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New Images of iPad Air 2 Parts Show Touch ID Home Button Cable, Logic Board With A8X Chip, and More
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Cool that they will go back to the X chips for the iPads, they should have better or faster GPUs as they have the space for the cooling and the battery capacity.
Again, after one year, I asked you the websites. You linked two absurdly heavy websites and I made a video on my iPad, which isn't a special version, without any reloads. The video is still on this forum.
You are not alone? Not at all. There are hundreds of complainers on this forum. People complaining about almost everything: the screen feels "plastic", the display looks "yellowish", the home button feels "clicky".... That doesn't make them any better.
Ps: here my video jUst to remind you
http://youtu.be/seK32q8bxuE
I agree take it from someone who's come over from an iPhone 5 to the 6 TouchID is awesome. It's up there with the supposed 2GB of ram as to why I sold my Air for the 2. So convenient no need to type passcodes or even slide to unlock...almost ever. You just wake with your home button, keep your finger there and you're in your home screen in a split second. Not only does the App Store use it with apps like 1password Safari supports it. It almost feels like you need it now on these newer devices, just so fluid and feels modern.
That's all fine and dandy, but Safari page reloads beg for 2GB RAM. Make that happen Apple, and you'll get my x number of $.
Yep! Never mind more RAM, higher resolution, better camera, faster processor, thinner, lighter, better battery life, or anything else - Touch ID alone will be enough to make me update my retina mini.
A 1.5 GHZ-1.8 GHZ clocked A8 CPU and a enhanced faster GPU for the iPads higher resolutions (A8X) would be ridiculously fast wow
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It's not fairly easy to see, there is about a 10-15% difference the most..it's just the Plus display, you get even more display and screen and that obviously would make everything look better first sight but if you actually looked at picture quality/screen quality up close in alot of applications and stuff, the 6 is incredibly sharp already too and the Plus is just a bit more sharper, but not fairly easy to discern right away
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Have you actually compared the 6+ display to the 6 in person? The difference pixel density is fairly easy to see.
It was only a few years ago that Apple were the leader in pixel density. It's good to see them catch up. In a few years all of their devices will be >400 ppi - I can't wait.
btw, benefits stop somewhere around 450 - 550 ppi depending on a person's visual acuity. We still have another generation of improvement until Apple devices reach the limit.
It's not fairly easy to see, there is about a 10-15% difference the most..it's just the Plus display, you get even more display and screen and that obviously would make everything look better first sight but if you actually looked at picture quality/screen quality up close in alot of applications and stuff, the 6 is incredibly sharp already too and the Plus is just a bit more sharper, but not fairly easy to discern right away
I didn't think my MacPro would be 75% less if it were built in Asia. There are lots of savings when building products in the US. Look for another product, soon.
The resolution of the air is the same as the 6+ and the CPU and GPU is not as fast and it works fine. So, does the 6+ need it? Unless your telling me the Ipad air needs it?
Have you actually compared the 6+ display to the 6 in person? The difference pixel density is fairly easy to see.
It was only a few years ago that Apple were the leader in pixel density. It's good to see them catch up. In a few years all of their devices will be >400 ppi - I can't wait.
btw, benefits stop somewhere around 450 - 550 ppi depending on a person's visual acuity. We still have another generation of improvement until Apple devices reach the limit.
I have both and currently load the same page. I can't tell the difference. Whoever daid it's different must be a liar
Why do people think the two impact each others sales? I would never replace an iPad with a cell phone.
Sounds horrible with a thinner design, better screen and improved processor. It has disaster written all over it.
If one can use a little brain to think there's no reason Apple will upgrade resolution for mid-term refresh. Air2 is not full term refresh of Air, why increase resolution? Beside, by implementing dual domain pixels, it'll look alot better without increasing resolution. You don't need to work for Apple to be able to understand that simple analysis.
No lag? I hope you're not talking about touch response because all Android touch screen respond like shtt
Don't be! An A8X just means that Apple has extracted itself from the rut of iPhone compatible chips.
I will wait and see. The reality is the iPad is underpowered even today. I'd rather see them up overall processor performance and stay with the current resolution.
That is a possibility but on the other hand the A8 is apparently much cooler in the iPhone. This implies that there is head room for Apple to up the clock rate.
I tend to agree, I want superior performance.
If they up the RAM and flash at the current selling points I probably will get one. It might be even more likely if they trim the price a bit.
I have to wonder how much heat that pumps out. NVidias first few tries at tablet processors sucked.
In the end it comes down to the behavior of the software suite.
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This isn't really true anymore. Apps are using the 64 bit environment and performance is not even close to what it should be.
True and a lot of developers are targeting Metal. I susoect there will be an avalanche of adoption once the Metal using apps op start to out sell the OpenGL apps.
There is strong demand for native apps though. I share the concern of many that if Apple goes to a higher res screen performance will suffer. I suspect they can address that maybe by adding a couple of extra GPU cores.
Let us face it, the experience simpley isn't as bad as many people claiming to be. Yes, Moto G is low end device, Qalcome Snapdragon 400 with 1GB of RAM. When you browsing with Chrome, it is pretty good experience. Yes, tabs reloading and it may take longer time to open s page than iPhone 5 or iPhone 5S. But nothing outrages lag.
I agreed on resolution. I don't mind if it's 326 ppi on 6+. But 326 ppi would be a weird resolution (878 x 1561) for the aspect ratio on 5.5". So they just go with standard resolution 1080p
I'm using one right now (8.1) and it isn't that bad if you are patient. I'm not so I need a faster machine but Apple went stupid with A7 and never updated RAM. So I wait for a worthwhile upgrade.
That port still offers a lot of advantages.
Killing performance would be a big problem. However I'm being a bit reserved here in hoping that they can pull out a sizable performance boost if they do increase resolution. Enough of a boost that we don't see massive regressions.
When I mentioned complaints, I was talking specifically about the safari tab reloads. But you knew that, and tried to downplay the large volume of complaints about this very issue.
In unquestionably jumping to apple's defense, you complained about absurdly heavy websites. So in response, I made a second video with macrumors and walmart.com, which are much lighter than the original video. But the thing is, I still had reload issues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pEgZ-SIVI
Would you care to explain how your video somehow invalidates my video? You can do those things on a fresh reboot of the Air - Great, I probably could as well. But use it for a day or two, and BOOM - tab reloads with ONLY safari running. And that is the main complaint that I, and MANY others have. Heck, I went to my office to type these responses, because I had ZERO faith that going between youtube and a macrumors tab would allow me to retain what I had typed.
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