[All iPads] When the iPad Mini Retina is released will it be the perfect iPad?

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With the mini retina release likely in March I feel I can finally be happy with an iPad for a couple years.

How is it likely in march ??

These are MARKET ANALYST predictions. Spouted mostly by suits in boardrooms, with only the interests of stock markets being served.

They do not take into account any technical facets that production of an ipad mini with retina display requires.

1) AU Optronics have reportedly stated production of the ipad Mini retina display will not be till Q3/Q4 2013

So the company in charge of producing the retina display say it wont be ready in march as that would require a production Q1 2013 and not Q3/Q4

2) Current A5X and A6X are power hungry chips. In an ipad it requires a 42 Watt battery and still generates heat despite having a bigger enclosure.

The iPad mini has a 15 Watt battery, if you just grafted an A5X or A6X in its current form into a mini shell it would undoubtably lead to a dramatically reduced battery life and hotter device (less surface area for heat dispersal).

So we need a new chip or at least a dramatically re-engineered chip to drive the 2048 x 1536 resolution in an ipad mini.

An A6 chip (without the power hungry quad graphics cores 'X' variant) on its own wouldn't be enough, the current iPhone 5 has less pixels despite a retina display than the ipad mini current.

So the realistic chances of a mini with retina in march is as slim as an anorexic supermodel.

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1524806&goto=newpost

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