iPad 3

[Q]

The new specs, in a nutshell:

- 2048x1536 (4 times the resolution on the iPad 2), 264 pixels per inch
- 44% better color saturation
- Dualcore A5X processor (a claimed 4 times faster than the Nvidea Tegra 3)
- An iSight camera of 5 megapixels, using the same stabilisation technology as featured in the iPhone 4S, capable of shooting video in 1080p HD

I was thinking about buying a tablet and considering the iPad or the Asus Transformer Prime. But I think the iPad is going to be the winner here :cool:

Are you going to buy one?

[Deicide]

Nah, I'll wait for the Ipad 2397583476534786

;)

[Drosophila]

Oh boi I wonder what the iPad 4 will have

[Q]

Oh boi I wonder what the iPad 4 will have

Ask again in March 2013.

[Drosophila]

On a more serious note - yeah, you probably should get it if you want to. I find that things like this won't become outdated for a while.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

The new specs, in a nutshell:

- 2048x1536 (4 times the resolution on the iPad 2), 264 pixels per inch
- 44% better color saturation
- Dualcore A5X processor (a claimed 4 times faster than the Nvidea Tegra 3)
- An iSight camera of 5 megapixels, using the same stabilisation technology as featured in the iPhone 4S, capable of shooting video in 1080p HD

I was thinking about buying a tablet and considering the iPad or the Asus Transformer Prime. But I think the iPad is going to be the winner here :cool:

Are you going to buy one?

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

[Grenzer]

I've got an iPad 2. Probably going to keep it for a while. The Macbook Airs actually look like a more promising replacement, so I don't think I'm even going to replace it.

[Grenzer]

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

Communism is a political position, not a lifestyle, it's important to remember that. Our own personal purchasing decisions are not going to have any impact on the capitalist system, so might as well enjoy it IMHO.

[pax et aequalitas]

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

While I dislike Apple and I dislike the entire concept of tablets, I still feel the need to say this: Communism isn't a life-style. Whatever we do we will always be subject to the capitalism until that system is brought to an end. If I buy a t-shirt it has been made by workers, if I buy toothpaste it is is made by workers, if I buy a table it has been made by workers. And there will almost always be capitalist profiting from it.

The only way to avoid such a thing would mean isolation and pretty much primitivism.

edit: Grenzer is a ninja

[Deicide]

Communism is a political position, not a lifestyle, it's important to remember that. Our own personal purchasing decisions are not going to have any impact on the capitalist system, so might as well enjoy it IMHO.

While this is correct.

I still find late-capitalist consumerism to be distasteful, even sickening. Commodity fétichisme is a scourge upon the earth.

[Q]

I've got an iPad 2. Probably going to keep it for a while. The Macbook Airs actually look like a more promising replacement, so I don't think I'm even going to replace it.

After a year you can still sell that iPad 2 for at least half the original price and you use that money to buy a new one with a nice discount.

[Grenzer]

After a year you can still sell that iPad 2 for at least half the original price and you use that money to buy a new one with a nice discount.

That's true, but the problem is I've already done that. I had an iPad 1, and then sold it last year to get the iPad 2. If you do that every year, you start losing a lot of money to the point where I don't think it's worth it. In another year I might get the iPad 4.

What I am more interested in is the possible merger of the macbook pro and macbook air lines. If I could get something that has the form factor of the air, but the power to play shit like Left 4 Dead, then that would be great.

Personally I like my iPad a lot. I stock it up with PDFs and it makes a great reader. Do not go for 7' tablets if you plan on reading PDFs.. I say this from experience.

[Grenzer]

While I agree with this.

I still find late-capitalist consumerism to be distasteful, even sickening. Commodity fétichisme is a scourge upon the earth.

Well I think the key thing is to be able to enjoy consumer products while still realizing what is wrong with them, and not become obsessed. With that said, there are a lot of people that are fucking obsessed with Apple, and it's sad as fuck.

[Q]

Some keynote pics:

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_025.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_030.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_031.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-2958.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-2968.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_038.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_045.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_047.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3013.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_048.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_049.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3040.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3051.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3057.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3060.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3066.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3067.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3071.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_058.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_059.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_061.jpg

http://c3424377.r77.cf0.rackcdn.com/apple-ipad-event-2012_063.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3110.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3113.jpg

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I agree with accepting the system you live in, I never said in my post there was ever anything wrong with that. Just pointing out something. Buy on.

[NewLeft]

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

He's KINDA right though, these features aren't really innovative or creative or whatever. And what's wrong with remembering the workers in China? Sure there's no ethical capitalism and no one here is saying so, but if this is your fuel for revolution.. Yeah, sure, why not!

[NewLeft]

Relevant: http://www.idroidproject.org/

Disclaimer: it's alpha
Woah, it's finally out. Thank you!

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Woah, it's finally out. Thank you!
I deleted it because I felt like a Linux-Dick in the thread, but I guess it really was relevant. :)

I don't think it supports the iPad yet, but I know for a fact a few hackers have put Linux on iPads, so it's only a matter of time

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I deleted it because I felt like a Linux-Dick in the thread, but I guess it really was relevant. :)

I don't think it supports the iPad yet, but I know for a fact a few hackers have put Linux on iPads, so it's only a matter of time

Would that work with a Kindle Fire?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Would that work with a Kindle Fire?
Looks like someone figured out how to install CyanogenMod 7 (a third-party android distribution) on the Kindle Fire, but it's not perfect: http://liliputing.com/2011/12/how-to-install-cyanogenmod-7-on-the-amazon-kindle-fire.html

You may want to check out the XDA Developer board's Kindle Fire section, but keep in mind most of the stuff there is for hobbyists/hackers and not people looking for an out-of-the-box stable system: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1309

[Nox]

All Apple products are fucking shit.

/thread

[Ostrinski]

Apple has pretty good products, actually.

[Rafiq]

I'll never understand why people want tablets....

[Agathor]

If you try to buy this you should have your hands chopped off Saudi style.
It feels like we were making fun of the first Ipad a couple of months ago.

On the other hand, Apple's popularity is the most effective refutation of the theory of the rational consumer.

[Nox]

Apple has pretty good products, actually.

Ok perhaps I worded it wrong. Apple has shit value for money products.

[piet11111]

Is this compatible with non apple stuff ?

[Metacomet]

I could think of so many better uses for $500. I lol at all the people who have an IPad and give it to their 4 year old. That nice shiny screen is gonna look real nice in glare smothered in grease and peanut butter.

And don't drop it.

[Q]

Is this compatible with non apple stuff ?

That is my main concern (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1937360) as well. There is a project on it (http://www.libimobiledevice.org/), but so far there is no iOS 5.1 support and there is little known on the iPad 3.

[piet11111]

Apple has a very obvious interest in making compatibility with other products impossible and as such i can not buy one of their products if that ties me to them exclusively.

(not that i want a tablet unless its a viable alternative to my create zen xfi 32gb for music video's but with those puny hard drives its not any better)

[Q]

Even for the Apple haters there is a compromise:

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/3256536_460s.jpg

[piet11111]

Even for the Apple haters there is a compromise:

https://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/3256536_460s.jpg

Hmm is it compatible with toilet paper or do i need to get proprietary apple toilet paper ?
How does it flush ? standard water or do i need to pay per flush from the Itoilet store ?

[NoPasaran1936]

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

Whilst the poor workers are treated shit, iPads are being used in NHS hospitals to actually save paperwork. And I guess you don't work in such an environment, so you'd never appreciate how much easier iPads make our work.

[Rafiq]

Everyone shut it about moral consumerism.

Just buy the damn product and have a nice day. Don't try to justify it by saying "Well it helps enviroment" or make it immoral by saying "Poor workers made it".

[Rafiq]

Tablets suck. But I hear this new one is more powerful than an xbox360.

Meh

[NoPasaran1936]

Everyone shut it about moral consumerism.

Just buy the damn product and have a nice day. Don't try to justify it by saying "Well it helps enviroment" or make it immoral by saying "Poor workers made it".

Wow.... I wasn't talking about the environmental aspects, I'm talking about fucking time wasting and engaging in healthcare, which is what my career involves.

Patient interaction, how can I do that with tons of paperwork? The iPad ensures that I can make real quick notes and send them to multiple doctors and nurses from the bed side.

Now can you see why tablets are helpful? It isn't about this bullshit 'moral consumerism' that you're on about, it's about increasing productivity in my work place.

[Rafiq]

And a cheap laptop can't do that... :rolleyes:

[piet11111]

And a cheap laptop can't do that... :rolleyes:

I can see how a tablet computer works better at this as you can just use it on your arm instead of sit down unfold laptop start typing then refold laptop put back in bag etc etc but a normal tablet is far easier integrated into existing windows based computer systems unless their all using mac's or whatever those things are called.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I can see how a tablet computer works better at this as you can just use it on your arm instead of sit down unfold laptop start typing then refold laptop put back in bag etc etc but a normal tablet is far easier integrated into existing windows based computer systems unless their all using mac's or whatever those things are called.
There are much cheaper tablets than the iPad. Most of which run Android and are very capable.

[NoPasaran1936]

And a cheap laptop can't do that... :rolleyes:

Yeah, holding a laptop in one arm, whilst typing and talking to the patient is real easy, bro! I assume you're some kind of physician who's also a magician and can do shit like that.

Tablets are easier to transport, small, lighter and more accessible than a laptop.

[NoPasaran1936]

There are much cheaper tablets than the iPad. Most of which run Android and are very capable.

Ah, yeah, I wouldn't care if what i was using at work as an iPad or a Galaxy note. Tablets make working in hospitals a much easier task, something Rafiq couldn't appreciate. He can stick to traditional styles in his work place, but if I'm working in healthcare, I need something to be simple, quick, light and easy to use. Tablets do the job great.

[Q]

As a sidenote: I ended up buying a Kindle instead. It just fits my needs of reading a lot better (as e-ink screens are much easier on the eyes). But I can totally imagine how ipads would save a ton of time in a workplace environment. Much less redtape and all that.

[#FF0000]

All useless bourgeois stuff. Remember how workers in China make our iPads.

Your computer is made up of nothing but components made in the very same factories and is loaded with conflict minerals.

[o well this is ok I guess]

I was walking by a lineup for the new iPad and made some very loud jokes about it not running flash.
I have never felt so much like someone was going to kill me.

[#FF0000]

The Ipads and tablets in general look like really fun toys, but I can't justify that pricetag, to be honest. Some of the non-apple offerings are a little better in that regard, but out of reach for me without some saving.

A Nook or a Kindle are probably more my thing -- especially with how nice those displays are.

[NoPasaran1936]

The Ipads and tablets in general look like really fun toys, but I can't justify that pricetag, to be honest. Some of the non-apple offerings are a little better in that regard, but out of reach for me without some saving.

A Nook or a Kindle are probably more my thing -- especially with how nice those displays are.

Yeah, the pricetag is mad as shit...

[Agathor]

My 88 year old Grandfather bought the iPad 2 as his first computer last weekend. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the iPad 3 was coming out in a couple of days, or that all Apple products are dildos.

I would say 'live and learn'. but... aah...

[Aloysius]

iPad 3? Don't mean new iPad?


I wouldn't mind having an iPad, though. If I could use it at school I totally would, but my school has a rather draconian mandate against electronic devices. Which is hilarious 'cause people are clearly wearing the latest iteration of the iPod nano as wristwatches.

[Q]

iPad 3? Don't mean new iPad?

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/007/423/untitle.JPG

This name is really silly. I mean, what is the iPad 4 going to be called? The "even newer iPad"? And the one after that the "yet more new iPad"?

Dafuq Apple?

[Rafiq]

Meh, I guess, but it's a waste of money getting more than 16 gigs for work place

[Pretty Flaco]

I don't get the point of tablets. You could just buy a netbook if you wanted a laptop with less features.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I don't get the point of tablets. You could just buy a netbook if you wanted a laptop with less features.
If it says "Apple" ... nobody asks questions, they just buy it

[ColonelCossack]

I can't afford an iPad.

[ColonelCossack]

Whilst the poor workers are treated shit, iPads are being used in NHS hospitals to actually save paperwork. And I guess you don't work in such an environment, so you'd never appreciate how much easier iPads make our work.

It's pathetic that healthcare has to rely on a private corporation, though.

[bricolage]

It's pathetic that healthcare has to rely on a private corporation, though.
you want the nhs to invest into its own technological research department to create a nhspad? that seems pretty ridiculous.
I don't think the nhs sews its own shirts, or makes its own mops or chocolate bars either..

[Deicide]

I ordered a kindle yesterday.. and it arrived 20 minutes ago. I'm very surprised. It's brilliant and it does not hurt my eyes whatsoever. I probably won't be buying a book ever again. Thank you monstrous and evil corporation, Amazon.

[Q]

I ordered a kindle yesterday.. and it arrived 20 minutes ago. I'm very surprised. It's brilliant and it does not hurt my eyes whatsoever. I probably won't be buying a book ever again. Thank you monstrous and evil corporation, Amazon.

Last week my Kindle had a technical issue and I contacted Amazon chat support to get help. I went through a reset of the Kindle, but that didn't solve it. So they sent me a new Kindle instead :thumbup1: