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Apple iPad 3 packs LAPTOP battery

12,000mAh power pack, anyone?

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The iPad 3 contains an 11,560mAh battery, the first take-apart of the third-generation Apple tablet has revealed.

Indeed, the new gagdet is packed with power storage behind its - Samsung-made, seemingly - 2048 x 1536 "retina display".

iFixit iPad 3 take-apart

Source: iFixit.com

The autopsy, conducted by iFixit, shows a mere sliver of a motherboard up above the monster battery.

That mAh rating amounts to 43Wh - almost double the 25Wh battery capacity built into the iPad 2, and bigger than the 35Wh battery used in the latest 11in MacBook Air notebook computer.

iFixit iPad 3 take-apart

Source: iFixit.com

Yet the iPad 3 runs for only as long as its predecessor, a fact that shows just how much juice the LTE 4G radio and that big screen can swallow. ®

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Anonymous Coward

and yet

Only a few grams heavier.

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I'd rather

have the bigger battery in the older model, I think.

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Overnight charge only?

Does this mean a longer full recharge cycle time compared with the '2'?

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