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Size Comparison of a 12.9-Inch iPad with Smaller iPad Models and 13-Inch MacBook Air
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I would definitely...
oh, forget it... Just shut up and take my money, Apple!
Yes, I would give my left testicle without as much as a blink for one of these bad boys, to put all my sheet music PDFs, MP3s, videos, plus music/graphics, iWork/iLife apps, EVERYTHING on it.
oh, forget it... Just shut up and take my money, Apple!
Yes, I would give my left testicle without as much as a blink for one of these bad boys, to put all my sheet music PDFs, MP3s, videos, plus music/graphics, iWork/iLife apps, EVERYTHING on it.
Remember the larger iPad prototype from 2002?
Note how the plastic casing on the prototype looks a lot like the rumored iPhone 5C casing!
I've said before that Apple might want to release a 5.7" phablet that uses 1/2 of an iPad mini retina screen (which would make a 1536x1024 screen at 5.7" exactly).
This would make it easier for devs to optimize for this new resolution, and would make it very easy for two of those optimized apps to run side by side in split-screen multi-tasking on iPads.
Now this article mention that the 12.9" iPad would be like two iPad mini screens, which means that it could run two full size iPad apps side by side...
A bigger iPhone could also sport a screen that is 1/4 of the iPad screen resolution (or 1/2 the 5.7" phablet) with a DPI in between 224 and 326 DPI at 4.2-4.7". Four of the bigger iPhone apps could run on a regular iPad side by side, two on the phablet and eight on the 12.9 iPad! (or a combination of 1/2 and 1/4 apps)
Note how the plastic casing on the prototype looks a lot like the rumored iPhone 5C casing!
I've said before that Apple might want to release a 5.7" phablet that uses 1/2 of an iPad mini retina screen (which would make a 1536x1024 screen at 5.7" exactly).
This would make it easier for devs to optimize for this new resolution, and would make it very easy for two of those optimized apps to run side by side in split-screen multi-tasking on iPads.
Now this article mention that the 12.9" iPad would be like two iPad mini screens, which means that it could run two full size iPad apps side by side...
A bigger iPhone could also sport a screen that is 1/4 of the iPad screen resolution (or 1/2 the 5.7" phablet) with a DPI in between 224 and 326 DPI at 4.2-4.7". Four of the bigger iPhone apps could run on a regular iPad side by side, two on the phablet and eight on the 12.9 iPad! (or a combination of 1/2 and 1/4 apps)
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The thing people seem to forget or don't know is that for iDevices like the iPhone and the iPads the display technology is not screen scaling but only screen doubling. That means unless they completely change the tech that they have forced the app developers to use, the new screen sizes will always be the same aspect ratio as now with pixel densities that are even multiples of what they have now. That is why you don't see a retina iPad Mini - you can't fit +2000 pixels in that small a space. Apple will probably have to change to screen scaling eventually just to get higher densities in the mini or will be perceived as losing that battle. Other aspect ratios will act like what happened in the iPhone5 - some programs will have black bars until a special version is made for the new aspect ratio.
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Not sure if this looks good It's too freaking huge! Wouldn't this just be too hard to hold properly? It would also be quite expensive (I think the iPad 4 is way too expensive at this time, and this thing would cost a lot more). It would be much less portable, much more expensive, so wouldn't a MacBook Air just be a better option? It does everything that the iPad can't do, has the same battery life and the same portability, with a full keyboard, multi tasking, Photoshop, An iOS device should be low cost and very portable.
Not sure if this looks good It's too freaking huge! Wouldn't this just be too hard to hold properly? It would also be quite expensive (I think the iPad 4 is way too expensive at this time, and this thing would cost a lot more). It would be much less portable, much more expensive, so wouldn't a MacBook Air just be a better option? It does everything that the iPad can't do, has the same battery life and the same portability, with a full keyboard, multi tasking, Photoshop, An iOS device should be low cost and very portable.
Maybe if they put in Haswell CPUs instead of Apple's A6? Imagine the battery life doubling from 10 hours to 20 hours?
if its going to be that large than it better be really thin and light.
Also the borders is much thinner on the 12.9-inch iPad which makes the screen pop even more. They need to thin out the thick bezels on the iPads. It would make the device look even better.
Also the borders is much thinner on the 12.9-inch iPad which makes the screen pop even more. They need to thin out the thick bezels on the iPads. It would make the device look even better.
You're right about that, except that Apple already introduced the "tech" needed to support other resolutions and screen sizes in iOS 6, and is heavily pushing devs to use those auto-layout APIs in iOS 7 which by some coincidence sports a textureless redesign that makes it much easier to support multiple resolutions and sizes without having to worry about bitmapped toolbar sizes.
Because the MBA needs a touchscreen and the iPad needs to be more than just a consumption device. In other words, a larger iPad that can replace the traditional laptop that is on its way to extinction.
Because why redesign the MBA when you could just introduce a new hybrid iPad that replaces it (with detachable keyboard, iOS & OSX). It could happen next year, could happen in 2015, but happen it will.
Because you'll most likely get it, at least by the 2nd generation.
And a year after it's discontinued people would insist it's coming back any day now.
Really poor perspective choice, with it much "closer" to the viewer than the Air. If they wanted to do a comparison the viewing angle needed to be head on.
No, people didn't buy it. That's why Apple stopped making it.
That's true - but is this made for masses of people so that Apple will sell tens of millions of them annually? I'm doubtful.
And I don't think Apple is looking to write-down almost a billion dollars.
What's interesting is that you only joined this site less than a year ago after you stopped being an Apple lifer. One would have thought you'd have better things to do with your life.
That would never happen. If they did that, the iPad and iPad mini would both have to be updated to a 16:9 aspect ratio to make developers happy.
It would also never happen because large 16:9 tables are useless in portrait mode. They look extremely odd when held in portrait.
I personally would really like a 12.9" iPad. But who ever came up with "iPad maxi" is just
... If I had to guess, I would say it would be called iPad Max.