32G vs. 64G iPad

Thirty five books occupy a miniscule amount of mamory - they're just text. 3000 pictures depend on where they came from and what their resolution is. 1200 songs not a big deal. If you have all this data somewhere you should be able to see the size of it all for yourself.

If you're sitting wth 14 gb of data now, you should be fine with the 32gb. On the other hand, its always a good idea to go with as much storage capacity asnyounfeel like you can afford.

People seem to be focusing on the size creep in apps, however, this is likely to be functionality driven more than due to the display for most apps. The real driver that I have found wrt storage space is videos. Now with the new display it is likely that people will move more to HD videos from iTunes, etc.. and this will be what drives the increase in storage required.

If your photos are compressed JPEGs then what you'll have to think about is how many videos you want to carry. There is also the possibility that with the new screen resolution that people start to store pictures at higher resolutions also which might drive storage.

Either way HD is a canny move by Apple as it will ultimately drive revenue growth through iTunes ;-)

Seconded. 14GB of data into a 16GB (Which doesn't have 16GB actually available - it need to hold the OS and other considerations)) device leaves just about zero headroom. You need 32GB.

a1000 wrote:

Either way HD is a canny move by Apple as it will ultimately drive revenue growth through iTunes ;-)

Just one or two of us remember TV sets with 9 inch screens, sold for normal domestic use in the 1950s, as my father bought to watch the coronation of our young Queen Elizabeth II. All larger TVs since have been canny moves to ultimately drive revenue growth. Don't want a bigger screen? Ah - you need HD. Got HD? Ah - you need 3D.

You'll get used to this world as you get older. 😁

I'm holding out for Smell-o-vision.

:)

Save your money on the cost of 4G and get the Wi-Fi only 64 GB. My iPad 2 is 64 GB and when I loaded it with games, movies, photos, books, magazines and newspapers for a trip last DEC it was pushing 45 GB. And my music was not even loaded on the iPad. I use my iPhone 4S for my currently 9.7 GB of music.

4G may be super fast, but until the telecomms come to sensible pricing for data accounts, you can use a total month's data plan in less than a day using 4G on a new iPad 2+.

Ah but since they increased the licence fee in UK for colour they've missed a trick compared to Apple and not increased it for digital or HD or 3D, they've let the pay-per-view/cable providers make the extra money! With the 1G iPad apps were free or 99c/59p with 2G iPad the average price has slowly risen and you can guess which way they'll go fo the 'new iPad'. Good luck to them I say it's all part of the business model.

De nada amiga.

Thank You for extending the courtesy of awarding points to comments that are helpful or provide answers in the Apple Support Communities, as this is not mandatory, but it is much appreciated!

When I am in the US I have been using a T-Mobile prepaid microSIM in my iPhone 4S, which worked out great for communications and OK for data for my iPad 2 with the Personal Hotspot. The T-M prepaid plan that I use is US$2 a day with unlimited calls, texting and data. Unfortunately, until T-M reallocates spectrum for the +1 million iPhone users on T-M, the data is EDGE (2G) which is slow. The $2 is only charged on days that I actually use the service, so in between visits to the US my account lies dormant as long as nothing happens to activate the daily charge.

That helped a lot. Don't need the cellular plan, but wondered if I needed more gigs in case my teen used the video capabilities for editing. I opted for 3rd gen 64 gigs since it wasn't significantly more money in the refurb store. 🙂

Are you aware that Apple introduced an iPad 4 yesterday with a faster processor and a better camera?

Yes - but we're on a budget and the gift is a surprise for a teen. We'd considered getting the 16 gig refurb which was in my splurge budget, but noting the above, and the fact that the 64 3rd gen with retina shaved $150 off the cost of the 4th gens, we're still ahead. Plus - we just upgraded her to a Canon digital outfit and lenses so the improved camera on the iPad 4 was less of an issue than giving her some capacity to do adhoc stuff on campus in the event she has the iPad and not the camera on her.

We upgrade every few years so when she's ready, we'll swap out for something faster. Have another kid waiting for an upgrade. We can give her the old 1st gen as a hand-me-down for reading her college texts (she doesn't do video - just basic stuff) and upgrade to something faster for ourselves next spring.

You've been a big help by the way. Thank you!

I understand. I just wanted to be sure that you knew the 4 was announced. So many entitled folks are madder than heck Apple released a new product and they just bought the 3 barely 4 months ago! 😀