Phew! When I read the title I first thought it was going to be 18 karat gold like theWatch!
16GB. 1GB RAM. $20K.
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Apple Planning to Offer iPad Air 2 with Gold Option
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16GB. 1GB RAM. $20K.
Ouch.
That would create disparity with the parent line (iPhone). Something vastly different would have to come out to give it some oomph in other areas.
Why not? It's not the color for me, but people seem to like it. Supposedly gold is far and away the top-selling iPhone color in Asia.
Yes!
I can see there MAY be reasons to limit to 1GB on a pocket phone (RAM is always-on and a big chunk of battery use, and if the OS can use RAM efficiently, all the better).
But iPads are big, and have battery life to spare. I go days between charges on my Air. So yes, if the iPad Air (and even Mini) doesn't have more than 1GB, I WILL be disappointed in Apple.
iPads were already HD (1280x720 or greater), long before the iPhone. There's no rush to add more DPI (even though if you look close, you could tell a difference).
(This is one reason I'm not worried about a 6 Plus handling games: it's not much different from iPad Air resolution, but with a faster chip! And my Air handles games just great. Plus, recent iPhone graphics benchmarks have ignored a) CPU, which is the likely biggest speed factor for most games, and b) Metal. The 6 Plus, like my Air, may not hit the same benchmark as a smaller device, but will run fine.)
Yes!
I can see there MAY be reasons to limit to 1GB on a pocket phone (RAM is always-on and a big chunk of battery use, and if the OS can use RAM efficiently, all the better).
But iPads are big, and have battery life to spare. I go days between charges on my Air. So yes, if the iPad Air (and even Mini) doesn't have more than 1GB, I WILL be disappointed in Apple.
iPads were already HD (1280x720 or greater), long before the iPhone. There's no rush to add more DPI (even though if you look close, you could tell a difference).
(This is one reason I'm not worried about a 6 Plus handling games: it's not much different from iPad Air resolution, but with a faster chip! And my Air handles games just great. Plus, recent iPhone graphics benchmarks have ignored a) CPU, which is the likely biggest speed factor for most games, and b) Metal. The 6 Plus, like my Air, may not hit the same benchmark as a smaller device, but will run fine.)
They have realllllly got to increase the base model's storage to 32GB. It's the year 2014, anything else is BEYOND ridiculous at this point. Sticking 2010 era storage in a 2014 "high-end" tablet is unbelievable.
Yep, and were already seeing Apple create unique UI/UX across the same family of devices (iPhone 6 vs. 6+), so Im thinking were going to see more diversity from iOS for phones vs. iOS for tablets (the latter being things like multi app views that would really be limited by RAM).
Im hoping for this (obv. some of these are nearly a given):
A8 (at faster than iP6 speeds)
2GB RAM
TouchID
150-200g lighter
Updated display panel (like the iP6s)
Plus iOS on the iPad related updates
We could have increased RAM, but of course, nooooooo...
We could have an adapted iOS better suited for iPad (those folders are ridiculous), but nooooo...
True, decent multitasking (instead of Apple fanboys' version of "multitasking"), but nooo...
Of course, what the iPad REALLY needs so people will update their tablets is a gold edition
We could have an adapted iOS better suited for iPad (those folders are ridiculous), but nooooo...
True, decent multitasking (instead of Apple fanboys' version of "multitasking"), but nooo...
Of course, what the iPad REALLY needs so people will update their tablets is a gold edition
To be fair, I'll think it's hideous even if Apple does it too. lol. Apple did choose about the best gold you could possibly do on iPhones though. A lot less ugly than it could have been.
iPad 3 and all next iterations are running fine with a screen that is 1 million pixels more than Full HD screens.
What are you talking about?
To Be honest I do not see the point of people complaining on more options. If you do not like that option do not buy it. Someone else will.
I know I will never buy a golden color device, but my wife devices from now on will be all golden color and it is totally fine with me.
I know I will never buy a golden color device, but my wife devices from now on will be all golden color and it is totally fine with me.
Asia's a big place. I see almost no gold ones in Japan. I would say its the least popular here, just from what I see on the street.