iPad 2 discussion thread

A tablet running OS X with all its drawbacks (e.g., bad handwriting recognition - way worse than that of Windows Vista / 7)? Of course he didn't want that.

 

Build quality? Robustness? Great keyboard? Style? To be able to natively(!) run OS X (no need to struggle with OSx86)?

I've always been a hardcore IBM Thinkpad guy because, on the PC platform, they were the best notebooks. Before receiving a 17" MBP (late 2009 model), that is. Now I wouldn't touch a Thinkpad - they're plain worse, particularly the newer models (no IPS screen any more, unlike before the t61p, low-quality screens, much lower-quality build, not so good keyboards etc.)

 

No, they're the PC netbooks.

 

Steve Jobbs is my brother, and he said that the new Ipad 2 has
- quadcore processor
- 128 Gb space
- 1 Gb Memory
- IOS 4.3 with dualboot for Windows 7
- Stereo speakers
- USB / PCMIA slots
- and the battery will last 40 hours.

 

Case dismissed , I can tell you're lying because Steve is actually my brother.

 

Steve Jobs is my son and he told me the iPad2 will be made of lasers and have a Star Trek replicator that is set to dispense only bacon.

 

... speaking about Star Trek...

Ipad 2 also handles Hyper Threading, and has a built in Vocoder.
and for the real freaks, there will be Wireless 3D Apple glasses

 

....... Are you my long lost brother ????? They told me that you we're dead

 

I designed the iPad 2 and all I can say is that every device will come with Angry Birds pre-installed just to save everyone time downloading it anyway.

 

April 3rd in the US... a few weeks later in Canada.

 

Wowz! Hope it's not just a comparison to sub-XGA mobile phones (he may have referred to them) but to the iPad 1.

 

I think you're reading too much into the iPlayer quote. I think they're just saying it will look good on its screen. I'm pretty doubtful that we'd get a higher resolution screen. Too expensive at that size and it would create more fragmentation. Would you now have "Retina HD" graphics to look for, along with being "universal" or designed for the iPad? Too confusing IMHO. I think the iPad will stay at it's current resolution for some time to come.

 

Surely it would, but I seriously doubt there would be HD*HD games making use of the enhanced resolution - the CPU/GPU would be just too slow to render them and games already look great in the current XGA and would be at least as fast on the iPad2 as today, the GPU only pixel doubling (and maybe antialiasing, as is done on the iPhone / IPT 4 / iPad 1 in 2x mode).

Reading Web pages or PDF files are a completely different matter. Currently, it's almost impossible to use the iPad to render two PDF pages in parallel in Landscape mode, not even with the advanced cropping capabilities of, say, GoodReader. All this is because of the (comparatively) low resolution. With Retina screen (double the resolution), this wouldn't be a problem. And the list goes on...