*** The Official iPad (Early 2012) Thread ***
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It sounds like some people have some serious eyesight problems if they are saying you can't tell the difference without very close inspection.
Anyone who has an iPad 2 or 3 AND a Transformer Prime care to make any comparisons?
It's not that UK is behind, US uses different 4G bands from other countries such as UK so it can never work here even when uk do "catch up".
For me it's lighter and thinner, either way it's not heavy or thick.. I thought the battery was the same. And hardly Apples fault that UK is behind on 4G
It's not that UK is behind, US uses different 4G bands from other countries such as UK so it can never work here even when uk do "catch up".
Friend of mine got his new one today says it's faster! My local store has them in stock now, so tempted but trying to resist
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Only small areas of US actually have 4G. There is also a significant part of the US without 3G or basic broadband. That's due to the sheer size of the country.
Just like here, the larger populated states get done first.
Just like here, the larger populated states get done first.
Friend of mine got his new one today says it's faster! My local store has them in stock now, so tempted but trying to resist
To quote the Borg.
Resistance is for pussies.
lol
They said the pixels have to be small enough that a person with normal eyesight can't tell them apart at the distance they normally hold the device. Then they said that's 300ppi on a phone. At the iPad launch they sort of argued that, you know, people tend to hold tablets further away, so the density can be less while still fitting their definition of retina, etc.
I'm not sure I buy that since I seem to hold both phones and tablets at approximately arm's length and in any case if I play, say, a polygon-based game without antialiasing at the full screen resolution on my 4s I can make out the aliased edges. And I've had routine eye tests so I know that I'm average and not some sort of super human.
In theory if the pixels actually were too small to see it wouldn't matter exactly how source content maps to them — aliasing errors would be present but invisibly small, just as how magazines have been able to print TV snaps for years without someone doing arithmetic on exactly what size the picture needs to be to come out well when the printers are done. In this case I would expect that errors will be visible to the keen sighted but basically not a major problem.
I'm not sure I buy that since I seem to hold both phones and tablets at approximately arm's length and in any case if I play, say, a polygon-based game without antialiasing at the full screen resolution on my 4s I can make out the aliased edges. And I've had routine eye tests so I know that I'm average and not some sort of super human.
In theory if the pixels actually were too small to see it wouldn't matter exactly how source content maps to them — aliasing errors would be present but invisibly small, just as how magazines have been able to print TV snaps for years without someone doing arithmetic on exactly what size the picture needs to be to come out well when the printers are done. In this case I would expect that errors will be visible to the keen sighted but basically not a major problem.
Apparently mine arrived at 14:50
Wife does the school run at 15:00...
Close call.
Sod the kids, it's the new iPad man.
The iPad is the only child I need.
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I'd say best example of the difference is when you go from a 15 inch monitor with low res to a 19 inch one. That's the best way I can describe it.
Updating from an ipad1 is well worth it IMO , from an ipad2 without owning one difficult to say but it's a closer call