Lol @ the slicing. It's good to hear that the iPad 2 is pretty refined. I just wish it's browser did more.
Resistant, but not scratch-proof. I had my hands on dozens of original iPads over the past year; I would say at least half had some scratches on the glass.Need some techies to help with this one.
The glass on the IPAD2 ... is it scratch-resistant ?
My iPad 2, born in China, is heading back to the motherland on the gray market.
I can wait a month for mine to ship from Apple; the extra cash people are paying to have one "now" was too ridiculous to pass up.
Indeed. I live in a medium-sized city and early-adopters/prospectors snatched up everything in the metro area over the weekend.there were still a couple left at my local Wal-Mart.
Resistant, but not scratch-proof. I had my hands on dozens of original iPads over the past year; I would say at least half had some scratches on the glass.
Apple uses Gorilla Glass on the iPad, but I have some serious doubts about their implementation with it. I've used other devices that also had Gorilla Glass, like the Zune HD, Droid 1/2, Galaxy S, etc. and I've found that iDevices are more susceptible to scratches. You can take keys to the screen of a Zune HD without a mark, but try that on an iPad and you'll be disappointed.
That would be because they aren't using Corning Gorilla Glass. On the iPhone 4, they advertise it as using an alumino-silicate glass, something very similar to Gorilla Glass, but it is not. In much the same way that not all facial tissues are Kleenex, and not all inline skates are RollerBlades, not all scratch resistant alumino-silicates are Gorilla Glass.
But the iPhone 4 is the only one that they specifically mention as having that, and they have never shied away from namedropping features in multiple products.
I got my bill in from my iPad buying spree on the iTunes store... a good $40 worth of apps . Still have plenty of space left, so I need to find more apps .
Got here at the Apple Store in Cerritos, CA @ 6am and there`s already a line of 20 people. It`s opening at 9am.
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Ugg weak taco bell mild sauce. There were about 30 in line and Apple Store people came out at around 7:30 to tell everyone they weren't getting any in today. Oh well. I was just going to flip them anyways.
There's nothing wrong with people wanting something right now and waiting in line all day for it. They just have no lives so more power to them. If that's the one thing they can do all year that can make them happy then more power to them.
Crap, I called around a bit last night, about 1/2 the stores confirmed they were opening early but said they weren't getting iPads in, WTF????
It just wouldn't be an Apple launch without drama
What apps did you get? I got Keynote, Numbers(haven't dl'ed yet), Pages, iMovie, and Garageband.
Wow, unexpected. iMovie on iPad 2 beats out a lot of Macs.
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/15/imovie-on-ipad-2-beats-most-macs-in-benchmarks/
In everything. From copying to encoding.
The hunt continues. My brother waited in line for me this morning and there were 40 people in line but only 12 iPad 2's which really sucks.
The hunt continues. My brother waited in line for me this morning and there were 40 people in line but only 12 iPad 2's which really sucks.
At the end of the day optimization and UX are the things that the majority of consumers are looking for on a tablet. This is why Android will fail on tablets. People thought when Apple announced the iPad 2 that is was barely a refresh but now everyone is seeing how it packs some serious hardware inside. The only device I can see going toe to toe with the iPad is the HP Touchpad and WebOS but the only way HP has even a remote shot of being competitive is to stop trying to emulate what Apple did with each last generation iPad and worry more about what they are going to do with the new one. Hardware refreshes have to come out every year and they not only have to match Apple's pricing but try to undercut it.
Call me crazy but I see foresee a quad Cortex A9 and a PowerVR 543MP4 on the iPad 3.
The iPad 3 better have at least those specs, nvidia is supposed to have quad core Tegra 3 SoC's ready later this year and you can be sure they will be showing up in Android tablets.
Lets focus on what is available to buy today. Too much I hear..."it'll be better, faster, more polished".