CNET News - Apple surprises with fourth-gen, full-size iPad
CNET News - Apple surprises with fourth-gen, full-size iPad
2012-10-23
the fourth-generation iPad it's amazing
that pace the team is at the pedal of
the metal engineering attitude is just
so thrilling and this fourth-generation
iPad it is a powerhouse so what's inside
it a new chip the Apple a6x chip
delivering even faster performance we
were already so far ahead of the
competition this just I can't even see
them in the rearview mirror it doubles
the performance for CPU tasks that is a
huge jump ahead it also doubles the
graphics performance they were not close
to us and now we've doubled that again
in addition we've added a new generation
of Apple image signal processor
forecasts like face recognition and
image stabilization so all of this power
2 times CPU power 2 times graphics power
new image processing and its energy
efficient the same 10 hours of battery
life of the previous generation we're
also updating the facetime front side
camera tell facetime HD with 720p and
the cellular version has LTE with
greatly expanded coverage we're working
with many carriers around the world to
support LTE the performance on this new
fourth-generation iPad may that carries
you know and some new ones to support
iPad like sprint here in the US and KTVI
in Japan we've also updated the y-pipe
Wi-Fi performance as well it's up to
twice as fast it's 802 11 a/b/g/n and n
is two point four and five gigahertz
updated connector to our latest
connector the lightning connector it's
eighty percent smaller all digital
reversible and compatible with device is
now being created for iphone 5 iPod
Touch ipod nano we've added some new
cables as well customers who want camera
connections we have lightning to USB
enlightening tune SD card reader for
video out
there's lightning to hdmi and lightning
to vga and all of this technology and
performance so of course based on a
system with this breakthrough new Retina
Display for which there's nothing is
beautiful in the market the
fourth-generation iPad comes in both
black and white and it starts with the
same configuration as the last
generation 16 gigabytes Wi-Fi for 499 so
twice the performance new features at
the same price
from cellular as well the same price
starting at 629 so if the
third-generation iPad was the best
tablet in the world the
fourth-generation just extends that lead
and it's all about helping customers to
learn about this great new technology
and find new ways to use it that they
never dreamed of
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