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New Photos Offer Clear Look at Fifth-Generation iPad Ahead of October 22 Event
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The only tablet with decent stylus support is Surface Pro. Wacom-type stylus, fits in hand nicely, fine point, pressure sensitive (once the Wacom drivers are up to date), erase tip, palm rejection. It just works. Samsung Series 7 Slate had the same stylus and support, but I'm not sure they carried it forward to the current model.If the next iPad had proper stylus support, I'd ditch my 3 no questions asked, and happily stand in line out in the freezing cold for 8 hours.
Thing is, I don't think it's gonna happen this generation. If it were, we would've heard something about it by now.
And yeah, if Apple was going to do something like that, it probably would have leaked.
The Mini is palmed by me, just like a phone, not the same issues. I'm also a little worried about the 9.7" with a small bezel. Hopefully it will be wide enough for a decent grip without touching the screen.
I plan on actually buying one of these. My first iPad, although there are already 4 at my house.
Will Apple continue with a bi-annual release schedule, or will it return to it's historical annual cycle?
I know I will be flogged, don't care, but the iPad 3-to-4 thing kinda pissed me off
My iPad 3 is just fine but I felt short-changed a little.
I know I will be flogged, don't care, but the iPad 3-to-4 thing kinda pissed me off
My iPad 3 is just fine but I felt short-changed a little.
Holy Smokes! Sometimes I'm jealous of the people who get to experience an incredible performance/feature increase of multi-generation upgrades vs. us goofballs who upgrade constantly.
Going from a 1st gen to a 5th gen should be ... *magical*
Unless you use your iPad nude the colour of it means nothing. My 4th Gen iPad is happily inside it's wood case
Gross. I wear pants when I use mine,
It has been speculated to be thinner as stated in this post and many others.
As a result, it is thinner, lighter, and smaller in size than the existing fourth-generation iPad.
Holy Smokes! Sometimes I'm jealous of the people who get to experience an incredible performance/feature increase of multi-generation upgrades vs. us goofballs who upgrade constantly.
Going from a 1st gen to a 5th gen should be ... *magical*
I'm planning to hold out on my iPad 3 until the iPad 7
For graphics-related stuff, the iPad 3 is pretty slow because it was the first to get the retina resolution. In my experience, the iPad 2 is often faster in use, especially in apps that animate and scroll content.
thats how iterative improvement works. thats how the entire computer industry works, and has worked, for decades. when you compare two data points, the change is great -- on the case of the iphone 1 to 5s, it's 56x faster. comparing 5s to 5, it's 100% faster CPU and GPU. nothing to sneeze at.
game changers are rare. Apple ][. Mac. iMac. iPod. iPhone, iPad...years apart.
I am severely tempted to pick up a Pro 2 for myself, but I'm gonna wait for the reviews to roll in to see how long it lasts on a charge before I take the plunge, though.
If the next iPad had proper stylus support, I'd ditch my 3 no questions asked, and happily stand in line out in the freezing cold for 8 hours.
Thing is, I don't think it's gonna happen this generation. If it were, we would've heard something about it by now.
What are you talking about??
What would Apple do hardware wise to "support" a stylus?
Wouldn't we know by seeing code in iOS??
*real question, btw.... I was always under the impression that if you wanted to use a daft stylus.. you could. Thought the OS just is better suited for the finger. Had NO idea there was some technology missing that iPads would need to use a stylus.. Do the Notes have it?? What is it??*
I'm not talking about capacitive styluses with their giant nub ends. I'm talking about fine tipped, pressure sensitive styluses like you see on Wacom tablets, which needs a proper Wacom style digitizer built into the screen to function.
And it's not for navigating the OS. Your fingers would do a better job for that. It's about having access to a stylus to do the things a stylus is good at doing. Like sketching, digital painting, taking notes, and all that good stuff.
Surface Pro does a lot to support its stylus. For starters, it has dual digitizers built in to the screen, one for touch and one for stylus. Palm rejection is based on touch recognition before stylus touch. Wacom drivers supply the support for the stylus digitizer and stylus, including pressure sensitivity, button support on the stylus, and erase with the "eraser" end of the stylus. PhotoShop recognizes the difference, and only accepts stylus for drawing - you can't draw in PhotoShop by touch. Windows also supports handwriting recognition for the stylus. The stylus works as a mouse for touch, click, hover, and drag.
So, yeah, iPad doesn't have any of this. The stylists you can use with the iPad simulate capacitive touch; they are fully equivalent to your fingertip.
On the MSNBC website a few days back there was an Asian video review. She weighed the ipad 4 on a scale at 1.4 pounds, while the ipad 5 weighed in at .92 pounds. I watched her actually put the devices on the scale one at a time, so I have no reason to disbelieve this video. I was shocked--and delighted--at the weight difference. Hope this is the real deal, although I have no way to verify. It appeared to be a legit news story, however, not some home video.
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The weight of the iPad 4 is the worst thing about it, besides the fact it looks outdated and bulky
It also looks big enough for a standard home button
The Touch ID is smaller than the standard home button and the hole in the leaked parts has already been shown to be the smaller size.
The 5 and the 5S both use anodizing.
Anodizing is basically rust in that it grows on the surface of the metal.
You put the metal into an acid bath and run an electrical current through it.
The amount and duration of the current determines the hardness of the anodizing and how well it penetrates into the metal.
The deeper the penetration, the harder it is.
The only way to achieve black is to add a tint to the acid bath but saying that the black is coated and the 5S isn't is just wrong.
The problem with the 5 (and the 5S) is that it has sharp chamfers and there is not enough surface area for the anodization to grow upon.