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With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory

Posted by timothy on from the paradox-of-choice dept.

noh8rz10 writes "Holy moly! iPad gets a heavyweight sibling, clicking in at 128GB. This places it in range of storage for Surface Pro and ultrabooks. It's clearly targeted at the professional market, as the press release cites X-rays and CAD files as reasons. Should Microsoft be afraid? Methinks so. Best part, pricing is growing by log 2. Just as the 32GB version is $100 more than the 16, and the 64 is $100 more than the 32, this new version is $100 more than the 64!" Update: 01/29 16:00 GMT by T : Here's Apple's announcement itself.

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  1. Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Apple's own site shows the specs still topping out at 64GB...

    1. Re:Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Also, it's not in their news section.

      And the linked article doesn't cite any sources.

    2. Re:Are you sure? by TimHunter · · Score: 4, Informative

      Available Feb 5, according to Apple's press release. http://www.cultofmac.com/212986/apple-will-start-selling-128gb-ipad-next-week/

  2. Re:Uh yeah by characterZer0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unless they have to type.

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  3. Re:But I can do stuff with an Ultrabook by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can do even more amazing tricks with my Toshiba Portege Ultrabook: run almost any software ever written, type on it with physical feedback (and backlit keys), attach USB flash drives to it, join a Windows domain, backup an entire disk image to external media on a USB 3.0 port, run MS Office, run Adobe CS6, upgrade or downgrade the OS, upgrade the RAM, upgrade the SSD, upgrade the webcam, and play legacy games. If anyone still thinks their ipad is an ultrabook, they're really not helping the "Apple fanboys are delusional" stereotype. I mean, yeah, they are and it's not a stereotype but still.

  4. Re:And not a single by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Informative

    In addition to their existing 128GB model that's referenced in the summary? Or do you mean a 128GB model that actually has 128GB, not 83GB plus a 45GB OS?

  5. Re:And not a single by thoth · · Score: 4, Informative

    OP is talking about Windows Surface, where Win 8 or Win RT eats up a lot of storage.

  6. Re:Uh yeah by halltk1983 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've had my case/keyboard for about 6 months. I've charged it twice. I use it all the time. It lasts about 3 months per charge for me, and it lets me know about 3 days before the battery runs out I should charge it. And it uses micro-usb. And takes about an hour to charge using my cell phone's charger.

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  7. Why do you assume Apple's SSD is that slow? by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Informative

    but a 64 GB SD card is less than $50.

    The desire to not have ignorant users like yourself gimp the iPad with slow flash memory is why Apple does not have an SD port. Come to think of it, that is also why GOOGLE is building more devices now without an SD port now also. Performance is guaranteed.

    The iPad 3 had storage they can write to at up to 22MB/s, and read from at 78MB/s... the card you listed can do neither of those things as quickly despite the 50MB/s claim on the front.

    If you really want to attach an SD card to read movies or media from just buy a camera connection kit and attach it to the iPad that way.

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