Apple confirms 128GB iPad. A hundred bucks for an extra 64GB Apple has slapped an extra 64GB - and a $100 price increase - on its fondleslab range to create the 128GB iPad. An announcement today from Cupertino confirms the device's existence after references to the hardware were found in the newly released iOS 6.1. The new iPad will be available from US Apple stores, the company's …
Taking notes is not media consumption you muppet. It's creation. As is using the mind mapping software and word processor, both of which I use frequently instead of taking the heavy laptop and power supply especially when I need to be mobile within the office so can't stay plugged in.
@Lusty
It seems you are one of those people who's job consists of going to meetings, giving presentations, and inputting data for reports nobody will ever read.
We have many people at my workplace that complete these dubious tasks. We have no idea what their purpose is or why they are paid comparably to skilled engineers.
Productive work is done on a desktop/laptop, no amount of prancing around with a tablet will change that.
@Mr_Bungle yes I go to meetings, give presentations and input data to create a report. My last report is 87 pages and cost the company I produced it for £50k. Many people will read this report as it will be used for their IT strategy over the next 5 years as well as being used for budget planning. Maybe in your world there is nobody writing things worth reading but that doesn't mean that nobody does, try thinking outside your little box and someday somebody might want to read your stuff too.
@Lusty
Using an iPad in a meeting to take notes, or whatever is a perfecty valid use for an iPad - nobody said it wasn't. But doing 'serious work' on a computer does not equate to 'serious computing'. Do you thing sending an important corporate e-mail is serious computing as well? Well it isn't - if it was then my phone is a 'serious computing' device too. I think you may be confused as to what serious computing is - anwer - something that requires a serious piece of kit - and not an electronic journal.
PS. I can also take notes on my phone.
@AC, no the comment about serious computing device was as opposed to it being a toy computing device so was not referring to compute power. In this case, I am not confused about what serious computing is, it's anything that is not done for fun, and therefore anything work related fits the bill.
As to the other meaning, no an iPad is not a serious compute module, but then neither is your average office desktop capable of "serious compute" and even CAD these days often offloads the complex rendering bits to proper systems in the computer room rather than keep upgrading the endpoints. Serious CAD users don't give a flying fig what their endpoint is because it's only in charge of the input and display.
I do have a real job, I'm a technical architect and interviewing users is a part of finding out how a company works. I don't work directly for the client and so don't necessarily know their business. Part of my job involves recommending endpoints for different user types (hint, there are more than one!) and other parts of my job involve recommending storage solutions, servers, management etc. In terms of endpoint recommendations, it's mainly fat desktop if we can get away with it, with management services to deploy them and the apps. I also sometimes recommend session visualisation or VDI where appropriate, but when I find users who spend a lot of time on trains commuting who don't need to write huge documents or source code (and there are a lot of people like this) then I often get them to try a tablet to see how it may complement what they do. You'd be amazed how many people, not just at board level, really value what these devices can offer once they realise it doesn't have to be a laptop replacement. Most geeks don't realise that it's not an either or choice and so they see tablet as a failure, but anyone who has invested some time in using one for business finds that they can and do add value and the pricetag is actually quite low for what they offer.
I like the way you gave yourself away too by the way. Anonymous Coward, come back when you get a job.
fondleslabs are toys, fit only for management.
Autocad is a resource hog (justifiably... maybe!) you _can_ run it on a single core chip with a gig of ram, but if your 'designs' are more than a line with 2 squirkles then forget it.
if i need to show my designs at site/in a meeting i plug an hdmi cable in the lappie and bung it up on 50 inch lcd hanging on the wall - where everyone can see it, not just the blokes/blokettes to my immediate left and right. if theres no LCD, i can bring a projector, or we can move the meeting to a location with proper facilities.
My <PH>boss on the other hand, is more than happy playing irritated poultry on his fondleslab, away from the sharp end where he cant do any damage.
cad on a 9" slab - MY ARSE!
"Autocad is a resource hog (justifiably... maybe!) you _can_ run it on a single core chip with a gig of ram, but if your 'designs' are more than a line with 2 squirkles then forget it."
when i was in college, we had autocad running on a "tower" server, which was a 486-DX, 270MB hdd and i do not remember how much ram.
Because what Apple really mean when they say you can do CAD on it is that some shithead salesman can come around to your house and show you mock up's of the new kitchen, extension, loft conversion etc in a SIM's kind of environment on their crappy iPad.
What they don't mean is that you can design anything of any real value that you can then send of to a fabrication plant and expect to get a working copy back ... or build a real building from etc.
Only when the Surface Pro comes out will Tablets will be serious computing devices with the required input devices to ensure accuracy and speed ... until then they are all little more than toys.
Supercilious something or other: I think rather a lot of people would benefit from the mock-up of their proposed new kitchen, extension etc. and I would call that a serious use of a tablet computer for something of serious value, or do yo live in a discarded cardboard box? In fact, many modern kitchen designs, once approved via an iPad or similar, probably do go, in effect, to a "fabrication plant" (workshop in English? Or factory?) to be tailored, prepared for delivery and fitting. I know a company supplying carpets to businesses with individual designs on them. They found it rather valuable when they gave all their chaps iPads and you may be surprised on how many of their carpets you have placed your feet.
It is just amazing how many snobbish little Luddites reveal themselves on these web pages. Catch up: it's 2013. Computing is changing and you had better keep up or move to something else. If youi really think only your version is valid, please get out of this profession. You are giving the rest of us a bad name as inflexible nerds who are not really very bright or practical.
You don't need to take out a loan to buy the thing - that would be very silly! If you aint got the readies for one, do the sensible thing and do not eat for a couple of years!
You will be both slimmer and have an iPad - Double the coolness!
You need to start thinking smart son, maybe even think different, if you want to be an iPad user!
Perhaps Apple could patent my new invention?
You see, what if there was a small hole in the side where a small plastic card about the size of your thumbnail could be inserted. This card could internally contain some solid state memory where files could be stored and read.
The customer could simply purchase such plastic cards with their desired capacity. They could call it a micro SD card.
Ahh, don't tell those folk at Samsung who definitely have no similar offering.
Furthermore, transferring large files could be done at over 40MB/s. Actually scrap that last point. I see no issues transferring 100 GB over Wi-Fi.
I wouldn't be so sure. They already released iPad4 without really telling anyone which practically doubled the performance. So this might indicate another refresh, which seems to be the plan rather than announcing new versions every time.
It's a lot of cash, but are there many 128Gb tablets out there?
@JDX - yes, undoubtedly some other stuff will have been updated to make room for the memory if nothing else.
It's still an eye-watering price, presumably to wave in the face of Windows Surface Pro waverers, in which case it's a good ploy: get the real thing.
Well the surface pro comes in a 128GB version. I expect the reason Apple released the update now was so that when the surface pro launches they can claim to be have been the first to implement such a wonderful "innovation" as 128GB of storage.
Thing is though that with the iPad you'll get to use most of the 128GB (and likewise with an Android tablet when fitted with that amount of storage). With the Surface a great chunk will be taken up with system stuff.
If you already own the $699 64Gb one, to upgrade to 128Gb costs you $799 or $929, not bad for 64Gb of extra storage... personally I'll just buy a few 64Gb usb drives for £30 each. Unlimited storage.... now why don't Apple think of that?
Yes, I know you can offload your ancient 64Gb iPad to some hard up wannabe fanboi for $xxx blah blah blah TCO blah blah... value for money blah blah. If you still think buying a complete new iPad is value for money compared to a £30 usb drive, you're a fool.
You know that funny word, "portable"? Do you understand "lightweight"? People looking for the kind of thing that is hardly bigger than an A4 block of paper are not interested in carrying around separate disc drives or swapping in and out SD cards and, news for you, a £30 USB drive is cheap for a reason - not because it is extra durable or reliable, especially when being carried around.
Even at home or in an office, most of us get pissed off with finding shelf or desk space for a myriad extra drives, cables, power supplies ....
Those days are gone, hence for most of the world, laptops ar replacing desktops with all the space they require unless you really need a vast amount of power for some specialised or badly written application. Wireless is replacing ethernet cables, ultrabooks are even replacing laptops. Come out of your cave and look around at how the rest of the world has evolved.
Lots of people have realised that throwing money at the problem can work out cheaper than making do and certainly make life pleasanter and, throwing enough at the right time can even be cheaper in the medium to long run.
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Don't want it? Then don't buy it!
Simples!
At no point do I ever remember Apple marching people into their shops and forcing people to buy their products at gunpoint.
Maybe, just maybe, people (and I mean REAL, NORMAL people, not us geeks), actually, you know, like their products and ease of use????
@AC 18:14 Three friends of mine all dropped Apple devices for Android or Windows machines. I know no one who went from Android to Apple without their workplace picking up the tab (Pun intended).
Apple is like a stadium that bars you from bringing in your own food and drink then hoses you with $7 hot dogs.
"Three friends of mine all dropped Apple devices for Android or Windows machines..."
Everybody I ever knew, plus all the people in the pub at the moment, AND their friends, all spontaneously dropped their Android devices this afternoon and went out to buy iPads. See, this is conclusive proof that Android is shit, Apple rule the orchard and 94.7% of commentard statistics are made up on the spot.
How about an ultrabook? A quick look at John Lewis (not a massively cheap outlet) will flog you a HP Envy Touchsmart i5 box with 8GB ram, 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD for £800 all in. Go for a tailend Windows 7 ultrabook from an Amazon/eBay disposal store and you'd get an even better bargain.
Hell, a MacBook Air isn't much pricier than one of these iPads.
I like the iPad, but not at these prices.
Ultrabooks don't have the same great battery life. They may be better than laptops but not as good as an iPad. Also, laptops of any kind (including netbooks) are not as nice to use on the train and tube and therefore are not as portable. They also take considerably longer to start up, reducing casual usage to pretty much zero. The iPad can be turned on for a quick use then switched off again. To achieve this with a laptop it must stay in standby which uses power and warms my bag, even with Windows 8 on a decent laptop.
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