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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here's a full review of the fourth-generation iPad the iPad for the new new iPad whatever you want to call it it is here with upgraded specs in a new lightning connector let's go ahead and see if it's worth your tablet buying dollars so here is the iPad 4th generation I'm going to call it the iPad 4 cuz that's easier called the new iPad you can call it Fred just don't call it late for dinner alright so fresh ranges are the same as last generation from $4.99 all the way up to a beefy eight hundred and thirty bucks running iOS 6 I'll jump to the rest the specs from a weight standpoint looking at one point four four pounds screen is a nine point seven inch LED affair with IPS technology its Retina display so it's gonna mean you've got a resolution of 2048 by 1536 those you math geeks that's 264 PPI got a forty two point five watt hour battery gonna give you about 10 hours of use what's new here that was what's under the hood it's got a 1.4 gigahertz dual core a 6 X chip with quad core graphics I went it with a gig of ram this thing is an absolute beast LTE connectivity is an option from now Sprint is being added so you can pick from 18 t Verizon or Sprint on the camera standpoint from the back we've got a 5 megapixel camera that can shoot 1080p video HD recording of course and on the front now called a FaceTime camera 1.2 megapixel 720p on here in two colors black or white the other big difference here is down below boom that port right there is now lightning good by 30-pin we now have a teeny tiny little reversible lightning port so let's talk about this guy whether or not it's worth buying whether that's worth an upgrade or what the iPad 4 really means it came very quickly after the iPad 3 so it's going to be important to put the iPad 4 perspective of the iPad 3 and then I'll talk about this guy on its own so first let's talk about the iPad 4 versus the iPad 3 so certainly there are performance increases here this is a much faster processor and it can do much more much more quickly so if you want to get all geeky with me Geekbench scores much faster iPad 3 7:45 iPad 4 1772 if you want to talk plants vs. zombies low time which is probably one of my favorite games of all time I pet three load it in fifteen point nine seconds you're able to start killing some zombies on the iPad 4 though in 12.5 seconds GL benchmark looking at 87 frames per second on the iPad 3 and 132 frames per second on the iPad for GL benchmarks 2.5 on screen performance we got 52 frames per second versus 59 frames per second so everywhere you stretch it the iPad 4 is faster so we'll wrap up the iPad 3 part if you have an iPad 3 there is zero point zero reason to upgrade no reason at all yes it's notably faster sure graphics might look a little bit better it's gonna be hardly noticeable wait an extra two or three seconds load an application graphics are gonna look great on third generation iPad no need to upgrade to the iPad 4 in my opinion Apple pushed out the iPad 4 squarely for that guy right there so that all their products was unified under a single connector they couldn't have a legacy product with a 30 pin connector and certainly Sprint's wanted to get in on the game from the iPad standpoint on its own it is a traditional iPad everything on it works really well we can load TechnoBuffalo calm the screen looks gorgeous the whites are white the blacks are black because I've read in this blood there's never any text pic civilization that you might get on an iPad 2 or iPad Mini with that lower resolution things just look absolutely gorgeous playing video on it is absolutely outstanding you can watch a movie and you could be good to go for quite a while video quality is awesome of course the big deal here is the app store it's got all the apps that Apple offers really isn't much of a value add versus the iPad 3 if you're coming from an iPad 2 and iPad 1 it's gonna be a great upgrade you're going to be introduced to a Retina display which really you can see a difference and you're going to get that better graphics performance but if you've got a 3rd generation just skip this guy completely on wait for the next gen perhaps we'll see a case redesign I will say though having played with and use the iPad Mini for a while this feels like a freak sized iPad it feels jumbo to me so if you're looking to get a new iPad definitely try the iPad first little lower resolution certainly but you might like the size I'm finding that I'm really enjoying the iPad Mini and for me if I was looking to get an iPad right now and I didn't have one I think the iPad Mini would steal my money it just seems to be a better feel for ever reason I hated the idea of an iPad made till I had a chance to actually use one with devices like the Nexus 7 I loved with a performed and I loved the way they looked but I always thought that I preferred a larger iPad turns out I just prefer an iPad and I prefer iOS on the tablet side and really this is the king of the iOS tablets so if you're looking to get one you know what it's going to do cameras are going to be fine on it video is going to look great it's going to work pretty well it's not much new you can say that this hasn't been said with people generation and iPads it works well it's going to have great performance you have the same amount of battery life you had at the last gen despite the upgrade and performance and you're going to get just a nice tablet experienced of course all the accessories will be available for it as well iPad for the TechnoBuffalo scale gets a solid 9 I like to see thinner bezels so no we have in the iPad Mini one of the cool things that that's got is as you hold it you continue to scroll it's not going to do anything so certainly that big bezel isn't could be necessary it's a feature that got built into the newest version of iOS 6 so that big bezel is not going to need to be there so you can manipulate without sort of accidentally touching the screen so I certainly would like to see a smaller bezel perhaps the case redesign would have improved it and got it up to that very coveted 10 spot this is a great tablet arguably one of the best tablets on the market I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo check us out for latest greatest tech news I'll see you thanks video buh-bye you