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Apple iPad is a Faster, Cheaper iPad Air 2 (cnet.com)
Say good-bye to the iPad Air, it's just the iPad now. From a report on CNET: Apple announced on Tuesday morning that it will be dropping the price of the 9.7-inch iPad by $70. The tablet's A8X processor will be getting an upgrade too, jumping over to the A9 chip used in the iPad Pro. The upgrade will replace the iPad Air 2, but the iPad Mini 4 will live on, starting at $399. The updated pricing will start on Friday, at $329 for the 32GB model and $459 for the 32GB WiFi with cellular service model. It's Apple's cheapest iPad, after the company decided to replace the iPad Mini 2, which started at $269. Although Apple's iPad is leading the tablet market, it's still a tumbling one as demand takes a decline thanks to people holding onto their tablets longer.
The new iPad shares the same 7.5mm thick 1.03lb body as the iPad Air 1. It also shares the same non-laminated screen and no anti-reflective coating as the iPad Air 1. The Air 2 was 6.1mm thick, 0.963lb with a fully laminated screen with anti-reflective coating.
The new iPad is an iPad Air 1 on the outside, with an A9 CPU (from iPhone 6S) on the inside and the camera and TouchID from the iPad Air 2.
Doesn't the iPad Pro use the A9X processor, not the A9 ?
It amazes me that they can offer the iPad for so cheap compared to the iPhone. Most components are the same, but the display and battery (probably the two most expensive components) must be much more expensive on the tablet, because of the size.
We can thank carrier subsidies. A lot of people buy phones they can't afford because of that. I doubt they would be going to the bank to get a loan if it wasn't offered by the carrier.
It depends on what you're looking for specifically. At the moment every Windows 10 tablet can run full Windows programs, and they range anywhere from little 7" tablets you can pick up at Walmart for $69 to the top end Surface Book for $3199.
HP makes some decent Windows tablets around the $100-200 range, depending on screensize and built-in cellular broadband (3G, 4G, etc.) I have a Stream 8 and I'm very happy with it - alas it's discontinued, but the Stream 7 is still around. The only issue is a lack of memory, but that's not as noticeable on these devices as you might think.
HP has a good reputation for producing adequate hardware at prices that are not anything special. Whenever I'm in the market for computers that are just about good enough I generally check them first, so there's that.
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Go cheap.
I bought my gf a tablet from Amazon that was the cheapest Windows 10 tablet I could find.
It came with a one-year's Office 365 subscription and cost 100 GBP (that's about $124). It had a removable keyboard, just like the Surface, it functions well as a tablet, runs "full" Windows (she uses it for her Steam games, Skype, etc.).
There's no need to pay $300+ for an iPad when you can have a Windows laptop for that, or three Windows tablets of a similar size
The "brand" was something like Linc or similar. Who cares? It's in the "throwaway when it goes wrong" category, after the first year of warrantied use. She's had it now for over 2 and still uses it every day.
Weird announcement - no dog and pony show, just a website update and some new info. And there's all the rumors about new hardware. As an Apple-head who wants to replace an older iPad, I'm torn. Get a mostly-better for less, or wait and hope they've got something coming in a month?
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WTF is with Apple's fear of the number 3?
The iPad 3 was not the 3 - it was the New iPad
Now the iPad Air 3 is a New iPad, but is neither the Air nor the 3.
Is this what you get when you have marketers sit around a table and you ask them to brand your new device revision and you just get blank stares back?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I bought an iPad last year for entertainment purposes for my travel. I had a first generation one, but that one was obsolete long ago because it can't go past iOS 5 and so most new apps won't work. Heck, even old apps won't work. I'm mostly disappointed with my new purchase.
The problem is that some apps are written for iPhone only...why is there a difference? It's the same goddamn OS. Like, how is there not vector scaling of graphics? Instead, you can view it at iPhone screen size, occupying about 30% of the iPad screen, or blow it up to 2x...which results in blocky text since it's just a zoom, not re-render for the higher resolution. Southwest Airlines, for instance, doesn't have a full iPad app. It was only recent that Hilton got a full iPad one. Other airlines don't have them either. As a frequent business traveler, these apps take up half my installs. I suppose if I dig deeper I'd find that there are even more apps that are iPhone only.
That makes it an entertainment device for me. That's mostly what I bought it for but...$500 to watch some TV on the plane and surf the internet is a bit much. It can't really do anything else. They probably need to move it to its own version of OS X so it can compete with Windows tablets. "BUT BUT BUT..." you might say, and then follow that with "...then developers will have to write separate apps for it and can't just use the iPhone apps!" Except they already have to do that, unless they're content to provide a reduced functionality version meant for a 4" screen. So what's the difference? If Apple had its act together, they could make an emulator for OS X that runs iPhone apps and just let that run on the revised iPad.
Instead, they are trying to sell 2011's innovation in 2017 and wondering why the sales keep dropping.
As it's been said before, that's not the fault of "android" - that's the fault of shitty manufacturers.
Nvidia just released Android 7 for the Shield K1 tablet, even though they've discontinued production. Not a whole lot of other manufacturers out there that would continue development on something they no longer sell.
And that tablet is still one of the best (if not THE best) 8-inch android tablet you can buy, even though it's 14 months old. Every manufacturer is sitting atop a big pile of laurels right now, and wondering why the market is shrinking.
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I was in the market for a smaller iPad. I've had my 16GB iPad 4 for several years, but it seems to choke on newer apps. I really wanted a new iPad Mini, but I'm not buying a model that's two years old at any price. Apple has billions in cash, but they can't seem to engineer regular updates into their product lineup since Jobs died.
I'm still using a first generation iPad mini, which I believe has the same internals as the iPad 2. It still works well enough for what I want it to do - read the web, play games, watch baseball games. And considering it's a a four year old device, the battery life is actually still decent.
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probably a Linx tablet (http://amzn.eu/7ol5pw3). We got some at work to try out, and for light use they aren't too bad. Not as speedy as a Surface Pro, but much cheaper and definitely capable enough for a bit of web browsing, simple Office use, etc. They have a micro-HDMI port so can easily be hooked up to a TV or monitor when necessary.
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The O.P. nailed the true up(down)date. The headline should read:
"New iPad gets faster and cheaper, but it is uglier with lower quality screen."
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I would add that you should be cautious. Android invented the "landfill android" market, where the tablets themselves, technically ran (maybe) whatever apps are available in the google store, but performed so shockingly badly that they weren't fit for even the most basic purposes. Hell, I (mistakenly) bought one that ended up being so terrible that it wasn't even good enough for reading books or browsing basic web pages. Also, all but the most mainstream brands got zero updates so you were screwed for security. (Even the mainstreams are iffy)
If Microsoft has allowed the same thing to happen with Windows-based tablets, then you will definitely need to do your research. As a start, don't even bother considering any tablet $300 if you want to do anything even vaguely useful with it.
The most recent generation Surface tablets are apparently very good. I know someone who has one, and they are very happy with it. They of course cost, as parent pointed out, a heck of a lot more than some Walmart special.
I can't speak for how updates are handled. I presume that since it's Windows, Microsoft pushes updates like any other desktop. (ie: whether you want them or not, and hopefully your machine won't get destroyed in the process)
And considering it's a a four year old device, the battery life is actually still decent.
I had a first generation iPod Touch that lasted eight years before the battery died. Battery life was touch and go for the last year or so.
Do you really need that much to be able to cut cheese with your tablet ?!
I understand that it's preferable for gadgets not to weight 1 metric ton, and not to be as fat as a cinderblock, but as long as they are portable does it really make sense to chase after every last millimetre ?
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Like I said, it depends largely on what your requirements are. We live in an age where a serviceable notebook computer can be had for $200 and a $50 Fire or Nook is actually a pretty solid choice for basic tasks.
With Windows you also have a far more standardized architecture, with updates being provided directly by the software vendor rather than needing to be customized by each manufacturer. Upgrading the little Stream 7 tablet that I picked up for $49 a couple years back to Windows 10 worked fine. Hardly a speed demon, but still usable.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend going extreme budget, but I also wouldn't recommend against it for someone with modest needs.
Go expensive. Given that you're wanting to run full windows programs and not apps I'm guessing you actually want to do some real work on the thing. In that case I find the Surface line excellent and so does my partner, but my more budget conscious parents are loving their HP Elite x2
I am actually looking at this to replace my iPad 2. With the trade in credit I can get, it may be a worthwhile upgrade. At this point my iPad is barely able to open the PDFs I constantly throw at it without pausing to think constantly. Definitely showing its age.
With the trade in credit I can get, it may be a worthwhile upgrade.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm seriously looking into trading in my iPad 2.
There's a huge difference between "portable" and "I can comfortably hold this with one hand for an extended period of time".
Again, we're not speaking about something shaped like a brick.
We're speaking about 6.1mm vs 7.5mm.
i.e.: differences in the mm range, in a object that's less than 1cm thick.
What weird shape does a hand have so that a 6.1mm thick object can comfortably fit for an extended period of time, but a 7.5mm thick object suddenly can't anymore ?!
I just can't get why people are paying so much attention to mm differences in objects that are thin enough for nearly all most common use cases...
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Yeah, weirdly the least compatible Windows tablet was created by Microsoft themselves. The original Surface ran the more proprietary "Windows RT" which did not support the full Windows runtime.
That said, it is yet unknown what restrictions the upcoming "Cloud Edition" of Windows 10 will have. A leaked build seems to indicate this will at least optionally lock a device to the app store only, but it is unclear what types of devices this will be targeted at and whether that limitation can be disabled.
The only real argument I can see for new over used is battery life. Sometimes used items have a worn out battery.