thanks,
i saw that as well, can you really do some video editing and photo work on the ipad4 with imovie without it getting bogged down?
i guess i am fishing around for reasons to spend the money, my ipad 1.0 is very limited in its use now, so i am trying to get some justification working past my surfing and video apps...
Yes...this is where you'll see the biggest difference between the iPad 2/3 and the 4th generation. Much MUCH faster with iMovie, iPhoto, and other 'rendering' apps that take advantage off the CPU and GPU. If you're just a browser, reader....email and Facebook, the iPad 3 is fine....if you're going to use it more like a 'power' user for creative work, you'll notice a very nice performance boost in the iPad 4. Rendering and formatting movies is twice....sometimes three times as fast between my 3 and 4. It's pretty amazing actually. If you work with PDFs as well, you'll notice them opening and manipulating more efficiently as well.
That said....IF you've made it's to this point, you may just pick up a second hand iPad 3 and see what happens this fall with the iPad 5. This will guarantee you the least amount lost on your iPad 3 investment.
If you're shooting HD video and editing it, buy as much storage as you can afford. That's our primary usage for most of our iPads. They're for our mobile audio and video production company and they're all 64 GB. Next round will definitely be 128GB. The iPads have transformed my two decade old business as far as portability, efficiency and the 'horsepower' to actually get 'real' work done....as well as providing us with reliable redundancy
Good luck!
J