We have heard many times since the next generation, who will take the design and some technologies more than iPad mini, will surprise us with a weight or with a thickness significantly lower than the current one. But what difference would we be talking about exactly? According to one of the best-regarded analysts, the difference in weight between the current iPad 4 and the future iPad 5 It will be nothing more and nothing less than a 25%. The modifications that will be made on the device and that will allow this important lightening of the tablet, in addition, would leave us other important advantages, such as a significant reduction in loading time.
Although the question of when the iPad 5 is still as controversial as ever, some characteristics of the new generation of tablets Apple are becoming clearer.
If on the one hand today we have found the news that a fire in the factory of the main supplier of screens currently in Cupertino makes the delay of its launch, even though they had recently seen each other pictures of its casing and this seemed to indicate that the presentation would take place sooner rather than later, on the other hand we continue to receive information that confirms the prediction about the iPad 5 that for the moment we can consider more reliable: that it will inherit the design of the iPad mini and with the modifications that will be introduced it will be lighter and thinner.
The news comes in this case from Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the most respected analysts and with a better track record of predictions regarding the new products of Apple it means. According to his estimates, indeed, the iPad 5 will be considerably lighter than the iPad 4 and dares to give us some figures, placing its weight around 500 grams, that is, approximately one 25% less than the current generation. The weight reduction, according to these data, would be important, placing it well below some of its major competitors, such as Galaxy Note 10.1 or Nexus 10 (Both of 600 grams) and catching up with what is currently probably the lightest 10-inch tablet, the Tablet Xperia Z. It would not reach it, however, as far as thickness, since even though it would be a 15% lighter, this would be about 8 mm, compared to less than 7 mm tablet Sony.
A third improvement that Ming-Chi Kuo expects from iPad 5 refers to the time it would take to charge the battery and would be largely derived from the changes made to reduce their thickness and weight, since one of the modifications that is foreseen is the use of a battery smaller, about 9000 mAh, compared to those of approximately 11000 mAh they use now. This would not mean, however, that Apple were to renounce the enormous autonomy that characterizes their tablets, since both the incorporation of IGZO screens like the new A7X processor they should contribute to a much more efficient power consumption.
Source: MacRumors.