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Apple releases Ipad 3

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Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by lukifer »

afterburner wrote: post #24

It's 10% heavier: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/new-ipad-vs-ipad-2/ Yes, I know why, but I was hoping against hope it would get a little lighter. But I didn't think it would. Maybe next year, when there's no reason to up the resolution.

It's still slightly lighter than the first iPad, so for those of us who didn't upgrade, it'll be an improvement. :)

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Post by lunarscape »

afterburner wrote: post #24

It's 10% heavier: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/new-ipad-vs-ipad-2/ Yes, I know why, but I was hoping against hope it would get a little lighter. But I didn't think it would. Maybe next year, when there's no reason to up the resolution.

I guess we're left waiting for a big breakthrough in battery technology to see a decrease in the weight of these types of devices.

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Post by kenrikm »

The Apple Store was live for about two minutes but a DDOS from everyone trying to pre-order brought it down and they went back to "We'll be back soon"

I would love to see how many hits they are getting.

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Post by gte910h »

tomkinstinch wrote: post #29
WiseWeasel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple sells their Keynote presentation software for the iPad.

Keynote is great, but it's still slideware. People need to think about the iPad as a printer for dynamic content. It's smart paper. Edit: Thanks to gte910h for pointing out iBooks Author. I wasn't aware of it! http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

You're thinking of the iBooks app (seriously, check out the free apple iBook creator). It's very dynamic content.

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Post by ronnier »

Aloisius wrote: post #10

It should be noted that the limited data plans for both AT&T and Verizon mean that at the max 4G speed of 73 Mbps, you could use all your bandwidth for the entire month in less than three and a half minutes (2 GB plan). The overages of $10/GB per month on both services mean once you go over your plan, you'll be looking at a little over $5/minute in new charges. It is possible (though highly unlikely) to rack up over…

Right. These two companies have somewhat destroyed mobile innovation by being the largest providers of mobile internet and neutering their services to be almost useless outside of checking email and web browsing. Comcast is doing their bit with their monthly limits also. I say this with an "unlimited" AT&T plan where I've reached my monthly limit. Hitting my limit slows my connection down to a crawl (it's almost unusable, the connection says edge).

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Post by ot »

Pre-ordering will be a lottery. I've been trying to get to the online Store for more than half an hour and I get either server error, "we'll be back soon" or incredibly slow connection (which then fails). I managed to get once to iPad page but clicking on any link brought me back to server error.

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Post by WiseWeasel »

tomkinstinch wrote: post #29
WiseWeasel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple sells their Keynote presentation software for the iPad.

Keynote is great, but it's still slideware. People need to think about the iPad as a printer for dynamic content. It's smart paper. Edit: Thanks to gte910h for pointing out iBooks Author. I wasn't aware of it! http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

Time to bring back Hypercard? : P

Web standards are probably your best bet as a smart paper API.

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Post by Fizzer »

Does anyone know if OpenGL's 1024x1024 image size restriction is being raised as well? Seems pretty limiting to not even be able to make an image that's as big as the screen without tiling four of them together.
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