Yeah thats chump storage! Then again I think 750GB is still too low for my needs... Aint no laptop replacement until it can hold everything a laptop holds. Though we wont see that in iPads anytime soon.
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All iPads 128 GB iPad Air too less of storage space?
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I agree with what you said. But you can watch a few movies and listen to a lot of music before a 100GB data cap becomes a limiter. However, slow bandwidth will inhibit any streaming from the get go. The earlier poster's profile indicated he was in India - which is not known for fast internet.
Earlier I mentioned ISP bandwidth caps/ I was talking about ISPs such as AT&T and T-mobile, data providers for the iPad only.
It would be easy to blow through my 3GB per month that I pay for on T-Mobile if I stream or download music while I am out, another reason why I love my 128GB. Also, it's having all music because I may want to hear something i suddenly started thinking about and I already have it on my iPad. That happens all the time with me.
I also know many people have bandwidth caps on their home IPS. I use Century Link so I have unlimited. I downloaded HD seasons 1-8 of 24 (about 250GB) last month all in one day and my ISP never said a word. I do this all the time with shows and movies in other places. Iv'e avoided Comcast in my area for this reason alone. last I heard, they had a 200GB limit but that may have changed.
It would be easy to blow through my 3GB per month that I pay for on T-Mobile if I stream or download music while I am out, another reason why I love my 128GB. Also, it's having all music because I may want to hear something i suddenly started thinking about and I already have it on my iPad. That happens all the time with me.
I also know many people have bandwidth caps on their home IPS. I use Century Link so I have unlimited. I downloaded HD seasons 1-8 of 24 (about 250GB) last month all in one day and my ISP never said a word. I do this all the time with shows and movies in other places. Iv'e avoided Comcast in my area for this reason alone. last I heard, they had a 200GB limit but that may have changed.
That was Apple's original philosophy with the iPod. If I remember correctly, the first version of iTunes didn't allow for selective music syncing... it synced everything. (one needed to manually add/remove files from iTunes library to control it)
I think it depends upon how a person views their media library. I didn't just shovel .mp3 files into my library. I picked each album, ripped each CD, converted each vinyl LP because they were important to me. With my extensive music library, I like to have as much as possible with me so that I can mix things up with mood-based playlists and such.
My personal media (not pirated) library far exceeds the capacity of any portable consumer device out there, so I always have to manage the subset of media that is stored on my portable devices.
Maybe a person's library CAN fit within an exist device... then why not? The issue really then becomes Apple's pricing structure for additional storage on their devices. Is the additional cost worth being able to store one's complete library.
That is one of the reasons why removable storage options (eg. microSD) are high on my priority list when looking for portable devices.
I have Time Warner cable and there's no limit. We are constantly streaming XM Radio, Pandora and various channels on our Roku. TW was testing out bandwidth caps in some places (I remember Texas was one) but never rolled it out for everyone, and I doubt they will if the merger with Comcast goes through seeing that Comcast is really pushing their WiFi hotspots everywhere service.
It's possible to stream video without stutters at just 1 Mbps. Iirc, Netflix's lowest stream is around 500 Kbps (not that there's Netflix in India as far as I'm aware). Alas, it's not going to be pretty (macroblocking, artifacts, blur, etc). Besides, I doubt India's worse than the Philippines when it comes to internet speeds. While internet wasn't fast over there, it was acceptable enough. Granted, unless you're well off, speeds that can handle Netflix HD is somewhat out of reach for the normal consumer.
Hmm, looks like Time Warner decided not to implement the caps due to protests. Mind, audio streaming will barely make a dent on a 100GB cap. It's HD video streaming that's a major bandwidth hog.
As for the Comcast merger, good luck with that. Last I heard, Comcast's planning to impose a 300GB cap with overage fees.
I too have CenturyLink but we only get 7 Mbps speed here. What do you get speed wise? 7 Mbps sucks. Sure, you can download things but it takes a long time since according to speedtests I'm actually only getting about 4.5-5 Mbps instead of 7.
Also, CenturyLink does have a bandwidth cap (250 GB/month) in theory but they don't seem to enforce it:http://www.centurylink.com/Pages/AboutUs/Legal/InternetServiceManagement/
I could probably get away with Time Warner if they offer faster Mbps speeds and I keep track of my monthly bandwidth usage and it's always under 100 GB (average about 60-70 GB/month).
Here's my speediest. I stay away from Comcast because it would go down too much in the middle of the night when I would use it the most.
a 256gb will put the ipad close to 800-1000 price tag, no thx. i duno about you, but paying almost a grand for a ipad is just crazy. and if you have money to blow like that, more power to you
People would really be willing to pay the $1000+ Apple would charge for a 256GB iPad just to have tons of movies/music locally stored on the device? I literally can't think of a single situation where one would be away from their computer long enough be be able to go through 256GB or even 128GB of media without the chance to connect to their computer and add/remove the files they actually want to use at a given time.
With AppleCare+ and sales tax, the 128GB LTE model already costs over a grand. Besides, before the iPad, tablets were around $1500-3000 and they were heavy, ran hot, had extremely short battery life and usually had awful interfaces.
Much like having built-in cellular data, having large local storage is more about convenience. Besides, if you don't buy a new iPad every year, the extra cost really isn't so bad.
Besides, I think a lot of us who want a higher capacity iPad are hoping Apple will finally make 32GB as the $499 base model with the 256GB replacing the 128GB's current price point. Bit of a long shor but we can wish, can't we?
I bought my 128GB LTE Retina Mini with the idea that I will be keeping it awhile. I replaced my 160GB Classic with it.With AppleCare+ and sales tax, the 128GB LTE model already costs over a grand. Besides, before the iPad, tablets were around $1500-3000 and they were heavy, ran hot, had extremely short battery life and usually had awful interfaces.
Much like having built-in cellular data, having large local storage is more about convenience. Besides, if you don't buy a new iPad every year, the extra cost really isn't so bad.
Besides, I think a lot of us who want a higher capacity iPad are hoping Apple will finally make 32GB as the $499 base model with the 256GB replacing the 128GB's current price point.
Not having a cable attached to my car stereo to play music was also worth the cost.
I have 32gb on mine. I am strictly cloud based and streaming. Storage is for newest pictures/misc. files from school, notes, pdfs.. they all get moved to dropbox when I don't need them immediately. Itunes music match for streaming all my music, so I don't have to waste space for stuff I listen only every now and then, since I prefer spotify nowadays...
If i was a heavy picture taker (which I am on my iphone which I justify the bigger storage) but ipad I cant see the need for more than 32gb.
If you really need to carry all your music on your ipad..then I guess 128gb might be enough.. if you can manage to trim your music down to 100gb and leave 28 for the rest of your apps and whatnot.. I think you should just stream your music instead.
If i was a heavy picture taker (which I am on my iphone which I justify the bigger storage) but ipad I cant see the need for more than 32gb.
If you really need to carry all your music on your ipad..then I guess 128gb might be enough.. if you can manage to trim your music down to 100gb and leave 28 for the rest of your apps and whatnot.. I think you should just stream your music instead.
Its 85 GB limit and the speed of my connection is 10 Mbps. But upload speed is just 2 Mbps. Beyond 85 GB, speed is reduced to 1.5/0.7 Mbps. So I cannot stream from my home NAS because the speed will be limited to 2 Mbps only.
I seriously hope that this year's iPad Air 2 is 256 GB so that I can swiftly dump this first generation iPad Air.
Granted you cannot store ALL of your data externally but you can store music, photos and videos which is 95% of the data storage requirement by size
NextAV DataShare drive, put in the hard drive or SSD of your choice, up to 1 TB
http://www.nextav.ca/
Kingston Mobilite - WiFi hotspot with SD card or USB keychain storage
http://www.kingston.com/us/wireless/wireless_readers#mlwg2
LaCie Fuel
https://www.lacie.com/ca/products/product.htm?id=10618
SanDisk Connect
http://www.sandisk.com/products/wireless/media-drive/
Seagate Wireless Plus
http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/wireless/wireless-plus/
and probably more I haven't thought of
Not necessarily. Games and navigation apps with offline maps can take up a huge chunk. Same goes for comics and magazines. Also, I don't think you can choose playback software with those wifi drives (I like using Plex for browsing and watching videos). At least, the ones I've used before (Kingston Wi-Drive) don't let you.