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Consumer Reports Finds New iPad Gets Warm, Can't Charge Under Heavy Loads
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Are you joking? I have mine set at 30% and it's just fine. I'd feel like I was burning my eyeballs out if I set my iPad at 100%.
And you do realize that Apple runs its battery tests at 50% brightness, right?
I don't think the hostility is directed at Consumer Reports. Their reporting is not the issue. They are quite right to do so. What I have a problem with is all of these elementary bloggers that jump on the bandwagon and report as this HUGE friggin' problem.
I have played games such as Dungeon Crawlers and Avadon on my new iPad 3rd Generation for hours and did not even notice that the device was slightly warmer than my body temperature.
Move along, there is nothing to see here.
If you feel the iPad interferes with your inalienable right to top off your battery while playing graphics-intensive games, you should return it. If you can't get your old iPad 2 back, you can buy one for $100 less than the new iPad.
And Infinity Blade: Dungeons will probably still play on the iPad 2. It just won't look nearly as cool with the graphics dialed down to the iPad 2's capabilities.
And Infinity Blade: Dungeons will probably still play on the iPad 2. It just won't look nearly as cool with the graphics dialed down to the iPad 2's capabilities.
I'm still to notice this so called "heating" issue. I played around with my iPad last night doing a mixture of stuff (iPhoto, iVideo, Web browsing, and mucked around with Garage Band). Barely noticed a change in temperature at all. Maybe just a very slight warmth.
Charging does take longer, and I'd imagine if you're playing a graphics heavy game, it probably won't charge properly, but I still fail to see how this is an issue to the vast majority of iPad users. How often really do you sit and play a graphically intense game for hours with the iPad on charge? I know this varies from person to person, but I only play games on the iPad when I'm bored or travelling. I don't envisage a time when I won't have charged my iPad fully before travelling so this will likely never be an issue to me.
Talk about overreactions.
Charging does take longer, and I'd imagine if you're playing a graphics heavy game, it probably won't charge properly, but I still fail to see how this is an issue to the vast majority of iPad users. How often really do you sit and play a graphically intense game for hours with the iPad on charge? I know this varies from person to person, but I only play games on the iPad when I'm bored or travelling. I don't envisage a time when I won't have charged my iPad fully before travelling so this will likely never be an issue to me.
Talk about overreactions.
I was thinking to buy a new ipad, but the charge issues, the heat and the game performance make me go back. I will wait for the 4G.
In which case, we might see an upgraded charger, we see these posts at every new product launch, especially the iPad and iPhone. I don't do heavy gaming, but did play Rage HD for about half an hor, no overheat, no issues.
I agree that 2% over 3 hours is certainly something not right, however that being said, I had mine down to 20% power and plugged it in. It must have been charging a good 5 maybe 6 hours, and it got up to 55%. Thats not normal.
It is very difficult to tell from these plot how much warmer it really gets. From the little histograms down in the thermal images, it sure looks like they used very different temperature ranges for the color scales. In fact from the histograms it looks like the main "hot peaks" are roughly in the same area and temperature range.
Besides .. my MBP heats up way more than that before the fan even jump to action .. I don't see a problem here so far.
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Besides .. my MBP heats up way more than that before the fan even jump to action .. I don't see a problem here so far.
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Exactly. The problem with thermal imaging is that it isn't absolute. They calibrated the camera to show the iPad 2 as being "cold" and the new iPad as being "hot."
The difference would be much more difficult to distinguish if they calibrated the camera for 0° as cold and 100° as hot.
Makes me think about the patent that was reported not to long ago. Maybe apple is looking at ways to more robustly charge the ipad?
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/18/apple-gets-magsafe-patent-for-ios-devices/
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/18/apple-gets-magsafe-patent-for-ios-devices/
In other news: "Nobody really gives a damn about Consumer Reports advice on technology products."
I realize this is like urinating against the wind in terms of the slow decline of comment quality in MacRumors over the last 4-5 years, but anyway......
No, it affected all iPhone 4's. You seem to lack a fundamental understanding of what the issues were.
The hardware issue was the amount of attenuation suffered by the units was significantly more than their previous phones and most other phones on the market. When you can get 25 or more dB of attenuation simply from holding the device naturally then you have a design oversight/flaw. Particularly when something as basic as 1 mil Kapton Tape can practically eliminate the problem. The fact the issue could be demonstrated by simply laying the phone down on a flat surface and touching the gap with a pinky tip points to a serious oversight.
The end-user/consumer issue wasn't whether or not someone's phone was affected (they all were), it was whether or not a 25 or higher dB attenuation caused you to lose a connection. In areas that had heavy signal penetration there was only a minor chance of someone experiencing problems with dropped calls/data. However in areas where signal penetration was not as high, it was an issue that could present itself quite frequently as a normal grip would cause severe attenuation.
The issue and/or whether or not it affected you in your coverage area are two completely different things and you are blatantly attempting to conflate the two.
Then there's the absolutely laughable signal mapping they utilized prior to being called out on it being grossly disingenuous (at best) and Apple's "oh we had no idea" plea of innocence. But that's a separate issue entirely.
Apple makes great products, but when you try to whitewash things like the antennae design problem you sound stunningly ignorant of the basic concepts behind the issue.
/blind worship or loyalty to a consumer electronics company is for rubes and shut-ins
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