iPad 2 is geting announced on the 2nd of March. It seems like the rumor mill is pretty sure that iPad will gain the new dual core A5 processor, but only 512 MB of RAM. Now thats too low a number, IMHO. Other specs (screen res, battery, etc) are also slated (pun intended) to stay the same. Maybe a thinner profile… resulting from what improvement, only god knows.
If this is true, then maybe John Grubber was right about an ipad 3, to come in september, along with the ipods. This will not be a mid-cycle refresh, like the ipad 2 will be, but a whole new generation. The RAM would have to go up. Other tablets launching soon (BB Playbook. Moto XOOM, HP touchpad) all have 1GB. Therefore, this is a number thats ripe to be incorporated into the specs of the next gen ipad. But they can’t wait too long to do it…
we shall see next week…
