Great... More plastic, less metal.To compete with your cheaper competition, you don't have to become your cheap competition...
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iPad 5 Estimated to Be 15% Thinner, 25% Lighter Than Current iPad
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If iPad 5 has less battery capacity than iPad 4, I will definitely buy the latter. I don't care if it's paper thin or light as air, give us a true powerful electronic device, not some ornament.
...and 90% the same software features
Yawn
Quick! Run out and plunk down another $500+ do you can shave 1/16 of a pound of weight!
Yawn
Quick! Run out and plunk down another $500+ do you can shave 1/16 of a pound of weight!
There's a massive difference between an A5X retina iPad 3 and an A6X retina iPad 4. And there will be another massive difference in an A7X iPad 5. There's nothing trivial about each generation's staggeringly faster CPU's and GPU's performance.
Yes, this is what the Apple marketing Dept. brainwashed you with.
There is no noticeable difference between iPad 3 and 4 performance.
Still on iPad 1 here - it does the job. The 3rd/4th gen models always felt too bulky/heavy (the iPad 2 still feels the best in my hands) and the mini, while very tempting, has no retina and is too small for my taste, so this one sounds like it could make me upgrade.
we'll see
I would hope for more than 25% lighter, but wait and see. That said, if the Mini goes retina and is the same weight/battery life as the 1st gen, the iPad 5might be moot for me.
at this rate, I am sticking with my plan to upgrade my iMac in 2014 and I hope everything else as well.
I would hope for more than 25% lighter, but wait and see. That said, if the Mini goes retina and is the same weight/battery life as the 1st gen, the iPad 5might be moot for me.
at this rate, I am sticking with my plan to upgrade my iMac in 2014 and I hope everything else as well.
I've always felt that somehow the iOS devices that have a curved back, provide a better grip and are easier to pick-up and hold.
From the iPad mini product page (http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/design/) :
iPad 3/4 feels almost like the iPad 1 in my hands. iPad 2 feels lighter in a pleasant way. That's all - I did not actually check the weight difference until this moment.
Now, when you're in a store and you pick up an iPad mini and then an iPad 4 you can certainly tell the difference. My thoughts were something like "I can wait until this becomes more like that".
ready to order a black iPad5 with 128GB ... just 6 month to wait
Looks good with the thin bezel
Looks good with the thin bezel
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Apple is always trading off size and weight vs. functionality. There's no question in my mind that most of the current products are heavier than the idea, with the possible exception of the Air; the Mini is close, but still a couple of ounces too heavy for my taste, and the iPhones aren't too bad. However, functionality, especially battery life, is also a big concern; I'd prefer a phone that lasted 3-4 days per full charge. So at some point, the value of increasing time between charges will exceed the value of decreasing weight, even if the weight ideal hasn't been reached yet. We may have already reached that point with the Mini and the iPhone, where increasing battery life becomes more a priority than decreasing weight. The full iPad is the furthest from there, and decreasing weight should be the top priority for the next generation, a tleast.
The MacMini comes very close to fitting the bill but falls short in the graphics department. It already offers replaceable RAM and hard drive. Whats missing is a decent graphics card (ideally user upgradable). Fix this and the MacMini instantly becomes a viable desktop option for the vast majority of consumers, and many professionals, giving Apple a much larger slice of the PC market. With that said, if Apple was interested in producing such a model and/or seriously going after the consumer PC desktop market, they would have done so by now, and I doubt very much if they ever will.
As for the new iPad (5th generation), 25% lighter and thinner sounds good to me providing it does not sacrifice battery life or useability. I trust Apple will make sure the new thinner bezel design works as well or better than the thicker iPad2-4 design. Depending how that goes, I'll be upgrading our iPad 2's for either the iPad 4 or 5. Also looking forward to new features and functionality in an improved iOS!
It makes more sense as a design focus with the iPad than something like an imac given the variety of ways it might be held and the need to comfortably accommodate a range of hand sizes. I would imagine they do a lot of usability testing with prototype designs.
Great... More plastic, less metal.
They seem to use aluminum for aesthetics more than anything. It's possible to use high quality plastics. Aluminum adds a couple dollars worth of materials if that. Most of the cost is likely the cost to machine it from a block of metal.
Because if it's 'lighter', that probably means that either they dropped the metal (think durable) back for a 'lighter' plastic back, or greatly decreased the thickness of it. I like the weight of the iPad, I like the durability. I find the Kindles and Nooks cheesy and flimsy... 'Cheap' feeling. Not impressed...
More efficient technologies? Like what?
The iPad 4 is using 32nm parts...I'm not sure that there are any available die shrinks by the end of this year for them...MAYBE 28nm?!? Maybe...? But I'm not sure about that.
You can't increase performance/RAM (and they need to), AND shrink the battery and still have the same battery life.
Also hate the smaller sides...the current iPad works great, is pretty easy to hold on to compared to many other devices.
The iPad 4 is using 32nm parts...I'm not sure that there are any available die shrinks by the end of this year for them...MAYBE 28nm?!? Maybe...? But I'm not sure about that.
You can't increase performance/RAM (and they need to), AND shrink the battery and still have the same battery life.
Also hate the smaller sides...the current iPad works great, is pretty easy to hold on to compared to many other devices.
And if you're so unsatisfied with your products, why don't you just move on to another company? A company that can offer you a phone as thick as a brick, and that can offer you "real" battery life?
If he wants a brick-like phone, he could always get an iPhone 4S. There is no need to go to any other company.
Although the SpringBoard UI has not changed much since its appearance, the operating system kernel has evolved significantly
I would like that they bring a different UI, and provide the option of switching between the legacy UI and the new ones