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Tai-Daishar_MT  Title: Moderator
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Ravynmagi posted:
Apparently it has no name. They just announced it as "The new iPad". Hmm... so what the hell do we call this thing next year when another "new iPad" is released? 
The new, new iPad?
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IvanDF  Title: Veni, vidi, vici
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well looks like I will probably get this for my fiance, anyone know if amazon will let you preorder ?
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Tai-Daishar_MT Title: Moderator
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It is official, it is called the iPad 
http://www.apple.com/ipad/
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Tai-Daishar_MT Title: Moderator
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Ravynmagi posted:
Okay, open your damn Apple store, let me pre-order and go to lunch now.
This is where I am at as well.
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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Guess the store is open now, because all I'm getting a is blank loading screen.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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IvanDF posted:
well looks like I will probably get this for my fiance, anyone know if amazon will let you preorder ?
Maybe... not sure how high Amazon is going to be on Apple's priority list though considering they are competitors now. 
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Ookane Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-10-15 12:42:14
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3/7/12 12:42pm
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I'll need some hard, independent testing to show that this is FOUR times faster than the Tegra 3, and if I had to wager, I would think that is cherry picking the best and worst test cases comapring each, not an across the board thing.
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Tai-Daishar_MT Title: Moderator
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I would agree, but then again I expect that sort of marketing from everyone.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Ookane posted:
I'll need some hard, independent testing to show that this is FOUR times faster than the Tegra 3, and if I had to wager, I would think that is cherry picking the best and worst test cases comapring each, not an across the board thing.
If they are talking about graphics performance (and I am pretty sure they are), I think it's very likely true. Nvidia has really been sucking at graphics performance in their Tegra processors.
In this Anandtech review of the Transformer Prime with a Tegra 3 vs the iPad 2, the iPad 2's GPU just stomps all over the newer Tegra 3.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review/3
So it's very plausible that in OpenGL, the iPad 3 may be up to 4 times faster than the Tegra 3. Though in more realistic conditions it may be merely 2 or 3 times faster.
Sadly for Android, we probably have to wait until after summer before we see the next gen graphics cores come out that might challenge this.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Apparently this "pre order then go to lunch" was the mother of bad ideas. Going to go to lunch and then try pre-ordering, I'll have more energy to spam F5 on a full stomach.
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