The article is still on Ars and several of the commenters pointed out that the benchmarking utilities don't actually use multiple cores. So it's basically comparing an iPad2 with one hand behind it's back to a fully utilized iPad.

So what exactly are the computing tradeoffs to "true" resolution independence?

At the time Quicktime wasn't bad. On Windows it got a little slow and unstable at times. There was a brief period where .wmv ruled the day and then Youtube came out made all that noise moot.

Wait. Does this suggest that Apple killed Real (on the internet, with Quicktime)?

They'll only create a base if one of two conditions are met. Either their product is good enough that people who use it can't think of using anything else or it locks them into being unable to access their apps/media any other way.

Maybe the engineers will have designed it so that I don’t need to take an elevator (loading screen) every time I want to do something?

Alternative analogy then, NPR Donors: [www.slate.com] href="http://kotaku.com/#!p2/">#p2

Well Consumer Reports does own Consumerist, so technically you're still right.

What upgrade? Games and extra controllers aren't an upgrade. Cables kind of are because it is something you would expect to come with it but really everyone knows games cost money. The only ones who don't play Wii Sports and nothing else, but since that's all they play, they probably don't care anyway.

Is it just me or are the people who justify their constant negative hectoring on the grounds that "X fanboys are terrible!" are generally more plentiful and way more obnoxious than the X fanboys themselves?

"Who the hell pays 60 bones for a game that they hate??"

Most things don't really get much benefit from multitasking. Generally people's complaints about multi-tasking on iOS are really just complaints about its notification system. The only thing that really needs to multitask better are chat clients, but the only way to make that happen is to bake iChat into the OS.

"probably something you didn't think of adding to its original $300 price tag."

One must realize that tablets are more like gaming consoles or WebTV than a PC. Specs matter less because the people writing the apps won’t write an app that only works on the top end tablet. Regardless of what tablet you’re running, a developer is going to design apps that will run on the weakest among the widely…

I don’t want this to be interpreted as me knocking on this article here because I really think it was informative and educational.

It’s funny when sci-fi depicting an all-female race always makes the women look trim and pretty and so very feminine. Given how evolution works, an all-female world or even an all-female tribe is probably going to alter its beauty norms to start favoring some pretty butch looking ladies. Count me out of Amazonia.

There is a difference between a technology existing and a technology being able to be delivered to market in sufficient quantities to meet demand AND at a price-point that will make consumers want to buy WHILE maintaining an adequate level of profit for the producer.

Ah right "specs" are all that matter. I forgot.

Why does it matter if the back gets scratched up? What do you do with it anyway? Rest it on sandpaper?

Of course not. It's a cover. Weren't you listening?