MVP 3 Report post Posted February 3, 2010 Just for fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) @MVP it is really funny Analyst: iPad Costs Apple $270.50 to Manufacture Apple to pull in $208 per iPad. With all the rumors pointing to a nearly-$1,000 price point for the Apple tablet, Steve Jobs surprised onlookers last week when he revealed that the starting price for the iPad would be $499. Of course, in comparison to netbooks, $499 is still very expensive. Granted, the iPad does come with an LCD display that surpasses the quality of many notebooks, let alone netbooks, but don't be fooled – Apple will still make a tidy sum from the iPad, according to analyst estimates. According to Computerworld, Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AmTech estimates that the cost of goods inside a 16GB Wi-Fi-only iPad totals to $270.50. This would mean that Apple would make an estimated $208 on every 16GB iPad sold. Of course, the bill of materials does not include the R&D behind the iPad and other value-added services along the supply chain, but it does show that there will be money made at all levels. Predictably, the most expensive component in the device is the 9.7-inch IPS panel, which costs an estimated $100. The rest of the components are considerably cheaper: 16GB of memory and the aluminum case cost about $25 each, while the Apple A4 chip was listed at $15. Apple's profit margin on the iPad grows with the larger capacity models, with steeper premiums charged for the 32GB and 64GB models. Interestingly enough, Apple will charge an added $130 for the 3G-enabled versions of its iPad, but analysts guess that the added hardware will only jack up costs by $16. Source : Tom's Hardware US Edited February 3, 2010 by hitesh123 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greatest 55 Report post Posted February 3, 2010 ^^^ This is called 'making money and fooling the customer'... I like it.. lol.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 3, 2010 it is not fooling them, just selling fashion at high rates, But apple is earning good from these kind of device. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 4, 2010 Windows 7 to Run on iPad With Citrix Receiver Don't like the fact that the iPad can't multitask but have, for some reason, decided you're buying the device anyway? Well, rest easy because soon enough, you can run Windows 7 on your shiny Apple tablet and multitask to your heart's content. Citrix is currently working on creating a Citrix Receiver that will enable users to run Windows 7 on the iPad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 18, 2010 More iPad Cost Estimates Show Room for Price Cut The mid-range iPad 3G to be the biggest money maker. iSuppli, the firm that loves to do teardowns of new gadgets to find out just how much they cost to put together, last week revealed its estimates for the Apple iPad. The firm found that the lowest-end iPad will cost Apple $219.35 in total materials and $10 in manufacturing costs, equalling a $229.35 total for the 16GB Wi-Fi-only model. While Apple is expected to be getting more than double that back from the $499 price tag, the most profitable The mid-priced 32 GB iPad with 3G wireless capability will contain $275.95 worth of components and other materials and cost $11.20 to manufacture, iSuppli estimates. This will retail for $729 in stores. Keep in mind that these are present-day estimates without exposure to actual hardware, but it certainly shows that there's a comfortable buffer (even after R&D and other overhead costs) for Apple to drop price. In fact, the Wall Street Journal noted that Apple expressed intentions that it plans to remain "nimble" on iPad pricing (read: price drops if the competition heats up or there is lesser-than-expected demand). Source : Tom's Hardware US Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 4, 2010 Apple's iPad Gets a CPU Performance Review iPad gets benchmarked. By now, all major tier one publications have published their reviews of the iPad. All reviews seem to be generally positive, but so far none have put the iPad under any serious benchmarks and stress tests. Our good friend Anand had his iPad delivered on Saturday, and has already run the unit through various tests. Although he's still working on an exhaustive review, the iPad, when compared to the iPhone 3GS and Google Nexus One seem to perform quite well. The iPhone 3GS uses the ARM Cortex A8 CPU while Google's Nexus One uses Qualcomm's very speedy Snapdragon QSD8250 CPU. Both phones are fast by today's standards, but Apple's A4 CPU seems to stack up well against what's available. "So how does Apple's A4 stack up against today's favorite smartphone brainchild? Extremely well. The A4 is particularly exciting because it combines Snapdragon-like CPU performance with a PowerVR SGX GPU. A much better option than the aging ATI core used in Qualcomm's QSD8x50 series," says Anand. Check out his initial impressions at AnandTech. DISASSEMBLED: Apple's iPad Tablet Today is iPad day and while many people are at home unwrapping their new toy and revelling in that fresh-out-of-the-box gadget smell, the folks at Rapid Repair are tearing their own iPad limb from limb. They're still in the middle of the tear-down so while we're waiting to hear the final word on what's inside the tablet that has everybody talking, here's the first set of images from their tear-down. We'll add more images once Rapid Repair is done and hopefully we'll catch up with them for a little chat on what they found. [uPDATE] Added all the extra images we could pull from Rapid Repair. If you want to check out the complete step-by-step disassembly, click here. Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Zoom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 5, 2010 ^^^ is it so bad ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SumitVerma 187 Report post Posted April 5, 2010 (edited) ^ Has to be in front of Notion Ink Adam! I am already Falling in love with the Adam! I wish to be the first one to own it, tough I know that cannot happen! Edited April 5, 2010 by SumitVerma Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 6, 2010 I-Pad Hacked to Show Jailbreak is Possible Soon hackers will make it possible for you to run the apps you want without Apple's approval. The act of jailbreaking an Apple mobile device frees the user to install the apps that he or she wants without requiring Apple's approval into the App Store. Jailbreaking has been around since the very first iPhone, and now hackers have given good reason to believe that it'll be continuing on the iPad as well. Check out this proof video below showing root access into the iPad. iPad Hacked to Show Jailbreak is Possible Late last month, iPhone hacker Geohot exposed a new untethered jailbreak hack on the iPhone that he claims will also work on the iPad. With so many hackers working on Apple's new gadget, it'll only be a matter of time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harshal 11 Report post Posted April 6, 2010 Oh f! Gruesome videos Sadikk. Will it blend - LOL. It actually blended. People are frustrated with Apple products, looks like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 6, 2010 Mingle Q&A With Us and the iPad, Q&A Want to know more about the iPad and ask us questions live? We have no idea how many iPads Apple were sold on April 3--estimates are approaching 800,000--but we do get the sense there might now be enough and if you have your hands on one of these, you justifiably are an early tech adopter. So we invite you to share your first impressions with the world, other iPad owners and those who are still waiting to purchase one. We will use a Mingleverse Mingle room, a browser-based 3D telepresence service, for our iPad event. You can join free of charge and can move freely in a virtual room that allows us to share images, online video and a live video feed. It is a great communication platform with text and audio chat that should enable all of you to get an interesting first look at the iPad. So Apple and god will, we will get our hands on an iPad as well and wait until the mingle to unbox the tablet. The mingle will take place April 6th at 5 PM PST. The spots will be given away on a first come – first serve basis. We highly recommend a reservation of your space as we cannot guarantee availability later on. To participate in the mingle, you simply need a web browser and a headset, if you want to communicate with others in the room. If you have a webcam, you can use that too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanagaDeepan 1,084 Report post Posted April 7, 2010 Thanks Sadikk... Love the WillItBlend video... But my all-time-favourite video of teasing Apple user is .. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SumitVerma 187 Report post Posted April 7, 2010 ^ Lol! how easy it is to use the very well replaced QWERTY PAD! BTW what are our views about the JooJoo? Looks hell good with quite impressive screen! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 7, 2010 Apple A4 CPU Dissection: iPad is Just a Big iTouch It uses the same sort of brains and brawn as the latest iPhone and iPod Touch models. When Steve Jobs took to the stage earlier this year to unveil the iPad, he also announced a custom processor he called the A4. While the company has been rather mum on what's inside the package, early reports figured the A4 to be ARM-based, just like the iPhone and iPod Touch models. And they were right. Teardown specialist firm iFixit sent the A4 chip to Canadian-based Chipworks, a semiconductor reverse engineering firm, for an x-ray and dissection to find out what Apple's chip is made up of. These are the conclusions that iFixit it came to: · There's not much revolutionary here. In fact, the A4 is quite similar to the Samsung processor Apple uses in the iPhone [3GS]. · It's clear from both hardware and software that this is a single core processor, so it must be the ARM Cortex A8, and NOT the rumored multicore A9. · It's quite challenging to identify block-level logic inside a processor, so to identify the GPU we're falling back to software: early benchmarks are showing similar 3D performance to the iPhone [3GS], so we're guessing that the iPad uses the same PowerVR SGX 535 GPU. · The iPad has 256 MB RAM, same as the iPhone [3GS]. · The A4 sips power. In fact, power consumption is probably the reason Apple hasn't stepped up performance much from the iPhone [3GS]. In order to get 10 hours of battery life, the entire iPad (including display) has to pull less than 2.5 Watts on average. It should be noted that, while both the CPU and GPU appear to be upclocked versions of the same things powering the iPhone 3GS, it's still impossible to tell at this stage. Furthermore, there is a single core version of the ARM Cortex A9, so Apple could be using a newer CPU than the A8 in the latest iPhone and iPod Touch. Nevertheless, we agree with iFixit that, on a hardware level, "there's not much revolutionary here." Apple has essentially built a triple-layer, package-on-package custom chip using off-the-shelf components. Like the company does for the rest of its computing product, it takes something that's readily available in the technology marketplace and layers it with custom software to provide a markedly different experience. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted April 20, 2010 iPad Disassembled, Reassembled in Animation Welcome to new meets old in the world of technology and animation. When the iPad launched early this month, repair firms were quick to get their teardown reports published. We featured one of the first ones in our story here. But to see a more animated, literally, teardown, we present to you TechRestore's stop-motion animation teardown, complete with zany sound effects. iPad Disassembled, Reassembled in Stop-motion Animation Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted May 11, 2010 Intel Wins Simulated Moorestown vs. iPad Battle Intel's Atom running Chrome in Windows XP beats the Apple iPad running Safari. Earlier this week Intel launched a new generation of Atom system-on-chip processors that are aimed capturing a share of the mobile market. Current and previous Atom chips have done an amazing job at monopolizing netbook hardware, but now Intel wants to go after the devices such as cell phones and tablets – an area dominated by ARM. Right now, the king of ARM processors for mobile devices appears to be Apple A4 chip, which is widely believed to be a Samsung Cortex A8 chip clocked up to 1GHz. Apple touts the iPad as being incredibly fast, and hands-on experience has shown that the device is incredible smooth with the iPhone OS. But a new simulated test shows that Intel is faster, even while running Windows XP. UMPC Portal ran a browser test between an iPad and Viliv X70, which has its Menlow-based Atom platform running at 800MHz. While this isn't a test between Moorestown and the ARM-based A4, the practical architectures between Menlow and Moorestown should be quite similar. In a webpage loading test, the 800MHz Atom Menlow running the latest Chrome on Windows XP matched the loading speeds of Safari on the iPad. When the Atom was cranked up to Menlow's 1.3GHz ceiling, the Windows XP tablet was able to load faster than the iPad – even with Flash enabled. The simulation leads us to believe that the Moorestown running at a 1.5GHz speed would be even faster. Check out the video below for the test. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mohitparkash 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2010 no doubt this is an incredible machine .. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted May 18, 2010 Steve Jobs Says iPad Offers Freedom From Porn Over the weekend, Gawker's Ryan Tate emailed Steve Jobs to ask him just what is so revolutionary about the iPad. Steve's response? It's a device that offers freedom from porn, battery issues and programs that steal your private data. It's becoming less and less unusual for Steve Jobs to personally reply to people who email him with questions regarding a product. However, it's still strange for him to reply multiple times, not to mention engage in a heated debate. Throw in the fact that the person messaging him writes for a publishing house that is currently tangled in a very public legal mess about the next generation iPhone and your chances of getting even one reply are pretty slim. Ryan Tate, a blogger with Gawker Media has posted a thread of emails sent this past Friday. Tate emailed jobs questioning a claim made in an Apple ad that the device is 'a revolution.' A revolution is about freedom, Tate said. Jobs replied saying the iPad offers freedom from a number of things: "Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folk feel like their world is slipping away. It is." Though the correspondence started out as a question about whether the iPad was a revolution, it quickly transformed into a debate about Apple's decision to omit Flash from the iPad and how that is affecting applications being developed for the tablet. Tate does eventually divulge that he works for Gawker Media but that doesn't stop Steve from replying. Check out the full thread below. I've also included Tate's notes on the emails in which he claims it was silly to bring up his wife and criticizes Jobs' "freedom from porn" statement as something that will haunt him. There's something absurdly Orwellian about Jobs' line that the iPad provides "freedom from porn." It's a statement I suspect will haunt him. My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery. There's no telling how Flash might hobble my iPad''s A4 processor. But cross-compiled Flash apps are an entirely different matter: They run as native Objective C code, and Apple has a chance to review them for performance. Apple has never tried to argue that cross-compiled Flash wears batteries down any more quickly than other Objective C code, and in fact approved more than two dozen such apps before changing its policies. Speaking of regrettable lines: Why the heck did I bring up my wife in connection with "freedom from porn?" I was trying to say it's a canard that porn somehow harms families, or something terrible and shameful, so I mentioned the other half of my family. I was a little unfair summarizing my contact with Time Inc.; the company has not "crowed" about its iPad bridge software, and in fact has plans to iteratively improve its iPad product. That line was based on email exchange that I had with a Time Inc. executive who was speaking off the record and not on behalf of the company. As such, I've blurred a name that I had no business dropping. But I do think, as I said, that a native Objective C app that merely contains magazine content, like Time 's, is a lot less exciting than an app that has some real interactivity, even if it's been cross compiled from Flash. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
