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adisor19 wrote:How's the weight compared to the iPad 2 ? How does it feel holding it ? Do you get tired quicker ?
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JustAnEngineer wrote:If you paid as much per square inch for your desktop display as you paid for the latest iPad, who could afford it other than for medical imaging?
ChronoReverse wrote:adisor19 wrote:How's the weight compared to the iPad 2 ? How does it feel holding it ? Do you get tired quicker ?
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It's still lighter than the original iPad although slightly heavier than the iPad2. It's not such an amazing difference where the problems of holding a tablet up for a long period time is magnified or removed.
That is, even an iPad2 is a tad to heavy to be comfortable to hold for hours even though it's really light.
adisor19 wrote:All right, now for the killer question : are the improvements worth it the upgrade from iPad 2 towards the new iPad ? I ask as i already have the iPad 2 64GB 3G..
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yokem55 wrote:Scott, you saw the Asus TF700's display at CES didn't you? Can you say from memory how that unit's display compares to the new iPad's?
dashbarron wrote:Scott what about the reports I'm reading that the GPU won't be able to push the native resolution?
dashbarron wrote:Scott what about the reports I'm reading that the GPU won't be able to push the native resolution?
spuppy wrote:Does the GPU have its own dedicated memory? Because the iPad 2 with 512 MB of RAM has barely enough for multitasking. I wonder if with 4x the resolution, 2x the RAM is enough?
spuppy wrote:Does the GPU have its own dedicated memory? Because the iPad 2 with 512 MB of RAM has barely enough for multitasking. I wonder if with 4x the resolution, 2x the RAM is enough?
Damage wrote:iOS doesn't do true app-level multitasking, but it does backgrounding/task switching quite well on the iPad 2. RAM capacity has never felt like a constraint to me, at least, so I'm not sure where your assertion about the iPad 2's memory size is coming from. Given that, I'm not sure how to answer the second part of your question.
trackerben wrote:Display is a whole new class, yet weight remains much the same. Precluding any further unexpected performance factors in graphics apps, is the new model therefore in a whole new league? Can we say, there was the iPad 1&2 era and it was great, but from here on it wouldn't be smart for users to put more time and money in older models than they already do?
So all things being equal in terms of resolution, going from 512MB to 1GB would have made a significant impact in my opinion, but with 4x the res, I don't know if it will be a case of 'two steps forward, one step back'. I guess I'll have to wait and see for myself, or hear from people who (foolishly?) try to be productive with their ipads rather than just (smartly) use it the way Apple intends it to be used (though they do try to market it as a productivity device sometimes, which is funny to me).
spuppy wrote:In my experience, app switching is extremely laggy - moving from one app to another results in 3-5 seconds of lag where you are unable to do anything. And if you try, it just delays the lag longer.
ChronoReverse wrote:That was more the nature of iOS though and how it task-switches rather than multitasks. But iOS has latent multitasking capabilities right? I haven't gotten to try the iPad3 myself long enough to tell.
ChronoReverse wrote:With that said, I can alt-tab with a single swipe on my Touchpad =D
PerfectCr wrote:The display on the iPad 3 is amazing. I love it. I could stare at it all day and reading on this thing is pure joy.
Beelzebubba9 wrote:ChronoReverse wrote:With that said, I can alt-tab with a single swipe on my Touchpad =D
A four finger swipe on iOS 5+ on the iPad does this as well.
ChronoReverse wrote:Yeah, 4 and 5 finger gestures often mess up when I use them probably because I do it too quickly or something =(
Damage wrote:spuppy wrote:In my experience, app switching is extremely laggy - moving from one app to another results in 3-5 seconds of lag where you are unable to do anything. And if you try, it just delays the lag longer.
Honestly sounds to me like a very different experience than my iPad 2 has been. Perhaps other iPad 2 users can back me up here. App switching has always been pretty snappy for me, and the whole experience improved (especially web browsing, with multiple tabs) with the iOS 5 upgrade.
Makes me wonder if your iPad 2 didn't have a software or hardware issue of some sort. Was it running iOS 5? Had it been jailbroken? Any funny widgets or anything running? Rebooted recently? Hrmm.