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The Apple iPad is here, and if ever there was a contentious gadget, this is it.

The iPad itself takes the design concept of a slate and boils it down to pretty much the bare minimum. Measuring 9.56 x 7.47 x 0.50 inches and tipping the scales at 1.5 pounds, the front is basically all glass and the back all brushed aluminum. Apple has always been for paring down ports and hardware controls, but the iPad is perhaps a new extreme. Up top there’s a 3.5mm headphones jack, a discrete microphone hold and the power/lock button, while the volume rocker and a switch to freeze automatic screen rotation are on the right edge. The small speaker and standard 30-pin proprietary Dock Connector are underneath, while an ambient light sensor lurks almost invisible under the glass fascia.

1-inch black bezel surrounding the 9.7-inch, 1,024 x 768 capacitive touchscreen, with plenty of questions as to why Apple didn’t opt for an edge-to-edge display. The answer – as any slate-format tablet user has been saying, and as becomes plainly clear once you actually have the iPad in your hands – is that it gives you a place to actually grab and hold the iPad, without your fingers accidentally touching the edge of the screen.

Early benchmarks from the device show that the iPad is about twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS when running native applications. The speed up appears to be entirely focused within Apple’s A4 processor, as it appears the iPad shares the same PowerVR SGX 535 GPU and same 256MB RAM found in the iPhone 3GS. Early hardware teardown reports had claimed 512MB of RAM but these have later been corrected. 256MB of RAM also corresponds to the available RAM the system reports to apps.

iPad Pros and Cons

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Apple iPad Technical Specifications

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