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8 GB iPad 2 Coming Alongside 16 GB and 32 GB iPad 3 Next Week?

Even for use as a web access device 8GB is tight.

rmhop81 said:
Exactly! Macrumors users aren't the norm. I barely use up any space on mine. I use it for email, web browsing, stream music etc. there are far more people that probably do email only and that's it.
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It takes surprisingly little to use up that space. Add in a few iBooks, pics and apps and that space dwindles fast. Such a machine is of limited use, but that is not to say unusable.
 
16 gb at least

Still rockin the original iPad (16gb, wi-fi only.... I'm cheap). Barely enough memory. At 8gb the user experience would suffer.

Of course I've been wrong before
 
I find it hard to believe there would be no 64gb iPad yet they would be selling a 64gb iPhone.
 
pancakedrawer said:
The options:
1. This is an education model intended for textbooks
2. This is to enter a new price point
3. Apple needs to use the high flash profits to offset the cost of the retina display
4. Digi Times is wrong

My money is on #4
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4.Yes any mention of DigiTimes should say "shotguns" not "reports".

3.Would think if it keeps the iPad 2 name it keeps the same screen.
2.Well yeah but given 12month of price reductions you'd think they could knock off almost $100 just on tech maturity.
1. Well at 8Gb your in the realm of not enough space to hold a full days worth of reference material. If every student needs to pull data every class then that sort of traffic needs to be serviced on-site. So this would need to backed by some sort of iCloud cache wi-fi points in each class. New AppleTV function maybe.

Which still brings us back to #4.
 
Not gunna happen. It's just not enough, a lot of games can be as large as 2GB after installation, and even 32GB can be tight, yet alone 8GB. That's four big games, or four text books. Even my 64GB 4S is nearly full.


iPad 2 WiFi 16GB $499
iPad 3 WiFi 32GB $650, 64GB $750, 128GB $850

That's what I'm thinking. Expecting the iPad 2 to have the updated A5X at 28/32nm, perhaps at a 1.2GHz clock speed.
 
There is more margin there then you might imagine.

nuckinfutz said:
Fantasy. The iPad 2 doesn't have enough margin in it to absorb $100. Best Buy is clearing stock by offering a discount and Refurb units can't be sold as new so they are discounted so they move.

Apple cannot make acceptable margins by chopping off $100 on the current iPad. Other sacrifices must be made.
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All Apple has to do is roll everything they learned manufacturing iPad 2 into a new revision to cut costs. Little things go a long way here such as eliminating any chance of a cellular option. They could also implement an enhanced SoC to cut costs even more. Also the investment in the screen tech is probably paid for now so the screen will be cheaper.

In the end with a bit of focus and a willingness to sacrifice the stiff margin this machine is doable. People actually buying it is another issue.
 
Instead of having 128GB iPad 3, maxing out at 32 GB is a step backward imho. Hope these are just rumors and in a way they are till confirmed with the launch of the product.
 
There are some people who would defend Apple if it sold a small rock for $5000, because of course, someone could use a polished rock as a nice paperweight! 8 GB for an iPad 2 is ridiculous. I love Apple but that's... Sad, if true. Especially if it's given Apple's very minimal discount.
 
gibbz said:
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8GB for an iPad is virtually useless.
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You never know! there are people who want to use it for checking recipes online in their kitchen!
 
duffer6 said:
Okay I call BS on this entire story. 8GB on an iPad does not make sense due to the operating system already taking almost two gigs. Lastly Apple makes the most margin on the iPads with the largest capacity so for there not to be a 64GB option is NOT an option.

I am going to venture to guess we will see a 32GB, 64GB and 128GB iPad 3 at $499, $599 and $699 respectively. No 16GB iPad 3.

I pad 2 will stay at 16 GB and 32 GB only and be priced at $379 and $459 respectively.

Just my two cents.
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Now THIS I can see. Next week hurry up. I hate this part of the season (waiting for the keynotes. I call it a season) bogus rumors galore.
 
Well, that's nonsense.

I think, like the iPhone, Apple will keep the last gen iPad available for a while. I think the iPad 2 will be 16 gig with the low end iPad 3 will be 32 gigs, then 64 and 128.

Just my thought, could be wrong.
 
64gb ok buyable-acceptable.
The 128gb-relieved and ofc will go for this model wich will ofc be 799.
 
Huh! Funny, I use mine primarily for content creation, and I just realized an 8Gig would be plenty.

A thousand text documents and autocad files, hundreds of inkpad vector drawings, dozens of Inventor 3d models, and it's still not even a gig.

Everything else is kept online in dropbox, or streams from the MBP or netfliz.

Weird.
 
pancakedrawer said:
The options:
1. This is an education model intended for textbooks
2. This is to enter a new price point
3. Apple needs to use the high flash profits to offset the cost of the retina display
4. Digi Times is wrong

My money is on #4
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Not sure about it. New textbooks are huge, and would barely fit in 16GB.
I think the rumor is invalid.
And usually Apple doesn't move backwards.
The right move is to release a 128GB model.
 
markiv810 said:
Instead of having 128GB iPad 3, maxing out at 32 GB is a step backward imho. Hope these are just rumors and in a way they are till confirmed with the launch of the product.
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When the iPad 2 came out, the hardest models to find we're the 64GB in all thre versions (Wifi, 3G, CDMA), because these had the highest demand (well, the CDMA version was more available, but the other two, almost impossible to get at the store for a long time.
There must be a reason for higher demand, and it must be that most users want the largest capacity they can get.
 
wordoflife said:
Why even bother with an 8GB iPad ?
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I'm thinking the same thing. that wouldn't even work for the school kids since they typically have 5 text books and those can be as large as 2gb each.

I think they are making an assumption based on the iPhone trend and forgetting that folks tend to put more video etc on an iPad cause it looks better. so more storage, not less would be the selling point.

I think it will be 16 GB iPad 2 (wifi only probably) for like $349-399 and a 32 GB and 64GB iPad 3 if not 64 and 128. THe latter would depend on parts costs and would make sense particularly if they are also launching 1080 videos in the iTunes store as those will likely be 3-4 GB per "hour" (easily 2GB)
 
Mr. Gates said:
About $2.00

If you look at the massive amounts of flash they consume I would bet it might actually be lower.

But that's what you and I would pay.

Certainly not $100 LOL !
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So why doesn't Apple just lower the price of the 16GB iPad 2? And at the same time make the base iPad 3 32GB? We're talking peanuts here.
 
zorinlynx said:
Isn't flash memory cheap enough now that there's really no reason to have an 8GB iPad? What's the difference between 8GB and 16GB in cost, under $50 bucks? Look how cheap 16GB USB flash drives are now!
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Component cost is only one aspect to consider. Another factor is product differentiation. The cost of the cheapest model factors heavily in whether a potential customer even considers the purchase. But if the cheapest model is not sufficiently handicapped, then Apple risks too many customers going with the cheapest model instead of the most profitable.

Perhaps Retina is the carrot and 8GB is the stick.
 
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