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this is the Battle of the two heaviest hitting tablets on the market today in 2012 the new iPad 3 and the Asus Transformer Prime and the iPad is the boss of all iOS devices and the transformer prime is the king of all Android tablets and from a purely hardware perspective they are pretty similar slabs of glass from the outside now to be fair just to get out the way the transformer prime is the thinner of the two tablets and it is the lighter of the two by just a few ounces not the substantial difference but now you know and both have their own unique very high quality metal backs that's actually a trademark and probably why they are so expensive and comparing button layouts you'll see that the power button and volume rockers are in a same spot on both tablets pretty much linked together and on the front the transformer prime is a 10.1 inch sheet of glass while the iPad is a slightly smaller 9.7 inch sheet of glass and a home button you also have cameras on the back of these badboys a 5 megapixel on the back of the iPad and an 8 megapixel camera on the back of the transformer but honestly it's a tablet I mean they both take decent photos and they both take it at a decent speed the interface is fine but nothing to write home about I mean I'm sure we're all familiar with the fact that taking pictures on a tablet is forbidden among geeks I mean come on you look ridiculous I mean a juice might as well use your face I mean you'd look just as dumb I like really but honestly the front-facing cameras on these two devices are far more useful for stuff like Google+ Hangouts and FaceTime calls but as we all know this isn't just the iPad 3 versus the transformer prime this is also Apple's new dual core a 5x chip with quad-core graphics versus Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 chip with tons of cores of graphics so we know that we have some performance tests here I started out with less intensive app equivalents on both devices and work my way up in intensity as you can see but what I basically found was that in real world use used to perform very very close to each other sometimes the iPad would pull ahead you know render a webpage quicker and maybe be a little bit more responsive on a website and other times the transformer prime would open a few apps faster and be just better in some other categories but as you can see here it was never like a substantial difference where I would just sit back and say wow this Tegra 3 just destroyed the iPad with quad core or I would never say wow this I fed this a 5 X just blows the Tegra 3 out of the water I never ever find myself saying that don't believe what you see in these silly cross-platform benchmarks they're almost never completely accurate so pay attention to what you see in real life and both obviously offer a ton of top-of-the-line snappy performance so it's all good so I'll get these just worked very very well you've probably already seen my transformer prime review where I was playing this game here it's called Riptide GP and this is great way to show off the graphics on this 10.1 inch screen 1280 by 800 lots of pixels and it drives it very very well good stuff Tegra 3 the new iPad has a few internal upgrades to help to keep up with four times as many pixels at 2048 by 1536 display so it gets a little bit warm it has a larger battery but overall graphics still look great and the game I'm playing here on the iPad is called Real Racing 2 HD and I gotta say I am a mouse at this game even in the crappiest of cars to send oh yeah oh yeah just look at that so aggressive but none of this means anything can't connect to the internet huh both of these have had minor Wi-Fi issues they both have a metal back so that was kind of the deal when people are trying to figure out hey does this not have as good internet connection but overall I got decent results so it's nothing really to worry about on either of these tablets also the battery life between these two tablets was a bout the same easily six or seven hours of regular use though the iPad has a larger battery which means it's going to take longer to charge it fully that's just simple physics so which one do you get well I gotta say it mostly depends on whether you like it the dead easy simplicity of iOS 5.1 or the quirky but kind of fun and customisable sophistication of Android 4.0 there are a couple reasons why I love Android so much I use a lot of Google services like Google Talk Google Voice Calendar and YouTube so it helps that I have Android but the funny thing is widgets dude you have no idea how awesome widgets on Android are until you don't have them anymore I swear widgets are very very useful pretty underrated right now but I got to say the most compelling reason to get the iPad 3 is easily easily the Retina display I'd say it's even a reason to sell your iPad 1 or 2 most of you don't know this I've had an iPad 2 for about two weeks a little while ago just testing it out but it didn't really impress me and I returned it but I would actually rather have an iPad 3 than an iPad 2 having used them both with this new 2048 by 1536 display I actually think that it is worth that upgrade now keep in mind the new transformer prime infinity is going to be coming out hopefully in April and is going to have in 1920 by 1200 HD display which is also kick-ass so stay tuned for my review of that tablet but until then this is absolutely the king of mobile displays and thumbs up to Apple just very well done on this IPS display but in my opinion you can't go wrong with either of these they're the kings of their kingdoms and they deserve their titles so it's your cash put your money where your heart is so there you have it guys the choice is yours iPad 3 or Asus Transformer Prime and hey leave it thumbs up on this video if you enjoyed it the ratings really do help out a lot and I will talk to you guys in the next video thanks for watching