook Pro packs more than 4 million pixels into its display, Apple says, nearly twice the number of pixels in an HD television. At 227 pixels per inch, the Retina display’s pixel density is “so high the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels at a normal viewing distance, so images look sharp and text looks like it does on the printed page,” Aple adds. “With four times the pixels of the current 13-inch MacBook Pro, you can view and edit video in pixel-accurate HD and see a new level of detail in high resolution images.” Also, the display has IPS technology for a 178-degree wide viewing angle, and has 75 percent less reflection and 29 percent higher contrast than the current generation.

The laptop has all-flash storage in a new compact design that is 0.75 inches thick and 3.57 pounds — 20 percent thinner and almost a pound lighter than the current model. It has an HD camera and dual microphones. Pricing starts at $1,700. More information is here.

And finally: the new iMac also features a brilliant display, Apple says, as well as stunning new design that is “unbelievably thin” — the aluminum and glass enclosure has 40 percent less volume than its predecessor, and an edge that measures 5mm thin… all while housing a full-powered computer in the display case.

The new iMac features a completely reengineered display that reduces reflection by 75 percent while maintaining brilliant color and contrast, Apple says. In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process. Every iMac display is individually calibrated using an advanced spectroradiometer, the company adds.

Another new feature is Fusion Drive, a storage option that gives the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a hard drive, Apple says. It combines 128GB of flash with a standard 1TB or 3TB hard drive to create a single storage volume that “intelligently manages files to optimize read and write performance. Fusion Drive adapts to the way you use your iMac and automatically moves the files and apps you use most often to flash storage to enable faster performance and quicker access.”

Pricing starts at $1,300 for the 21.5-inch iMac, and $1,800 for the the 27-model.