All iPads WTF?! Everyone at Apple Store is buying BOTH

[ZBoater]

This makes no sense at all!

Two incorrectly-saturated displays don't cancel each other out.

Yay! Someone got it! I should have used a smiley but I though it was so obvious! My mistake...

 

[AdonisSMU]

No, I'm certainly not confusing multitasking with switching between tasks. I'm talking about running VM's, administering different processes at the same time etc., all of which are impossible on an iPad.

Context switching, the iPad can just about handle and, indeed, is all about doing one thing at a time. The lack of ram on the iPad is a major impediment to even doing this effectively. If you have to, for example, copy data before switching to another app for fear of losing said data, the hardware/software has failed. The iPad struggles to do even this, which is why I'm surprised Apple put productivity front and centre of their keynotes when it's utterly hopeless beyond the simplest of tasks.

Copy data for fear of losing data for what? Sounds like an edge case and i'm being generous here....I disagree about the lack of ram having any effect on context switching at all. Instant on and the "multitasking" Apple has mitigates that altogether.

 

[yegon]

Copy data for fear of losing data for what? Sounds like an edge case and i'm being generous here....I disagree about the lack of ram having any effect on context switching at all. Instant on and the "multitasking" Apple has mitigates that altogether.

On the Air, had two tabs open in Safari. Wrote a partial post in one, flip to the other for whatever reason, then go back....and the tab reloads, losing any inputted data. Didn't happen all the time, but enough that it forces you to copy text as a safe guard. This is very poor behaviour. My iPad 3 handled such scenarios better. Equally, a couple of times I had a podcast running in the background (Downcast), and opening multiple tabs crashed both Safari and Downcast.

Appears you're falling into the category of "it hasn't happened to me, so it doesn't exist". Read the billion other Safari threads, I'm not alone in experiencing this clearly.

 

[wrkactjob]

Respic to da Air init

 

[gtmac]

I have both and have use for both. I don't own a laptop anymore.