iPad 2 Rumors: Apple Reducing Production Targets, New Mockups, Late March Avail?

[notabadname]

I want a macbook with a decent/good GPU not an ipad... worthlessness

They're selling 7 million per quarter because people find them worthless. But we are all certainly entitled to an opinion

 

[saving107]

I want a macbook with a decent/good GPU not an ipad... worthlessness

I think you posted your comment in the wrong forum, try this one, theirs all kinds of MacBook specs talk there.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1101041/

 

[Nuvi]

In all honesty, I think the original iPad looks better then the iPad2.

 

[Bakey]

The whole iPad 2 mockup looks horrible.

Same can be said for every comment you make on here.

Whoah there, you should be careful making comments like that!!

The moderators take no prisoners...

 

[Amnak]

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That grill is ugly.

Wow, that is exactly what I was going to say. Seems very un-Apple like.

My first thought as well.

I think that if iP2 has a grill it would be more like the MPB speaker dots

 

[tigres]

I hope iPad 2 does not follow in the steps of iPhone 3G. The first iPhone was much better built and better looking than the following Gen's (excluding iP4)IMO.

iPad is a pretty solid and robust looking piece of tech.

 

[eNcrypTioN]

That grill on the back is hideous Doesn't seem like an Apple design.

 

[derek1984]

Hurry, get this out fast. The sooner iPad 2 gets released, the sooner I can get iPad 3 with retina display.

 

[dagamer34]

Apple uses a laser to create tiny holes for the speaker that are absolutely invisible to the naked eye and that cannot be felt. There is no need whatsoever to create ugly visible holes. Whoever created this mockup has no idea what Apple is doing.

That's why it's a mockup. People don't make it to win design awards, but to give you an idea of what it would look like.

Looking at that mockup reminds me of a fact that if you stick any kind of connector on the top of the device, it's going to be right where the antenna surface is on the WiFi+3G model...

 

[Lesser Evets]

That mockup deserves to be mocked down.

 

[HarryKeogh]

In all honesty, I think the original iPad looks better then the iPad2.

I agree with you.

 

[tim916]

Looks cheaper. Like the case is stamped instead of machined. Hopefully they switched to a cheaper manufacturing process that will be reflected in increase spec per dollar or a lower price.

It's an effing mockup!

 

[camelsnot]

Where's the ThunderBolt port?

on a Thunderbolt.

 

[InTheUnion]

In all honesty, I think the original iPad looks better then the iPad2.

I don't know about everyone else, but I much prefer the curved back and the reassuring weight of the current one. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised though.

 

[wordoflife]

The top looks nice. Not so much the back.

 

[IconicM]

That has to be the sorriest mock-up ever!! MacRumors, please cease from disgracing yourself and remove that atrocious thing off your site.

 

[spencers]

In all honesty, I think the original iPad looks better than the iPad2 MOCKUP.

fixed.

 

[sammy2066]

Agreed, that mockup looks like it could do better.

 

[notabadname]

Have a little faith. Apple has been pretty consistent in releasing products that have the highest of build quality. I think people are way to "bent" over a cheap mock-up that, if even legit, would simply be used for case designs and stuff. Ports and grills would only be representative for locating cut-outs.

 

[jlblodgett]

That speaker grill is hideous ugly.

I hope that isn't on the final product.

 

[AJ Predictions]

I actually don't think the iPad 2 will look like this...

 

[Benjamins]

if that's the real thing, I don't like how it looks.

 

[DukeOfHunslet]

That speaker grill looks like nothing I have ever seen on an Apple product before. Unless Apple made office intercoms in the 50's?

I also wonder about the dock connector. It enters the case on a curve at about 45 degrees... that cannot be right, it must use a universal dock lead and if it's not right then the whole casing design mock up is off the map. No?

 

[AJ Predictions]

In all honesty, I think the original iPad looks better then the iPad2.

That's not even the iPad 2!

 

[akm3]

Where's the ThunderBolt port?

Sounds so weird. I wonder how long that'll take to get used to.