iPad 2 teardown - what do you want to know?

Ram spec - they not saying anything about it.

Rear Camera spec - they not really saying anything about it.

Speaker quality/volume - they not saying anything about it.

CPU and GPU also of course.

 

i totally agree with you julian, it's good to know what you're buying, but i guess we'll have to wait and see till 11th of this month.

 

Apple did not want have 3 hour presentation. However, they could spell it all out in a press release. Like I said before, Apple has a great reputation of a high quality devices that work. They surely tested the device. Otherwise, you would had a major returns on the first iPad. It sold over 15 mil as of end of dec. 2010.

 

I quit caring when Apple decided the new products are to be chucked into the land fill after a year or so. Now being sealed appliances I don't care.

Apple a green company?

A total con job.

 

Are you actually implying that an iPad gets physically thrown away? How often do you think this actually occurs?

 

What I'd like to know is.......with most of the iPad 1 cases fit on the iPad 2??
The zip-around cases obviously will but what about ones like Cyber Acoustics and such? I suppose the ones that are held in by elastic bands will still work, too.

 

I'm curious how tightly packed the ipad2 will be. I'm thinking the designers/engineers of Apple must be part-time contortionists; they're able to fit the same basic components into an even smaller, lighter package.
Every time I read someone bitching about the lack of this feature or that on the first ipad, I tell them to look at the innards of ipad, vers 1. That sucker didn't have an inch of free space.

 

^ I could have sworn there was quite a bit of space in the first iPad. Or maybe just the Wifi version? I thought when it first torn down, it revealed a good bit of unused space...

 

What?

You could of fitted a medium sized elephant into the empty space in an iPad1 !

 

It's not that it would have taken too long, they just leave stuff out that they consider irrelevant. They know that all us technology peeps are going to find out this information through the back channels within a few hours of sunrise on launch day anyway, so why spend the time throwing numbers on the board when they can keep it simple and appeal to all demographics... Non-tech savvy people and tech savvy people.

They spend a lot of time making flashy simple presentations to suck you in to this "magic". Lol. Not that I'm complaining. I love all their products... It's just what they do

 

Things I need to know before I commit to a purchase

Amount of RAM

Things i'd like to know just for the hell of it.

GPU Model/Spec
Camera Spec
Full Breakdown and CPU Spec

 

Exact camera specs and comparison to cost of an iPhone 4 camera

I just want an honest reasoning on why they put a non-Autofocus .69MP Face/1MP Back camera This is a $500-800 device so putting in a camera that locks out certain apps from functioning like they would on an iPhone 4 is incredibly disappointing. (Google Translate, Google Goggles, In app-Check cashing, Artistic photos, QR scanning, Barcode scanners etc dont work without AutoFocus.) And lets not forget they spend 30min showing iMovie to prove this is a Media Creation device so why cripple us with the camera?

 

Cyber Acoustics Case

Kane. the iPad2 is just a hair shorter than the original along with the thickness being reduced by a 1/3 and a rear facing camera we are in the process creating a new case. Plain and simple the iPad2 will not work with our original case. Hope that helps.

Steve
Cyber Acoustics

 

From what I can find:

The iPhone4 rear 5 Megapixel Autofocus camera is supposed to have a component cost of $9.75

The front facing VGA Autofocus is suppose to be $1.00

These prices were around 1 year ago.

 

so what people and techies want to know is:

- RAM specs
- Front and rear camera specs
- GPU specs
- Same display as iPad 1?
- Same battery as iPad 1 or smaller/larger model?
- Speaker specs

 

Adjust those prices to reflect increased demand and multiply them by 30 million, then see what that does to Apple's flexibility and bottom line.

The number of iPads they would sell because of a different camera is statistically insignificant and not worth such a cost.

 

I certainly appreciate you taking the time to answer, Steve. Your personalized approach to customers is refreshing. I know I wouldn't want Apples "smart cover" with zero protection for the back.

 

The LPDDR2 RAM is integrated on the A5 chip, so unless the DRAM part number is printed on the chip (like it is on the current A4 chip), there is no way of telling. Unless some program can read the information.

The ImgTec SGX543MP2 puts out 9 times the GFlops/sec compared to the current SGX535 at the same clock.

 

The most important spec for me is RAM. I will not buy an iPad 2 if the RAM is anything less than 512. iPad 1 is thin, they mad iPad 2 thinner which is cool and all, but if they did it at the expense of tech specs I think it was a lame move. Seriously, no one was complaining about how thick the iPad 1 was. I'd rather keep the form the same on the outside, while year after year the guts on the inside get smaller, meaning you can pack more of them in there.

I'm also pretty curious about iMovie- I want to know if I can import movies from my iPhone 4 and my Sanyo camcorder one way or another. I'm sure you can, but I want to be sure.

The main reasons for me to purchase an iPad 2 is school work and on the fly video/audio editing so those are my must haves. I'd like to know what is going on with those cameras as well, but that's not a make or break for me. I've had an iPhone 4 since launch and I've used facetime exactly once. I'm sure I'll use it more in the future as these iDevices fall in to the hands of my friends but for now it's not a big deal.

In conclusion- gimme dat RAM

 

I hope it's 256MB. I hate people who care about nothing but numbers. 1 more iPad on launch day for me.

 

well, I'm not planning on buying at launch so you don't have to worry about me.

It's all "just numbers" but usually the bigger numbers are better when you're talking about specs. 600 is just a number, but when it's in the form of money I'd like to know what's going on before I drop it.

Some cars get 10 MPG, but hey, that's just a number.

 

yeah, damn those people for wanting to know whats under the hood prior to shelling out $500+

 

How about wanting to know how well it works before you assume (1) it doesn't have enough RAM and (2) that it needs 512 MB. If it works fine, I don't care about spending the money because then the amount of RAM is irrelevant.