Apple announces iPad 3(HD)

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

That makes Vita looks like NES really, i wont touch Vita now

All my money will be gathered towards getting that system

loosingENDS

Anything to bash the Sony camp eh?

Why buy this when a new one will be out next year or soon enough anyway

Why would i ever go with lower resolution system ?

Isnt resolution the most important thing in graphics as hermits here say all the time ?

Vita looks like a bad joke right now

I cant believe its already on version 3.

The screen is going to look amazing, everything else, Not so much. How long can Apple keep the same old tired looking IOS, I'd go killing myself with that level of customization ( none ) .

The games are probably going to run at 10 FPS, even most PC's chug while running games beyond 1080p.

KillerJuan77

[QUOTE="SuperFlakeman"]

I mean that the tablet is the evolution of the laptop.

AdrianWerner

"Twice as powerful as Nvidia's Tegra 3"

Twice the graphics horsepower (though more like 2.5x), but Tegra 3 is a quad ARM part, and unless Apple did a **** load of tinkering and building their own custom ARM processing core, the A5X is going to hang behind Tegra 3 by quite a margin unless it has a very high clock speed.

Also the PSVita sports a quad ARM (no clue on clock speed) and a quad core SGX543MP4+ GPU (no clue on clock either), so the Vita still looks to maintain a great CPU advantage but about equal graphics horsepower to the "iPad 3".

PC_Otter

Also the vita native resolution is a sixth of the ipad 3 so it doesn't need nearly as much gpu power to compare to the ipad 3 graphics outside of resolution.

so does this mean ps vita is more powerful??

so does this mean ps vita is more powerful??

UNcartMe

ipad3 is SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS

You could buy a PS3 and a Vita with that

Yes, really. For a lot of multimedia work, I would much prefer a desktop/ipad setup vs a desktop/laptop setup. The ipad offers extreme portability. We'll likely be seeing some full featured photoshop/corel paint/video editing on this ipad. All that at 1lb?!!! My laptop is 7lbs. It is a hassle to carry around. Now, I've been vocal against apple--I still am in a few ways, but the claim of creating a product that doesn't feel like a product is a very realistic statement.

Heirren

Now I can see how some people might stick to iPad, but let's not create the impression that it's the only, or even the best option for everyone.

Eh, it's a solid spec upgrade to the device we've discussed to death already. There are several reasons people prefer tablets for certain applications over laptops, but prefererences are vary by people and situations. From a purely gaming point of view, "the new iPad" isn't going to change iOS gaming much from what we've seen before, save the increased resolution. And considering you can get a laptop that comfortably outperforms current gen consoles in the same price range, it certainly wouldn't be my first choice for a "bang-for your-buck" gaming device either.

Still, if touchscreen controls aren't a deal breaker for you, iOS has some great games to play. I'm sure I'll get plenty of enjoyment when mine arrives next week.

Ill say this, I was mad against a tablet at first, but when I grabbed my Ipad for 300 a couple years ago, it quickly became my first choice for surfing the web, and watching/reading internet media in my bed or on the couch after a long day of work. I spend ALL day on the PC, and this gives a nice break. Far as gaming is concerned I'll still to my rig, and mobile ganing isn't my thing. I'm sure I'll find a few cool games to casually kill time with on the thing. Skipped Ipad 2, might give this one a shot if I can get a deal.

Why would i ever go with lower resolution system ? Isnt resolution the most important thing in graphics as hermits here say all the time ?loosingENDS

[QUOTE="Heirren"]

Yes, really. For a lot of multimedia work, I would much prefer a desktop/ipad setup vs a desktop/laptop setup. The ipad offers extreme portability. We'll likely be seeing some full featured photoshop/corel paint/video editing on this ipad. All that at 1lb?!!! My laptop is 7lbs. It is a hassle to carry around. Now, I've been vocal against apple--I still am in a few ways, but the claim of creating a product that doesn't feel like a product is a very realistic statement.

AdrianWerner

Now I can see how some people might stick to iPad, but let's not create the impression that it's the only, or even the best option for everyone.

See, but apple makes software specific to each respective device. I don't own an ipad because of what you just said. This new model looks like it will fix a lot of the "pointlessness" I felt towards the older ones.

ipad3 is SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS

You could buy a PS3 and a Vita with that

FashionFreak

but what would you do with the cash left over???

ChikaraShref

[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]

but what would you do with the cash left over???

musicalmac

I cant believe its already on version 3.

taterfrickintot

In 1 or 2 years.... they'll be an iPad 4. I'm letting you know so you won't be surprised :lol:

[QUOTE="taterfrickintot"]

I cant believe its already on version 3.

Joedgabe

In 1 or 2 years.... they'll be an iPad 4. I'm letting you know so you won't be surprised :lol:

This is the part of apple that I don't care for. For the record, the next ipad[version] is supposedly arriving in October of this year.

[QUOTE="FashionFreak"]

ipad3 is SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS

You could buy a PS3 and a Vita with that

ChikaraShref

and a private jet? :P

I've got one preordered. 32 gig wi-fi. Coming next week Friday on their launch. Should be fun.

I've got one preordered. 32 gig wi-fi. Coming next week Friday on their launch. Should be fun.

Wasdie

HOLY CRAP.. those specs are amazing!

First of all.. 2000x1500p res.. which is like 3 x of 720p.. or 1366x768 like the iPad 2

Secondly.. vastly improved video camera / photo camera ..

third: finally got 4G

fourth: vastly improved CPU

fifth: vastly improved GPU

yet some people think its the same as iPad 2... Wow.

HOLY CRAP.. those specs are amazing!

First of all.. 2000x1500p res.. which is like 3 x of 720p.. or 1366x768 like the iPad 2

Secondly.. vastly improved video camera / photo camera ..

third: finally got 4G

fourth: vastly improved CPU

fifth: vastly improved GPU

yet some people think its the same as iPad 2... Wow.

Mozelleple112

Yeah I think it might finally dig the crave of the dedicated handheld. If it supports controllers, one could play mp streetfighter on one ipad ON THE GO. That seems phenominal imo.

This is the part of apple that I don't care for. For the record, the next ipad(version) is supposedly arriving in October of this year.

Heirren

Anyway, do current iPad owners recommend a 16GB iPad or the 32GB one? I'm already buying the 4G one, so it's already expensive :(

[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"]

HOLY CRAP.. those specs are amazing!

First of all.. 2000x1500p res.. which is like 3 x of 720p.. or 1366x768 like the iPad 2

Secondly.. vastly improved video camera / photo camera ..

third: finally got 4G

fourth: vastly improved CPU

fifth: vastly improved GPU

yet some people think its the same as iPad 2... Wow.

Heirren

Yeah I think it might finally dig the crave of the dedicated handheld. If it supports controllers, one could play mp streetfighter on one ipad ON THE GO. That seems phenominal imo.

[QUOTE="Heirren"]

This is the part of apple that I don't care for. For the record, the next ipad(version) is supposedly arriving in October of this year.

Eponique

Anyway, do current iPad owners recommend a 16GB iPad or the 32GB one? I'm already buying the 4G one, so it's already expensive :(

Apple is different, as new applications are made, they cater to the faster processing. For example, many apps for this new ipad won't work as well on the older models.

Games will run like crap at that res.

Also still no SD card slot.

Apple will never change.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

I've got one preordered. 32 gig wi-fi. Coming next week Friday on their launch. Should be fun.

ChikaraShref

What if I actually have uses for a tablet?

[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="Wasdie"]

I've got one preordered. 32 gig wi-fi. Coming next week Friday on their launch. Should be fun.

Wasdie

What if I actually have uses for a tablet?

what advantages does it provide that modern phones don't? (genuine question)

what advantages does it provide that modern phones don't? (genuine question)

Sword-Demon

I've got one preordered. 32 gig wi-fi. Coming next week Friday on their launch. Should be fun.

Wasdie

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"] why do you hate having money?Sword-Demon

What if I actually have uses for a tablet?

what advantages does it provide that modern phones don't? (genuine question)

1. It's NOT a phone. See phones are important, if I need to communicate with someone, I don't want to worry about my phone dying by playing games, surfing the web, etc. I need my phone to stay in touch. An iPad won't kill my phone. It also still allows communication as a secondary device if I have a Wi-Fi signal (though I likely will rarely need to do so.)

2. Portable. A laptop can be portable sure, but if I'm traveling (which I have some travel plans coming up this year), I can watch movies, play games, etc. again without killing my phone. I have a laptop, but it only gets about 4-6 hours of battery life at most. I love my laptop, but it's also a media/entertainment laptop I use for gaming, movies, etc., but the iPad for me is more conevnient.

3. It can be a laptop for users. Not sure if you know, but you can do word documents, email, facebook/twitter/youtube/*enter social media here* on your iPad. In some ways, it can be just right enough for people who need to do their basic functions as mentioned above that a laptop provides.

Personally, it's another item I would use just when my laptop isn't convenient ( like taking to work for break), and it would be a "fun" thing to have. There will be uses for it for some people and not uses for others.

[QUOTE="PC_Otter"]

"Twice as powerful as Nvidia's Tegra 3"

Twice the graphics horsepower (though more like 2.5x), but Tegra 3 is a quad ARM part, and unless Apple did a **** load of tinkering and building their own custom ARM processing core, the A5X is going to hang behind Tegra 3 by quite a margin unless it has a very high clock speed.

Also the PSVita sports a quad ARM (no clue on clock speed) and a quad core SGX543MP4+ GPU (no clue on clock either), so the Vita still looks to maintain a great CPU advantage but about equal graphics horsepower to the "iPad 3".

DJ_Headshot

Also the vita native resolution is a sixth of the ipad 3 so it doesn't need nearly as much gpu power to compare to the ipad 3 graphics outside of resolution.

If you already have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2, any reason to get this?

Yes, I would like to purchase a giant iPhone, please!

Should be dope. I'm not looking for an iPad yet, but I wouldn't mind one. Things are dope!

If you already have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2, any reason to get this?

gago-gago

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

What if I actually have uses for a tablet?

yoshi_64

what advantages does it provide that modern phones don't? (genuine question)

1. It's NOT a phone. See phones are important, if I need to communicate with someone, I don't want to worry about my phone dying by playing games, surfing the web, etc. I need my phone to stay in touch. An iPad won't kill my phone. It also still allows communication as a secondary device if I have a Wi-Fi signal (though I likely will rarely need to do so.)

2. Portable. A laptop can be portable sure, but if I'm traveling (which I have some travel plans coming up this year), I can watch movies, play games, etc. again without killing my phone. I have a laptop, but it only gets about 4-6 hours of battery life at most. I love my laptop, but it's also a media/entertainment laptop I use for gaming, movies, etc., but the iPad for me is more conevnient.

3. It can be a laptop for users. Not sure if you know, but you can do word documents, email, facebook/twitter/youtube/*enter social media here* on your iPad. In some ways, it can be just right enough for people who need to do their basic functions as mentioned above that a laptop provides.

Personally, it's another item I would use just when my laptop isn't convenient ( like taking to work for break), and it would be a "fun" thing to have. There will be uses for it for some people and not uses for others.

[QUOTE="yoshi_64"]

[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"]

what advantages does it provide that modern phones don't? (genuine question)

ChikaraShref

1. It's NOT a phone. See phones are important, if I need to communicate with someone, I don't want to worry about my phone dying by playing games, surfing the web, etc. I need my phone to stay in touch. An iPad won't kill my phone. It also still allows communication as a secondary device if I have a Wi-Fi signal (though I likely will rarely need to do so.)

2. Portable. A laptop can be portable sure, but if I'm traveling (which I have some travel plans coming up this year), I can watch movies, play games, etc. again without killing my phone. I have a laptop, but it only gets about 4-6 hours of battery life at most. I love my laptop, but it's also a media/entertainment laptop I use for gaming, movies, etc., but the iPad for me is more conevnient.

3. It can be a laptop for users. Not sure if you know, but you can do word documents, email, facebook/twitter/youtube/*enter social media here* on your iPad. In some ways, it can be just right enough for people who need to do their basic functions as mentioned above that a laptop provides.

Personally, it's another item I would use just when my laptop isn't convenient ( like taking to work for break), and it would be a "fun" thing to have. There will be uses for it for some people and not uses for others.

[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]

yeah, not seeing anything there my laptop can't do...tomarlyn

5-hour batteries in laptops is plenty for web browsing.

If you want to post messages on gamespot at home, then just use a desktop. If you're lying down in bed, posting messages on the internet is probably the last thing on your mind.

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]

yeah, not seeing anything there my laptop can't do...FashionFreak

5-hour batteries in laptops is plenty for web browsing.

If you want to post messages on gamespot at home, then just use a desktop. If you're lying down in bed, posting messages on the internet is probably the last thing on your mind.

There are laptops that last 12 and more hours already.

The problem with tablets for me is that they are bigger phones. Nothing more. And sure, bigger screen is nice and all, but they're still just bigger phones and they're quite big and heavy. So when I need to travel light I will just take a phone. And when I travel with backback I would rather pack in phone and laptop, instead of phone and a bigger phone that tablet is.

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]

yeah, not seeing anything there my laptop can't do...FashionFreak

5-hour batteries in laptops is plenty for web browsing.

If you want to post messages on gamespot at home, then just use a desktop. If you're lying down in bed, posting messages on the internet is probably the last thing on your mind.

] Can your laptop do all that for 10 hours? Silently? With no heat? Can you read web pages in bed, holding it like a book and post messages like I'm doing? :otomarlyn

And you can actually handwrite the messages, which in case of "holding it like a book" is better option than fondling one hand with the touch keyboard

[QUOTE="FashionFreak"]

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"] Can your laptop do all that for 10 hours? Silently? With no heat? Can you read web pages in bed, holding it like a book and post messages like I'm doing? :oAdrianWerner

5-hour batteries in laptops is plenty for web browsing.

If you want to post messages on gamespot at home, then just use a desktop. If you're lying down in bed, posting messages on the internet is probably the last thing on your mind.

There are laptops that last 12 and more hours already.

The problem with tablets for me is that they are bigger phones. Nothing more. And sure, bigger screen is nice and all, but they're still just bigger phones and they're quite big and heavy. So when I need to travel light I will just take a phone. And when I travel with backback I would rather pack in phone and laptop, instead of phone and a bigger phone that tablet is.

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]] Can your laptop do all that for 10 hours? Silently? With no heat? Can you read web pages in bed, holding it like a book and post messages like I'm doing? :oAdrianWerner

you can actually handwrite the messages, which in case of "holding it like a book" is better option than fondling one hand with the touch keyboard

I have a smartphone and they're like apples and oranges to me for usage. I only take my iPad out if I'm going on a flight.tomarlyn

I can type with both hands and still hold this sweet b***h like a book actually, using my thumbs. Much faster than hand writing.tomarlyn