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Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#101

Post by pohl »

mcantelon wrote: post #27
10char wrote: post #8

HDMI video mirroring is going to be big. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it. Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high…

Ipads are a lot easier to steal/damage than desktops.

An iPad would also be a lot easier to lock away in a secure location, though.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#102

Post by Someone »

code_duck wrote: post #99
olivercameron wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I would prefer to have a card slot

I am not sure whether I would want one. Having one would introduce a lot of opportunities, but also would remove lots of ease of use. Install an app => user must select where to install it. User interface-wise, what would happen to the home screen if I take out a card with some applications on it? What if I plug in another card? What if that card contains an application that already is on the built-in flash? Will this support separating executable from user settings? Etc.

The best solution for this I know of is the one Microsoft chose for their phones: no built-in flash, and the card slot is in a place where it cannot be removed without shutting down the hardware. However, I am not sure that solution adds sufficient value to the device to warrant its downsides (some compartment door that makes the device slightly larger, and that likely makes the device look a little bit less nice)

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#105

Post by jarek »

kodisha wrote: post #97

Wait, AT&T and Verizon only? What about us from Europe? Will there be sim free version?

Says right above... "850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz" for GSM/HSDPA. Previous iPad wasn't carrier locked and they'd be daft to lock this one.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#106

Post by bbatsell »

richbradshaw wrote: post #93
10char wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Choose the more likely answer:

a) Apple is shipping, and loudly promoting, a feature that "doesn't work" because of a fundamental, immutable hardware deficiency.

b) The software implementation of an unsupported hack, used by an infinitesimal number of users, written by someone who is unpaid and not intimately familiar with the hardware stack and firmware, is inefficient.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#108

Post by oldstrangers »

10char wrote: post #8

HDMI video mirroring is going to be big. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it. Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high…

It's amazing how Apple can repackage technology that has been widely available in laptops for years and convince everyone that it's "going to be big."

And I'm sure it will be... Just makes me feel like I'm going crazy though (as I type this on a laptop connected to a 24" HD monitor via HDMI).

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

#109

Post by bphogan »

Someone wrote: post #102
code_duck wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I would prefer to have a card slot I am not sure whether I would want one. Having one would introduce a lot of opportunities, but also would remove lots of ease of use. Install an app => user must select where to install it. User interface-wise, what would happen to the home screen if I take out a card with some applications on it? What if I plug in another card? What if that card contains an application that already…

I have a palm pilot that used an SD slot and I thought they handled that very well. When you installed an app it installed to main memory. You could move it to the SD if you wanted to. And when you ejected the sd, the icons for the apps that were on the SD card on the home screen disappeared. They came back when you put the card back in.

I'm not saying I want that back, but I am saying that I thought it was a pretty nice easy way of making that work.

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by dr_ »

Gilpo wrote: post #87
hop wrote: post #23

Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.

These iPads ain't for you. Apple doesn't want two important kinds of customers: power-users and penny-pinchers. Simple as that.

What tablet would a "power user" use then? And what practical tablet is cheaper?
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