Fox Mulder
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Yeah, I really love the mini, but they priced it out of its spot.
I won't consider anything below a 32GB, and the Air is only $100 more than any option for the mini I would want.
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Yeah, I really love the mini, but they priced it out of its spot.
I won't consider anything below a 32GB, and the Air is only $100 more than any option for the mini I would want.
OSX is not a tablet OS. They even went on a crusade on Surface and its kin.
sweetvar26
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How come both the 15rMBP are of the same weight, one with and the other without the 750GT?
Are you here to be the eternal bane of all apple threads form now on? I just don't see why you would spend your whole day coming in here to troll and bash apple, your posts before and during the live stream are very telling, you clearly enjoy it. You probably beat off to this shit.
Best built then?
iOS store and build quality are the main reasons I am getting the mini again.
Mmmmm, the feel of glass and cold metal. Love it.
iOS 7 works great on iPad 3. Just disable parallax.
Whilst Apple tablets rock, this post is correct.
N7 is better with specs etc.
Apple ruins it with design, despite N7 now being sleek as hell and a better App Store.
I'm mostly going to be doing some web/software development with it. I'll also be using Bootcamp or a virtual machine to use some Windows things. Though most likely I'll install W8 on Bootcamp for VisualStudio.
The price is why I'm not sure if I should go with the i7 or not.
The nexus 7 is not better with specs however, where are you getting this from. Price is a huge advantage in it's favour, but the a7 should easily wipe the floor with the s4 pro in the nexus 7, ram is not comparable as the operating systems are completely different, I detest when people use that point in androids favour when directly comparing specs. Ios performs far far better with less ram than android, android requires more ram in general. The mini had 512mb and an a5 processor and was a far smoother and snappier experience than the nexus 7 2012 which had 1gb ram.
The chip they solder on for the 750GT would only weigh a few grams.
Sir Abacus
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Nihilistic Monk
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May I share you WTF. Other phone or tablets don't increase the price when they increase the resolution.
smokeandmirrors
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I use my Air with an i5 for dev stuff and it's more than fine. I dunno how much it'll be when VMing Windows things, someone else may have to comment on it.
If you have the extra money, why not? I just decided against it to upgrade the SSD and RAM.
Is this a real post?
Actually it gives you a choice of what you'd like your logical resolution to be:
Yep, you can run it all the way up to an effective 1680x1050 by default, or even higher with a small tool. It's sweet to be able to mirror fully to a 1080p TV, or even 1:1 mirror with my 1600p monitor!
Pagusas
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nope, you can choose how much space you want in the DPI scaling (and it does a great job at any level!)
I would never grab an Air over a MBP, love the pro line just too much. But I think 13" are just to weak for anything but general photo editing, I'm grabbing a 15" with the 750m as soon as I can afford it post wedding.
Edit: wow beaten badly.
You truly have a gift to displaying your opinions in the most obnoxious way possible.
Heres the thing. The N7 is pretty good. Ive been using one full-time for 2 weeks. The screen is gorgeous. reading tweets and mobile Gaf and RSS feeds is fine.
And yet the overall experience still feels like a second class experience compared to the one year old ipad mini.
There are fewer decent apps that actually feel like more than smartphone apps.
The zooming and scrolling performance - even on 4.3 - is still not as fluid as the old iPad mini or an iPad 3.
battery drain while sleeping is way, way worse than on iOS, so it needs to be plugged in more frequently and more care needs to be taken about which apps are running.
There are tradeoffs for all devices. The N7 has the best price and is more portable, but it really does not feel as nice or work as smoothly as the mini. And the screen size and AR means that apps are more crammed - like iphone apps - than ipad apps. It feels like a more constrained device.
I know you dont give a shit about these things and you just like to troll. But for anyone else who has not used iPads or Nexus 7 devices, its not a cut and dry case for the cheaper, higher spec'd Nexus. You really need to play around with both for extended periods of time and figure out just what you want to do with one of these before you say the N7 is the leader in the category. I do not think its that simple.
The N7 went up in price with the 2nd gen.
When you use a resolution that isn't a multiple of the native res, are there any visible artifacts from the scaling?
Sort of. They launched the N7 at $200 for an 8GB model. Then Amazon basically bomb-shelled the rest of the cheap tablet market 2 months later by stating that they were moving the base to 16GB and still starting at $200. Several companies including Google had to readjust their pricing as a result so they dropped the 8GB model and moved the 16GB down to $200 from $230.
The Kindle Fire line did increase this gen though.
WeaponJohnnyX
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I think I'm just going to have to accept the fact that I will never own a current or up to date macbook pro or air. I want it, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford it.
Sir Abacus
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I ordered the 750M rMBP today. I'm upgrading from a 2010 MBP so it should be a massive jump in power.
My wife is going to get me the iPad Mini for the birthday but I'm yet to decide on 128GB or 16GB.
My wife is going to get me the iPad Mini for the birthday but I'm yet to decide on 128GB or 16GB.
what your wife will buy you a 128GB ipad mini? Wow sounds like a godly wife :O
great no problems at all
TheChewyWaffles
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Any retailers taking preorders for this the new iPads yet? I don't want to order on November 1 I want to pick the damn thing up :\
Sir Abacus
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In the proverbial sense. If it was coming out today I'd have already bought it.
Memory is an issue, you can't really run anything in the background and tabs in Chrome have to reload all the time as you switch. Other than that it performs well enough.
ChainedMaster
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You had just said they can't win.
Not really any 'sort of' about it: once they got done screwing over everyone who bought the 16gb first gen after only 3 months, the first gen 16gb was 199. The 2nd gen 16gb was $230. So the price went up.
Forgot about the Kindle, though I tend to lose track about which model is which these days.
NinjaMouse
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I'm in a similar boat with a 2010 13" MBP. How big of a jump will the $1499 retina pro be in terms of performance? Since I went Apple, I know squat about processors. We just bought my wife an i7 Vaio and it's snappy as hell, however, I'd like another Apple for myself, but I wonder if the i5 leaves a bit to be desired. Thoughts?
Bob Dobalina
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The 16gb Nexus 7 from 2012 was $199 in July 2013. The 32gb Nexus 7 from 2013 is $239. There isn't really a "sort of" here unless you want to argue that it's not as bad as a $70 price increase like the iPad mini.
Even then, I'm on the side that the $30 increase seemed to be for profit, especially with the mediocre QC on some units.
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Basically this.
Yeah I've had zero issues with iOS7 on my iPad 3, which is why I'm gonna stick with it instead of upgrading.
Sir Abacus
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The CPU doesn't change. If you need the extra SSD space, get it. Otherwise upgrade the $1299 version to 8GB of RAM and leave it at that.
Oh-ho ho ....nonono Tim
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The iPad air branding is still a mystery to me. In the Mac line air denotes the less powerful in favor of portability line. In the mobile line mini has meant same experience but smaller and friendlier. I think a pro/larger iPad is basically a foregone conclusion now. I mean, right? Right?!?
NinjaMouse
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I should have stated that I'll be coming from a 2.4 ghz Core 2 Duo. I was mainly concerned about how big of a difference there was between that and the i5.
The Real Abed
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This is the thing I'm looking forward to when I get my rPro. The 15" has one even higher than the 13".
Can't wait to get myself a 15" rPro. Going all out this time. Not upgrading again for 3 years at least. 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Quad-core i7 and Iris Pro with discrete GPU. $2,599.
Side note: On the Apple Store you can configure a lower end 15" to the same price as the higher end, but the one difference being no discrete GPU. What an odd oversight. I'd hate to accidentally order that specification.
Well fuck N7 too, I am getting a W8 tablet.
Not a bad choice, though I am not caught up on the current resolution options.
Sir Abacus
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Massive performance increase. Geekbench is about three times higher between the Mid-2007 MBP and last year's 13" rMBP.
victreeb3l
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Apple iCourier confirmed.
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