New iPad Gets Unboxed & Benchmarked; 1GB RAM Confirmed
The first of many unboxings and benchmarking to boot.
It's not supposed to launch until Friday, but it seems some people have gotten their hands on the new iPad a little bit earlier. The first glimpse of the Apple tablet (which looks just like the old one bar a few minor, barely noticeable tweaks) comes from Vietnam, where one Apple fan claims to have gotten his pre-order a few days earlier. Of course, when something like that happens, you make the most of it and post the first ever iPad 3 unboxing video. Check it out below (fair warning: It's all in Vietnamese):
Now, perhaps you haven't yet ordered your new iPad because you're waiting to hear some of the details that Apple has yet to provide. Maybe you're a little curious about that Apple A5X chip, or you're wondering if the rumors of twice the RAM are true. Well, luckily for you, the men in the video above also had the foresight to run some benchmarks on the device.
The results were posted by user Sonlazio to tinhte.vn and reveal that while Apple doubled the RAM for the latest iPad and upped the graphics, the processor clock speed remains at an unchanged 1GHz. The iPad scored a respectable 756 running GeekBench, which measures processor and memory performance. This is pretty similar to what the iPad 2 has been scoring on GeekBench (at least, it is according to the GeekBench results browser tool), while the iPad 1 seems to score around 470 pretty consistently on GeekBench.
Head on over to Tinhte.vn for more GeekBench screen caps.
(via Engadget)

Its an Apple! What charts are you talking about, that's for PC users. /sarcasm off
Its an Apple! What charts are you talking about, that's for PC users. /sarcasm off
What phone do you have?
The funny thing is that great resolution needs great graphical capabilities to drive it.
Apple doesn't seem to have those at first glance; and I'm eager to see how Apple's solution handles that screen with apps and games that can take advantage of all those pixels.
For that matter, though, we don't know how Tegra 3 would handle a QXGA screen in similar circumstances; and for some reason I'd guess that both solutions will fall short at full load at 2048 x 1536. AMD might have something to say about that, though.
If you got a TF201 without dead or stuck pixels consider yourself lucky. I went through 5 TF201s trying to get one without those defects and it just didn't work out for me. ...otherwise pretty decent tablet.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-Tegra-3-Apple-A5X-iPad-3-Asus,14950.html
benchmark please.
It can be far more than that. I use my iPad at work to take notes (using the excellent PenUltimate app) to read books, to listen to music, to entertain and help educate my 2-year-old, to have any important documents with me, to play an occasional game, as well as consume the Internet. The iPad, itself, dissapears as I do these things, never getting in the way, never requiring undue attention itself (unlike the Transformer Primes I tried to live with). IMO it is indeed a revolutionary product that brought an entire market (tablets) into the light. Is it perfect? Of course not.
Indeed:
It can force you to sign contract you don't need.
It can make you pay 100$ per 8Gb of flash memory.
It can force you install iTunes all over the place.
It can force you buy WiFi HDD, because, you know, you don't really need access to the file system.
Last but not least, it's magical (hyphno-steve himself said so) and dissapears not only itself, but also with some money from your pocket.
One man's liver with onions is another's filet mignon. I like iTunes...been using it for ~10 years on both Windows and OS X and it's always treated my ~180gb of music with respect...synching flawlessly to countless iPods and, now, iPads...playlists and all (unlike Double Twist).
It (the iPad) doesn't force you to buy it. Here is what you do... don't buy it. Stop being a baby because others buy it. Want to complain? How about $50,000 gold-plated toilets? $2million dollar cars. $20,000 jewel-ized phones.
I have an iPad... other than the cost of the product, I haven't put a dime into it.
When I wanna relax... or have an injury which means not using my nice 24" screen on Windows7... I can lay on a couch or bed with an iPad and relax. Sometimes I'm using the iPad to browse the net, a few feet from my desktop.
Yo American dweebs, I got my iPad before you! Fell off the container on the way to your country.
You envy me, bow before me... all your bases belong to me.
I have an iPad... other than the cost of the product, I haven't put a dime into it.
When I wanna relax... or have an injury which means not using my nice 24" screen on Windows7... I can lay on a couch or bed with an iPad and relax. Sometimes I'm using the iPad to browse the net, a few feet from my desktop.
Other tablets also can do it.