Apr 11 2010, 12:57 AM
Ok get to your first post, what's the point of copy paste whole article from some other site?
A link is good enough. And if you were to start a discussion, do put in some your thought or at lease some of your own words to start it. At first I thought it's a spam bot doing this.
QUOTE(alhs76 @ Apr 10 2010, 08:09 PM)
Sorry dudes, i think the point of the tear down IS to illustrate that you are paying a higher price differential for something that is essentially the same - with no significant hardware improvements except for the size of the screen - the additional battery size to support the power consumption of a larger screen. I believe the author has no intention to debate whether or they run the same OS or not. It is a question of value in question. No offense to its technology whatsoever.
Thank you guys!
I will reply your question form a tech person view. Looks similar ≠ same. "He & His brother looks alike". But they're totally different person. Looks is deceptive, have you heard don't judge a book by it's cover?Thank you guys!
Let me put it another way. Here's a link to iPod Touch 2nd Gen board:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPod-Touch-...own/586/2#s2932
Another one to MacBook Air:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air...own/598/3#s3135
Tell me which looks closer to this:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/2#s11196
There are certain component that you will only see on larger device like netbook or laptop. And some component that are only on smaller device like iPod or iPhone. I would say it's looks like combination of A & B. Which is what happen on iPad, Apple is putting it's knowledge on tiny portable Mac & iPod/iPhone in iPad.
I think you are getting the point of the article wrongly. What they trying to say if someone hope the iPad is a tablet Mac (ie with traditional harddrive, processor, RAM slot, graphic chip & etc inside the iPad), it's not. iPad was built like iPod/iPhone with a single board design with flash memory.
About your argument on paying more for iPad just because it's a larger iPod Touch. Then you better off stay with iPod Touch. Only those who value extra work space, speed, refined apps would justify paying more for an upgrade to iPad. A product like this is produced as a choice. If it's a definitive match for everyone, then we won't need branding, marketing & selling. Just send one to each living human in the world once it's out of factory. If you don't see a point on iPad, just move along with whatever suit your needs. After-all we are human, human likes choices and that's what make us unique right? We can't tell you how good something is if you don't see it yourself.
This post has been edited by wei: Apr 11 2010, 01:05 AM
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