

Apple has another solid hit with the "New iPad"




[Source: MacWorld]

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RE: Preempting Android fan responses
By sprockkets on 3/15/2012 12:37:57 AM , Rating: 5
I can already tell you what the Android fans are thinking:

Well this one is thinking "The ipad is too big, I want a 7" Asus tablet for $250. Guess I'll buy that one."

Direct HDMI is also absolutely moot. You need to buy a cable if you want to go wired anyways, and Apple's cable not only delivers HDMI but keeps the tablet powered.

So does MHL on my HTC sensation.

Tablets are all about apps. You don't stare at your home screen for five minutes, you use apps.

No, I stare at my home screen for a few moments to see if I need to go into my apps vs. going into each app to check stuff.

And, as for the quad-core processor... well, Anandtech's own benchmarks (mostly 3D) showed an iPad 2 already outrunning a Transformer Prime. Go quad-core on graphics and double the RAM and Apple's sitting in the stratosphere somewhere. Specs can matter, but don't believe the "bigger numbers are always better" myth -- it's what you're doing with the cores you've got that means the most.

After 60FPS you won't notice the difference. I'm not playing 3d games on tablets either, that's a waste of time. As long as it can do 1080p video, I don't care.

I was at Mobile World Congress. I used the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2. Used Toshiba's new 7-inch tablet, Acer's quad-core Iconia Tab A700 and A510. Co-worker tried the new ASUS tablets. None of them scream out that you must buy them over an iPad; they're either extremely conservative tablets that are dead in the water (Samsung) or no better than a Transformer Prime, which is nice but not that exciting. They don't have the apps, they don't have the responsiveness, and they certainly don't have that display.

It's obvious you are an apple fanboi. We're not. It's a good product, but ever since apple arbitrarily killed google voice for no reason whatsoever, plus their endless lawsuits, I chose never to support apple. EVER.

By sprockkets on 3/15/2012 12:43:15 AM , Rating: 2
Oh and yes, I know apple let Google Voice back in, only after 13 months and due to the FTC threatening to sue them if they didn't.

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RE: Preempting Android fan responses
By testerguy on 3/15/12, Rating: 0


See, this way you dont have to type so much.

