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iPad 3 with LTE, Quad-Core Processor and Retina Display Set for March Launch
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netbook, seriously?
Used a netbook last year in a cafe that was available to anyone with a purchase. Yeah, I want to get serious alright - seriously considered throwing the thing out the window after a few seconds of use. Talk about lag and underpowered plastic, and all I wanted to do was check email.
Used a netbook last year in a cafe that was available to anyone with a purchase. Yeah, I want to get serious alright - seriously considered throwing the thing out the window after a few seconds of use. Talk about lag and underpowered plastic, and all I wanted to do was check email.
Used a netbook last year in a cafe that was available to anyone with a purchase. Yeah, I want to get serious alright - seriously considered throwing the thing out the window after a few seconds of use. Talk about lag and underpowered plastic, and all I wanted to do was check email.
I almost never use a real computer when I want to quickly check email anymore. It's either iPad or iPhone. iPhone most often for me.
Netbooks are s*** though I agree. I wouldn't want to use them for anything. I gave my old Samsung away to a friend in South America a long time ago.
I think I'd like a hybrid from apple. Or at least an official keyboard case, like the logitech one. I've started to use my laptop again for browsing - keeping a few tabs open that I'm watching, and being able to type faster.
If there was a good option for ipad typing I'd be up for trying that.
If there was a good option for ipad typing I'd be up for trying that.
I don't think iPad will ever replace MacBooks in total. The reason is simply that iPad is supposed to be extremely intuitive and user-friendly and to be like that they can't open for too much customization. MacBook's/iMacs/Mac Minis will probably still be work station. But what I know will change(it's already starting to change) is that the computer will no longer be the hub in which you sync and control all your other devices. The hub will be moved into the cloud and all devices will sync accordingly. the computer will remain as a more powerful workstation in which you perform more complex tasks than iPad/iPhone is useful for. The computer "sucks" at doing small, simple tasks like just googling up a simple search, quickly checking facebook, quickly reading/sending an e-mail etc. After I got my iPhone that's the device I check 90% of my e-mails on, just because it's fast and easy! It's one click, it's in my pocket and the app starts up in just a second.
I've really come to rely on my iPad after getting the second gen version at launch, I don't think I was expecting it to be so useful but it's really been superb, I might get the three and give my two to my mother, get her online
Well, the iPad of today doesn't allow for much customization, but we don't know what the iPad of 5, 10 years will bring. We already see musicians, visual artist using it to create. Many businesses issue them to employees with customized apps instead of laptops. And, consumers can already crudely edit video, music. This past week we saw the introduction of an app that syncs with a virtual Windows 7 and MS Office. Today's iPad is similar in tablet development as the Model T was to cars in 1910.
Computer are not going away anytime soon, but that is not to say they won't become specialized equipment. I like the way Jobs explained them as big trucks. Most consumers and businesses don't need big trucks. Most consumers do not use a fraction of the processing power their big computer offers them which is why tablets are the future. Today's iPad is more powerful than the first Mac.
I would imagine Apple have already made their money back multiple 1000 fold plus on A4/A5 so why not leave the old technology behind.
No going to happen, Look at the trend with Apple
Apple Buys Intrensity and P.A Semi
Apple uses the experience of the Teams they bought to design their custom SoC who in turn is able to better suit and talk with iOS devices.
Apple Buys Anobit and expert with RAM design
Apple Will surely use this expertise to start designing its own custom RAM tech to better suit and talk with iOS devices.
Having bought all of this enables Apple to set the course IT wants with the tech instead of relying with external components.
Using its own IP instead of other off the shelf is whats going to differentiate itself from the competition.
They will not abandon its SoC A4/A5/A6 and so on ... its a corporate strategy and road map for the future of Apple!
Use real arguments, not your biased opinion.
Samsung ≠ Android
I want to see what in Google Nexus has copied "the entire shape of the iPhone and icon layout".
I mean, making a rectangular phone with a big screen is copying the iPhone now?
Actually, not that I see any point in arguing with you, but you clearly didn't read my message. If you are going to call someone "WRONG", you should have the courtesy of at least reading the message.
Processing power and RAM are two unrelated things, although both can help the computer run faster depending on the circumstances.
As you mention, on OSX, more RAM can make things run faster in wall clock time. On iOS, this is not true since I don't believe that iOS uses virtual memory. As the memory gets full, apps are just terminated rather than being paged out (although iOS may have something similar to paging ... my original iPad got pretty slow with iOS).
Anyway, my original post was a reply to someone who said that if you had a faster processor, there is no need to have more RAM.
I was arguing that a faster processor doesn't help at all if your apps are running out of memory (like happens all the time on my original iPad).
I am hoping that the new iPad has not just a faster processor, but at least 1GB of memory as well.
They are not behind, they just are not that far ahead on this spec. They don't necessarily need to be ahead on all specs, but it makes sense for the next iPad to have a retina display as at least an option. You do a lot of reading on the iPad. This would have a strong impact on functionality. Besides, they want to kill Android for violating their trust right? What better way to do that then to continue releasing a product that is significantly better then they need to release?
Maybe I don't have the full information on LTE, but it has been my feeling that the chips are too BIG at this time with the technology. Some of those Droid phones are huge! I think the LTE chip can easily fit in the iPad3, and it's less about the power issue and more about the size of the chip.
Bingo. And don't forget this little tidbit from CES:
AT&T announced eight new LTE products at CES, including smartphones and tablets. The world's first LTE Windows phone, the Lumia 900, will arrive in March, Nokia wrote in a message to partners on Friday.
Anyone still want to call BS on LTE in next iPad?
57 thumbs up.. it shows, much to the protestations of Apple users, that Apple users are just as much a bunch of spec wh0res as everyone else
I think in the end, the iPad 3 will include the following features:
1. Will look almost like the iPad 2 but just a tad thicker.
2. New, higher-resolution 1280x960 resolution touchscreen display (to maintain the same aspect ratio as the current 1024x768 display). 2048x1536 Retina Display touchscreen may not happen due to the potential VERY high cost of producing such a display even on a large scale.
3. New A6 CPU/GPU with quad-core CPU section and upgraded GPU section.
4. 1 GB of system RAM.
5. 16 to 64 GB of on-device flash memory storage.
6. Higher-resolution camera sensors on both front and rear. Rear camera may sport resolution in the four to six megapixel range--possibly a de-rated version of the Sony-built sensor used on the iPhone 4S.
7. 802.11n Wi-Fi support in both 2.4 and 5 GHz frequency range.
8. New, lower-power Broadcom or Qualcomm designed cellphone chipset with GSM, CDMA and 3GPP LTE support built-in.
1. Will look almost like the iPad 2 but just a tad thicker.
2. New, higher-resolution 1280x960 resolution touchscreen display (to maintain the same aspect ratio as the current 1024x768 display). 2048x1536 Retina Display touchscreen may not happen due to the potential VERY high cost of producing such a display even on a large scale.
3. New A6 CPU/GPU with quad-core CPU section and upgraded GPU section.
4. 1 GB of system RAM.
5. 16 to 64 GB of on-device flash memory storage.
6. Higher-resolution camera sensors on both front and rear. Rear camera may sport resolution in the four to six megapixel range--possibly a de-rated version of the Sony-built sensor used on the iPhone 4S.
7. 802.11n Wi-Fi support in both 2.4 and 5 GHz frequency range.
8. New, lower-power Broadcom or Qualcomm designed cellphone chipset with GSM, CDMA and 3GPP LTE support built-in.
Amazingly enough, the almost year old A5's GPU is still faster than Tegra 3's GPU. There's no way Apple will use Tegra 3.
Speaking of Tegra, why has that line been so disappointing? When nVidia announced they were making an ARM chip, people immediately though OMG SUPER 3D SPEED and yet Tegras have always been underwhelming in terms of GPU speed.