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Leaked iPad photos: *** CONFIRMED!!! *** iPad Air 2 tri-core CPU, 2 GB, 8-CLUSTER GPU

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davygee said:
Totally agree, I reckon we will see Apple returning to the small form factor next year, but of course they will retain the new sizes they have ventured into.
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Yeah, I wonder what they will do. When the 5C came around I assumed it would get a yearly refresh (be both the cheap AND small iOS option), but then that product kinda failed.
 
I didn't know you could alter your subject line after the fact. How do you do that?

I'm getting an error message within Safari with my iPad Mini (1st gen) daily and it makes me want to sell it and wait until the Mini is potentially redesigned next fall with a thinner form factor and 2GB of RAM.
 
Yay! Scheduled for delivery tomorrow (Toronto). WiFi 64 GB gold. BTW, it seems almost EVERYONE is getting the 64 GB or 128 GB. Rare to see 16 GB around the forums. Apple's upsell is working well.

In the meantime, here is iFixit's teardown:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Air+2+Teardown/30592

It has NFC?!? Also, we misread the memory. It is not FA164A (2 GB). It is F8164A3MD (1 GB) x 2 chips. Now the leaked image makes more sense.

Apple APL1012 A8X 64-bit Processor
Elpida/Micron Technology F8164A3MD 8 Gb (1 GB) RAM (1 GB x 2 = 2 GB total)
SK Hynix H2JTDG8UD1BMR 128 Gb (16 GB) NAND Flash
NXP 65V10 NFC Module (as found in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus)


blairharrington said:
I didn't know you could alter your subject line after the fact. How do you do that?
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Just edit the original message. (Full edit screen, not the quick edit.)

I'm getting an error message within Safari with my iPad Mini (1st gen) daily and it makes me want to sell it and wait until the Mini is potentially redesigned next fall with a thinner form factor and 2GB of RAM.
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What message?
 
I wonder what the NFC chip is for. I was under the impression that it didn't have an NFC antenna and the ApplePay is only for online payments with the iPad.
 
davygee said:
Totally agree, I reckon we will see Apple returning to the small form factor next year, but of course they will retain the new sizes they have ventured into.
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Good forecast. This year was Apple's counter to their phablet competitors. They'll probably keep a small as well as large phone to sell as much as possible.
 
Mopetar said:
I wonder what the NFC chip is for. I was under the impression that it didn't have an NFC antenna and the ApplePay is only for online payments with the iPad.
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Someone mentioned elsewhere that it is needed for Apple Pay with an iPad (eg. online purchases), but without the NFC functionality part of Apple Pay.
 
Glad to see they finally bumped it up to 2GB. Now I'm glad I didn't get an iPhone 6 so I can wait and get 2GB next release (hopefully)

I'd have snagged a 64gb Air 2 for sure but I just sold my Mini (2) for an Air 32gb, least I got it for $399.
 
iPhone 6 and 6+ are already outdated in terms of specs. That was fast. It's a good thing most iPhone users don't care about specs or performance.
 
openwheel said:
iPhone 6 and 6+ are already outdated in terms of specs. That was fast. It's a good thing most iPhone users don't care about specs or performance.
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You could make a credible argument in terms of the amount of RAM that they have, but their CPUs don't become any less powerful simply because there's a more powerful SoC in a tablet.

You might as well claim the iPad is already outdated because there are tablets that have an i7 and 8 GB of RAM.

And even that sucks because there's a new Cray super computer that will run circles around it.
 
Mopetar said:
And even that sucks because there's a new Cray super computer that will run circles around it.
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This argument doesn't work because he is talking about the fact that there are things more powerful than the new iPhones and iPad that are the same price. A Cray super computer does not compete with a tablet.

I think his argument is sound. Apple products haven't been top of the line spec wise at release since the iPhone 3GS, this is a fact.

What it doesn't mean is that they have necessarily been bad products.
 
dguy6789 said:
Apple products haven't been top of the line spec wise at release since the iPhone 3GS, this is a fact.
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The iPad 2's GPU was a BEAST in its day. It took Android like two years to have a flagship GPU that could best it. It made NVidia's Tegra 3 GPU look like a chew toy.
 
poofyhairguy said:
The iPad 2's GPU was a BEAST in its day. It took Android like two years to have a flagship GPU that could best it. It made NVidia's Tegra 3 GPU look like a chew toy.
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Funny you should mention that. I have those exact two tablets: iPad 2, Nexus 7 (2012).

It will be interesting trying to run Lollipop on that Nexus 7. iOS 8 is tough on the iPad 2 though.
 
Eug said:
Funny you should mention that. I have those exact two tablets: iPad 2, Nexus 7 (2012).
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I had it worse- I actually bought a Transformer Prime because I bought into the hype that is was an iPad killer. I got my wife an iPad 2 that April and the Prime for me in December and I remember bragging how mine was going to be way better. Low and behold it wasn't faster nor "better", and today that Prime is a glorified Super Nintendo while my wife's iPad 2 still runs a current OS.
 
poofyhairguy said:
I had it worse- I actually bought a Transformer Prime because I bought into the hype that is was an iPad killer. I got my wife an iPad 2 that April and the Prime for me in December and I remember bragging how mine was going to be way better. Low and behold it wasn't faster nor "better", and today that Prime is a glorified Super Nintendo while my wife's iPad 2 still runs a current OS.
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Same thing happened to me with my girlfriend. Glad I sold out early to get my money back.
I am still on the fence about upgrading from my 2 to and Air 2. The ipad 2 still runs reasonably well.
 
I've decided to hold onto my 1st gen iPad Mini for another year. I expect/hope for a thinner version next fall with an updated processor and 2 GB of RAM.
 
I posted this in another thread, but thought it'd be very appropriate here.

One "feature" that I haven't seen documented anywhere is the MINIMUM brightness.

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iPad 2 (iOS 7.1.2) on the left and iPad Air 2 (iOS 8.1) on the right. I checked in the settings and both iPads are at the lowest setting on auto-brightness.

I definitely prefer the lower minimum brightness on the new iPad Air 2 (right), for surfing and viewing videos in a completely dark room.
 
blairharrington said:
I've decided to hold onto my 1st gen iPad Mini for another year. I expect/hope for a thinner version next fall with an updated processor and 2 GB of RAM.
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probably a safe bet that everything will have 2gb ram next year. However a refurb mini 2 would still be a huge upgrade...
 
Midwayman said:
probably a safe bet that everything will have 2gb ram next year. However a refurb mini 2 would still be a huge upgrade...
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I hope it's a safe bet that the starting flash storage will be 32 GB (and for the next iPhone too). I find it so annoying that I have to pay $100 just to have enough room (an actually more @ 64 GB) from my iTunes library D: Given the cost of flash, Apple is absolutely fleecing us (beyond the normal fleecing, that is).
 
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