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iPad 3 Announcement on March 7th with Quad Core and 4G LTE? [Date Confirmed]
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The OS needs to be updated. Stuck on iOS 5 still.
Unless some extras are added software-wise, it won't really be that different...
The A5 is already fast, and iOS has those annoying slow animations that kinda limit how much faster things could get. Then you'll get a clearer screen, and MAYBE, if you're lucky, have LTE in your area...
Unless some extras are added software-wise, it won't really be that different...
The A5 is already fast, and iOS has those annoying slow animations that kinda limit how much faster things could get. Then you'll get a clearer screen, and MAYBE, if you're lucky, have LTE in your area...
What I like about the [Date Confirmed] via Jim Dalrymple, is where it doesn’t say [Other Details From iMore Denied] 
Of course, lack of denial doesn’t exactly mean confirmation.
Quad cores and 4x the pixels sounds like a huge power hog, but if it can be done, I want it!
A retina display is VERY different. Nothing more is needed to make this a fantastic upgrade to an already-great product.
I too am excited for iOS 6, but we’ll get that anyway, regardless of whether it comes at the same time as the iPad 3 or comes out later.
Of course, lack of denial doesn’t exactly mean confirmation.
Quad cores and 4x the pixels sounds like a huge power hog, but if it can be done, I want it!
A retina display is VERY different. Nothing more is needed to make this a fantastic upgrade to an already-great product.
I too am excited for iOS 6, but we’ll get that anyway, regardless of whether it comes at the same time as the iPad 3 or comes out later.
If you really want to get technical the leg is only the lower part of your lower ext from your knee to your ankle.... I bet he would make that trade.
3 weeks to announcement, prob another 3 to release here in Europe. The same as last year ;-)
I am a bit amused but not surprised three characters by a third party is where we get our pre-announce confirmations. Probably an under capacity Tweet. He had 137 remaining characters after all.
The iPad 3 will be my first pad. I expect to use it mainly for surfing and media viewing.
It will interest me if it becomes in any way a "workstation".
Rocketman
The iPad 3 will be my first pad. I expect to use it mainly for surfing and media viewing.
It will interest me if it becomes in any way a "workstation".
Rocketman
The ongoing mantra in this forum says SPECS DON'T MATTER. There is no denying that. Anytime a new Android device talks of better specs, it is made fun of and completely written off as unnecessary. But when a rumor touches on specs and it is an Apple device on the receiving end of the better hardware, it seems a lot of people come out and completely go nuts over the better specs. The blatant hypocrisy is downright shameful and embarrassing.
I agree with you but you know. From all I see on the Internet etc. Android devices don't seem to dwell too much on all the specs. They usually just show a screen with some science fiction theme with ice cream sandwich.
At least Apple talks more about specs than HTC et. al.
Specs don't matter when you're OS is too generic to take advantage of the hardware (Android)
Apogee Jam and Mic are fantastic, I have both. The iPad is an incredible tool for musicians.
No, the mantra here is: a) specs don’t matter to MOST people (undeniably true; most don’t even understand them). And b) specs matter much LESS than the actual resulting experience (after all, what good are specs if they’re just a piece of paper?)
Thus the iPad 3’s awesome resolution numbers (if that’s true) do matter... but how great the image LOOKS matters more.
Either way, the news (if true) is well worth going nuts over
P.S. The important spec on many Android screens is that they use a PenTile matrix. That means terrible textures instead of smooth colors, it means jagged lines, and it means actually delivering only half the detail that the res numbers alone would claim. Again: the specs are mere hype, and they matter less than what is REALLY delivered. Retina vs. PenTile is an astonishing gap of quality.
I won't requote it like the others, but specs do matter for the purpose of enabling features and benefits. If another device has some specs that are numerically or technologically better but do not deliver a better "experience" that better spec is wasted.
The reason why folks at this site often seem like fanbois to non-users, is that they simply like the product, or like me, what I can do with it. I have used computers all my life with leading edge specs and the benefits were real, largely in I/O or GUI responsiveness, or sheer compute power and speed. I have been known to run chemical equilibrium runs overnight with full CPU usage.
But when it comes to a smart phone or a pad, the key benefit is not sheer speed, but features and benefits., An ecosystem, OS features, hardware behaviors, software behaviors, content, etc.
Now to be fair there are plenty of things you can do on an Android OS device or a RIM OS device you cannot do or do as well as on an iOS device. Particularly for folks who do not use "general purpose consumer apps and features".
That's why I never criticize someone who jailbreaks a device or opts for Ice Cream Sandwich to get particular things which are not quite so much walled garden.
But there is currently approximate unit and deployment parity between iOS and Android.
It is only in the field of finance where Apple is heads and shoulders above the others. Great for stockholders, but do users really care? probably not.
But some users do care what that financial dominance delivers in terms of features and benefits with a garden I particularly point out is often crippled until they can be deployed system wide. I note 1080 and LTE in particular but there are other examples.
In some ways Apple is a "trailing edge adopter".
I for one thing it is done as a network congestion management scheme.
Rocketman
The reason why folks at this site often seem like fanbois to non-users, is that they simply like the product, or like me, what I can do with it. I have used computers all my life with leading edge specs and the benefits were real, largely in I/O or GUI responsiveness, or sheer compute power and speed. I have been known to run chemical equilibrium runs overnight with full CPU usage.
But when it comes to a smart phone or a pad, the key benefit is not sheer speed, but features and benefits., An ecosystem, OS features, hardware behaviors, software behaviors, content, etc.
Now to be fair there are plenty of things you can do on an Android OS device or a RIM OS device you cannot do or do as well as on an iOS device. Particularly for folks who do not use "general purpose consumer apps and features".
That's why I never criticize someone who jailbreaks a device or opts for Ice Cream Sandwich to get particular things which are not quite so much walled garden.
But there is currently approximate unit and deployment parity between iOS and Android.
It is only in the field of finance where Apple is heads and shoulders above the others. Great for stockholders, but do users really care? probably not.
But some users do care what that financial dominance delivers in terms of features and benefits with a garden I particularly point out is often crippled until they can be deployed system wide. I note 1080 and LTE in particular but there are other examples.
In some ways Apple is a "trailing edge adopter".
I for one thing it is done as a network congestion management scheme.
Rocketman
Because as of now, and I'm hoping it changes with the Apple A6 (Gets discrete GPU RAM.), is the GPU has to share its memory with the CPU, and double res image resources, will be 4 times as large as now (file size). and to store them all in RAM, there will simply need to be more of it. OR the experience will be worse, which is not Apples style.
I agree that Apple wants to serve content via iCloud but with the iPad becoming more of a content production tool, there needs to be a way to get content (i.e. video/photos) on to the iPad without clumsy dongles.
Let's not forget that Apple has added SD card slots to its entire Mac line while still pushing the Mac App Store and iCloud. They're not mutually exclusive, they're complimentary to each other.
I would put the probability of an SD card slot on iPad 3 as fair.
True.... but it depends on which specs you are talking about.
I'm sure we will see an Android tablet with 2GB of RAM by the end of 2012. But what is that really gonna do?
Now a 2048x1536 iPad screen? That's tasty!
No, just think that better single-threaded performance is more useful right now than double the number of cores.
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Well, I'm not sure it's feasible to ship an A15-based device by next month. If not, then of course they'd go with quad-A9 instead of dual-A15, even if the A15 might perform better.
True.... but it depends on which specs you are talking about.
I'm sure we will see an Android tablet with 2GB of RAM by the end of 2012. But what is that really gonna do?
Now a 2048x1536 iPad screen? That's tasty!
Apple won't be the only one with a high res display this year...i'm sure we will see an Android tablet with 2gb ram and a high res screen by the end of 2012