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Live Coverage of Apple's iPad 3 Media Event

SpaceKitty said:
I'm not sure what I'm expecting or wanting in in iPad but I still see no reason for me to get one. Maybe next year will do it...

Still happy with my 4S.
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If you don't have a laptop and don't do serious production, the iPad fills that gap wonderfully.
 
Launches on my birthday, so I guess I know where I'll be? Still don't understand how it will work if I want to purchase it at my local Best Buy...
 
Ryth said:
A5X Dual with the quad core graphics is better then a Quad Core. Dual is better for almost everything done by almost everyone...higher clock. For the weirdos running 4 apps simultaneously (that actually need CPU At the same time), quad would be better but that's like .0001% of people.

No 128GB...big deal. Get the 64GB and put on your big boy pants. You don't need 128GB of storage. Off-load and On-load.

Siri...who cares.

Haptic Display...prob give you finger cancer.
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Haha. Best post so far! :D:D
 
cwwilson said:
I'm just saying, Apple could have hit it out of the park and instead it's a base hit. It is an improvement? Sure, but it's a marginal one. If the iPad is supposed to be replacing PC's, 16GB is a joke...should be a minimum of 32GB.

The screen is the only thing that excites me, can't wait to see it in person.
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Um...again..specs DO NOT MATTER when things are optimized for the device.

Get off the damn spec bandwagon and realize that the display is the key selling point.
 
Slightly off topic, does anyone know if pre-orders can be collected in-store? I have a flight to catch at 3pm next Friday so I don't want to order for delivery in case they don't deliver before I have to leave for the airport ....
 
I am confused about quad core graphics, I mean isn't graphics card mainly using parallel computing and typically has lots of cores (way more than 4)?
 
This all sounds good, and I like how quickly it is available. Dropping the numeric naming scheme makes sense. This is the post-PC era. I don't have a "MacBook Air 5," I have a MacBook Air. Similarly, I'm not ordering an "iPad 3" this afternoon, I'm simply ordering an iPad.
 
steveza said:
Seems like a quad core then
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No, it would be the A6

A5X is dual-core CPU, Quad-core GPU.

EDIT: I told you all that the iPad 2 would continue to be sold but every sodding one of you downvoted me. Who's right now :p
 
CXsjr said:
Slightly off topic, does anyone know if pre-orders can be collected in-store? I have a flight to catch at 3pm next Friday so I don't want to order for delivery in case they don't deliver before I have to leave for the airport .... it'd be a bummer having to go on holiday for a week knowing all I'd want to do is get home to play with my new toy!
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Last time you could have them delivered or picked up on site.
 
GekiRed said:
It's called "being realistic", my cynical friend!:D Maybe you should try it sometime, because not everybody is a Sheeple.

Apple makes good products. I own a iPod Touch myself, but I'm not an Apple Sheeple who bought it because of the brand name, I bought it because of what it could do. As I said in a previous post here, I'm more into specs than the brand name and whether you like it or not, there ARE people who will buy a product because of its specs rather than brand name, myself interested.

I would have definitely bought an iPad this year, but seeing as it's nothing more than one of Apple's smoke and mirrors incremental upgrades, I'll pass on it this year and let everybody else buy one while waiting till next year to see if Apple brings out one with 128GB of storage. Look at it this way, there may be people who think that 64GB is more than enough, but for a lot of people, they'll always want more storage for things like books, music, magazines, etc and 64GB isn't going to cut it in this multimedia age!

I know if I was running Apple, I'd definitely give the customers what they say they would want because it's good business, and if that means 128GB or more of storage, then so be it. In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if there isn't an Android tablet coming out in the next year or so which would have 128GB of storage built-in.
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Adding LTE and the new display are "incremental upgrades" but you're holding out for a storage increase?
 
cwwilson said:
I'm just saying, Apple could have hit it out of the park and instead it's a base hit. It is an improvement? Sure, but it's a marginal one. If the iPad is supposed to be replacing PC's, 16GB is a joke...should be a minimum of 32GB.

The screen is the only thing that excites me, can't wait to see it in person.
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What does it matter what the base model spec is? 16GB is enough for light users and if it's not enough for you get one with a higher capacity
 
MacRumorUser said:
Are we sure it's nt a quad core CPU? I thought the CPU and gpu were tied, so if it's quad core graphics it would have to be quad core CPU?
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We are sure about that. There is not linkage between the number of CPU and GPU cores. To keep things in perspective: Tegra 3 chip has 12 GPU cores.
 
Crap, guess I'll be keeping my iPad 2, no way I'm selling it for less then $399. Two iPads for me :D
 
Unless my iPad 2 breaks in the next few days, I won't be rushing to the Apple Store queue. I've done that for every iPhone and iPad launched but since the 4S, it sort of lost it's magic. I guess I was expecting more that what everybody knew already ...
 
jgayman said:
What about basic apps like email? Will the text now be very tiny? You know, like when going from a laptop with a 15" 1280x960 screen to a 15" 1920x1020 screen suddenly normal "text" gets very small and hard to read.

Like in the days of CRTs, the larger the screen the smaller the text.
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You're not quite getting it - It's not like the days of CRTs with non-scalable UIs. Your text will be the exact same physical size as before, but now far crisper.
 
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