Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The iPad3: Where art thou?





It is quite difficult for me to comprehend especially with my obsession with pixels  but so far Agata has resolutely refused to give in an buy the new Apple iPad (generation 3).


I had tried to cost justify it based on the hours per day used, and the increase pleasure of using something with that has a 2048x1536 pixel resolution.  But no.


A colleague already returned his because he felt it was a little too warm,  but for me I'd be prepared to make some tradeoffs.  The battery is now 42.5Watt verses 25Watts for the iPad-2 so one can expect some iPad warming.


There have been other slurs regarding 4G reception, but in Internet unfriendly countries like Switzerland, believe you me I would not recommend the SIM bound version at all.


As a fervent Apple skeptic I believe that these factors are more invention than reality and that the minor wrinkles <if any> will be be gone by the time a new Pad arrives if ordered today.


The main question that is really nagging me is:  If I get an iPad, and convert my Paper based magazine subscriptions to iPad format, how can I read those downloads on other devices like a Windows PC, or Linux system.  Currently my magazine scans which started before 1980 are readable via PDF format on any platform.  Ipad eMagazines? Answers anybody?