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iPad Ipad 4 owners upgrading to Ipad Air?
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After reading the light leak, yellow screen issues and same flimsy screen as mini i had, will keep my 4 till next one. Although they will probably have same screen. Just cancelled contract and will tether to iPhone for a while when needed.
Not going through the return cycle again.
For crying out loud you would think they could make a screen without light leak after 5 goes?
Not going through the return cycle again.
For crying out loud you would think they could make a screen without light leak after 5 goes?
Are you keeping your mini as a portable option to have or you're selling it now? Reason I ask is cause I'm going to get a 128gb air and am a current 1st gen mini owner.
With the extra 30% it's quoting $460 for a 32GB iPad 4 which I think is very reasonable. I bought the 16GB Air today at Target for $486 with tax ($20 off plus 5% off with Redcard). Whatever I decide to buy at Gamestop with that credit will be not be taxed, so in a way I'm putting $6 back in my pocket for trading my 32GB iPad 4 for a 16GB Air.
Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll probably do this trade there.
I sold my iPad 4 32gb on Monday for $425... Picked up my air this morning. It SOOOOOO much easier to hold!
On a side note, I used my MacBook Air all week instead of the ipad. Never realized how nice I had it! Glad the MBA got some use outside of school though
On a side note, I used my MacBook Air all week instead of the ipad. Never realized how nice I had it! Glad the MBA got some use outside of school though
Really like the lighter air but besides that in terms performance and even wifi I'm not really noticing a difference. Will have to see if I can sell my ipad 4 wifi 64gb for $500.
I think this is the info that I was looking for. I know the Air is a tad bit smaller and lighter. I can appreciate both of those facts. But what I look for is performance. I'm happy with the look, feel and performance of my iPad 4 but... if the Air would blow it out of the water performance wise, then I would be all over it. From what I've been reading, it's just a little bit of a bump and apps really aren't optimized for 64bit yet.
I think I might just hold onto my $729.99 and wait until next year. That version will probably be a very noticeable jump in performance over the iPad 4.
Also the fact that it only has 1gb of ram. If it had that I wouldn't have to think about it. The air also seems to get warm which I read wasn't suppose to happen as much as the 4.
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gets warm and light leaks, same old same old. the 2 things i was hoping would be fixed.
Yup mine has quite a bit of backlight bleeding but I've had iPads that we're worse. I'm not surprised. I'm still testing it out if battery life is the same then it's definitely going back.
I purchased an iPad 4, 3 months ago and I love using every second of it, it's fast and a nice looking device. My only tiny problem is I wish the camera was better.
when I heard the Air had 5mp camera and no touch ID I was really disappointed. So might wait until iPad Pro
next year.
I'm still running IOS6 and not really liking the ios7 yet so that's another reason...
when I heard the Air had 5mp camera and no touch ID I was really disappointed. So might wait until iPad Pro
next year. I'm still running IOS6 and not really liking the ios7 yet so that's another reason...
There is a noticeable difference, for example, large PDF files (same files on both the 4 and Air), on the 4 there was a pause before it opened and it then took another second or so for the image to render properly. Same file on the Air opens instantaneously.
I used the Air for hours last night, have been on over an hour this morning and the Air is running cold, colder than the 4 and a LOT colder than the 3.
I would suggest your unit is faulty if it is running hot, as a comparison, the entire back of my Air is still cool to the touch after over an hour of non stop use.
Sold the iPad 4 a day before the keynote (good timing) and UPGRADED to the air
And so glad I did.
Yes I was disappointed in lack of touch ID but I soon forget about this once I got this thing in my hands and noticed the speed differences and major weight deduction
And so glad I did.
Yes I was disappointed in lack of touch ID but I soon forget about this once I got this thing in my hands and noticed the speed differences and major weight deduction
Just found another big performance difference, loaded 20 big PDFs into iBooks, on the iPad 4 it used to take minutes before they were clickable, it was well under 30 seconds on the Air.
Also downloading from the net, a 54 page document was pretty instantaneous on the Air, on the iPad 4 I could go and make a cup of coffee while the little icon in the corner spun while it was processing.
Perhaps iBooks is already 64bit optimised.
Also downloading from the net, a 54 page document was pretty instantaneous on the Air, on the iPad 4 I could go and make a cup of coffee while the little icon in the corner spun while it was processing.
Perhaps iBooks is already 64bit optimised.