iPad 3 on its way???

iPad 3 could already be winging toward an airport near you

February 27, 2012 7:58 AM PST 

A shipping document revealed on a Chinese Web site apparently points to iPad 3 units leaving China for U.S. airports.

Is the next iPad already bound for the U.S.?

(Credit: Apple)

The iPad 3 could already be jetting its way to the United States.

The shipping document revealed by Chinese forum site WeiPhone (English translation) allegedly details iPad 3 units hopping on board flights from China yesterday bound for airports in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.

As translated by 9to5Mac, the report shows that initial deliveries from Apple supplier Foxconn to the U.S. will begin March 9. To no surprise, the shipments are said to be under tight security.

"In order to prevent the cargo from being dragged on the airport ramp for too long, as well as shortening the time the cargo stay on the airport ramp, we hereby require XXXX to schedule all the XXX cargo planes from Feb. 26 to Mar. 9. to XXX slot," according to a translation of the shipping document offered by a Chinese-speaking 9to5Mac reader.

But if true, it would mean the iPad 3 is likely to debut in March but not in early March as previous reports had suggested.As always, such information is to be taken with a heaping dollop of salt.

March 9 has been rumored by some sources as the date that Apple might launch its latest tablet. But if the initial shipments won't be delivered until that time, then we'd have to wait a bit longer for Apple's iPad 3 event.

Whenever the new tablet pops up, sources have told 9to5Mac that Apple could allow pre-orders. The company kicked off pre-orders for the first iPad but not for the iPad 2. The sources claim that pre-orders could start on March 7 or a few days later depending on available supplies.

The Beatles Yellow Submarine.....Read on

More than a year after the Beatles came to iTunes, Apple’s digital store remains the only place you can legally download the band’s music. And now, if you want some Beatles but don’t want to pay for it, Apple can help you there, too: The company is giving away a free Beatles e-book.
“Yellow Submarine” is just what it sounds like — an illustrated version of the band’s 1968 movie, which is both trippy and kid-friendly (so British!). The book was first published in 2004, but the new version features interactive goodies like song samples and bits from the animated movie.
It’s a bunch of fun and will work on both iPads and iPhones, but you’re really better off enjoying this one on the former.
If you wanted to be churlish, you could note that the free book also serves as a promotion for a compilation album based on songs featured in the book.
Less churlish: Worth noting, yet again, that a year-plus exclusive is unheard of in digital music. Apple says it has sold 10 million songs and 1.8 million albums during that time; still love to know what they paid for that privilege.

How many flops in Ipad2?

It Would Take 61 Million iPads 2s To Match The Power Of The World’s Best Supercomputer
HOW-MANY-FLOPS-IN-IPAD-2

The iPad 2 has some impres­sive mobile sil­i­con inside it. The A5 proces­sor is a dual-core affair with a 1GHZ clock speed, capa­ble of about 171 megaflops (or about 171 100 floating-point oper­a­tions per sec­ond).

Not bad, right? But how does the iPad 2 stack up against the most pow­er­ful com­put­er in the world, Fujit­su’s K Super Com­put­er?

Not too well, accord­ing to the guys at Royal Ping­dom. In fact, you would need about 61.5 mil­lion iPad 2s to match the 10 Bil­lion megaflops of the K Com­put­er.

That’s enough iPad 2s that if you stacked them on top of one anoth­er, the pile would be 540 kilo­me­ters high. That’s the equiv­a­lent of about 1,700 Eif­fel Tow­ers stacked end-to-end.

Well, sure. Fine. But can the K com­put­er run Infin­i­ty Blade 2? Thought not.