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Live Coverage of Apple's 'Come See What 2011 Will Be the Year Of' Event
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what did you expect? the current ARM tech is probably not powerful enough to push higher resolutions and the screens are probably too expensive
Same here. I had my credit card ready and waiting. Being a long time MacBook Air users, I skipped the first iPad (even though I'm usually an early adopter). However, this one looks like a decent upgrade with the better graphics, cameras, and dual core processor. It looks good enough to take on the Xoom and hold its own against whatever else HP, RIM, or Samsung come up with this year.
There are a possible 5 HW improvements in that list. Don't kid yourself.
Secondly, if people don't want to buy it...then don't! There are other products out there. It's like people are complaining about it, and then begrudgingly buying the damn thing. Grow up and go elsewhere, it's a free market.
I agree with Jobs, it's not just about tech. It's everything else too. If ALL you care about are headlining tech specs then you're not in the market for an iPad.
As I didn't buy iPad 1, this looks like it's going to be my first iPad.
Dude, I am not saying I or you shouldn't buy it. I was talking about long term health of Apple. Apple needs many parts other tablet makers make. Shouldn't that be a cause for concern for Apple? I'm talking out of concern for Apple as a stock (albeit tiny) holder.
Does anyone know how much RAM this will have? Strange how they don't specify on their website...
Welll...I did read rumors...just the idea of a speed bump and cameras didn't really appeal to me. But I guess I still should have waited.
Bolded made me laugh hard. Nice one Tyrone Biggums.
Xoom did get some really.....average reviews. Motorolla FTW!
Me and you both. I can't stand that fake high fiving nonsense.
You sure you don't wanna go? We could queue up over night and post pics of us sitting on the floor holding hands in the forums.
Where does the software "need help" it still has more polish than its nearest competition. It does hdmi now, they doubled the processor, massively improved the graphics speed, made it thinner and kept the same price structure. BTW LTE isn't available in any other tablet right now either, even the xoom that announced it like it was a feature is going to have add it with a hardware revision that will require the user to send it back to motorola...assuming motorola actually keeps its word and doesn't slowly back out of the "free upgrade".
Last years tech? So what from "last year" beat the ipad? Most of the features I hear haters spouting as necessary are the same crap that created bloated and nearly unusable tablets in the mid 2000's, HP, Compaq, Fujitsu and Motion Computing all tried them and all failed spectacularly...the market for the all-in-one desktop experience on a tablet is a paper tiger, they all talk about it but none them buy them.
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While a res bump would have been nice I was hoping that Apple would play nice with an external media source / usb / sdhc. Not having a direct and compatible way to bring media in except through sync or over wifi is troubling. You can jailbreak the device for a lot better integration of the camera kit but I had some hope of being able to use the device a little broader than before.
Oh well. I'll nab one since I've been waiting. Bought one for the parents not too long ago and loved how it changed my media-consumption methods (before prying it out of my hands to give hehe! )
There is a lot of good competition out there and I can only hope we continue to see a nice shakedown and internalization of new thoughts into our next gen devices. The only real thing that would be nice is if apple would be more open and less closed but I've desired that for a long time, no longer surprised but always disappointed.
While a res bump would have been nice I was hoping that Apple would play nice with an external media source / usb / sdhc. Not having a direct and compatible way to bring media in except through sync or over wifi is troubling. You can jailbreak the device for a lot better integration of the camera kit but I had some hope of being able to use the device a little broader than before.
Oh well. I'll nab one since I've been waiting. Bought one for the parents not too long ago and loved how it changed my media-consumption methods (before prying it out of my hands to give hehe!
) There is a lot of good competition out there and I can only hope we continue to see a nice shakedown and internalization of new thoughts into our next gen devices. The only real thing that would be nice is if apple would be more open and less closed but I've desired that for a long time, no longer surprised but always disappointed.
They didn't specify on last years model. Probably going to have to wait for an iFixit teardown to find that out.
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Xoom is only 2 megapixel camera up front, only has 720p Playback, Android is an absolutely shattered OS thats more flakey than Charlie Sheens coffee table, and also has no set syncing software. Xoom is crap its just another iPad wannabe like all the others. We wont see retina display sadly, because why would apple lay all their cards on the table when the competition hasnt even caught up with the first gen ipad? just like the 3gs not getting a front camera... simply because they didnt have to yet so they save it for the next gen model.
so how many megapixels is the camera in the ipad 2 ?
on the apple page it doesnt hows , it only stated 720 HD video recording.
but what's the true ,egapixels of it ?
on the apple page it doesnt hows , it only stated 720 HD video recording.
but what's the true ,egapixels of it ?
Hopefully, it's also the year of the Sandy Bridge MacBook Air.
An annual cycle should be sufficient for the iPad.
A MobileMe update is inevitable. Steve said there would be changes. They don't build monolithic data centers in NC for nothing. The current offering is an embarrassment and Steve knows it.
Anyways, nice. A camera on the front for FaceTime. That's all I wanted.
Anyways, nice. A camera on the front for FaceTime. That's all I wanted.