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While we put our new iPad through our in-depth testing process, some shorter early reviews are trickling onto the web. Here are the early verdicts.

AllThingsD

Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD says: “Since it launched in 2010, the iPad has been the best tablet on the planet. With the new, third-generation model, it still holds that crown.”

MacWorld

MacWorld highlights the new iPad’s excellent retina display noting “it’s a big leap in quality” compared to the iPad 2. Its only when you sit the new iPad next to the iPad 2 when you really see the difference, with icons and text being razor-sharp.

MacWorld gives the new iPad 4.5/5 and while acknowledging that the retina screen and extra power boost is welcome, the extra size and weight means iPad 2 users shouldn’t need to worry to much, as long as they don’t spend to long looking at that screen.

SlashGear

SlashGear says “Steve Jobs would have approved of the new iPad”, and notes the improved battery on the third generation of Apple’s tablet will easily last two days between charges.

As others have noted, the omission of Apple’s personal digital assistant Siri is a disappointment, with the half-way house addition of the voice dictation function not reaching the same heights.

Tech Crunch

“Once you see and use the new iPad, there will be no going back” says Tech Crunch, who points out that if you go from the new iPad back to the iPad 2, the “screens look blurry”.

Tech Crunch was also impressed with the new iPad’s lightening quick 4G LTE connectivity, clocking download speeds at over 40Mbps – 40x faster than 3G.

It ends on the simple note: “If you don’t yet have an iPad, get the new iPad.”

The Verge

The Verge says: “While the updated features are a boon to the new iPad, it doesn’t offer an experience that is significantly different from the previous version. If your screen never bothered you, and you never wanted a faster cellular connection or a better camera, there’s not a great argument to upgrade.”

“However, if you’re in the market for your first tablet, or upgrading from the original iPad or an Android device, do not hesitate. The new iPad is the most functional, usable, and beautiful tablet that any company has ever produced.”

Make sure you keep an eye out for our in-depth new iPad review which will be popping up on the site soon.

So the confusingly-named new iPad has been announced.

But how does it differ from the iPad 2 – which, coincidentally, will still be available to buy and – better still – has fallen in price.

The two devices are pretty similar in many ways, so we thought we’d do a straight-down-the-line comparison of the raw specs to see what’s been enhanced for the new iPad.

• New iPad: everything you need to know

It’s time for a new iPad vs iPad 2 face-off. Or screen-off, as it turns out…

New iPad vs iPad 2: Processor

The original iPad introduced the spoils of Apple’s 2008 acquisition of semiconductor company P.A. Semi. The Apple A4 was an ARM Cortex-A8-based core clocked at 1GHz. The iPad 2 introduced the A5, a dual-core chip based on the new ARM Cortex-A9 design. The A5 is clocked at 1 GHz. We don’t yet know what the new iPad’s A5X is clocked at, but it remains a dual-core chip.

New iPad vs iPad 2: Graphics

What the A5X does have is better graphics capability – with Apple saying the new processor has quad-core graphics. Like the iPhone 4, the iPad and iPad 2 both had an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX-based graphics chip and we expect the new iPad is the same.

Apple reckons the new graphics are “twice as fast” as Nvidia’s Tegra 3, and offers four time the graphics performance of Nvidia’s chip. We’re not sure Nvidia will let Apple get away with that one – and we’re not even sure it can be true – Tegra 3′s performance is stunning and the Tegra 3 GPU has 12 GeForce graphics cores…

New iPad vs iPad 2: Memory

Like the original iPad and iPad 2, the new iPad comes loaded with 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of what is presumably still Toshiba-manufactured flash storage. iPad 2 packed 512MB of memory, but we don’t yet have details on the new iPad, though we reckon it has to be 1GB.

New iPad vs iPad 2: Display

The screen is where the big change has happened. The iPad 2 inherited the 1024 x 768 LED-backlit display from the original iPad. The new iPad ups this significantly, with a 2048 x 1536 resolution display that has 264 pixels per inch – the pixels themselves are indistinguishable, just as on the iPhone 4 and 4S. Both are 9.7-inch displays and have a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating.

New iPad vs iPad 2: Communications

The new iPad ups the ante on the iPad 2 by introducing 4G LTE connectivity alongside the Wi-Fi capability.

As you’d expect, both have Assisted GPS and digital compass alongside the accelerometer found in all iOS devices and the three-axis gyroscope.

The new iPad also has separate US models for both the AT&T and Verizon networks, while there’s also 21Mbps HSPA+, DC-HSDPA offering 42Mbps. LTE clocks in at 73Mbps. You can also use the new iPad as a Personal Hotspot via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB.

You also get Bluetooth 4.0 on the new iPad instead of Bluetooth 2.1.

New iPad vs iPad 2: camera

Both models have the same VGA front-facing camera, but round the back the new iSight camera (Tim Cook obviously likes that name) beefs things up to 5 megapixels. There’s 1080p video recording instead of 720p and video stabilisation to boot.

New iPad vs iPad 2: Size and weight

Unlike the change between the original iPad and iPad 2 when the thickness dropped down to 8.8mm from 13.4mm, there’s no such change this time – in fact thickness is slightly more at 9.4mm.

iPad 2

Height: 241.2 mm
Width: 185.7 mm
Depth: 8.8 mm
Weight: 601g for Wi-Fi model, 613g for the Wi-Fi and 3G model

New iPad

Height: 241.2 mm
Width: 185.7 mm
Depth: 9.4 mm
Weight: 601g for Wi-Fi model, 622g for the Wi-Fi and 4G model

New iPad vs iPad 2: Battery life

Both offer up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video or listening to music while there’s also a month of promised standby time. If you’re using the new iPad on 4G, this drops to 9 hours. There’s now a 42.5-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery in the new model.

New iPad vs iPad 2: Pricing

The iPad 2 is now available in a 16GB version for $399 (Wi-Fi) and $529 (Wi-Fi+3G). iPad 2 will be £329 or £429 in the UK.

As for the new iPad, for Wi-Fi + 4G, it’s $629, $729 and $829 respectively, or £499, £579 and £659 – though the faster data will be of limited use in the UK of course.

For the Wi-Fi only it’s 16GB for $499, 32GB for $599 and 64GB for $699. That’s £399, £479 and £559 in the UK.

The new MacBook Pro 2011 notebooks are out and as usual there are a lot of people out there getting all sweaty and excited, us included.

Sporting Intel’s flashy new Thunderbolt I/O tech and Sandy Bridge Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, they represent the first in a new generation of inter-compatible super-speedy devices.

We trundled over to Apple HQ in London to pick up our review units this afternoon – the Apple PR machine likes to do things differently to other firms, and prefers journalists to go and pick up samples rather than sending them out by courier.

While we’re there we are typically treated to a well-rehearsed presentation and seminar to make sure everyone is clued up on all the new features and therefore not liable to spout out a load of nonsense once it comes to review time.

The full fat TechRadar review is incoming next week once we’ve had time to test the review samples properly, but until then here is what we know so far. Read the full story