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Re:Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 di... by wcarey on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @02:16PM (#4689386)
I suspect the driver for the new full-size iPad is the lightning connector. Now all of the iOS devices (except the iPad 2?) use it.
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Re:Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 di... by JoelSutherland on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @02:25PM (#4689465)
Additionally the A5x was a really expensive chip to produce. It didn't have the graphics power to drive the retina screen so they just threw silicon at it. It had twice the die size as the Tegra 3:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5685/apple-a5x-die-size-measur...

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Re:Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 di... by nicholassmith on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @02:33PM (#4689537)
My money is on them shipping it pretty much for the Lightning connector and beefing the specs up to at least make it look like an upgrade.
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Re:Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 di... by nchlswu on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @02:21PM (#4689419)
that's my guess as well.

I'm not sure how it aligns with previous launches, but I imagined they were going to discontinue the 2 as well.

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