I got my iPad *15 days before iPad 2 was announced...
And it's already feeling outdated.
A valuable life lesson.Painful though.Gotta wonder,if you have been here,surely you had to know it was a mistake?What on Earth were you thinking?
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iPad 2: GPU Benchmarked with Impressive Gains
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A valuable life lesson.Painful though.Gotta wonder,if you have been here,surely you had to know it was a mistake?What on Earth were you thinking?
Ouch for the other lawyer.
You don't have to run faster than the bear. With a big enough head start, you don't even need to run faster than the other lawyer.
OK, so I'm nitpicking a bit but your definition of OS and file system is very different than mine, since the iPad has both of those.
Don't get me wrong, I agree it's not as powerful as a MacBook Pro, but sometimes more power does not always equate to a better user experience.
Actually most of the computer buying public don't even understand the specs let alone pretend they matter.
Specs don't matter, user experience does. Doesn't make me or anyone else a "fanboy." The new iPad is faster - that's relative experience, not a spec. Specs try to (and often unsuccessfully) measure user experience.
I've driven cars with much better specs than my own, but I enjoy driving my car better.
Originally Posted by Wayfarer
I got my iPad *15 days before iPad 2 was announced...
And it's already feeling outdated.
I suspect original poster does not live in the U.S. Back in February, I was guessing iPad 2 release in early April and then only in the U.S. first with some countries not getting it until May or June. Still unclear what the release dates are for other countries, right? Anyway, silly purchase but not extremely so if one is located in a smaller country that gets Apple products much later than others.
I got my iPad *15 days before iPad 2 was announced...
And it's already feeling outdated.
I suspect original poster does not live in the U.S. Back in February, I was guessing iPad 2 release in early April and then only in the U.S. first with some countries not getting it until May or June. Still unclear what the release dates are for other countries, right? Anyway, silly purchase but not extremely so if one is located in a smaller country that gets Apple products much later than others.
Ultimately specs and benchmarks don't matter to the average user.
If raw performance and benchmarks were important, why aren't Windows PC users happier than Mac users? All the customer satisfaction surveys have Mac users at the top. Remember, many Mac users are former Windows PC users; over half of Mac sales in Apple's retail stores are to first-time Mac buyers.
Windows PC buyers are getting more performance at lower prices, but oddly, they seem to be an unhappy lot. Perhaps it's more about the total user experience.
There are a lot of haters in this forum. I mean a LOT.
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You should get a really good digital or even film camera. If you are relying on a phone or tablet camera for pictures, you will be disappointed someday. These cameras are not for serious pictures. Yes you can get some pictures with them you will keep but to get some really good ones that you could blow up or print and frame requires something better.
Great... Now it makes sense to use non-trivial fragment shaders in a device other than the 3GS/equivalent iPod Touch
People with an unhealthy, almost rabid, obsession against Apple products have said that specs are all that matter.
No one cares. People love iPad, and not everyone needs the fastest lapto.
And the apps are entirely real, buddy.
i ran geekbench 2 and it was at 834 mhz then i tried a little and it said 934. i think it depends on the power needed and the cpu will adjust.
Fantastic results. Really pleased as it means the iPhone 5 will have great power as I expect it to have the same GPU and CPU. As I've said before, half the power of the NGP, even though it's most likely clocked lower it's still amazing power for a tablet and phone!
It's also another sign of Apple not choosing Nvidia as it's not gone down the Tegra route.
It's also another sign of Apple not choosing Nvidia as it's not gone down the Tegra route.
Yet the iPad haters will keep saying that the iPad is not as good as that Xoom with its 1GB RAM. Whatever.
Although we'd want more than one benchmark for sure, the GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt test is a pretty decent indicator of "real world performance" close to a real game not just a "synthetic" one and no different from running, say, a Quake demo test. As Anandtech said:
Anandtech said:
This is what the test looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbbbmMefUjM
The Tegra 2 in the Xoom is more powerfull than the A5 in the ipad2 look it up if you don't believe me. ipad 2 has better GPU Xoom has better CPU and more ram so the Xoom wins.
So if one assumes changing the resolution affects the refresh rate in a linear fashion, changing the resolution of the Zoom to that of the ipad 2 still results in poorer performance: 15 frames per second. Still only a third of the refresh rate of the ipad 2.
Alternatively you could scale the ipad 2's resolution up to that of the xoom and find the ipad would have a refresh rate of 33 frames per second.
(I scaled it by area.)
LOL! I love your logic.
If Mac users are generally happier then why aren't there 9 macs sold for each PC? (Instead of the other way around).
The Apple cheerleading squad never ceases to give me a laugh. Now you've figured out how to measure "happiness"?
Well the problem is that operating systems like the one on the xoom require higher specs just to perform as well as iOS does. This is similar to windows. Windows users who buy these $300 machines are disappointed because the machines do not perform. Then the Windows user says the machine that costs the same as the Apple has greater CPU, etc. But it takes that greater CPU just to match the experience. So in the end, it is $/quality experience that matter.
Because people are opting to hope they can get by with the $300 machine. Furthermore the Windows machine producers subsidize their quality machines (higher specs at lower cost than Apple) with large sales of poorer machines. With the market share being what it is, they can play that game.
But with tablets it is a fresh start. Apple got the jump and set a standard. Now there are no bulk sales of cheap tablets to subsidize the higher end tablets of Android and other OS. They are trying but customers have rejected the cheap tablets as crap. And so the higher end tablets are very expensive or require a contract to meet Apple's prices. Its a new game starting from scratch. There is no way other tablet makers will just jump in and sell quality tablets in bulk to undercut Apple with minimal profit. And the low quality cheap tablet option has failed. I'm sure they would love to copy the business model of laptops and desktops but lets face it, tablets are an add on. They are not the first computer. People buying these are not looking for poor quality at low price.
As for computers, Apple's market share is rising and no other computer manufacturer is over 30%. Now if you compare Windows vs. Mac OS, Mac OS is small in comparison. But these devices like the ipad and iphone are helping to raise the market share of the Apple computers.
Well I am suddenly much more interested in an iPad 2. Probably still won't get it though. Had an iPad and a 3G iPad last year at different times and it was too much of a middling device for me. I didn't use it to read on because I have an ereader for that, I don't use it for games because I have an iPhone and an Xbox for that.
Doesn't suit much purpose for me but I still love the stupid things.
Doesn't suit much purpose for me but I still love the stupid things.