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Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by tscrib » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:54 PM UTC

I've been meaning to buy one of these for my parents for some time now. They rarely do anything other than email, surf the web and photos. The improvements (especially the speed bump and cameras) finally give me a 'features' justification for buying it for them.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by kooshball » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

jonah wrote: post #90

Curious that the Verizon version is lighter. Weight: 1.35 pounds (613 g) (AT&T) Weight: 1.34 pounds (607 g) (Verizon)

probably the radio or antenna

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by richbradshaw » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:57 PM UTC

10char wrote: post #34

wvenable wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many school projects have HDMI inputs? (Edit: Didn't realize the original did VGA -- I don't see how HDMI is such a big deal for presentations then)

Yup sorry, from the iPad 2 site: "Just plug in the Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (sold separately) and your HDTV or projector becomes a bigger version of your iPad." I didn't see anything non-HDMI mentioned in the liveblog so I wasn't sure if Apple made it work retroactively. Glad that they did!

The mirroring doesn't work. Having forced my iPad to do it via jailbreaking, it's clear the A4 chip isn't fast enough to do it for apps with any video or animation at all.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by cheald » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:00 PM UTC

solutionyogi wrote: post #39

cheald wrote: post #16

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Cache-Control:max-age=221 That would do it.

I think you are over simplying. Look at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ for the nuances involved.

I'm really not. max-age and the Expires header, properly set, will control caching at just about every possible step. If you refresh apple.com several times, you'll notice the max-age cycles down with each refresh, and the Expires header stays the same. They're obviously set up to cause the page to have a short maximum lifetime in both public and private caches, and in the case of a launch, it's not that hard to make sure that the old copy of the page expires at 11 AM PST or whenever you want your announcement to go live.

Announce product, push deploy button on website, people hit website and browser requests a new copy of the page because its current copy expired at 10:59:59, and presto, it all magically works.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by Nagyman » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:01 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #10

mrcharles wrote: post #6

I didn't see any notice about how much ram it has... I'm hoping it has as much as the iPhone 4. Does anyone know for sure?

Same here. iPad 1 can't load more than two tabs for me without swapping one out.

It can, but for some reason (memory leaks?) the iPad slowly loses that capability. I find occasionally powering it off brings back the ability to load multiple tabs without reloading pages.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by Zakuzaa » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:04 PM UTC

cpr wrote: post #57

xal wrote: post #3

Any word on build in memory?

It's gotta be at least 512mb like the iPhome 4. Unfortunately, I don't think it'll have 1gb. Apple loves their margins too much, I think.

Or they know how to do good in less?

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#97

Post by kodisha » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:05 PM UTC

Wait, AT&T and Verizon only? What about us from Europe?

Will there be sim free version?

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by MikeCapone » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:08 PM UTC

pcestrada wrote: post #48

Nice hardware. But only a higher resolution Retina display will get me to trade in my current iPad.

I don't have an iPad and was waiting for this one hoping for the hi-rez screen. I might pull the trigger on it anyway because I'm not that patient, but it certainly would've been nice.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by code_duck » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:14 PM UTC

olivercameron wrote: post #72

code_duck wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rip off level pricing on storage and the obvious, purposeful omission of a card slot is one thing that really turns me off from buying an iPad or iPhone.

Yet they still manage to make the iPad cheaper than every other tablet out there. Weird, huh?

Not 'weird'. That is unrelated and dependent upon other factors.

I'm not referring solely to the iPad. Apple charges an extra $100 for 16GB of flash storage for iPhones and iPods. That's not market rate.

The whole idea of pricing storage like that came from the iPod, and I think by the time you have devices that are used for general computing like iPads, it's time to drop it. I would prefer to have a card slot.

(By the way, for people who may be downvoting my earlier comment because they think I'm some crazed anti-Apple partisan, I do own a MacBook Pro and an iPod. A client is also buying me an iPad 2 for completing a project, so... that's just my opinion about the storage pricing).

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by tomstuart » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 10:29 PM UTC

illumin8 wrote: post #78

potatolicious wrote: post #71

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Here's hoping the same support comes to the iPhone 5. As an app developer one persistently annoying thing is my inability to demo an app to an audience in anything but the Simulator. I've been working on apps related to camera functionality, and the inability to show these apps on a projector is shitty. If I can mirror the display I'd be exceedingly happy.

You're in luck: http://macdailynews.com/2011/03/02/apples-hdmi-cable-works-w...

"Mirroring supported only by iPad 2."