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iPad Air
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Rumors has it the 22nd?
Marty Chinn
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I went to Best Buy today to check out the Air to get a feel for its weight. Unfortunately it was in a weighty harness so it was hard to get a feel. What stood out to me was how the framerate dips when scrolling between homepages. I guess I should have expected it since the iPhone 5S does it, but this felt worse. Probably cuz of the higher resolution. I'm surprised people don't point it out more. I kinda expect this on an Android tablet but not an iPad.
Used it for a few days now and I am very pleased. It's still a little heavier than I'd like ideally but I think for me personally the extra screen size is worth it. Screen is amazing coming from ipad2, although I wish is was like the new iphone screens where they aren't noticeably sunken into the display. No big deal though.
One thing I hope they add to the OS next year is a dashboard style widgets panel to the left of the home screen now that they have moved the search feature that used to be there
One thing I hope they add to the OS next year is a dashboard style widgets panel to the left of the home screen now that they have moved the search feature that used to be there
minor effort
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A little too constrained for full five-finger typing. When I'm using the Mini in landscape then I usually find myself typing with only index fingers. If you're not going to do serious, heavy typing then holding a Mini in portrait and thumb typing seems to work amazingly well. Much quicker.
But if you're set on traditional typing in landscape then maybe the Air would be better.
I know this a loooooong shot, but
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1666908
Same timeframe as you said.
Thumb typing is great in both orientations on the mini. Rapid.
Marion Cobretti
Member
Someone turned it in!!!!!
I'll never look at my iPad 3 as inferior ever again!!!!
I'll never look at my iPad 3 as inferior ever again!!!!
BFIB
Member
That's fantastic news! So when can you expect it back? Any way you can find out who turned it in? I think that warrants a gift card in return.
Marion Cobretti
Member
It was one of the cleaning guys at the airport.
I just got my hands back on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26J0uDIGErM
I just got my hands back on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26J0uDIGErM
This absolutely terrifies me. Loose buttons are rare right? I'm hoping I don't get a dud.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Meh, it's not a big deal. I've swapped out an Apple product for less. I'll take mine in the next few days, 5 mins later I'll have a new one.
Can you do this even if you bought it from somewhere else? I got mine from tesco and I'd rather deal with apple.
BFIB
Member
Yep, just call and set up an appointment. Had the same issue with my iPhone 3G, loose mute rocker.
By new one you mean button right? They don't replace the whole ipad right?
Congrats
Yup. The only thing they can't do in that situation is a return obviously.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Doesn't matter, they check up the serial number and that tells them if it's still under warranty. All you need to bring is the device itself, don't need cables or box.
They've always just swapped out the device for a new one. If you have a legitimate complaint (button issues, screen issues), they well replace it without issue.
Awesome, details please. Did you send a message to the iPad? Did they call you?
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Yep, the problem is pervasive. I had it on one unit and returned it. The one I got today from Apple has it, I think, but it's not as bad as the first so I think I'm just going to deal with it.
Marion Cobretti
Member
The baggage claim people went through my contacts and called me Dad. He called me to let me know and gave me a number to call. Before I could call the baggage claim people called me and let me know where to pick it up.
Made sweet love to it on the flight back to NYC.
Tried one out at the Apple store today and while it's much better to handle than previous iPad's, I've been using a Mini for a year and I still find it much more comfortable than the Air. One thing though is I that the regular sized iPad screen seems HUGE to me now after being accustomed to the Mini.
It's because of the thinner glass.
Dr. Feel Good
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I sold my iPad 3 three weeks ago and am planning on picking up one tonight but haven't read many impressions because I was out of town and not on the internet since it launched. How are people liking it? Battery improvements? Speed?
It's better than the 3 in every aspect, except the RAM where it's equal. Battery is great, the new form factor is amazing and i find it really comfortable, speed is blazing however apps seem to crash randomly more often due to the move to 64bit. My air has crashed randomly on safari a few times now, my mini never had that problem (mini only crashed due to low memory). Of course these are just 64bit growing pains, apps will get updated and it will sort itself out soon I'm sure. It's not often enough that it matters though lol sorry if i made it sound that way.
ITS SO FUCKING GOOD.
Battery life is the same but its so light now and very fast. almost as light as the mini. Excellent update.
BFIB
Member
It's my first iPad so I can't comment regarding upgrading. However the device itself is fantastic. Incredibly light. I was planning on getting the mini, but after holding this, it was a no brainer.
TheDrowningMan
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Yep. Although this is always mentioned whenever a new iPad (and often iPhone) launches, and people often find that the yellowing disappears with use. It seems that in many - not all - cases it's to do with the adhesive settling. I'm going to give it 7-10 days and see where it is before I swap it out.
Final Boss
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I can't believe how amazing this device is, I just wish apple offered a surface style keyboard and would increase the functionality of this device so it could truly replace a laptop. If I could download songs and mixtapes outside iTunes and load them on my iPhone via the iPad I would sell my laptop that same day
CharminUltra
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Been playing with my iPad Air for three days now. It's pretty awesome compared to my 3rd gen iPad. iOS 7 is kinda unpolished, though; Screen rotation, five finger gesture, search, and other animations are definitely choppy.
Question: anyone find a cool, thin, case + cover yet? Kinda like the Apple case but not as expensive?
Question: anyone find a cool, thin, case + cover yet? Kinda like the Apple case but not as expensive?
Yeah, we need to get some good case recommendations going.
Put it through the paces yesterday; spent all football day switching between websites, apps, iMessage and a little FaceTime while watching games. Then topped it off renting a movie from iTunes. Really enjoying the updates.
Put it through the paces yesterday; spent all football day switching between websites, apps, iMessage and a little FaceTime while watching games. Then topped it off renting a movie from iTunes. Really enjoying the updates.
Final Boss
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Been playing with my iPad Air for three days now. It's pretty awesome compared to my 3rd gen iPad. iOS 7 is kinda unpolished, though; Screen rotation, five finger gesture, search, and other animations are definitely choppy.
Question: anyone find a cool, thin, case + cover yet? Kinda like the Apple case but not as expensive?
iOS 7 is really unpolished, little thought went into the iPad version of iOS 7
It's ironic that they bash android tablets for not having having tablet versions buy then go and butcher the iPad iOS 7 experience.
I mean, the clearest regression for me is the music app. It looks hideously like the phone version stretched out.
So as some of you know I sold my iPad 3 a while back.
I finally put the money in my account to go to the apple store and buy an iPad Air. I went in there and played with one for about 30 minutes. I ended up walking out.
I don't know why I am so gun shy about this model. I do the 2 year upgrade consistently on the ipad and the iphone.
I wish they increased the RAM and I wish they put in the fingerprint sensor. The redesign and the internals are great. It's just going to take me some more time to figure out what I want to do.
The Mini will be too small to read fullscreen pdfs. I commonly use my iPad to read research papers and edit pdfs.
I finally put the money in my account to go to the apple store and buy an iPad Air. I went in there and played with one for about 30 minutes. I ended up walking out.
I don't know why I am so gun shy about this model. I do the 2 year upgrade consistently on the ipad and the iphone.
I wish they increased the RAM and I wish they put in the fingerprint sensor. The redesign and the internals are great. It's just going to take me some more time to figure out what I want to do.
The Mini will be too small to read fullscreen pdfs. I commonly use my iPad to read research papers and edit pdfs.
jts
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U want to wait for the mini and shell out $100 less for the same hardware in a slender package.
Damn that stealth edit, Kanye.
Bob Dobalina
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GAF Mobile keeps eating my posts. This is driving me insane.
MT, if you really have productive uses for an iPad, it makes sense to just buy an air and resell it for next year's model. I don't think we're at the point where consumers will care about the lack of a fingerprint sensor or even realize that their tabs keep reloading before buying your Air next year.
MT, if you really have productive uses for an iPad, it makes sense to just buy an air and resell it for next year's model. I don't think we're at the point where consumers will care about the lack of a fingerprint sensor or even realize that their tabs keep reloading before buying your Air next year.
My iPad 4 has this problem, and it never went away. My first one was HORRIBLE so I swapped it for my current one which wasn't as bad, but it has remained since the day I bought it.
Hearing the problem is still there on the Air is a deal-breaker for me. Hopefully the Mini does not have it.
Seriously, the remote app was just updated and it somehow inherited the iTunes look while the music app is not. Why....
NYR
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Mine is wobbly and loose, makes some noises. Plus minus are rock solid. No big deal for me.
Grumble @ the iPad Air's 1GB of ram. Chrome and Safari both crash frequently when browsing picture-heavy GAF threads. I have even gotten used to manually closing all of my other apps when I want to browse media-rich sites and that has barely helped. I was really looking for more out of this devices. Grumble.
I guess we can look forward to seeing this problem solved in 11 months when the new "best ever" iPad gets announced. Ugh.
I guess we can look forward to seeing this problem solved in 11 months when the new "best ever" iPad gets announced. Ugh.
Have you tried turning off GIF setting in preference?
I'm thinking of returning mine tomorrow for the same reasons. I feel like, despite the redesign, this ipad is the equivalent of the s model of the iphone series. I wanted to move back to the bigger ipad again for the same reasons as you, reading pdfs is not nearly as great on the mini, but I think I'll return mine and wait for next year. I want my ipad to last me 2-3 years before an upgrade and being stuck with 1gb ram and no touch id makes the high cost look unappealing. Every 2 years the iphone/ipad get a ram boost so I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the cycle, a double to 2gb ram would be huge, refreshing is still a problem on the air. I absolutely love the redesign and form factor though, I'll definitely jump in next year.
Ok, I'll try that. I didn't know that was a thing.
I'm kind of partial to gifs though... I didn't realize when I was buying this device that it couldn't handle gif-heavy sites.
Online in GAF Mobile, and honestly why use GAF mobile on a 10" display? Looks horrible.
That said, gif's hardly crash my Air, it's more when sites go crazy with video.
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