Items tagged with iPad 4
The 4th generation iPad wont be available for a few more days, but in the meantime, benchmarks are starting to pop up on the Web. Fair warning: If you recently purchased a 3rd generation iPad, you may want to stop reading, or at least brace yourself for some bad news. Ready for it? As it turns out, the upgraded A6 chip Apple plopped into its newest iPad looks to be significantly faster than the A5X chip used in the 3rd generation model. In terms of clockspeed, both the A5X and A6 are comparable. The A5X is a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 chip clocked at 1GHz with a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 GPU packaged in. Not as much is officially known about the A6 part, other than Apple's claim that it doubles...
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You shouldn't take the latest iPad rumors with a grain of salt, you should take them with seven seas full of salt, and then some. The idea that Apple will release an iPad 3 and a supercharged iPad 4 both in the same year is beyond ludicrous -- either that, or this editor will eat a giant sized crow in nine months -- yet that's what news and rumor site DigiTimes is reporting. What's more likely is that the folks in Taiwan figured it's both fun and easy to mess with DigiTimes, and we can hardly blame them. According to DigiTimes, "industry sources" overseas indicate Apple will ship an iPad 3 with a Full HD display in March, which is actually likely, followed by an iPad 4 (named by Apple's component...
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