Apple iPad 2 Review Ping!
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Posted on 11/05/2014 11:19:24 PM PST by Swordmaker
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If it can’t play the same games I play on my pc with same mods, which include extremely high resolution texture pacs, then it will never replace my pc.
What resolution do you like? What kind of games? The iPhone and iPad are becoming the pre-emininent mobile game platform. The iPad Retina 2's screen resolution is 2048 x 1536, beyond most computer screens. The graphic capability is phenomenal. Here is an example of an iPad Retina image from a game. . .
Skyrim at 1920 with a Haswell on Win764, 8 gigs of ram, Asus 7900 series card Damn near photorealism with 4K textures and other mods and 60 FPS rock steady.
Under $2000 with monitor and best of all, no apple tax, cheap replacement parts available anywhere and upgrades at a fraction of the cost.
Yeah that looks like The Witcher 2 or possibly The Witcher 3.
It looks excellent. If that is what hey are capable of then it would be a replacement.
I would say that the most demanding game I play is modified Skyrim where I use extremely high resolution texture replacements instead of the vanilla textures.
Right now my monitor only goes to 1920 1080, but those individual textures are like 6000 x 4000 just estimating.
They are very nice looking and really make the game come to life, but seeing this image tells me that they could likely handle them, and if not now, then very soon no doubt.
The iPad Air 2 uses Apple’s A8X which has 3 billion transistors, and comes with Imagination Technologies’ new PowerVR GX6650 GPU with six clusters (up from the four-cluster GX6450 on the A7). To get the greatest graphics performance out of the A8X chip and iOS 8, we created Metal — a new technology that lets developers design highly immersive console-style games. Apple also created Metal, which is a new set of APIs optimized to allow the CPU and GPU to work together to deliver detailed graphics and complex visual effects.
Take a look at these frame rates produced at their native resolutions. Keep in mind these are for portable devices that are less than 1/4 inch thick.
Pretty damned expensive. Apple uses standard parts for most upgrades to. Standard RAM and standard Hard Drives work just fine. You can plug in any monitor too. . .
Try playing with your rig in the middle of a park at a picnic.
“Try playing with your rig in the middle of a park at a picnic. “
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I think one would end up as a registered sex offender for following your suggestion.
Please. Give a guy some warning! Sputter and spit, not to mention Diet Pepsi, are hard to clean off a keyboard and screen when one is laughing!
LOL!
The key point of this article is that the author says once he removed his Bluetooth keyboard from his iPad Air 2, its usefulness as a productivity tool stopped. This fact undermines the premise of the headline.
when you buy apple products you are supporting the sodomite activist ceo.
no thanks!
Not till I can plug in an external drive, or at least an SDXC card.
When you buy Msoft you’re supporting the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”. Which is why I “non-buy” Linux.
You can’t upgrade a ipad.
OK Apple fanbois——
How many Firefox tabs can you open up on the most advanced iPad? Give me a number. This will dwarfed by what a legitimate computer can do such as a Microsoft Surface Pro onto more conventional laptops and computers
Tablets are useful when you want to be mobile, but I still don't see them replacing the beast of a desktop I use as my daily worker. They simply don't have enough ram or power to run a multi VM environment. They definitely have a place in the world, and for many folks they could easily replace everything a desktop would do for them, but I suspect power users will be depending upon desktops for a while yet.
Of course, even within the desktop paradigm there are options. I have a friend who has a beefy server in a closet, and KVM type hookups elsewhere in his house for access. VNC/rdesktop protocols can give you desktop access even over wireless connections. Lots of options for folks out there no matter how you use a computer.
When I was maybe 8 or 9 back in the pre internet 70s, I got a pair of K2 skis for Christmas. I used to think those skis were the greatest thing ever. We;d get a couple magazines delivered and I used to pour over them, my young mind associating the great skiers of the day with the brand, as many used them. you know, like lots of kids do.
I’d cut out the ads and put them up on my wall like posters because I had a pair of skis like those. I’d tell my friends how great they were and about my heroes in the sport that used them. Pretty much like other kids did with their baseball gloves and their baseball heroes. Typical kid stuff. Looking back it seems kind of embarrassing now, but to a kid, its things like that that seem like their whole world at the time. But you know, you get older and things like that just fade into memory, a childhood memory now gone in a world of grown up concerns.
I don’t know what made me think of that.
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