The great macdebate (now with roids)

[pubjoe]

totaly missed that they are releasing a 4th gen

Yeah they broke the yearly update cycle throwing us all into crisis.

No, that's the ****. £40-£50 fees.

Anyone want to buy a second hand previous model iPad for marginally under rrp?

no?

lol of course not. I'm really just surprised that people are actually paying that on ebay. I know apple stuff has decent resale value, but they're buying "The not-so-New iPad", second hand, off a bloke on ebay, for the sake of saving twenty quid.

[Rossyra]

I fancy a tablet for couch surfing, I hate apple's stance against stuff like flash and Java though. Lame.

[pubjoe]

No, that's the ****. £40-£50 fees.

Anyone want to buy a second hand previous model iPad for marginally under rrp?

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Ipad 3         16GB    32GB 
Forum          £295    £315 
Apple Refurb   £315    £369

Ebay buyers are clueless

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPad-3r ... 2c693f5da6"

[cools]

Don't buy anything until the 29th

[Rossyra]

Word, I'd rather sites didn't use either, there are some that have their login in a flash window though or some other critical thing like that Nothing more annoying than going to a site and discovering I'll have to come back 10 hours later when I'm at home hng

[pubjoe]

Yeah, it's terribly overused for pointless frills. It's a shame though as it was actually extremely good for the < 1% web apps that demand it. 99% of the time it's just a crappy animation that maxes out the CPU though.

[Rossyra]

Plus there's that awesome SF flash project with all the **** and that in it... mind you, I spose if you've seen it once...

[pubjoe]

[Rossyra]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495979"

[usagi76]

I fancy a tablet for couch surfing, I hate apple's stance against stuff like flash and Java though. Lame.

If 7 inches isn't too small for you ( ) then I'd recommend the Nexus 7, brilliant device.

[markedkiller78]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPad-3r ... 2c693f5da6

[Rossyra]

I fancy a tablet for couch surfing, I hate apple's stance against stuff like flash and Java though. Lame.

If 7 inches isn't too small for you ( ) then I'd recommend the Nexus 7, brilliant device.

Yer, those are quite tempting.

[markedkiller78]

I think that's what Cools it taking about. New 32GB nexus for £199 is the hope

[cools]

Rumour has it there's a 10" Nexus on the horizon.

I don't have flash on my laptop nor tablet and don't miss it at all, I've not had it for at least a year and haven't had any problems. Java I do have installed for a few things, no big deal.

[markedkiller78]

Personally, I think 8" is the sweet spot for a tablet, 13" for a laptop & 30" for a deskotp.

32GB nexus is what I hope to get for christmas.

[cools]

Depends if you're loading up with media or not

[markedkiller78]

16gb is just a little too small for me. I like to have photos on a tablet or laptop

My rough usage:

2GB os
5 GB games (some are getting really big, batman is 1GB alone)
4GB photo
4GB apps
4GB music

I could get away with 16GB, just dump the music & photos, but why should I!

[cools]

My usage on a tablet: 8GB of apps.

[gargoyle67]

Buy a samsung 7.7 with a sd slot then, plus awesome oled bit more expensive though.

[Pete]

I was under the impression that Jelly Bean Android 4.1 was dropping flash but can't notice anything not working on web pages that worked before so maybe it is really dead.

Mate at work has a iphone5 but is regretting it now over it, in his own words "its the same as 4S" when I asked what was new.

Looking like the days of buying a cheap Acer are gone now: