iPad 3 - hot new

In a recent topic, " War is war, and lunch is on schedule. On the iPad 3, the display from Samsung, " the bazzilic user noted that the new iPad is getting hotter . In the comments, various assumptions about the heating were made, most agreed on the idea that just the store visitors are more interested in the new product.

Gradually, the novelty finds more and more owners, and the number of complaints about heating is becoming more.

Employees of ConsumerReports.org decided to check the subjective ratings of users, and find out whether the new iPad is really warming up, and if so, how much.

Testing

To test the iPad 3 connected to the charge, and launched on it the game Infinity Blade II for 45 minutes. During the test, LTE connection was disabled, Wi-Fi - enabled. The room temperature was 22 ° C. Testing was also conducted without charging, and similar tests were conducted on iPad 2.
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The temperature was fixed with a thermal imager, where temperatures are also visible, and which parts of the tablet are heated more than others.


After 45 minutes of play with the battery, the iPad 3 warmed up to 45 ° C, and the iPad 2 showed 37.8 ° C.
When both tablets were connected to charging, the temperature reached 46.7 ° C for the novelty, and for iPad 2 - 39.4 ° C. Thus, the temperature increased by 7.3 degrees compared with the old model.

Yes, 47 degrees is not enough to get burned, but still, holding a device with such a temperature in your hands for a long time is not very comfortable. And with an increase in room temperature - the temperature of the devices will also be higher.


For clarity, made the schedule for the zero mark chosen room temperature. Thus, the graph shows the heating of the devices relative to the environment.

It was also noted that during the game with the charging connected, the iPad 3 still continued to discharge the battery. So that apparently the power of the charger is not enough to cover all the energy costs of the new product during the game.