After reading several articles, not to mention the news stories, you would think the new iPad is getting really hot. I would call it warm. I especially liked the article hanging off The Drudge right now claiming significantly less use time. Got mine on Friday and I've used it for hours daily. No way would I go back to an earlier model. If a little warmth and longer charge time is what I have to pay for this amazing device, so be it.
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Consumer Reports Finds New iPad Gets Warm, Can't Charge Under Heavy Loads
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CNet says it's much to do about nothing. And if CNet says that about an Apple product I believe it.
The best test for me is .Surprise! ME.
It hasn't felt hot at all in everything I've been doing with it.
The best test for me is .Surprise! ME.
It hasn't felt hot at all in everything I've been doing with it.
Do you have a link to an article that shows that an Android tablet is cooler than an iPad under the same conditions running the same software?
Reading emails, surfing the web, or even watching Netflix won't make it hot, not even warmer than normal. Just the GPU intensive applications raise the temperature much higher.
Agreed, at least then you'll never have to worry about it getting warm because you'll never want to use it.
Everyone says its much ado about nothing hehe, cuz it is. I cant believe such an overblown story gets so much press. Gotta give it to CR, the masters of click bait
Everyone says its much ado about nothing hehe, cuz it is. I cant believe such an overblown story gets so much press. Gotta give it to CR, the masters of click bait
Where did the story get overblown, here or by CR? I thought that CR said the iPad got warm and it couldn't keep up with charging under heavy load. Both of these are true. Why is it being made into such a big deal? Go touch an iPad at the Apple store. It is warm. Look at the battery indicators. None are at 100%. Both statements are true. I don't recall reading that the iPad is junk because of this. It is two simple observations.
Its overblown here hehe. Isn't that obvious? Look at the length of this thread. Read some of it. We've had comparisons to children being scalded by hot water, cars exploding, planes crashing, batteries blowing up, Apple not admitting mistakes. It's just hilarious.
It's an electronic device that emits heat. Oh no! Everyone run for your lives!!
Not an issue to me. Have used mine extensively since launch day. Yes, it is warmer, but in no way uncomfortable to me. And I enjoy gaming with it too.
As for people not buying this because it may not take a charge while really working, or even slowly drain the battery: Keep it in perspective; the rate of battery depletion while playing the most intensive games (plugged in) would probably require 20 hours or more to deplete the battery. Is this really an issue for anyone? 20 hours of any game or activity, non-stop, does not seem like a real likelihood or issue.
As for people not buying this because it may not take a charge while really working, or even slowly drain the battery: Keep it in perspective; the rate of battery depletion while playing the most intensive games (plugged in) would probably require 20 hours or more to deplete the battery. Is this really an issue for anyone? 20 hours of any game or activity, non-stop, does not seem like a real likelihood or issue.
Exactly. These things use a lot of power, and that's just a side effect of that.
I use my MBP 15" (85W Magsafe) on a 65W charger a lot of the time, since that's what I have around from my older Macbook, and it works fine, but one time when I was Skyping and running a bunch of crap spread across two monitors, it drained slowly while plugged in to the 65W. It's no big deal, the activities that drain it do so slowly enough that it doesn't negatively affect the end user.
The bigger issue I see here is how slow that massive battery is going to be to charge way up with that little power going into it. The iPad has a 42.5 watt-hour battery with 10 watts of input, so even at 100% efficiency, that would be over four hours of charging, whereas the Macbook Pro, with it's 77 watt-hour battery, and 85 watt power adapter, would charge in less than an hour. While that's not actually the case, as you can't charge a battery that fast, it offers a lot more headroom for running it while charging than the new iPad does.
Someone here monitored the battery charge rate by percentage and time and posted a spreadsheet/graph.
It took about 6.5-7 hours to full charge from 5%.
Yeah, you can't assume it's linear. From what I've heard about USB and how it uses the CPU so much, I have doubts that any kind of USB can achieve 800mpbs in real life. I gotta try it some day.
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Even the very few Droid users I know (all are real Apple-haters or Google fanatics) hate the Android tablets.
Of course, once he found out how much the Xoom sucked, the Google fanatic suddenly announced that tablets are completely useless (before, he said that the Xoom was amazing and would pwn the iPad).
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my old Belkin iphone charger is doing just fine with this new iPad, great thing too as I have a second Belkin charger at work.
Once I let the iPad drain down to 5% I'll time how long the charge will take.
As far as heat and charging under heavy loads, I've been playing Angry Birds Seasons for the last 30 minutes while it's charging, but it hasn't really impacted the charge rate. I doubt AB is a heavy load though.
Not getting hot either.
Between the screen, more ram and the dictation, glad I updated.
my old Belkin iphone charger is doing just fine with this new iPad, great thing too as I have a second Belkin charger at work.
Once I let the iPad drain down to 5% I'll time how long the charge will take.
As far as heat and charging under heavy loads, I've been playing Angry Birds Seasons for the last 30 minutes while it's charging, but it hasn't really impacted the charge rate. I doubt AB is a heavy load though.
Not getting hot either.
Between the screen, more ram and the dictation, glad I updated.
Just keep in mind the disclosure you agreed to for using Siri(dictation).
Siri will upload your personal information.
Upload, capture, store, profile...
They also like to share your personal information gathered for "product improvements"
It's like Apple enacted the Patriot Act on Siri users.
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iphone4s.pdf.
Exactly this. For any practical purpose, it really is a non-issue. Though some people will look for any excuse to not spend the coin and convince themselves their iPad 1 is a superior product.
I thought they were only cooler due to the fans that kicked in when things got warm. Oh wait, maybe I am thinking of the prototype Win 8 tablet.
Pretty much everything in a computer is eventually turned to heat after it's used, other than a bit emanating out as sound or light waves.