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iPad 4. Because software matters.

JJROCKER wrote:

How can we relate these?

I assume were arguing over the Surface and the iPad. Or is it iOS versus Windows 8?

I'm confused, when did we start comparing software and hardware :s

How do you compare an OS and a tablet?

If you mean iOS6 vs. Win8, iOS6.
If you mean iPad4 vs. a Win8 tablet, the Win8 tablet (once you put Win7 or Android on it)

stevetheipad wrote:

iPad 4. Because software matters.

Whoa! I definetly didn't see that one coming!

jji7skyline wrote:

fire219 wrote:

If you mean iOS6 vs. Win8, iOS6.
If you mean iPad4 vs. a Win8 tablet, the Win8 tablet (once you put Win7 or Android on it)

iOS6 beats Win8 RT for app availability, reliability, good looking, familiarity, and pretty much everything.

iPad 4 wins Win8 tablet. The iPad 4 has the retina display remember? That's even higher res than full HD.

Unless the Win8 tablet is x86, then, it wouldn't be a fair competition.

iOS vs Win8, I agree. Win8 sucks.

I couldn't care less about retina display. It is just a gimmick. You can't see details small enough to take advantage of the extra pixels.

x86 is too power-hungry for tablets IMO, though it will always have a performance advantage. But even if the Win8 tablet has a Tegra3, it still will outperform the A6X (iPad 4's CPU, for people out of the loop).

I think iPad 4. I like Windows 8 a lot, but I think that they should have kept to the original design, with the taskbar and all.

fire219 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

fire219 wrote:

If you mean iOS6 vs. Win8, iOS6.
If you mean iPad4 vs. a Win8 tablet, the Win8 tablet (once you put Win7 or Android on it)

iOS6 beats Win8 RT for app availability, reliability, good looking, familiarity, and pretty much everything.

iPad 4 wins Win8 tablet. The iPad 4 has the retina display remember? That's even higher res than full HD.

Unless the Win8 tablet is x86, then, it wouldn't be a fair competition.

iOS vs Win8, I agree. Win8 sucks.

I couldn't care less about retina display. It is just a gimmick. You can't see details small enough to take advantage of the extra pixels.

x86 is too power-hungry for tablets IMO, though it will always have a performance advantage. But even if the Win8 tablet has a Tegra3, it still will outperform the A6X (iPad 4's CPU, for people out of the loop).

Actually, I've heard that the retina display is really cool.

fire219 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

A6x smashes the Tegra 3 

The Nexus 7 uses the lowest end T3 (the T30L, which runs at 1.2Ghz, compared to 1.4 (T30) or 1.6Ghz (T33)). If you take the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (T33-based)....... you will see it scores 2024 on Geekbench. Remember that the iPad 4 got a 1757.

Tegra 3 wins. 


@stevetheipad: On a 17 inch screen, a Retina Display may be worth it. But on a 10" screen, it is just a gimmick.

I don't think you get the point of the Retina display. It's about density, so a 17" Retina would have a much larger resolution than a 10" Retina display. And you have no idea how crisp things look on a retina display.

And the A6X has better graphics than the Tegra on the Asus.

jji7skyline wrote:

fire219 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

A6x smashes the Tegra 3 

The Nexus 7 uses the lowest end T3 (the T30L, which runs at 1.2Ghz, compared to 1.4 (T30) or 1.6Ghz (T33)). If you take the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (T33-based)....... you will see it scores 2024 on Geekbench. Remember that the iPad 4 got a 1757.

Tegra 3 wins. 


@stevetheipad: On a 17 inch screen, a Retina Display may be worth it. But on a 10" screen, it is just a gimmick.

I don't think you get the point of the Retina display. It's about density, so a 17" Retina would have a much larger resolution than a 10" Retina display. And you have no idea how crisp things look on a retina display.

And the A6X has better graphics than the Tegra on the Asus.

Yea, I realized that after I posted.... Really, the resolution of the iPad4 would be more than enough for just about anything up to like 25" 

Ok, fine. T3 wins for CPU, A6X for GPU.


@Checkitnow: Uh, the iPad 4 came out November 2nd. Less than a month ago.

Last edited by fire219 (2012-11-18 21:31:50)

Wait, when did the iPad 4 come out? And didn't the iPad 3 just come out earlier this year?