Two iPad 2 Reviews That Go Deep

AnandTech Apple iPad 2 Review

If you’re looking for the exhaustive, authoritative iPad 2 review, this Brian Klug, Anand Lal Shimpi & Vivek Gowri AnandTech opus is it.

Of particular interest if you’re weighing the pros and cons of buying a remaindered iPad 1 at a deep discount as opposed to buying (and perhaps waiting for) an iPad 2, will be an inline video demonstrating the effect of iPad 2’s RAM capacity being doubled from iPad 1, but there’s a vast amount more in this long and comprehensive review. Here are a few (in context brief) snippets:

“While I enjoy using a tablet and find it to be a more relaxed way of computing, it’s the lack of performance, still not quite perfect ergonomics, the clunky multitasking UI and the lack of a convenient physical input devices that keep the iPad from being a part of my daily life. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe there’s clearly a future for tablets – the present day sales alone are proof of that. It’s just that I believe tablets are on an evolutionary course towards perfection….”

‘This thing could easily replace a mainstream PC, it’s just missing a few features… There’s no support for Flash. Like it or not Flash support is still an important part of the overall PC experience….”

“Multitasking is a pain. When the iPad first debuted there was no hope for multitasking, but now with the feature it’s still far from magical….”

“Copying data between apps is a pain as I can’t physically look at two things at once, there’s just constant switching required to get things done….. Apple and Microsoft figured out how to do it on the desktop after all, but we’re just not there yet with tablets….”

“Alongside multitasking is the performance problem. With the original iPad even deleting several emails at a time was a bit choppy, and web page rendering performance needed tons of work… [and] even the iPad 2 with a pair of ARM Cortex A9s has lower CPU performance than a netbook with a single core Atom….”

“Even if you play within the Apple universe and own a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad, there’s no magical way of sharing data and applications between them…. The tablet is still in its infancy as a computing device and as successful as the iPad may be, it still has a long road ahead before it’s anywhere near perfect.”

For the full review visit here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4225/the-ipad-2-review

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Appleinsider In-depth Review: Apple’s iPad 2 running iOS 4.3

Appleinsider’s Daniel Eran Dilger’s iPad 2 review isn’t quite as lengthy and detailed as AnandTech’s review, but it covers all the bases as well somewhat less prolix-ly. Dilger notes that along with its impressive hardware, there are a few 1Pad 2 weak spots and a couple rough edges in its current software release.

Dilger observes that “while certainly a personal computer, iPad is so different from what we expect of a PC that it actually makes sense to call it a ‘post-PC’ device. This is the computer for people who want to use technology, not manage meta-technology, [and] as long as you approach iPad as a post-PC device rather than expecting it to be a drop in replacement for a PC (whether a notebook or netbook or Slate PC-like device), few of the iPad’s limitations will irk you.”

For the full review, click here:
http://bit.ly/fG0vve