Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3? 
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Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3?
Simple... The iPad 5 .
Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3?
Thicker display.
Thicker battery.
And it makes perfect sense. Not only that, but the new iPad is the same weight as the 3.
Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3?
To make the big iPad 4 thinner they'll first need a new thin display like iPad mini's, Apple's suppliers have trouble making enough low resolution 7.9" screens and it's probably not possible to make enough 10" ones right now. Then there's the battery. The iPad mini's battery is less than half the capacity of iPad 4 yet iPad mini lasts longer than the iPad 4 probably because it has a more efficient display and processor.
The iPad 4 has higher resolution and a faster processor but the penalty is that it has to have a much bigger battery to power those.
Retina displays require significantly more power than traditional displays, hence the need for a much larger battery. The iPad 2 with a traditional display gets 10 hours of life with a 25Wh battery while the iPad 3/4 requires a 42Wh (68% larger) battery to obtain the same usable life.Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3?
Surely they can make the 9.7" as thin as the mini one now? There must be a reason why it makes no sense the new one is actually heavier than Ipad 3?
I swear you're got mental issues. You try and find every way to downgrade the newest iPad. Why isn't the newest iPad a thin as the mini? Hey genius.....it's not a redesign. It's an update.
BTW, the newest iPad is a whopping 2 more grams heavier. That's literally nothing. What doesn't make sense are all your threads.
Your threads are horrible.
And we'll be listening to Schiller talk about the engineering feats they went through to make it happen in March. The iPad 4 doesn't have a nano-sim. I think that's an obvious sign.
The Ipad 4 is an upgrade but very minor.
A slimmer, sleeker Ipad would be better to update to. Make it slate black like Iphone 5.
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In that case Ipad mini won't ever get retina.
Don't believe it. I reckon Ipad 5 will be much thinner and same 10 hrs battery.
obviously it wasn't an aesthetic upgrade, but if all they did was upgrade to the A6X i would still be satisfied. the A5X should never have been used to power the Retina display, it just can't cut it when using graphics intensive apps like Metal Storm.
the other upgrade they did, with the Facetime HD camera is just a bell/whistle. the Lightning port was just for commonality for people who own an iPhone 5 which future proofs the device.
again, the A6X is a beast...a ridiculous beast when compared to the A5X. expect even better performance on the iPad 4 than people get on their iPhone 5's
Probly because of the retina, battery but Ipod touch has retina and is really really thin, no?
It dont get hot as well according to the review.
It dont get hot as well according to the review.
Smaller device with less powerful CPU and lesser display resolution means you can put it in a smaller box. Same reason why the iMac can't have the biggest, baddest processor on the planet.