What makes it thicker?

[aohus]

thicker due to the battery, along with the display.

i'm sure the qualcomm LTE radio chip had to do with the thickness as well, potentially.

good analysis of the ipad3 from anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5663/analysis-of-the-new-apple-ipad

 

[SPNarwhal]

I could be wrong, and probably am.
But didn't Apple say something about a breakthrough with the display by spacing the LED's from the dividers or bands or something like that?

I don't know if that would have anything to do with this.

 

[mgipe]

I'm not sure what type of paper you use, but for the rest of us, 0.6 mm is NOT half the thickness of a sheet.

Dang! I always hated those decimal point thingies.

How about a stack of 6 twenty-dollar bills?

 

[G77]

So it won't be a difference? The iPhone 4 is 9.3 mm and it's not even thick so the iPad 3 won't be thick at all. The iPhone 4 in white is 0.2 mm thicker than the iPhone 4 in black. Is it the same with the iPads?

White iPhone 4 is not thicker. This ******** was debunked long time ago...

 

[Ccrew]

Has to be the battery. There's no way they can boost resolution and keep the same 9-10 hour use with the same battery as the iPad2.

The power pig is the LTE, not so much the screen.

 

[Nightprowler]

Average printer paper (20 weight) is 0.097mm thick (essentially 0.1) so stack 6 sheets of printer paper up and that's the change. Pretty minimal all things considered.

 

[borisiii]

To put it in perspective, 0.6 mm is about half the thickness of a standard sheet of paper (if anyone here remembers what paper was )

I think you would be hard pressed to see the difference.

ISO 216 states that 80 gsm (general purpose) paper has a sheet thickness of 100±5μm, around the same as a human hair. That means the new iPad is 6 sheets of paper thicker. While you could easily feel something that was 0.6mm thick, the difference constitutes a sufficiently small proportion of a fairly short length that you would struggle to tell them apart by feel, however you would just be able to notice the difference if the two iPads were placed side by side on a flat surface.

Protip: don't spend any of your life studying metrology, or else you will turn into me.

 

[yeah]

70% more battery
Pixels are raised slightly
4G LTE

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The power pig is the LTE, not so much the screen.

Since the "new iPad" has 4X more pixels than the iPad 2 and 1 million more pixels then HDTVs, the REAL battery killer is the Retina Display.

 

[Lukeyy19]

The power pig is the LTE, not so much the screen.

by that logic the Wifi model should get twice the battery life...

 

[Anlino]

You can see side-by-side images of the iPad 3 and the iPad 2 here. The difference looks pretty negligible, but it'll be interesting to compare them first hand.