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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon

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No, the licence agreement is explicit. It's a licence for the devices in the possession of a single person. If another person takes one of the devices, they - and this is not an option - require another licence. Developers are starting to enforce this....

Please, site your sources. What developers are starting to enforce "it," and what exactly is this "it." What do you base this nonsense on? I have never heard of this, nor have read anything about attempts to demand licenses for different iPhones on the same account.

Do you have an iPhone, and have you experienced any of this with your multiple Apple devices? Or is this some urban myth?

Originally Posted by DawnFalcon

... The iPad...I don't need to "convince myself" of anything, it's using a single-core ARM A9. You realise that it's actually less powerful, compared to the 16/32GB iPhone GS, right? The Mali's performance is terrible compared to the PowerVR's - quite a few games that run on the GS's won't manage it on the iPad (and they'll need the 3d part re-writing on most, for that matter!)

Why do you think the A4 in the iPad is a single core? I'd guess this is rather unlikely, given that all the hands on reviews note the significant increase in responsiveness compared to the iPhone 3GS (which is already fast).

Here is what macrumors.com just had to say about the A4:

"Bright Side of News claims to have information on Apple's "A4" chip unveiled as the brains behind the company's new iPad tablet device. ...

While it should be no surprise that the Apple A4 processor is based on the ARM Cortex A9 design which will begin shipping to many manufacturers this year, the article incorrectly states that the Qualcomm Snapdragon and nVidia Tegra were also based on this design. Those processors were based on the Cortex A8 -- the same processor design found in the iPhone 3GS. This new potentially multi-core processor has only recently been introduced in the Tegra 2 first demoed at CES 2010.

The site also makes a dubious claim that Apple is using the ARM Mali 50-Series GPU for its graphics hardware which would represent a departure (and potential downgrade) for Apple from the PowerVR chips that they've used in the past. Apple is a licensee and major stakeholder in Imagination Technologies, the company behind the PowerVR chipset...."

Originally Posted by DawnFalcon

... As to screens, you should be aware a large part of the market is IPS screens now, it's not unusual - and TN screen production for laptops is plummeting. MVA/PVA screens are far from "poor", even if they're not equal to IPS in high end uses where you need perfect colour reproduction. The ASUS I mentioned... *checks* is IPS.

Seriously, where do you get this stuff? A "large part of the market is IPS screens now...." Really?! Please show us some reference. For most laptops, the best they get is PVAs. IPS is still rare on desktop monitors, too.

Hey, if you don't think the iPad fits your needs, fine. But why keep bashing it, and making stuff up to support your claims?