Backfoggen
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So it seems like this will be branded as iPad HD
1280x720 confirmed.
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Apple Media Event - 1080p AppleTV, 4G/LTE 2048x1536 iPad, same price, Mar 16th
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1280x720 confirmed.
Nah, it depends how the game is drawing and/or how the OS scales it. Sometimes filtering is added so they get all blurry like Cave games on retina display iPhones, sometimes it's a straight pixel double and stays sharp.
The buzz is that it may or may not have quad core. Honestly a fast dual core would probably be better for most uses, like the best possible outcome would be a dual core A15 rather than quad core A9, but I think it's too early for that. Alternative scenarios are highly clocked dual A9s or quad at lower speed. Highly clocked quad would be nice of course...or something magic like Intel's turbo boost stuff.
For a company that hates styluses they've sure patented a lot of stylus ideas in recent years.
Gamecocks625
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So it seems like this will be branded as iPad HD
So where did you get this from
I know GRRRR! Sold my iPad2 two days ago, having nothing to read flipboard on the shitter sucks...
WordAssassin
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I need to find that "I CALLED IT" Colbert GIF if that happens
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Yeah, I would have liked that... though it might not be very 'friendly' consumer wise. I don't really like the HD thing since it makes me think of 1080p, tbh, and this is beyond that.
PS. iPad was a tacky as hell name too, if you all can remember. Apple will announce it and it'll grow on people, as usual.
jts
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Pro doesn't make sense in the current Apple.
It barely makes sense on their computers. The Mac Pro is as niche is it gets (I for one won't be surprised when they pull the plug on that), and the MacBook Pro could as well be rebranded as MacBook as that line is finished so the Pro moniker doesn't really differentiates it from anything else (the Air has its own name).
Pro makes sense when you have 2 clearly separate lines of products, one more consumer-oriented and other more work-oriented. Apple these days is all about broad appeal, consumer-oriented stuff with advanced features/options (on the software/services side) that can cater to companies too.
iDevices are much more successful than Macintoshes, if anything Apple will take what they learned from the iPad/iPhone/iPod to the Macs and not the opposite.
It barely makes sense on their computers. The Mac Pro is as niche is it gets (I for one won't be surprised when they pull the plug on that), and the MacBook Pro could as well be rebranded as MacBook as that line is finished so the Pro moniker doesn't really differentiates it from anything else (the Air has its own name).
Pro makes sense when you have 2 clearly separate lines of products, one more consumer-oriented and other more work-oriented. Apple these days is all about broad appeal, consumer-oriented stuff with advanced features/options (on the software/services side) that can cater to companies too.
iDevices are much more successful than Macintoshes, if anything Apple will take what they learned from the iPad/iPhone/iPod to the Macs and not the opposite.
WordAssassin
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you're welcome.
Hahaha thank you!
JCreasy
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Why would they call it Pro when they are getting rid of Pro on MacBooks? MBP are being merged with Air's by all indications and it will be one super slim formfactor. from 11 inch screen through 17 inch screen.
And the Mac Pro desktop is likely being axed. So the Pro name is about to no longer exist. Why suddenly then bring it to iPad?
And the Mac Pro desktop is likely being axed. So the Pro name is about to no longer exist. Why suddenly then bring it to iPad?
Pagusas
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Why would they axe the Mac Pro desktop line? Those are pretty much the goto business sellers for universities and art studios (and home editors)? They have to have a dedicated (non-built in to screen) desktop line for Final Cut and such. No editor wants to work of a standard imac.
Gamecocks625
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Looks like I'll take another ban bet. No way Apple introduces an 8GB iPad 2 and no way this new iPad is called iPad HD or iPad Pro.
It's just so..un-Apple
iPad 3 or bust
It's just so..un-Apple
iPad 3 or bust
Pagusas
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are you also saying they cant use iPad 2s?
Betta Lines
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The display is too much of a big deal to call it a 2S.
Bookmarked this post for future reference.
Meus Renaissance
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8GB iPad? Holograms are more likely
#deliveringthehyerbole
#deliveringthehyerbole
Gamecocks625
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It's been heavily rumored it is being fazed out this year.
That was the rumor, but now the talks about NVIDIA cards in the new Mac Pros suggest otherwise. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like what HP is doing with their iMac-like powerstation.
"All of the power without the tower"...that type thing.
Rely on Thunderbird for expansion.
I can see an iPad 2 8gb at $349-$399. People saying that an iPad with 8gb of space is stupid, there are a ton of people that don't even use a fraction of the 16gb space on an iPad. My parents use it for the occasional small app and mostly for email and web browsing. 8gb would be plenty for them. I can see it happening.
EDIT: NM, I misread your post. I thought you said $249.
I made the ridiculous example because you're the one who always wants to throw viewing distance out the window when someone tries to tell you that it isn't just about the PPI having to be atleast 300, but that viewing distance also plays a role on whether it's "retina" or not.
(Still don't know why I'm talking about a stupid marketing term Apple invented that has no true definition.)
nVidiot_Whore
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The reason an 8gb iPad doesn't really make sense:
Apple's pricing scheme is based on the concept of:
1) Perceived value of the space while denying expandability
2) Making gigantic profits off of this perceived value
With the sales so high on 16gb iPad's at $500.. an 8gb iPad at $400, that would lower their cost by like.. 10 cents.. but their profit by 99.90 if someone chose the 8gb over the 9gb..
Does that make business sense? Would enough people go "I haven't bought an iPad yet, but now that they have one at $400 I'm buying it!" to make it worth the potential loss in profits?
Apple's pricing scheme is based on the concept of:
1) Perceived value of the space while denying expandability
2) Making gigantic profits off of this perceived value
With the sales so high on 16gb iPad's at $500.. an 8gb iPad at $400, that would lower their cost by like.. 10 cents.. but their profit by 99.90 if someone chose the 8gb over the 9gb..
Does that make business sense? Would enough people go "I haven't bought an iPad yet, but now that they have one at $400 I'm buying it!" to make it worth the potential loss in profits?
They probably won't do anything until they can make a lower-power ipad @ 299 or lower. Like you said, 400 is just going to eat into profits w/o being a real counter to the price shocker that Kindle Fire was.
I don't see Apple going anywhere near $199-$249, they don't really have to IMO. $299-399 would be as low as they're going to go I bet (and I don't think they'll hit $299 until they make an iPad Mini).
nVidiot_Whore
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Yeah.. well.. profit margins are so high on existing devices I'm not so sure they'll ever release a lower priced iPad. It offers up a much less profitable option to consumers that might have just buckled and bought a $500+ device anyways.
Unless I'm wrong on gauging their profit margins, and the costs of "lower powered" components.. it doesn't necessarily make sense for them. Especially when they are so vastly outselling the cheaper devices as is. Clearly not that many people are going "I really want an iPad, but I bought something cheaper instead."
A huge percentage of non-Apple tablet purchasers simply won't buy Apple products no matter what their price.
FreeMufasa
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What are the chances it releases before 20th March?
LyleLanley
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Pretty good, the current rumor is March 16th.
nVidiot_Whore
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I think this is a decent assumption.
Other than they might just stop selling iPad 2's, and have no $400 option.
Fixed.
This makes sense, but there's so many "rumors" to the contrary out there. I think changing the naming and pricing conventions would be a mistake and confuse consumers.
Yup. Anyone thinking Apple needs to drop prices is high as fuck.
The worst, Jerry. The Worst.
Diablohead
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8GB seems way too small for iPad uses, it's bad enough on an ipod touch, even 16 seems to be stretching it with HD versions of games.
Xeon was a dumb decision and a waste of money. Intels consumer grade processors are already amazing enough as it is and fast enough for almost anything most people could need.
Only Xeon's support dual socket systems, which 2 of the 3 configurations are.
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