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In most tablets the extra space is filled with more battery, better cooling, bigger speakers, SD card slot, more ports… lots of possibilities. Here’s what the
by jwells89 3y ago
In most tablets the extra space is filled with more battery, better cooling, bigger speakers, SD card slot, more ports… lots of possibilities.
Here’s what the inside of a 2020 iPad Air (10.9”) looks like for example. Still a little empty space, but much more full.
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- kibwen 3y agoAnd an iPad Air costs between $600 and $800. If you want to hit a lower price point, it makes sense to just put less stuff inside. "The case isn't full" is not a metric that anyone should give a whit about, as long as the size of the case is determined by other factors (in this case, the dimensions of the screen).
- jwells89 3y agoAt lower price points I’d probably be looking for a smaller tablet where the battery is better matched with the screen size so battery life isn’t terrible.
- dahauns 3y agoThe OG IPad: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Image/meta/y5HAM4cflO64B3QH https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Image/meta/y5HAM4cflO64B3QH
- fortran77 3y agoBut it's Apple so it's perfect!
- jwells89 3y agoAnd that was in 2010, before they knew if the product category was going to work or not, which is a better use case for tossing mismatched off the shelf parts into a chassis. After tablets proved themselves a viable market, iPad parts became more custom-designed and closely fit together.
- hollerith 3y agoThe iPad's aluminum-alloy case probably conducts heat much better than the Pixel Tablet's plastic case. For all we know, the designers of the latter left voids around the components to improve thermal management.