Originally Posted by Iphigenia:
“Another in the same boat here. I didn't know I wanted an iPad at all until I had a play on my brother's iPad2 today and it was love at first sight!
The (rumoured) changes - can you explain to a noob what actual difference they'd make to me in every day use?
and
When iPad 2 came out, Was there a price break on iPad? Should I hang on or just give in to lust?
Ta.”
Wait. It's only (allegedly) a month or so.
Resolution: The increased resolution would mean the iPad 3 could handle higher resolution videos, graphics, photos...
CPU/GPU: The jump from dual-core to quad-core would give the iPad 3 more power, make it faster, give it better graphics. The favourite rumoured spec. for the iPad 3 is that it will have a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 GPU (quad-core versions of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S' CPU/GPU)... these are the same CPU and GPU as the new PlayStation Vita handheld console.
So, you're looking at being able to play 1080p videos, higher res. photos, more power and better graphics for games, and so on...
Wait!
When the iPad 2 came out, it was priced around the original price of the iPad 1 (16GB iPad 2 was the same as the 16GB iPad 1 used to be, 32GB and 64GB were actually slightly cheaper than the iPad 1 equivalents launched at), while the iPad 1 received a price cut.
Some people are expecting the iPad 2 to be kept around as a cheaper model, instead of being slashed and then phased out...