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just getting announced now
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http://www.macrumors.com/
New iPad. "We’ve taken it to a whole new level, and we are redefining the category that Apple created with the original iPad."
- It has a home button. And Retina Display. "Until you see it you can’t understand how amazing it is."
- "This presents a problem for us in presenting it to you. For the first time, an iPad has a higher resolution than this entire display behind you... that's a fun challenge."
- "Photos are just going to look amazing on that gorgeous high-resolution display."
- 2048 x 1536 resolution. Higher than a 1080p display. 3.1 million pixels, 264 pixels per inch, "enough to call it a retina display". iPhone 4 was held at 10 inches, iPad held at 15".
- 44% greater color saturation.
- A5X Processor, quad-core graphics.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kitenski, Will it accept an SD Card & have a USB port?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kitenski, A home button eh? Amazing. I expect to see Apple claiming to have invented the idea of a home button soon. Lawsuits will follow ( It's thin, has a display and a home button ).
Does it have a standard (thin) USB charger? If not then it doesn't even begin to get a consideration from this corner.
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"Photos are just going to look amazing on that gorgeous high-resolution display."
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Does it have built in SD/microSD slot, and standard microUSB?
if not, I can wait till the ipad4
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Easy to view photos on iPad, we do it all the time and it's probably our favourite way of viewing them. They are either synchronised each time the iPad is connected to the computer, or if I want to do it straight from my camera I can use the SD card reader adapter. For those using iCloud I think it will also work over the air without any user intervention. Seems to work well enough, and the new iPhoto looks like it will allow you to tweak your images away from home if you don't want to wait until you return to your main computer.
I suspect the new screen will make a big difference. It was a huge step up from the iPhone3 to the iPhone4 just on the quality of the display, and on a larger device like a tablet I guess the difference will be even more marked.
For those who are desperate to have SD and/or USB built in do any of the other tablets have this?
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rob@rar, yep, the vast majority of non-iOS tablets have built in SD of some kind, even the older ones. Most of the most recent ones probably? use microUSB connector as the standard connection for chargers, to PC etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablet_computers
I know it's possible with adapters, but it'd be nice just to be able to pop out card and stick it in a device with a larger screen for "social" viewing of photos whilst away, and not have to worry about extra loose items. At home, I don't care, since I'd use a real desktop, and real post-processing, anyway.
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| andy wrote: |
| I know it's possible with adapters, but it'd be nice just to be able to pop out card and stick it in a device with a larger screen for "social" viewing of photos whilst away, and not have to worry about extra loose items. At home, I don't care, since I'd use a real desktop, and real post-processing, anyway. |
Carrying one small adapter is not enough of a reason for me to wait to see if Apple add an SD slot to their tablets (which I doubt they will). I carry a range of small accessories, such as spare SD cards, a couple of cables, USB power pack, etc, so sticking one extra adapter in is neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned.
Not really been following the progress with Android tablets (or Win 8 mobile or whatever it is), so what is the current state of play with regards to applications for managing photos and video? I was impressed that kitenski edited some of his helmetcam footage using his iPad, and then uploaded it to YouTube. It's getting to the point where tablets will do all I want when on holiday, so taking a laptop might not be necessary.
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rob@rar, The processors in an iPad or any other tablet only have a small fraction of the compute power of any of the current generation of x86 processors from Intel or AMD. Doing large scale video editing might end up being a bit painful.
Not quite there yet I think.
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The USB point is an important one. I have a large collection of phones that I use for testing stuff. I refuse (almost) to buy anything that doesn't have a standard USB charger for the simple reason that having 20 different chargers lying around the place drives me nuts! I really can't understand ( well actually I can ) why Apple insist on forcing their own special brand of connector / charger on us.
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| Steilhang wrote: |
rob@rar, The processors in an iPad or any other tablet only have a small fraction of the compute power of any of the current generation of x86 processors from Intel or AMD. Doing large scale video editing might end up being a bit painful.
Not quite there yet I think. |
For anything more than simple straight cuts, maybe a dissolve and adding a music track I'm sure you're right. I use Final Cut Pro so the current iOS version of iMovie obviously isn't going to match that, but for a quick posting of a holiday video to YouTube I was impressed.
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Steilhang, is the Apple charger different to other USB chargers? Obviously you'll need a USB-AppleDock cable that you can't use for non-Apple devices, but won't any USB charger work? I use the Apple charger for other devices without any problems.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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How is this ski relevant when "Why don't black people ski" isn't?
Isn't it just another Apple fanboi luv-in? Could we just establish a separate forum for that?
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It's getting to the point where tablets will do all I want when on holiday, so taking a laptop might not be necessary.
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It's getting no where near the point where taking a laptop or any other "tech" on holiday will be remotely necessary. Spend 8-10 hours a day staring at the bleeding thing at work without having it on holiday as well!!
However, I was contemplating being frivolous and buying a tablet soon - for fun, not work. I'm a bit clueless on these things and had gone off the ipad idea because of the SD/USB issue but then 75% of tablet users have an ipad so it can't be that big a deal - can it??
After doing a bit of research I'd set my sights on waiting for the Acer A700 to come out but maybe the ipad3 and a few cables will still be better?? Gawd knows...!
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You know it makes sense.
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FWIW as Rob says I took "just" an iPad to Japan, and managed to do some basic video and picture editing and upload pics to Facebook, videos to youtube etc.
I took the iPad camera connection kit and a charger, the lack of a USB slot isn't really an issue for me.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Ski Tyke wrote: |
| It's getting no where near the point where taking a laptop or any other "tech" on holiday will be remotely necessary. Spend 8-10 hours a day staring at the bleeding thing at work without having it on holiday as well!! |
Fair point  Although for me being away skiing often is work, and having the ability to stay in touch with home via Skype, keep on top of work emails, look at video are pretty much essential. When there's an app which can step forwards and backwards through video without having to upload it to the tablet is the point at which the laptop is no longer necessary.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| For those who are desperate to have SD and/or USB built in do any of the other tablets have this? |
My cheap Archos tablet has a full size and micro size USB port, a micro SD port and an HDMi port to view pics/videos on the TV if I feel the need.
As per other this is for me a non-starter if the tablet hasn't got this.
Yesterday I pooled all the video and pictures my mates and I took in Morzine with a couple of Android phones(used as mass storage) and Video cameras by just connecting said devices in the USB ports (or the memory card). No need to make sure both of us have the same software, or compatible OS or whatever..
While there's no doubt that Apple's screen is extremely good, the high resolution screen on my tablet is more than adequate for casual photo browsing or watching a film while travelling.
As Facetime is what has worked best for me (full marks to Apple there!) to talk to my parents with the wife's Iphone, I was interested in seeing what specs the Ipad 3 would have..
In that sense Ipad 3 is a disappointing non-event..... You'd think that at least Siri would have made it ...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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the siri bit, fuuuuuuunny.
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Well I just ordered one.
Quite strange really because I'm not a great Apple fan, and on principle am much happier with Android/Google (got an Asus tablet and a Galaxy S2, which are both fine).
However it does have 2 things that I wanted
- the screen (this was why I never bought an IPad2)
- Apple app store. Good as Android is becoming it's not quite there yet and is a bit "wild west". Also I still can't get global iPlayer on it.
| Steilhang wrote: |
rob@rar, The processors in an iPad or any other tablet only have a small fraction of the compute power of any of the current generation of x86 processors from Intel or AMD. Doing large scale video editing might end up being a bit painful.
Not quite there yet I think. |
WRT to computing power; my opinion (slightly educated one) is that Apple are bang on about the post-PC thing. Look at the trend as to where your data is ending up (on the "cloud"), it would not then be an unreasonable step to assume tha you compute resource will end up there too (imho that needs to be a bit more distributed than the current server farm model), hence you don't need a whacking great quad core i7 of your very own, all you need is the communication bandwidth (geting there), and a processor/GPU that can keep up with the comms, (de)compression, and rendering.
This does not seem far beyond the performance of even an existing ARM CPU/GPU combo.
In the meantime I do have a quad i-7 machine that I can happily vnc to. The thing that is becoming redundant fast is the laptop.
Again with increased communications bandwidth, wireless connectivity, and cloud storage; not having an SD card is becoming a bit less of an issue, though I'd rather have one than not.
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I'm tempted into buying a Tablet to replace my Netbook, but I use the Netbook on trips to view my photos from my SD card, also to charge my phone too. I hate the idea of having to take multiple power supplies, adaptors and cables. At present it's just the Netbook power supply with SD slot, one USB to Micro USB lead to charge, both my HTC and Kitty's Blackberry and another USB to Sony lead to charge MP3 player. Very easy, only one wall plug required.
I'd be tempted by the Apple if they weren't so anti every other system in the World. Considering most cameras use SD cards and other devices usually get charged by USB, it's stupid not to include them.
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Spyderman, you could use the iPad charger to charge your phone, and use the SD adapter to view your photos on the iPad. Problem sorted! 
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rob@rar, At present I plug my Netbook in and just plug everything else into that so it charges it all at the same time from one plug socket, no adapters just simple leads.
I suppose the SD adapter is an extra?
Don't get me wrong I love the look of it and the way it works, it's just it's incompatibility with anything else that isn't Apple.
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Spyderman, yes, it cost about £20 I think. For what you say you'd like to do with it I wouldn't say it's incompatible, but you will need to carry a small SD card adapter and an extra cable compared to what you normally carry. For me that's not a big deal, but if it doesn't work for you then I guess some of the Android tablets will also do what you want in terms of replacing your netbook, so problem sorted!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Let me know when I can copy what I want onto the iPad without using iFreakingPieceOfTotalCrapTunes. In fact, let me know when ITunes runs on Linux.
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You know it makes sense.
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[quote="Kruisler"]
| rob@rar wrote: |
| Yesterday I pooled all the video and pictures ..... with a couple of Android phones(used as mass storage) and Video cameras by just connecting said devices in the USB ports (or the memory card). ... |
Exactly what rob@rar and I did in Japan, iPhone, iPad, Macbook and Android phone as mass storage....
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| At present it's just the Netbook power supply with SD slot, one USB to Micro USB lead to charge, both my HTC and Kitty's Blackberry and another USB to Sony lead to charge MP3 player. |
The iPad battery would last 3x that of the netbook, you would need to carry.
1. Apple iPad power supply
2. One apple ipad charging cable to plug into 1)
3. the same Micro USB lead you already have to plug into 1)
4. The Camera connection kit (which does cost)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| kitenski wrote: |
The iPad battery would last 3x that of the netbook, you would need to carry.
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Is the iPad battery really that good? I regularly get better than 8 hours use out of my Samsung N150 Plus.
Every other device I have charges from the Netbook's powered USB port.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Spyderman,
I have been browsing for about 3 hours, battery is on 79% from full. The battery is amazing, can't understand why they cannot sort the iPhone battery out, I have a speaking new 4s and I struggle to get a day out of it, if I don't use my car charger.
As for Siri on the iPad they really do need to ditch Siri completely, it doesn't work.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The iPad is so clever it even corrects spanking to speaking and you don't even know it. 
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Their may be a very good reason why the best marketing company in the world have not included an SD slot and that is you don't need one. Well not if all you want to do is view pictures from your camera, its quite simple all you have to do is upgrade to an iPhone 4s. If all you want is point and shoot the camera on this is every bit as good as a compact. Then as soon as you have wifi they upload automatically over iCloud.
Very clever these Apple guys they make things that work seamlessly with each other and all you have to do is pay for it, you dont need to be a computer geek it just works. Then of course the iPhone5 will come out, then the iPad4 which will have something on you need and so it goes on & on & on & on & on & on and if people keep on buying, Apple will keep on releasing the next new product. And you know that when you are parting with your hard earned cash they have kept the next big thing back for the next release in 6 months time.
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Spyderman, My ipad (1 - old now I know  ) easily lasts a week or two between charges. I use it an hour or two most days. It just seems to last 'ages', not as good as a kindle, but in a different league to a laptop, netbook or iPhone.
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| Kel wrote: |
| ....if all you want to do is view pictures from your camera, its quite simple all you have to do is upgrade to an iPhone 4s. ... |
That's indeed the key...force you to buy more of their products...
Credit to them, by many accounts even just here that strategy works like a dream...
Where it falls through is when you want to interact with the outside world.. well, it doesn't fall through as such, you're just forced to buy adapters...Oh....there we go...that same strategy again!
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| paulio wrote: |
| Last time I checked, you couldn't ski on an iPad |
There's probably an app for that.
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Kruisler, Yes, 18 months ago I would never have considered a Mac on price alone, but now I use an iPad and iPhone I will definitely stump up for a Mac when the home computer needs upgrading.
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