Originally Posted by
xsacha I'm assuming this is Playbook 2?
1. iPad 3 is NOT using a new architecture SoC. It's using the exact same CPU, Cortex-A9 clocked at 1GHz. Worse than Playbook and other tablets.
2. The quad-core graphics is an upgrade from their previous dual-core graphics. The upgrade is simply to compensate for the increased resolution which requires 4x fill rate. On all accounts, the graphics update may not be enough to compensate. Was already better in this area, maintenance bump.
3. The original iPad 2 only had 131 PPI which is less than my laptop! You could resolve the pixels from 70cm away!
The Playbook has 169 PPI. You can resolve the individual pixels from 50cm away.
The iPad 3 is simply catching up with other manufacturers who have 169-200 PPI. However, to keep app compatibility, they have quadrupled pixels to a level that our eyes can't even resolve without being ~25cm from the screen. That is, overkill. Other tablets have maximum resolve at 20/20 vision from 30-50cm. Why would you be any closer to the screen? Catch up to Playbook and other tablets.
4. LTE/BT4. Other tablets also have these features or have scheduled releases with these features in the next 3 months. Are you sure Playbook 2 won't also have? Catch up to tablets.
5. 2x RAM. Same 1GB as everyone else now. Catch up to Playbook and other tablets.
6. Almost 2x battery capacity. Yet battery life is unchanged. Otherwise battery life would be 5 hours! Maintenance bump.
7. 56 grams heavier and a few millimetres thicker to compensate for the new battery. Downgrade.
8. Decent camera. Their last camera was less than 1MP. They now have a decent camera like everyone else. Catch up to Playbook and other tablets.
As you can see, Playbook and other tablets already had these 'NEW' features that iPad 3 got. The only area the iPad 3 excels is its GPU -- which was already good in iPad 2 and maintains performance for this release.
Seems you just fell for their marketing hype and it's not as you expected.
It's nice that Apple is closing the gap on hardware specs but the amount of changes just shows that there was a large gap to start with.