I had to giggle a bit on the part I highlighted. You sound a little on the young side there....As I said, everyone has an opinion. I was at the Apple store yesterday and tested the flex differences between the iPad 2 and the Air. While the iPad 2 is definitely a firmer build (after all it is much thicker) :roll eyes:, the Air certainly doesn't flex easily.Your version of easy to flex certainly differs from mine. And it has ZERO and I repeat ZERO affect on typing. It's a touch screen. That's the one thing I love about living near an Apple store, I can check for myself because some people here seem like they have more of an agenda against Apple in order to make their product seem much worse than it is in reality.
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iPad Air screen and home button feel so cheap
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I had to giggle a bit on the part I highlighted. You sound a little on the young side there....As I said, everyone has an opinion. I was at the Apple store yesterday and tested the flex differences between the iPad 2 and the Air. While the iPad 2 is definitely a firmer build (after all it is much thicker) :roll eyes:, the Air certainly doesn't flex easily.Your version of easy to flex certainly differs from mine. And it has ZERO and I repeat ZERO affect on typing. It's a touch screen. That's the one thing I love about living near an Apple store, I can check for myself because some people here seem like they have more of an agenda against Apple in order to make their product seem much worse than it is in reality.
I had an iPad 4 and then bought the original Mini. The Mini's thinner screen felt different at first, but I quickly adjusted. I learned that beating on a virtual keyboard doesn't work any better than lightly tapping. 
P.S. I squeezed the day lights out of the display models, just to see how much abuse they'd take (within reason, of course). They did just fine......
P.S. I squeezed the day lights out of the display models, just to see how much abuse they'd take (within reason, of course). They did just fine......
Good Lord! So much embellishment. Hilarious. I've Had the Air since release and I've got six '4s' (we use them in the field). Not a single difference other than weight. Just as durable, certainly not 'flexible'...wtf are you guys doing with these? My wife, who can break ANYthing had enjoyed a 'naked' rMini since launch. Throws it in her purse, slides across the table....drives me crazy. Guess what? Not a SINGLE scratch, mark, bend or cosmetic damage at ALL! LoL, she snares hers with my nine year old son as well...they may be a bit more susceptible to boogers...but these embellished, over exaggerated comments left me belly laughing. I've still got the original and an iPad 2. Of all the Air and 'mini' designs are hands down the pinnacle to tablet computing. Plastic? Hollow? Flexible? RIDICULOUS
Right with ya Henry. Kinda funny when you look at 'handles' and 'join dates' as well. Perhaps it's that 'new generation'. As a 43 year old I'm floored by the engineering prowess that went into this one pound slate....with more power, speed, battery life and software available than my laptop from four years ago.
Bitch to impress some I suppose
J
Good Lord! So much embellishment. Hilarious. I've Had the Air since release and I've got six '4s' (we use them in the field). Not a single difference other than weight. Just as durable, certainly not 'flexible'...wtf are you guys doing with these? My wife, who can break ANYthing had enjoyed a 'naked' rMini since launch. Throws it in her purse, slides across the table....drives me crazy. Guess what? Not a SINGLE scratch, mark, bend or cosmetic damage at ALL! LoL, she snares hers with my nine year old son as well...they may be a bit more susceptible to boogers...but these embellished, over exaggerated comments left me belly laughing. I've still got the original and an iPad 2. Of all the Air and 'mini' designs are hands down the pinnacle to tablet computing. Plastic? Hollow? Flexible? RIDICULOUS
Right with ya Henry. Kinda funny when you look at 'handles' and 'join dates' as well. Perhaps it's that 'new generation'. As a 43 year old I'm floored by the engineering prowess that went into this one pound slate....with more power, speed, battery life and software available than my laptop from four years ago.
Bitch to impress some I suppose
J
Good lord, we can't really complaint when it comes to Apple now, can we? iDevices created by God so no one should yell about it? I never said I don't enjoy my Air. In fact I adore the beautiful design. I never said my Air flexible, it's the display glass that does, not the iPad itself. Read more carefully, please?
Doesn't matter how prowess an engineering design is, we are limited by physics. Thinner = compromises. Display glass is made thinner which flexes more easily, more hollow parts behind the display. You haven't see iPad Air tear-down now, do you? Funny it should be called iPad Air because now it contains more .. air.
And we're talking facts here, not some 6 years old kid with baseless complaints. I'm sorry but maybe you're just too old to appreciate differences?
You are fully satisfied with the new iPad, fine .. but some of us have some reasonable caveats. NOT that we hate the Air, we love it, but some of us choose to be honest and admit it has its own drawbacks.
They are very different. The Air and the 4 that is. A major trade off.
I don't know about you people, but all my capacitive pens work very poorly on the Air, and sort of make a sickening hollow sound This isn't an issue for some, but I use these pens.
Having said (trashed) that, the Air is just as desirable, if not more.
Best to have both
Just to be sure
Note: i've noticed two types of people on these tech forums. Consumers, and techies (by techies, i mean people who are passionate about this stuff).
just an observation.
I don't know about you people, but all my capacitive pens work very poorly on the Air, and sort of make a sickening hollow sound
This isn't an issue for some, but I use these pens. Having said (trashed) that, the Air is just as desirable, if not more.
Best to have both
Just to be sure
Note: i've noticed two types of people on these tech forums. Consumers, and techies (by techies, i mean people who are passionate about this stuff).
just an observation.
They are different.
No trade off.
Nothing cheaper.
The Air is just lighter and smaller .... how can this be definable as "cheaper" is beyond my imagination.
We have a device that is better in any way than previous generation, maintaining the same screen size, and we are complaining because it feels "different"
This is MacRumors forum ...
No trade off.
Nothing cheaper.
The Air is just lighter and smaller .... how can this be definable as "cheaper" is beyond my imagination.
We have a device that is better in any way than previous generation, maintaining the same screen size, and we are complaining because it feels "different"
This is MacRumors forum ...
The plastic sound is what thin glass sounds like. As I said in another thread, a high quality wine glass has the same plasticky 'ring' when you tap it.
If it feels so cheap, I would return it for full refund. It is that simple and try Asus Transformer tablet or Sony Experia?
If it feels so cheap, I would return it for full refund. It is that simple and try Asus Transformer tablet or Sony Experia?
Then you will feel what "cheap" REALLY feels like