With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory 501
noh8rz10 writes "Holy moly! iPad gets a heavyweight sibling, clicking in at 128GB. This places it in range of storage for Surface Pro and ultrabooks. It's clearly targeted at the professional market, as the press release cites X-rays and CAD files as reasons. Should Microsoft be afraid? Methinks so. Best part, pricing is growing by log 2. Just as the 32GB version is $100 more than the 16, and the 64 is $100 more than the 32, this new version is $100 more than the 64!" Update: 01/29 16:00 GMT by T : Here's Apple's announcement itself.
Are you sure? (Score:1, Informative)
Apple's own site shows the specs [apple.com] still topping out at 64GB...
Re:Are you sure? (Score:3, Informative)
Also, it's not in their news section [apple.com].
And the linked article [appleinsider.com] doesn't cite any sources.
Re:Uh yeah (Score:5, Informative)
Unless they have to type.
Re:Are you sure? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:But I can do stuff with an Ultrabook (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And not a single (Score:4, Informative)
In addition to their existing 128GB model that's referenced in the summary? Or do you mean a 128GB model that actually has 128GB, not 83GB plus a 45GB OS?
Re:And not a single (Score:5, Informative)
OP is talking about Windows Surface, where Win 8 or Win RT eats up a lot of storage.
Re:Uh yeah (Score:4, Informative)
Why do you assume Apple's SSD is that slow? (Score:5, Informative)
but a 64 GB SD card is less than $50.
The desire to not have ignorant users like yourself gimp the iPad with slow flash memory is why Apple does not have an SD port. Come to think of it, that is also why GOOGLE is building more devices now without an SD port now also. Performance is guaranteed.
The iPad 3 had storage [toshiba.com] they can write to at up to 22MB/s, and read from at 78MB/s... the card you listed can do neither of those things as quickly despite the 50MB/s claim on the front.
If you really want to attach an SD card to read movies or media from just buy a camera connection kit and attach it to the iPad that way.