Thin anti glare screen will be a nice improvement. I don't think anyone expected any major changes, those will not happen until the summer. 
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And that is exactly where I stop reading/lose interest/question the source's credibility
Analysts.
What a useless bunch of wankers.
Pity about resolution, if true.
Awesome about CPU, if true.
I want a minor boost in resolution, since 80% of my desktop use is available on iPad. When I can make an iPad my desktop, and the desktop a specialty machine, I'll buy. It's coming, but probably with iPad3.
Spaces on iPad would be great, if the CPU gets big enough to handle several programs at the same time. That's a way off, I think.
It's that sickly descriptive that tends to disqualify the poster from being anything more than a troll. I'd assume the "real computer" crowd mean they want super-duper-jacked-up CPU towers with the water cooling for high end gaming and CGI rendering. If they don't want to do that, I am not sure what they want from computers; most programs now run phenomenally well on iMacs and Power Macs.
Jobs was wise to go backwards and work on limited computing with an eye for portability. Since the portability factor will be the true future, best to get the market now, discover and push the engineering now, and make product. The form and function of the desktop stuff is reaching a peak at this time.
Awesome about CPU, if true.
I want a minor boost in resolution, since 80% of my desktop use is available on iPad. When I can make an iPad my desktop, and the desktop a specialty machine, I'll buy. It's coming, but probably with iPad3.
Spaces on iPad would be great, if the CPU gets big enough to handle several programs at the same time. That's a way off, I think.
I looked up "real computer" in the dictionary, but there is no entry.
It's that sickly descriptive that tends to disqualify the poster from being anything more than a troll. I'd assume the "real computer" crowd mean they want super-duper-jacked-up CPU towers with the water cooling for high end gaming and CGI rendering. If they don't want to do that, I am not sure what they want from computers; most programs now run phenomenally well on iMacs and Power Macs.
Jobs was wise to go backwards and work on limited computing with an eye for portability. Since the portability factor will be the true future, best to get the market now, discover and push the engineering now, and make product. The form and function of the desktop stuff is reaching a peak at this time.
I have an iPad1, but I'm seriously thinking of buying a Motorola Xoom Tab: http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Consumers/US-EN/XOOM/, which has all the features I wanted the iPad2 to have, maybe iPad3 will be the next Tab-Killer, but not iPad2 for sure...
This is just embarrassing. The newly announced PSP2 thats shipping this year is going to have:
Quad Core A9 CPU Win, if you are prepared to wait til the end of the year when this thing ships, otherwise enjoy a wikedly fast dual core tablet in 2 months time.
Top of the line Quad Core SGX GPU with raised clock speeds No one knows how many SGX 543 cores are ending up in iPad 2's chip yet.
512/1GB of RAM Neutral, who know's maybe it will be more, or maybe exactly the same
GPS FAIL - Not on their $350~ wifi model
Six axis motion sensing system FAIL - How is this better than an accelerometer and gyroscope, its not
Front 5 inch OLED touch capacitive display FAIL - you'r comparing this with 9.7" MULTITOUCH ips panel
Back capacitive touch pad FAIL - Apple's been there, built prototypes, wrote patents and all for it, funny that they haven't shipped anything? Maybe it's uncomfortable, awkward to learn or just has limited value.
Front and back camera's FAIL - This is a cert on ipad 2
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And its expected to be around $300 Bloggers estimate while the iPad is going to cost $200 bucks more, and is much less powerful. $200 bucks more for a big screen that is still the same resolution? Thats all I wanted and I was willing to pay the Apple tax for it!
Apple tax, pulease, you are as transparent a little troll as John Dvorak, shoo shoo, back under your bridge.
If you weren't living in fantasy land you'd realise that apple can't just majick up a display to a spec that you and everyone else couldn't dream about about a month ago. I find it very realistic that they have to wait for their suppliers to get production quantities up to speed.
Oh and when did Sony last say something would be affordable, oh right that'll be the psp go and before that, the ps3. I wouldn't trust Sony to know affordable if it smacked them in the face and i'm a very happy PS3 owner. Just don't tell me their speil don't stink.
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when iphone 5 comes with 1gb of ram people will be bitching that the ipad only has 512. keeping the ipad one step behind is pretty dumb imo when it should be more capable than the iphone. Regardless this update is becoming much less interesting. If iOS 5 is great it will help sales but if its still a grid of icons on a screen android will begin pulling ahead
when iphone 5 comes with 1gb of ram people will be bitching that the ipad only has 512. keeping the ipad one step behind is pretty dumb imo when it should be more capable than the iphone. Regardless this update is becoming much less interesting. If iOS 5 is great it will help sales but if its still a grid of icons on a screen android will begin pulling ahead
Hmmmm.... coming from someone who has used just about every flavor of Linux on the desktop for about ten years, I can tell you that Ubuntu (or any other desktop Linux) is not "on top" because Linux is a pretty crappy desktop operating system. Give me Linux on the server all day long, but if it weren't for my being accustomed to my Linux development environment, and that my only alternative at work would be a Windows development environment, I would have turned my back on desktop Linux two years ago.
I am certainly not "too dumb to figure out how to use a real Computer" and can handle configuring the computer to do just about anything. I really enjoy that with most modern Linux variants I have access to just about every file system under the Sun and I can download a combination of packages to make the machine bend to my will and do what I need it to. But desktop Linux continues to be a great list of features you can mark a check next to, but as a whole, it is something designed from the inside out (i.e.: a bunch of well-thought-out components slapped together or components specifically designed to place a bandaid over a gaping hole). Few of the tools are actually designed to work well together from the start, there is no consistent UI design, the packaging systems (RedHat, Debian, and their variants like Yum) while efficient, always seem to paint themselves into a corner that requires manual intervention to correct. And once you get everything configured just right, there is a new version released with a new kernel to download which may require some additional tinkering and downloading of new packages that are built using that new kernel.
Quite frankly, even though I know how to fix things I wonder why I have to bother so often. It reminds me of my old Ford Mustang I owned way back when I was 16 years old. Sure I could keep the thing running, but once I bought a car that did not require my constant intervention and tinkering I realized how much more time I had on my hands..... Like time to read tech forums like this and some analyst's lame regurgitation of speculation for the next iPad.
yes it limits multitasking, and is a pita with webbrowsing closing tabs or simply crashing with too big websites .
Yup safari constantly reloads when you switch browser panes.
Apps that could quite happily sleep in the background are being killed prematurely.
More ram please. 1gb is the right level for this generation.
Right now it's just some analyst predicting some of the specs, until Apple announces iPad 2 specs and features, then I'm sure we can judge if we are going to to buy it or hold the first gen.
Can't care less about any iDevice and looking at Apple's strategy / attitude / politics I don't think I ever will...
I don't understand this obsession for a higher resolution. The current iPad resolution is fine.
If it can be used out doors I would be happily surprised. I don't need electronic toys meant for basement dwelling only. When comparing a friends iPad and Kindle she readily admitted the iPad ended up being the kids toy because it was nearly impossible to use outdoors for reading (which is why she had a kindle)
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