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The more I think about it, the more the iPad makes sense as a device for me, but I'm going to need to add a few things to it. For instance, I'll need to get iWork and that camera SD card reader accessory too. The leather case will probably be necessary as well.

As a travel writer, I have used a netbook for certain trips to help cut weight and save space. This will probably allow me to sell off the netbook now, and use this instead, as it's light, small, does more, and will seemingly fit my needs as an e-book reader too.

While I'm not blown away by it, I think it's a solid device at a good price, and fits my needs pretty well.
 
kaizoku said:
people calling it a big iphone need to stop being so bloody ignorant!

text messaging, phone calls, camera, pocket size, always with you, always connected to the internet. the phone is and always will be your communications hub. especially now that it does email and instant messaging.

this is a big ipod touch with optional 3G and thats a massive difference in concept and lifestyle.
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So what you're saying is it's far less functional than the iPhone but costs twice as much for a bigger screen. I agree, people calling this an oversized iPhone are way off the mark. It isn't even that.
 
the strongest argument for me that can be made towards getting something like this instead of say, a netbook or ipod touch is manga support.

on lengthy flights or trips are you really going to carry stacks of manga that you want to get read? how many volumes of vagabond are you going to stick in your bag if you're flying to japan?

i was considering the kindle, but it's only got 2 gigs - which is really not enough space. if the iPad was announced closer to the kindle price, it would have been a no-brainer purchase for me but $500 at a minimum is perhaps too steep to just be a manga reader.

ugh i hope we see some windows based competitors that will be cheaper...
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
The best way to experience photos, the web, gaming, email, movies, music, twitter and facebook. Hands down.
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Right, but what if you want to do three of those things at one time?
 
Willy105 said:
It's Apple version of a netbook, except aimed at people who don't like them.
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Exactly!

The people here who are saying who is this for probably don't and never will own Mac shit. Also this is going to be amazing with iLife on it to edit word files on the road. I'll be in airports chilling with 10" in my hand..rather than the smaller iPhone

But you're right, it's a big iTouch..There have been many tmes I've needed a bigger iPhone and nw I have it.

The only SHITTY thing is the damn carry case..lmao it's HORRID!!

I think professionals will eat this up aka people with good income...
 
"There really is no better way to experience porn than to feel it in your hand."

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Charles said:
It's already on The Onion
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Wrong URL but

The Onion said:
CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
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:lol :lol :lol
 
Mecha_Infantry said:
Exactly!

The people here who are saying who is this for probably don't and never will own Mac shit. Also this is going to be amazing with iLife on it to edit word files on the road. I'll be in airports chilling with 10" in my hand..rather than the smaller iPhone

But you're right, it's a big iTouch..There have been many tmes I've needed a bigger iPhone and nw I have it.

The only SHITTY thing is the damn carry case..lmao it's HORRID!!

I think professionals will eat this up aka people with good income...
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You can get arrested for that mate! :lol
 
ToxicAdam said:
Right, but what if you want to do three of those things at one time?
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Multitasking is not super necessary. It's nice, but aside from music playing and chatting, if it handles apps like the iPhone, it will be good enough for most uses. That is, if it autosaves on exit, and is snappy like the iPhone (I assume even better), then you can zip in and out of apps easily.

What would be nice is a widget like interface for multiple apps, though.
 
I will wait till 2nd or 3rd gen because compared to a top line netbook this is glossy overpriced status symbol. Jack of some trades, but master of none.
 
There will be an OSX Tablet in time, this doesn't replace their laptops or their iTouch/iPhone markets. You guys are acting like you'd pay $1500 if it was a OSX tablet. This device starts at an extremely reasonable price point.
 
I was so hype for this

what a fail.

Its a huge iphone that doesnt have flash and no multi task :lol

Before it was announce people were joking its a huge iphone... Sadly it is.

I'll stick with my netbook + iphone combo
 
mrkgoo said:
This thing is awesome. It DOES have a mic. Doesn't have GPS, which is a bummer (future iterations!).
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The specs on the official site state it has assisted GPS. Isn't that what iPhones have?
 
Eh I understand where people are coming from but this is basically what I thought it would be and I like it for what it is.
Will be nice to have around the house. Show pictures, do some browsing, play some Peggle.

The no multitasking is a downer but not a deal breaker.
Bearing in mind I don't use a smartphone.
 
Well, it's exactly what I expected at my lowest expectation level. :| It's a large iPod touch/iPhone with iWork. Six SKUs... that's kinda nuts. I don't know that I'd get or that I'd even need the top SKU. I'll have to think about that. I want one, and none of them are over $1,000.

Of course, just like with the iPhone, it is going to get jumped on by everyone. It will be interesting to see what the reviews are like and what people think of this three days from now.
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
"There really is no better way to experience porn than to feel it in your hand."

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It just feels right to hold the porn in your hands, as you masturbate.

If you see something you just reach out and start jerking to it. It's completely natural. You don't even think about it, you just do!
 
espionage said:
the strongest argument for me that can be made towards getting something like this instead of say, a netbook or ipod touch is manga support.

on lengthy flights or trips are you really going to carry stacks of manga that you want to get read? how many volumes of vagabond are you going to stick in your bag if you're flying to japan?

i was considering the kindle, but it's only got 2 gigs - which is really not enough space. if the iPad was announced closer to the kindle price, it would have been a no-brainer purchase for me but $500 at a minimum is perhaps too steep to just be a manga reader.

ugh i hope we see some windows based competitors that will be cheaper...
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Price hasn't been announced, but there were a metric ton of 'slate' devices at CES, both windows and android based:

my personal fav,

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HP slate.

Runs FULL windows 7, with aero, supports multitouch and flash, and has actual connectivity.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Because most people can't see the value in an oversized, overpriced iPod Touch?
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Most people here. You left out the part about how most people hate computers (or at least when something goes wrong and they have to find someone to fix it for them.)

And as for browsing the web, watching video, reading books... the extra size clearly is a huge plus. I'm a hardcore computer guy. I love computers. But the world at large does not. They want something that's intuitive and doesn't show the engine. This is what the tablet market is after. It was crazy to expect anything more. They're trying to create a mainstream device.
 
shidoshi said:
My wife does everything on a MacBook. She could very easily switch to owning one of these instead of having a full notebook and be perfectly fine with everything she needs to do, and would probably feel far more comfortable with the less "techy" interface.

My mother would probably be the same way. I have no idea if this thing will take off or not, but seriously, I could see more casual computer users being far more attracted to something like this versus all of the intimidation that comes with a full-blown computer.

Edit: Okay, actually, for my wife this would need a video camera built-in for Skype. Beyond that, though, I'm not sure there is much that she does now that she couldn't do on this.
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What is intimidating about clicking on the Chrome or Firefox icon? They are going to spend most of their time in the browser.

Why not get your wife and mother a $279 netbook with a faster processor, 160+ GB HDD and integrated webcam?
 
and so it begins

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/apple-itablet-top-10-reasons-not-to-buy-one/19330378/

10 Reasons NOT to buy the iPad

1. The first version of any Apple product will be outdated soon. It's the First Commandment of Apple consumers: Thou shalt not buy the rookie products. "I'd like all the other 'beta testers' to work out the kinks first," one staffer here says. Sometimes, the launch is completely half-baked. Remember the iPhone's debut? Just months after it hit the market, the 4GB version was scuttled and the 8GB version's price dropped. Fact is, there will be a second tablet within months, and the price will inevitably drop. If you simply must have one, wait for it, because you'll be pretty annoyed when see how much it improves.

2. You don't need a giant thousand-dollar smartphone. You've got an iPhone. You've got a laptop. You just received a Kindle for Christmas. Why do you need a tablet? You're probably not sure. Unlike the iPod and the iPhone, this is a product without a clear need. Unless you deliver FedEx packages, you probably don't need a giant mobile touch-screen device. It won't replace your smartphone, which you carry around in your pocket, or your laptop, which needs a keyboard. Will you want to pay nearly $1,000 to carry around a tablet, along with your mobile phone, your work BlackBerry, your laptop, and your Kindle?

3. You're just going to break it, anyway. Picture yourself with your steaming coffee in one hand, your squirming toddler in the other -- and, somehow, your shiny new Apple tablet, playing Sarah Palin's Fox News clips you missed last night until -- gasp -- your precious Apple escapes and plummets to the floor, shattering into a million little pieces. In The Hunt For Red October, sub captain Marko Ramius observes: "Most things in here don't react well to bullets." Don't expect an Apple tablet to react well to almost anything in the world. Water, soda, food, kids, pets: you'll surely figure out a way to damage your new toy sooner or later.

4. Multifunction devices can do a lot -- just not well. Other than your couch, where might your tablet be more useful than what you're using now? Will you use your tablet instead of the PC at your office desk? Will you watch videos on it instead of your flat-screen monitor? Will you use it instead of your smartphone when you're out? No, no, and no.

5. Buy one, and you might as well wear a "Rob Me!" sign. Carrying a tablet around on public transit, on the street, or in a bar is a needless risk -- yet that's precisely where you're expected to use them. Cellphones stow invisibly in your pocket, and laptops fit innocuously into cases, but if you use the tablet as intended -- on the go -- you're just asking for someone to snatch it. Remember those iPod muggings, with those telltale, enticing white earbuds? Think about that whenever you're tempted to watch last night's Daily Show on the New York City subway.

6. The tablet never caught on -- and there's a reason for that. You do not need to buy a new gadget every time Steve Jobs tells you to. The iPod represented a major evolution over the Sony (SNE) Walkman, and the iPhone escalated the smartphone game. But the tablet seems driven by nothing more than desire. Just take a breath...put the tablet down...and back away...slowly.

7. No keyboard, no mouse, no dice. Typing (or "typing") on touchscreens is annoying. How many Tablet buyers will wind up connecting peripheral keyboards and mice? And then...well, what's the point? Besides, mobile devices are only as useful as their battery life. Unless the tablet has more than about six hours of power, it's going to wind up tethered to a wall. Just like your desktop.

8. Netbooks are cheaper. With a glut of netbooks on the market -- with keyboards! -- offering a full Web experience with significantly less sticker shock than the tablet, there's no reason to go there. If you've got the cash for a tablet, you'd be better off with a MacBook Air, a device with far more functionality packed into its three pounds.

9. Something better's coming. With advances in speech recognition, data input will be changing radically over the next few years. Perhaps more importantly, advances in mobile display technology suggest we'll eventually be projecting images and videos on blank walls, or even into space. Or we'll be wearing headsets that project tiny images of the screen into our eyes at close range. In any event, the tablet is an innovation that'll surely be obsolete within a few years.

10. Beware -- Apple also built the world's most infamous paperweight. One word: Newton.
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Mr. Dobalina said:
Nothing, just tired of such a vocal niche being pissed about something that never intended them as the audience :lol
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As far as I know, only 3 of us posted here talking about that, and we are on page 6 or 7 already, so we are not that vocal.
And either way, I can't understand why would you be pissed off because of something like that.
Honestly, if you wanna stay for a long time around here, you better watch out how you talk to other members. I'm not backseat-modding though, just giving you an advise.
 
Finally caught up after missing the fun cuz of my meeting. Wow, I guess I called it. Nobody knows what to do with a tablet and they expected Apple to know and it's clear that they don't. So I didn't get the hype, and I think this announcement proves why I didn't get the hype.

They started out great with what I was concerned with which was addressing filling the gap between an iPhone and a MacBook, but they failed to do it when they actually showed it because it doesn't.

People thinking this is better than a netbook are on crack or something. Hell, I can do photoshop on my netbook. I can type notes in class easily without dragging around an additional accessory in which I then somehow need to prop up the iPad which would be cumbersome in itself. I can multitask in even the simplist things like listening to Pandora while doing multitab browsing. I can use Flash. Heck, I can even tether my iPhone to my netbook through bluetooth and not pay another $30 for data. There's just so many things that I can do on a netbook that I can't on this device.

I was surprised at the keyboard dock and I'm pleasantly surprised you can use a bluetooth keyboard which I almost thought could be a replacement for a laptop for a college student, but then I realized there's no multitasking and that sorta kills it. It's certainly a plus and great for when you want to type up a document so it might be usable as a replacement for some.

The pricing started out great until it was 3G-less but it's still decent pricing in the end. I wonder if you can just pop out your iPhone sim card and use that for data. I'd be willing to pop out my sim whenever if it meant not paying another $30 for data. It's nice that there aren't any contracts though.

Other than that, it's a giant iPhone and I'm actually glad that it looks like it might be a big bust in the end because that gives time to eReaders to grow and mature. I was starting to get all worried when there was all this talk on major news publications how it was going to be the next big thing in eBooks but I think the Kindle and Nook are safe for the time being.

Looks like I wasn't grasping for straws or saying anything unreasonable afterall and there's still the concept of trying to figure out how a tablet fits into everyone's life and makes it so you don't need a laptop for a lot of situations. I think a netbook fits the small portability better even if the form factor isn't as pretty. I'll take functional over pretty any day.
 
Multitasking is likely an iPhone OS 4.0 trick. This is running iPhone OS 3.2. The iPhone conference, where they will show off the G4 iPhone and OS 4.0, is in about 2-3 months, which is when the iPad will ship.

On another note, just imagine jailbreaking this thing. :D
 
I own a iPhone and I dont see why anyone would get this over a iPhone.



Now I sit back and watch it sell millions
 
m0dus said:
Price hasn't been announced, but there were a metric ton of 'slate' devices at CES, both windows and android based:

my personal fav,

hp_slate_video_scrn_nyt_01.jpg
sideview_hp_slate.jpg


HP slate.

Runs FULL windows 7, with aero, supports multitouch and flash, and has actual connectivity.
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now thats what im talking about, WANT
 
Guys, of course there will be multitasking. It's in iPhone OS 4.0. They'll announce it with that, probably along with the iPhone 4G.
 
Karma said:
What is intimidating about clicking on the Chrome or Firefox icon? They are going to spend most of their time in the browser.

Why not get your wife and mother a $279 netbook with a faster processor, 160+ GB HDD and integrated webcam?
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You have obviously never dealt with people like he described. My mother-in-law is "deathly afraid" of computers to the point she won't even learn email to get pictures of her grand kids (asinine, I know).

I think with something like this, there is no chance of her "screwing up the computer" and she could just click on the email icon and see her email. Tap the screen to bring up a message.
 
Reading research papers on this thing will be great..... no mention of pdf reading support as of yet...


I like the hp slate. Wonder what the price is going to be.
 
Sage00 said:
Guys, of course there will be multitasking. It's in iPhone OS 4.0. They'll announce it with that, probably along with the iPhone 4G.
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Why would they wait though? It seems silly to not announce it with the unveiling.
 
MThanded said:
Reading research papers on this thing will be great..... no mention of pdf reading support as of yet...
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There'll be third party apps that will do it if it doesn't natively.
 
So some of iPhone app features will already be broken for 1st GEN iPad. For example. You cannot take a picture and load it up onto facebook on the facebook App. You cannot use Augmented Reality Apps on this thing.
 
Just finished reading all the info and news about the ipad and honestly i'm not really impressed. Nothing really new or innovative, basically everything people expected it to be, thought Apple would have something to really wow us but I guess not.

Anyways, its not really for me, but i'm sure there will be others out there who will really enjoy it.
 
hell, at the moment, I'm sporting a Viliv x70:

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It comes in many of the same flavors (with and without 3G, 16-64 Gb). by default it runs windows xp, however you can now throw windows 7 on it as well. it is NOT multitouch, however. it does have a front facing camera though :)
 
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