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Apple Special Event - 10.16.14 - "It's been way too long"
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Runs great, there's no fear of upgrading here.
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Brave soul. I don't have the funds, and I am not brave enough to be an early adopter of a retina desktop.
I haven't seen that, but whatever Google has been doing to Chrome isn't working, because that thing has been a mess ever since 8.0.
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Should also run smoother once 8.1 drops on Monday
razgriz417
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So was that 2gb of ram rumor for the ipad air 2 right? Or did apple skimp out and go with 1gb again? I'm tempted to do the BestBuy Trade in deal (at least $200 for ipad2 or newer with a preorder of the Air 2) but wanted to know what the ram situation was
Sounds like we won't know anything about the RAM situation until reviews come out.
This is good news, I don't want my new Mini stuttering up a storm!
Even better
razgriz417
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Alright thanks, guess I'll hold off on my trade in. I think BB was willing to give me $185 for my 32gb ipad3 + a $50 off coupon toward the ipad air 2, figured it would be a good deal if the air 2 was a sufficient upgrade
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The Last Wizard
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I'm moving ever so closer to grabbing and air 2, just waiting on that Friday ram reveal and I'll be heading to the Apple Store after work.
Is that when reviews go up?
The Last Wizard
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I'm Assuming that since its release day.
Got the Shakes
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I actually thought reviews went up tomorrow, the Tuesday before launch, just like they did with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
Solideliquid
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Do we know when the Air 2 launches or when we will be able to see one in store?
Got the Shakes
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My Best Buy in store pre-order is going to be available for me to pick up this Friday, the 24th. I imagine that is when they will be available in store everywhere.
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I too was hoping reviews would be before launch again.
I don't trust the RAM confirmation of Wired alone since I don't see how they would have checked it. Though, we still might not know RAM until iFixit gets their own unit to dismantle, right?
LordOfChaos
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Haswell already drives the 13" rMBPs display, and the HD5000 in the existing Haswell air is (for better or worse) not much behind the Iris 5100 in the rMBP. Broadwell will also bring a nice GPU jump. So it should drive the display ok for normal UI use. I still do see some stutters on rMBPs though.
Dreams-Visions
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sold.
LordOfChaos
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And how do they know that? They don't have a source or a teardown. I don't doubt it, but they didn't say how they know.
Yeah I have some stutters on my rMBP too, I was hoping that the rMBA would be super smooth but that might not happen until a few refreshes.
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And I see other sites now like this one went with claiming 1GB http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/ipad-air-2-vs-ipad-air-spec-showdown/
I am not ordering till I see a teardown.
Ken Masters
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Praise the lawd
Gambit 1138
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When does the iPad air 2 come out? What is the release date for stores??
This Friday by the looks of it.
Ken Masters
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"This week", I called local Apple Store today and they said they don't know exact date except that it's later this week, Friday most likely
Gambit 1138
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Thanks. That's what I thought but I didn't want to make an extra trip friday in case it isn't available. Does anyone know if I can trade in my iPad 2 at Apple Store before hand or do they only do trade in's when your buying a new product?
LordOfChaos
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Same, and I'd encourage those who care to look for an actual teardown and not just rumors (to another person above believing the site wholesale - they don't have a confirmation, just a guess).
1GB of RAM for another year is definitely a dealbreaker for me, I see way more reloading of apps and webpage tabs on 1GB iOS devices than 2+GB Android ones, despite people saying iOS is more efficient (it is - but not so much to overcome double the physical RAM.
Retina iMac reviews are very positive, seems to have no problems handling the 5k display.
I assume they didnt try and run games on it?
I only really see that in Chrome. I don't actually see that impact regular app use. But that might just be due to the kind of apps I use. I more often see slowdown on my iPad3 (which apparently has a GB of RAM) so eliminating slowdown (as well as the other additions) is enough to upgrade (though I wish the reloading of browser tabs was eliminated). At least versus using my iPad 3 for another year.
LordOfChaos
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Oh yeah, not saying it's not a huge upgrade from the cortex a9 based A5X in there. Much much faster CPU performance, I think the A6 doubled the CPU, and then the A7 doubled that or something like that.
I'm just a heavy multitabber, on PCs I can hit 20, 25 tabs easily just casually persuing my interests, and if I hit even just 4-6 on a 1GB iOS devices they start booting tabs out and reloading too often for my liking. I also guess I use heavier apps, something like clash of clans will boot most Safari tabs out of memory for instance. I'd much prefer an Air 2 if it had 2GB.
If Apple really wants the iPad to be a laptop replacement in many ways, 2gb+ ram is essential to convert over people that do heavy tabbed browsing on laptops. Hopefully it's confirmed that the Air 2 has 2gb of ram, I'd love to see how many tabs it can handle without reloads.
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IF you're buying it for gaming youre setting yourself up for failure.
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Ready for the 5K Mac gaming experience
Yeah. I was just curious to see how low the fps is with various games given its a laptop GPU.
You might not get official reviews before Friday, but you'll definitely get user impressions since people are getting shipping notifications stating their Air 2s will be arriving this Wednesday. But as someone else said, typically press reviews go up Tuesday before launch. So we might see something official later today.
This is pretty good evidence for 2GB imo: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1805148
Can't wait for mine to ship. Will be my first iPad (and first tablet)
Can't wait for mine to ship. Will be my first iPad (and first tablet)
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Macrumors thinks they've found iPad Air 2's benchmark with 2GB of RAM. A mysterious new iPad model with 2GB of RAM has appeared on iphonebenchmark's results log:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20148296#post20148296
EDIT: Aw blergh! Beaten above, I wrote this when no one had posted it and forgot to submit reply in this tab.
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Oh dang. This seems basically legit now. That Macrumor thread also posted this other site which denotes iPad Air 2 as iPad 5,4 - basically confirming the benchmark was also an iPad Air 2 with 2GB RAM. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=8500
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20148296#post20148296
EDIT: Aw blergh! Beaten above, I wrote this when no one had posted it and forgot to submit reply in this tab.
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Oh dang. This seems basically legit now. That Macrumor thread also posted this other site which denotes iPad Air 2 as iPad 5,4 - basically confirming the benchmark was also an iPad Air 2 with 2GB RAM. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=8500
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Transition to Air 2 and 6 Plus over time like the rest from your camp.
I already have the 6.
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I really don't think it's a good year to buy a mini. Maybe an Apple refurbished mini 2 at most, which would be $209.99 for 16GB Wi-Fi or $299 for 32GB.
You should be covered with a PS4 and Wii U for some time. Wait on the Xbox One, then when you get one it'd had accumulated exclusives.
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