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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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