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iPad I feel like us iPad 3 owners will feel a gastronomical leap to A7.
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I presume you mean "astronomical"
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I presume you mean "astronomical"
Yes, it'll be a big leap. The iPad 3 was a premature product - they doubled the qraphics power over the iPad 2 but it had four times as many pixels to move and, as a result, was slower graphically. Basically the 3 doesn't have enough grunt to drive the screen in all conditions.
The iPad 4 should have been the first retina device but I suspect the market at the time dictated that they needed to launch the high res screen early in 2012 and the hardware just wasn't ready. As a result the 3 was a kind of stop-gap measure and is why the 4 followed only seven months later.
I had a 2 and then a 3. I upgraded because I wanted the retina display, more memory and 3G and, whilst I don't regret it for a moment, it did annoy me how noticably slower the 3 was than the 2 in a lot of circumstances, not to mention thicker and heavier.
I sold my 3 a couple of weeks ago and will be ordering a 5 on launch day.
How much did you get for it and what model? 32GB?
Ditto. I won't be upgrading this time around, my 3gen does everything I need it to do.
Well we can never be sure but the 3 was released prematurely because they needed to get the retina screen version on the market ASAP, just the hardware wasn't quite ready.
This time round, there's no new screen or "must have" feature that they have to get to market now and which would force them to rush it so they'll have taken their time and released the product when ready.
Yes, but you are replying to posts that were made about one year ago. That was before the iPad Air was announced, and the name of the iPad 5 was unknown.
