Originally Posted by vangeezer:
“Just wait for the ipad 4,then when the 5 come's out you can buy that and join the ever growing group of people blindly lining Apple's pockets."Oh man my ipad 2 sucks cos everyone else has got a 3"”
Why do you think people are "blindly lining Apple's pockets"?
Apple's also hardly the only company to release a new model each year.
Originally Posted by pumazooma:
“You have to be very lucky to get one in the first couple of weeks after they're on sale. The reality is that typically people who order more than a couple of hours after they're on sale will end up getting them a month or so later.”
I ordered mine at the start of April and received it two weeks later.
Originally Posted by Gormond:
“We will see, the display on the ipad2 is very sharp and clear so it being a higher res I don't class as a massive upgrade. I think it's likely that we won't see the A6 but even if we do what will it do that the A5 can't?
Games already look amazing on the ipad2, and 99% of them work on the ipad1.”
Digitimes and other sites with sources in the supply chain have been saying for a while that it will have a resolution bump.
I think it's a rather large upgrade myself.
As for the CPU/GPU... well, you could also say what can the A5 do that the A4 can't? Or, what can a Core i3 do that a single-core Pentium can't? What can a Core i5 do that a Core i3 can't?
It's faster, it's more powerful.
Better CPU and GPU, and a higher res. screen = better for video, better for games, etc.
Originally Posted by Sniffle774:
“The trouble is if you wait for the 'next big thing(tm)' by the time it comes out the rumours will already be flying around about the 'next big thing #2(tm)'.”
Aside from the iPhone 4S, Apple has stuck to annual product cycles.
If you get an iPad 3 in March/April, you shouldn't have to "worry" about the "next big thing" for another year.