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Roundup: iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini First Impressions

priyamsingh said:
There were serious talks that IGZO would be used so that the mini would not be made thicker to get retina (the retina mini is now slightly thicker). Also since we knew iPad 5 would be thinner, it was assumed that IGZO would have to be used to allow for that.

Yes it will be interesting to see the benchmarks. iPad air should perform even better than 5S.
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The SAME cpu/gpu should perform BETTER when pushing WAY more pixels to a MUCH larger screen??
Can you explain why that would happen to me please?
 
i'm a real analyst!!! :p:p:p

Rossatron said:
not quite; we will see a model with separable keyboard - the macpad air, and one with a swivelling display to create a "touch tablet" which will be called the macpad pro. both versions will run iOS and OSX, and will feature multi-touch retina screens. i cannot promise this, but my sources - a top level apple employee who recently auctioned an hour of coffee with him - tell me that the macpad pro is likely to have backlit keyboard, facetime camera AND a fingerprint sensor.
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https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18135227#post18135227
 
mclld said:
Why did the old 16 gig mini only get a $20 drop? Also, why is the ipad 2 still being sold at $399? Shouldnt the last year version be $399 and not a version two years older?
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All I can think is that they have a TON of iPad 2 hardware lying around that needs to be sold.

I don't like how the iPad 3/4 are now just gone except for refurbished sales availability.

While I do love Apple's products, I'm disappointed at some of their decisions this round.
 
lilo777 said:
The Verge calls the iPad Air "really beautiful,"...

That's amusing. It has a brick shape (as are all other tablets). What exactly is so beautiful about it? One could not come up with a more boring shape even if he tried.
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People are all human shaped. Some are better looking than others.

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AaronTheYoung said:
All I can think is that they have a TON of iPad 2 hardware lying around that needs to be sold.

I don't like how the iPad 3/4 are now just gone except for refurbished sales availability.

While I do love Apple's products, I'm disappointed at some of their decisions this round.
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What would you benefit from if they still had ipad 3/4 on sale? Just curious.

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Justan00b said:
The SAME cpu/gpu should perform BETTER when pushing WAY more pixels to a MUCH larger screen??
Can you explain why that would happen to me please?
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Typically they clock the ipad chip much higher than that of the iphone. While the GPU may reach parity since it has to deal with much more pixels, the CPU should have a nice boost.
 
GREEN4U said:
Why the heck do they still sell the iPad 2?!?!
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...and for $399! There must be a big stock of them in Apple's store rooms.

Over a year ago, Apple had refurbished 16GB iPad 2s in their store for only $299.

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mrxak said:
Why does anyone take a picture on their iPad at all? I understand having the camera on it for FaceTime flip-view, but are people really clueless about how ridiculous they look holding a massive tablet in front of their faces snapping photos? Just pull out your phone, if you really need a picture and don't have a real camera on you. Everyone has a camera phone by now, right? Then get a real camera, and use it for most photography. You'll take better pictures and you'll stop infuriating everyone behind you by holding up a huge tablet and blocking the view.
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Our firm visits our work sites with software on our iPads that is integrated with the camera. When the iPad 3 came out with a better camera we were quite happy as we could include greater resolution images of problems on our work sites. Having to use a camera separately made it harder to integrate information in our work site reports. No one now has to sign out an iPad AND a camera.
 
gnasher729 said:
Lilo, you would never see it.
And if you saw it, you would never admit it.
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He/She is consistent, I will give them that. The history of their Apple hate statements is pretty amusing like that one.
 
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GREEN4U said:
Why the heck do they still sell the iPad 2?!?!
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Head over to Ars, read the comment from the "iPad hands on" article, and you'll get a little enlightenment. :) Not that any of those are proven, just several posts with what I'd consider to be reasonable theories.



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ChrisTX said:
I would tend to think not. The dimensions of the two products are not the same.
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Yeah, I'd say definitely not - I suspect however, many Mini accessories will be compatible between the two models, including Smart Covers.
 
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GREEN4U said:
Why the heck do they still sell the iPad 2?!?!
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Because it was the last non-retina iPad and these screens are cheap. Than again, they are also selling the iPad mini 1 with an A5 processor. Its the same damn deal, 1/4 pixels, 1/4 cpu, 1/8 gpu for $100 less. Suddenly the iPhone 5c with an A6 at only 1/2 cpu speed and the same pixels for $100 less starts to appear as not such a bad deal. :D
 
priyamsingh said:
To prove my point I have some benchmark results.

http://media.bestofmicro.com/A/H/371033/original/geekbenchmem.png

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I have never heard or seen anywhere apple claim that the iPads use Gorilla Glass, let alone Gorilla Glass 2 or 3. Post a link that confirms iPad uses Gorilla Glass if you can actually back up your claims.

EDIT: this link CONFIRMS that Ipads DO NOT use Gorilla Glass!

http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/products-with-gorilla/full-products-list
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NO. You are wrong and if you could actually use Google, you will see your fallacy. Your "research" level is perfect for Android sites where people post random crap. People here tend to know more. And if you are hell bent of researching Gorilla glass, Google exactly *how* Corning came to produce it for phones. ;)
 
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GREEN4U said:
Why the heck do they still sell the iPad 2?!?!
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Contracts: Gov, schools, Fortune 500. I don't think they are really expecting the public consumer to buy an ipad2, but I'm sure there are many contracts for which Apple has agreed to supply the ipad2 for a long period of time.

-iamthinking
 
I understand the economies of scale for continuing to put out the iPad 2 and iPad mini 1 with no refinements, but for the sake of the consumer I'm a little surprised they didn't at least up the processor in the iPad 2 or switch out the old connector with the new lightning port. A lot of folks buying the iPad 2 will be running close to 3 year old technology.
 
What shape would you make it then? Circle, triangle, polyhedron? Design is in the small details, not the overall shape of the device. Look closer...

lilo777 said:
The Verge calls the iPad Air "really beautiful,"...

That's amusing. It has a brick shape (as are all other tablets). What exactly is so beautiful about it? One could not come up with a more boring shape even if he tried.
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Justan00b said:
I'd bet you a thousand dollars... plus the keys to my house & car that you couldn't take CLOSE to as good a picture on an iPad as you could on an iPhone with the SAME camera.

Damn..... Do ppl even USE these products in passing before posting about them???
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Missing the point much?

It's not about iPhone vs iPad. It's about whether you could take a better picture with this iPad vs an iPad with upgraded sensor.

The best camera is the one you have with you, if that happens to be an iPad so be it. You wouldn't choose it over a dedicated camera, or even the iPhone, but if that's what you have to hand then why wouldn't you want that camera to be the best it could be?
 
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