Apple "The New iPad" Thread - Page 12 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

PeteLFan · 03-12-2012, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Probalby info on reviews etc.

Didn't know this was gonna be the "What's the status of your ipad order" thread.

Carry on.

I'm sorry, I guess it's kind of difficult for us to review something we don't even have yet.

sclitheroe · 03-12-2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PeteLFan

I'm sorry, I guess it's kind of difficult for us to review something we don't even have yet.

Actually, if I wrote a review right now that said the Retina display puts it on par with the iPhone 4s, but is a bigger deal because of the larger display (and sets the standard for all mobile devices, can't wait until its in a Macbook Air, blah blah blah), that the extra weight and thickness were not noticeable after a couple hours use, that all my apps ran perfectly and looked fantastic, and that I was unable to fully test the LTE wireless chipset because of a lack of LTE, that would be pretty close to what we're gonna say anyways, right?

PeteLFan · 03-12-2012, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Actually, if I wrote a review right now that said the Retina display puts it on par with the iPhone 4s, but is a bigger deal because of the larger display (and sets the standard for all mobile devices, can't wait until its in a Macbook Air, blah blah blah), that the extra weight and thickness were not noticeable after a couple hours use, that all my apps ran perfectly and looked fantastic, and that I was unable to fully test the LTE wireless chipset because of a lack of LTE, that would be pretty close to what we're gonna say anyways, right?

Pretty much, then face the wrath of android people running in to defe d the galaxy and such crap. New threads about tossing your tablet from buildings and seeing which one cracks.

FanIn80 · 03-12-2012, 03:25 PM

Don't forget the obligatory video of some guy capitalizing on the iPad's popularity so he can sell more blenders.

chemgear · 03-12-2012, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by chemgear

Nice! I haven't gotten any notice yet here.

Shipped now, should still arrive for Friday apparently.

And just so I'm not just adding to the horrible "shipping status" updates . . . I hear analysts already figure about 1 million will be sold by the end of the day Friday. That'll be more than what most other tablets have sold to date (often after a year.) For giggles, I'd guess even more than one million sold - not just shipped like so many companies like to claim.

At this pace of hardware sales and the huge app/software/media environment, I wonder if this is the year that people will look back at and see companies quitting the tablet market all together.

MickMcGeough · 03-12-2012, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

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"What's the status of your ipad order" ...

Mine shipped today - Apple's website says it will be here on the 16th. I'll keep you posted.

sclitheroe · 03-12-2012, 07:28 PM

You guys with shipped iPads - any of then 4G enabled ones, or all wifi?

PeteLFan · 03-12-2012, 07:40 PM

Wifi

DownInFlames · 03-12-2012, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

You guys with shipped iPads - any of then 4G enabled ones, or all wifi?

64GB Wifi + 4G here. Got my shipping notice this morning.

MickMcGeough · 03-12-2012, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

You guys with shipped iPads - any of then 4G enabled ones, or all wifi?

Wifi only

Meelapo · 03-13-2012, 08:16 AM

I was one of the folks that delayed ordering till Thursday afternoon so mine won't ship till the 19th.

Quick question for those that have read hands on previews/reviews...will current apps (re: non-retina display apps) look bad on the device? Will they fill the whole screen or just have a border around the whole app? I don't remember how non-retina apps looked on the iPhone 4 when it came out.

Also, is it hard for developers to adjust their apps to retina display? Again, based on iPhone 4 apps it seemed that eventually everything was retina. It seems that in this case the iPad has an even higher resolution than most PCs use.

chemgear · 03-13-2012, 08:48 AM

Not sure how iphone apps will scale to the iPad "HD" but I would imagine that iPad to iPad HD would be fairly decent. With the doubling of pixels on both axes, a single pixel on a normal iPad app should be exactly 4 pixels on the new one.

I could be totally wrong in practice though, who knows.

sclitheroe · 03-13-2012, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by chemgear

Not sure how iphone apps will scale to the iPad "HD" but I would imagine that iPad to iPad HD would be fairly decent. With the doubling of pixels on both axes, a single pixel on a normal iPad app should be exactly 4 pixels on the new one.

I could be totally wrong in practice though, who knows.

iPad to iPad HD should be completely transparent - the 4 HD pixels occupy the same physical space as the old sized single pixel, since the screen dimensions are the same.

silentsim · 03-13-2012, 10:06 AM

Apps such as Pages have gone from 97MB To around 350MB for the new iPad retina graphics hehe

KTrain · 03-13-2012, 10:09 AM

I would worry about purchasing a 16 gig model with the size of the apps that will be released for it. Magazines like Wired are already 350+MB. If apps start taking up that much space as well you'll run out of space fairly quickly.

DementedReality · 03-13-2012, 11:43 AM

so for those of us who didnt pre order, will i be able to get one at an Apple store in Calgary on Friday?

silentsim · 03-13-2012, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by DementedReality

so for those of us who didnt pre order, will i be able to get one at an Apple store in Calgary on Friday?

Should be able to. Can also go to BB, Fs, London Drugs, Staples.

silentsim · 03-13-2012, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by KTrain

I would worry about purchasing a 16 gig model with the size of the apps that will be released for it. Magazines like Wired are already 350+MB. If apps start taking up that much space as well you'll run out of space fairly quickly.

Yeah. The size of apps is going to skyrocket. Even Tweetbot is tripling in size for high res graphics

Russic · 03-13-2012, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by KTrain

I would worry about purchasing a 16 gig model with the size of the apps that will be released for it. Magazines like Wired are already 350+MB. If apps start taking up that much space as well you'll run out of space fairly quickly.

No doubt. 350mb for a word processor? That's not even taking into account if you want to take or edit HD video with it.

silentsim · 03-13-2012, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Russic

No doubt. 350mb for a word processor? That's not even taking into account if you want to take or edit HD video with it.

Yeah. Space on my 16GB iPhone is slowly disappearing.