We've already seen a ton of new products since the year began, mostly thanks to CES, which always brings a flood of new gadgets. However, among the most anticipated devices for 2012 is the iPad, which Apple is rumored to be announcing sometime this month. As usual, the company is remaining tight-lipped about the as-yet-unconfirmed iPad 3, but, as usual, there are plenty of rumors about the device. Things have ramped up this week with the apparent leaking of specs for the device.
Boy Genius Report has posted what purport to be iPad 3 specifications from a source that claims to have an iPad 3 prototype on hand. The photos show the iPad hooked up to a development tool called iBoot but also give away some of the specs we can apparently expect to see when the device is officially launched. If these photos are to be believed, the iPad 3 will boast a CPU with the model number S5L8945X. Considering the model numbers of previous iPad CPUs (the iPad 1's single-core A4 was S5L8930X, while the dual-core A5 was S5L8940X) we're inclined to think this might be a quad-core Apple A6. iBoot also refers to models J1 and J2 (iPad3,1 and iPad3,2), which are said to represent the iPad 3 WiFi and the iPad 3 WiFi+GSM/CDMA/LTE.
Though we had expected Apple to host an iPad 3 launch event this month, rumors are now saying that it's unlikely the company will hold an iPad 3 event in February. The latest chit-chat from the rumor mill is predicting a March launch, with the event itself taking place in the first week of the month and the tablet shipping sometime mid-month.
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Macrumors
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So, my preferences are as follows:
Desktop/Laptop - PC
Tablet - Apple
Phone - Android
Pretty much, I've got it covered.
Well, this is not very informative. Will it have USB host? What kind of camera? Will it have microSD?
Oh wait, I can answer all that myself. No, 8MP, no.
if only the ipad 3 would come with android os..that'd be nice. kinda like a hackintosh
We don't have any quad-core Android tablets as far as I am aware; putting that power in an iPad is a waste of profit for Apple (plus, the iPad has no need for that kind of power in the first place considering its target demographics).
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No one who reads Macrumors.
That's because iOS is a unix-like system, like Linux.
this if u like ios
the transformer prime if u like android
kindle fire if your short on money
every other option should be obsolete
30 (one core) to 40 (two cores) is a 10 unit difference. this is 40 to 45 (5 units). Half numbers in the computer world tend to be revised or "slightly better" versions of the previous number (nVidia 280 vs. 285 GTX). Maybe Apple goes by some different code cues, but I highly doubt this will be a quad-core or 2048x1536 rez some are rumoring it to be.
I have an iPad 2. So far the only good use I have for it is for my daughter to watch netflix on. Otherwise, it's a non-productive luxury item for the couch potatoes. Cant really do any real work on it. (You can, but trying to do an Excel sheet with 50,000 entries for work wouldn't be easy)
Asus Transformer Prime
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No one alive from the factory!
The Asus Transformer Prime is a 5 core tablet.
The iPad 3 will come with an 12 core processor, 8 gigs of 2000 mhz ram, have a battery life of 25 years. Withstand temperatures of upto 7000 C (they made this change because of the guy who put the ipad into the lava on youtube).