Meet Apple's 'new' 4th gen iPad with 128 GB storage

Just as the rumours foretold, Apple has launched a 128 GB version of the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display.

The larger capacity iPad comes in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular versions, and will be available from 5 February from Apple retail, Apple online and Apple authorised resellers in black and white colours.

The Wi-Fi model has been priced at $799, while the Wi-Fi plus LTE model would cost a whopping $929 — that’s nearly as expensive as the base model MacBook Air.

Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said in an Apple press release, “With more than 120 million iPads sold, it’s clear that customers around the world love their iPads, and everyday they are finding more great reasons to work, learn and play on their iPads rather than their old PCs.”

The new iPad model doesn’t launch with any other new features, but will — of course — utilise Apple’s new iOS 6.1 software.

“With twice the storage capacity and an unparalleled selection of over 300,000 native iPad apps, enterprises, educators and artists have even more reasons to use iPad for all their business and personal needs,” Schiller added.

Apple unveiled the 4th-generation iPad alongside the iPad mini at a special event held in San Jose, California in October last year.

The 4th generation iPad has a dual-core A6 processor with a dedicated quad-core for graphics.  The screen resolution was the same with Retina Display quality with 2048×1536 pixel screen resolution at 264 pixels per inch.

In short the only thing that was different is the processor and the Lightning conductor. This one started at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi only version and the Wi-Fi + Cellular version started at $629 for the 16GB version.

Read the press release here.