Bloomberg: iPad 3 in March with retina display, quad core chip
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CrankyKong
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Will there be enough stock by late march to just walk into a store to buy one?
I hope they call it the iPad 2S.
Betta Lines
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Oh. I'm very behind on such things. My phone doesn't even have WAP.
Refrigerator
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Where do you live?
FlashFlooder
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LOL, no.
Technosteve
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I will let Gaf buy the extra one I get for a reasonable price. Cash only
Refrigerator
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Sure. I'll give you the MSRP plus your state's sales tax. Cash only.
No one can say for sure. If Apple drops the price of the iPad 2 to ~$350 and starts the iPad 3 (or iPad 2S) at ~$600 then I wouldn't expect there to be any stock shortages two weeks after launchunless there are manufacturing problems we don't know about. Apple has new factories in Brazil this year too that might enable them to ramp up production to quickly meet any demand. Or perhaps the OP lives near Apple campus and can stroll down to the best stocked Apple Store in the world (I think). No one knows.
Aruarian Reflection
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Is it worth upgrading from iPad 1 if all she does with it is e-mail and web browsing? I guess I'll have to look at the screen in person first
If the iPad 2 goes to $350 or less I think that would be pretty big, since most would expect 399. I still think the iPad 3 will cost 499 for wifi, 629 for wifi+3G/4G 16gb. Apple tends to maintain the same price even when they add significant features. I'd be really surprised if the base price goes above 499.
edit: ^what am I looking at in your avatar? Dark haired woman making out with someone in Bape hoodie?
edit: ^what am I looking at in your avatar? Dark haired woman making out with someone in Bape hoodie?
The Last Wizard
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That won't really matter. It was impossible to just walk in and get one nation wide for iPad 2 for about 4 months. People always lined up outside of stores when new shipments came in. With bigger hype for 3 it wil be even worse.
I suspect it will be 6 months before you will ever find one in a store unless you lineup outside hours before a store opens when new shipments get in. If you want one at all preorder online.
freenudemacusers
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wow if they drop an 8mp camera in the 3 I'll have to get it. I love my 2 but the cameras are kind of shit tbh.
edit: I live in the middle of nowhere and the local walmart has been out of stock regularly since they dropped. they appear on the shelves and disappear immediately.
edit: I live in the middle of nowhere and the local walmart has been out of stock regularly since they dropped. they appear on the shelves and disappear immediately.
The iPad 2 line was insane, I got to the Apple Store like four or five hours early and still barely made the cutoff. Was forced to buy the high-end 64GB model cause that was all they had left in stock and I didn't want to go home empty handed.
Hopefully they let people pre-order and pay in advance this time, because the demand for this is going to be much larger.
Hopefully they let people pre-order and pay in advance this time, because the demand for this is going to be much larger.
brotkasten
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I wonder how long apple.com/store will last, when they open up the orders for the new iPad. I know I'm gonna order it at the very minute of availability.
Yup. A6 will be reserved for the Cortex A15 in the next iPhone. March was way too early. This'll probably be a quad core A9 or higher clocked dual core A9.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/19/photo-of-ipad-3-logic-board-with-a5x-system-on-a-chip/
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/19/photo-of-ipad-3-logic-board-with-a5x-system-on-a-chip/
brotkasten
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Yup. A6 will be reserved for the Cortex A15 in the next iPhone. March was way too early. This'll probably be a quad core A9 or higher clocked dual core A9.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/19/photo-of-ipad-3-logic-board-with-a5x-system-on-a-chip/
How cares about the CPU?! I wanna know the amount of RAM!
Opus Angelorum
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32GB according to the linked story.
mescalineeyes
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The chances of a better camera are quite good, as the reason for the terrible iPad camera is it's thickness, or lack thereof. Going by rumors, the iPad 3 might be a bit thicker, so...
ROFL. That would be an interesting name, lol. Actually, it fits almost too well, with the new screen resolution and all.
Anyway, I suppose we can expect a minimum of 768 MB RAM. Quite a few (all?) competing tablets should have reached that level by now.
I think thickness was always an excuse.
There will be better cameras simply because low resolution photos will look like ass on a retina display.
Dreams-Visions
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that's storage space, not memory.
Yup. A6 will be reserved for the Cortex A15 in the next iPhone. March was way too early. This'll probably be a quad core A9 or higher clocked dual core A9.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/19/photo-of-ipad-3-logic-board-with-a5x-system-on-a-chip/
putting my money squarely on a higher-clocked dualcore. it's Apple.
Regardless of the core count, you can bet it will outperform everything else at release. I doubt Apple wouldn't be dumb enough to put a weak cpu in that can't adequately power the high res display. It'll be snappier than the iPad 2 AND have the new display most likely. Apple doesn't care much for spec sheets, as long as it delivers a smooth experience.
Surprising that the chip was manufactured in November?
Surprising that the chip was manufactured in November?
If he doesn't live in the USA then his country might not get it by late March
yeah, the selling timeof 5pm last year sucked t
Yup. A6 will be reserved for the Cortex A15 in the next iPhone. March was way too early. This'll probably be a quad core A9 or higher clocked dual core A9.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/19/photo-of-ipad-3-logic-board-with-a5x-system-on-a-chip/
The next iPhone will have what's in the next iPad.
I will laugh if this is slightly underpowered, making some people compare it to the OG iPad experience, and desiring better specs for the 2013 iPad.
brotkasten
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Hey! That's not funny!
Prepare yourself for the internal defense force. The iPad will have this same resolution for years to come. It needs to push more pixels than many dedicated PC GPUs. Future iPads will have better GPUs, but work with the same resolution. You are once again working with early adopter tech.
But that screen will be glorious...
Dreams-Visions
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that's simply the way Apple does business in the mobile space. "just enough".
just enough.
Eh. I don't see them wanting to fall behind when all the high end phones in 2H 2012 will have the A15.
I don't see how they'll let their supply chain become so messy with a different iPad chip from the iPhone. One reason for their huge margins in the iPhone business (still the largest business) is that the expensive SoC has basically been in mass production in iPads for 7 months already. You can spit out almost 40 million iPhones last quarter because the chip was "old." If they're introducing a brand new chip for this fall, could they make 80 million of them for the holiday quarter?
And people don't care if they have a quad-core A9 or a quad-core A15.
Dreams-Visions
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one of which being a major concern, depending on your usage. as you should already know.
Vinterbird
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Yeah, but hopefully the end-user experience will be fine no matter what, since Apple generally takes good care of that.
But man I'm disappointed that they didn't do a new design for the iPad 3, at least from the looks of the leaks. I really don't like the current iPad design, and was hoping for something different.
I care! The new Austin factory will be put to work on that A6. Book it numble.
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