Guys, I have always, as you all probably know, been incredibly happy with the IPad lineup of Apple products. Coming from an IPhone, it definitely took a little bit to get used to with the IPad having the split screen on certain things. A great example of this is the native IPad Settings app.
Anyway, this month, I aquired a bit of extra money. I'm not gonna go into how that happened, but we'll just say I got probably an extra 500 dollars from what I'd normally have each month. For this reason, I decided to sell my IPad Air first generation. No, I don't have Mark's permission to sell it here on list, but realize that I'm not doing so anyway. The IPad's actually already spoken for, so there should be no objections. Anyway, with my extra money, plus, what I got from selling that IPad Air, I went to the AT&T store with my grandmother, and one of my best friends, and we all picked me up a bright shiny new 128GB IPad 12 inch Pro. OK, before anyone says, Ewwww! You wanted a dinosaur that was that freaking huge, realize something here. Firstly, I never clamed that the thing was the easiest to hold in your hand. Yeah? I'll admit that holding the thing is a little bit awquard. I'm not gonna deny that. But, here's the thing. I dono how many of you all have heard the sound quality of the 12 inch Pro, but let me tell you all something: this sucker is breathtaking! For one thing, I'm not sure about the speakers on the first gen Airs, (not to be confused with the Air 2's,) but I can tell you now beyond a doubt that the 12 inch Pro has at least! stereo speakers. The separation is phenominal! It might even have quadrofonic. I can't quite tell. I need to look up its specs. If you like the volume you get from the IPad Air, or from the IPad Air 2, for that mind, but you wish it had a bit more low end to it, like what you'd get with a pair of external speakers, then the IPad 12 inch Pro is your answer. Let me put it this way. I have quite a severe hearing loss. Even for me! I can't turn this thing up all the way without blasting myself out. This thing gets loud! And, I do mean, loud! If I had to compare, for those of you who've heard the Logitech bluetooth U E mobile boombox, think the amount of base you get from that speaker, then on top of that think the maximum volume you get with the Air, or with the Air2. Now put those two together. That's basically what you'd have on the Pro, provided that you had it turned about 3 notches down from being full max volume. Suffice it to say, volume isn't an issue. the other thing that blew me away is the battery in this thing! Guys, you wouldn't believe this! I'm not one for making a product look better than it really is. When I say something is a certain way, I don't exagerate things as some people might do. Here are some literal stetistic numbers for ya. I decided to benchmark my battery. I put my IPad on a police scanner feed with Scanner Radio Deluxe from Gordon Edwards, and let it stream over my wifi. I started the feed at 3:30PM on the dot, ironically enough. I let it go all afternoon, and all night. I even let it stay going after I went to bed. I just wanted to see what it would do. So, at 3:30PM, I had 31 percent battery. Guys, I swear I'm not making this up! When I woke up the next morning right at around 5:00AM, get a load a this! That battery was at 18% Literally It only went down about 13%, and that was over 14 hours roughly, of constant internet audio streaming. I couldn't freaking believe it! Suffice it to say, yeah, the Pro's are a bit pricy, and yeah, they may be monster honkers as far as their physical dementional size, but I'm telling you now: oh, my, Gawod! are they worth every penny! So, if you get an oppertunity either to get one, or at least to see/play with one of your friend/relative;'s, or in a store, do it! I'm so! not kidding you! Do it! You'll be blown away! Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
