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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. Uh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the amount of storage is the only things that's different between an ipad and an ultrabook...

    1. Re:Uh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I own a ultrabook. It is my main workstation. I have nginx, php, ruby, java, sqlite, mysql, some IDEs and all the unix toolkit at my disposition.

      Do that with you iPad. Oh wait, you can't.

      So get over yourself.

    2. Re:Uh yeah by dinfinity · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Woosh.

  2. The pricing is still a bit ridiculous by Bagels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Logarithmic pricing or not, if you're paying a $300 premium for this version of the iPad (vs. the 16GB version), that's a seriously lousy price on flash storage; typical SSD prices these days are on the order of $180 for a 250GB SSD (and I've seen sale prices as low as $140-150). Apple's doing this with a lot of other products these days, too: the RAM on their laptops isn't user-serviceable any more, so you have to buy it built-in at hugely inflated prices.

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  3. Only stupid people think so by TheSkepticalOptimist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The whole point of Surface Pro is to actually develop apps on it, its a hybrid device that is a little tablet and a little laptop. Only stupid people think that iPad with 128gb of storage is intended to compete with Surface Pro, or Ultrabooks for that matter.

    Until Apple allows the iPad to support content creation (true content creation, not the limited "hold your hands" approach to content creation that it currently has), then I don't think anybody should confuse iPad in the same market as Ultrabooks, or the jack of all trades Surface Pro.

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