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I should've known a POSITIVE thread about the new iPad wouldn't result in a tone of attention.
Eventually, the iPad will be just like the iPhone, whereas, in early years you had a TON of town criers speaking about lack of MMS, Copy & Paste, Multi-Tasking, etc...
Where are those town criers now!? Probably loyal iPhone users like most of us.
Thus, with a little patience and a lot of loyalty, you too will find your Apple devices a DELIGHT to use.
I mean sheesh, they aren't the most valuable company in the world for nothing!? With, Apple, I genuinely feel like the care about me as a consumer; I can't say that about the likes of HTC, Motorola, Samsung and so on.
1GB on an optimized tablet is HUGE!!!
Eventually, the iPad will be just like the iPhone, whereas, in early years you had a TON of town criers speaking about lack of MMS, Copy & Paste, Multi-Tasking, etc...
Where are those town criers now!? Probably loyal iPhone users like most of us.
Thus, with a little patience and a lot of loyalty, you too will find your Apple devices a DELIGHT to use.
I mean sheesh, they aren't the most valuable company in the world for nothing!? With, Apple, I genuinely feel like the care about me as a consumer; I can't say that about the likes of HTC, Motorola, Samsung and so on.
1GB on an optimized tablet is HUGE!!!
How much reception do you want? The normal for most tablets given the price range is 1gb now, pay a little more and you can get 2gb.
Understood but while we're going over every other attribute of the new iPad, I simply thought that this feature/function would be more talked about.
That's all.
Conversely, I believe if I was complaining, the thread would garner more attention.
That's all.
Conversely, I believe if I was complaining, the thread would garner more attention.
Well, these last two post have me especially excited, as I too am coming from the original iPad.
My Speck Case finally came in the mail today, so I can finally open my baby tonight!!!
Yes sir, it's time to get the party started for me!!!!!
You mean you have an iPad lying at home all shrinkwrapped and you are waiting for the case before you open it????
If true my Sir, that is sick!!!
You don't have 4x the RAM, but you do have 3x. iOS 5.0.x uses just under 256MB (not sure about 5.1, I imagine it's a tiny bit higher), leaving you with 256MB for applications on the iPad2, but 768MB on the new iPad.
You really can't count the memory used by the OS, since you can't use it anyway. GPU is a completely valid complaint, however. Basically seems like you have to target the iPad 1, performance-wise with low-res assets, and then the 3's GPU will give the additional power needed to get the same performance with 4x assets.
More RAM = More Better
The more RAM that's available to a system, the better it will perform. I don't mean in absolute speed terms but rather in terms of perceived smoothness of the experience. 1GB of RAM has increased efficiency in most of the apps because they have a larger pool of RAM to function off of. So far, there haven't been any limitations that I have come up to. I am also a habitual task manager so I close apps when I don't need them. Sure, I could use 4GB in an iPad but there aren't that many apps that I HAVE to run at the same time. If true multitasking was toggled on in iOS, the 1GB would come up slightly short. Right now, it's the perfect amount of RAM for the job.
The more RAM that's available to a system, the better it will perform. I don't mean in absolute speed terms but rather in terms of perceived smoothness of the experience. 1GB of RAM has increased efficiency in most of the apps because they have a larger pool of RAM to function off of. So far, there haven't been any limitations that I have come up to. I am also a habitual task manager so I close apps when I don't need them. Sure, I could use 4GB in an iPad but there aren't that many apps that I HAVE to run at the same time. If true multitasking was toggled on in iOS, the 1GB would come up slightly short. Right now, it's the perfect amount of RAM for the job.
That alone is reason enough to switch from iPad 1, not to mention the retina display - I am glad I ordered mine two days ago
I have over 700 apps (built up a collection throughout the years since 2007) and I haven't noticed any difference from the iPad 2 to the iPad 3 except for memory intensive apps crash less (like iMovie with a five minute video comprised of multiple vids).
Accessing my home share is much faster. Not sure if it's the RAM but my iPad loads the library for all my videos at least twice as fast now.
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No kidding. Unless you have razors for hands open your device when you get it. Don't wait for a case... Yeesh and I thought I was OCD.
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No kidding. Unless you have razors for hands open your device when you get it. Don't wait for a case... Yeesh and I thought I was OCD.
I never had a problem with the iPad 2, so I guess that I can't tell. It will show through more so with some apps. But I don't game on the iPad so meh.
Sigh... it's true, I waited almost a week before playing with the new iPad
Mine is flawless (screen, pixels, etc...) and the screen makes this baby feel like a computer more than ever.
I actually get higher speeds on my Comcast Cable via speedtest with my iPad (3) than my computer or iPhone (4S).
It's rendering four times as many pixels with the same CPU and only 2× the GPU power of the iPad 2.
Things like rendering PDFs, general UI and playing games (especially those with retina updates) all runs slower than the iPad 2.
Even things like dialogue boxes sliding up, opening or quitting apps will stutter on the new iPad.
annnnnd you have a new ipad that does this?? or is this just a theory
because my new ipad is the fastest ios device ive used..even when running retina apps...
I do see some lag when I load pictures that are 2048x2048 (I think) however I think that's to be expected with the same CPU as the iPad 2 and while I don't pull up too many PDF's I could see that having an impact as well depending on the content. I do wish it were a little faster with hi res images but then again it's about as fast as my iPhone 4S when pulling up a super hi def image.
In comparison however I can take a photo with my Canon 550D and zoom in to a quarter mile away on my ipad with no lag once the image loads (2 to 4 seconds) and when I pull up the same pic on my work computer it lags each time I zoom on the picture which takes about 4 to 5 times to get to the same zoom point (about 15 seconds, 3 seconds each zoom).
As a reference point there was a car about a quarter of a mile away that I could easily zoom in on with the iPad and it took forever to show people on a computer.
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maybe youre getting rendering times confused with UI lag? the interface is smooth as ice, sometimes on retina images there is a second delay while the image renders
