Apple's I-Pad lunch, whats your view.

[Mills]

Just wondering what everyone makes of this ipod on steroids. I watched a 3D racing sim game running on this thing and i just dont like the idea of tilting a 9in tablet for controlling the gameplay. Can you imagine playing a cave shump on this thing

[Elixir]

There's at least one gimmick from Apple a year, isn't there?

[DC906270]

it looks great, but not for playing games on (for reading). we need a colour full size e-book reader.

[frostbyte87]

I like the concept, as I think it would be a much more comfortable way to read online stuff like news and forums, but I'd never buy an iPad (not a big fan of Apple's business practices; too controlling). I'd rather wait for a Android-tablet (no doubt in my mind we'll see more than a few of those).

For reading books though, I still think that Kindle-like devices (e-ink, it is?) is the best, as I find reading on a screen a bit uncomfortable on the long run.

[Ex-Cyber]

I'm with frostbyte87: I love the concept, but I really don't need another $500 piece of hardware whose manufacturer gets to decide what software I'm allowed to run.

[Ride88]

iCade - iPad Arcade Cabinet



http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade ... el_iCade_1


it is a april fool as u can see , but i like it

[seiatsu]

Just FYI, there are already a handful of android based tablets.

[Smraedis]

iDon't care

[Ixmucane2]

Basically, a gigantic iPhone.
Why should one want it instead of a proper laptop or netbook with a keyboard, a pocket-size iPhone (duh) or an eBook reader? Unusable for serious work (no keyboard), too big to be easily portable, too heavy and complex to read eBooks, even too large for touchscreen based games like those on the iPhone.

[captpain]

iDon't care

[dcharlie]

See, i agree with everything until we hit this :

"too heavy and complex to read eBooks, even too large for touchscreen based games like those on the iPhone.

huh? i don't get how either of these are true. I have went from "want" to "not want" and back to "want"

I -know- i should just get a new laptop, but i'd porbably want to get a 11x, which would be double the price of a ipad. So.. um... well, i probably still won'T get an ipad but we shall see how it takes off.

Even as a book reader, i'd consider it just so i can carry all my technical manuals withouth giving myself a hernia.

[t0yrobo]

I'm totally uninterested. But I hope it drives the price of readers with e ink screens down.

[angrycoder]

I want one primarily as a PDF reader. I've had a kindle for 2 years and while its great for reading novels, it stinks for reading programming books and technical manuals.

[kengou]

I'm not interested, but it's a step in the right direction toward the ultimate goal of all mobile computing: the Star Trek PADD. We're not there yet, but it'll happen eventually.

[DC906270]

reading books on a laptop sucks. this is just what the world needs! i will get one, but ill wait until the price is right and any problems have been ironed out and a new model is released

Star Trek PADD

i had a toy that looked like that in the 80's. That is so not the future. And the last thing i need is a portable sonar scanner .

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm not interested, but it's a step in the right direction toward the ultimate goal of all mobile computing: the Star Trek PADD. We're not there yet, but it'll happen eventually.

The PADD is way behind the times ergonomically. It's basically a Star Trek themed Game Boy for chrissakes. All it has going for it is that it has as-yet uninvented sensor types. TOS tricorders are the shit though.

reading books on a laptop sucks. this is just what the world needs! i will get one, but ill wait until the price is right and any problems have been ironed out and a new model is released

Google is working on that as they're putting Flash in Chrome. Flash is a huge battery hog but still necessary at times. If you can toggle it, it'd be perfect.

[chempop]

iPad is quite an amazing thing for someone like me who needs a digital portfolio that can quickly display data to small groups of students or clients. A laptop would not work so well in the situations where I need to truly maximize my time with someone, taking out a laptop, booting up a slideshow or video is going to be cumbersome to say the least - where as with the iPad is will feel very natural and efficient. If the iPad only stored and displayed my videos, photos, and other files I'd still buy one, but alas - it also does just about everything else I do on my CPU relatively well (with the keyboard dock).

For $599 I feel like I'm robbing Apple, and remember folks, at launch it is only running a beefed up version of the iPhoneOS - give it some time, eventually it will have a totally new OS that maximized what this thing is capable of. I think it will change the way we look at computers, just as iPod changed portable music and cellphones.

[Jockel]

iPad lunch? OMNOMNOM!

[Ed Oscuro]

Okay, I wrote some long- and stupid-ass comment over at ComputerWorld:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... onomyId=75

I know that people don't usually need a Microsoft Surface product to interface with their home PC, but they will appreciate being able to use the same USB hardware (for example) they already have (or which is lying around their workplace). I also think that the call for an "entirely new" OS is stupid. Windows 7 is modular; stuff that won't work on a touchscreen or which drains the battery (the indexing service is one I'd bet) can be stripped out but there's no reason not to keep the possibility of backwards compatibility when it's already able to connect to the Internet and (hopefully) Windows Update. If the few gigabytes of storage that Windows 7 takes up is too much for a person's portable computer, they had better consider getting a real hard drive or rethink what they're doing with their computer and what OS is on it.

[Ex-Cyber]

remember folks, at launch it is only running a beefed up version of the iPhoneOS - give it some time, eventually it will have a totally new OS that maximized what this thing is capable of

There's no need for a "totally new OS"; iPhone OS is already more or less an embedded ARM port of Mac OS X. If a feature is missing, the most likely explanation is that Apple deliberately decided to exclude it.

[chempop]

True, apple does like to milk functions to a certain degree. I guess what I meant was that I suspect that iPad will eventually be capable of much more than what the launch model includes, obviously. But people who dog it for being an oversized iPod touch are totally blind to it's potential and simple fact that apple would not have released this if they weren't certain of a future where tablets are commonplace in businesses, schools, and entertainment/recreation.

Mine should be arriving tomorrow and I look forward to how it can assist me as a teacher and artist.

[orange]

people who dog it for being an oversized iPod touch are totally blind to it's potential

how could i be so blind

[chempop]

how could i be so blind

Too much bullet hell causes blindness? Honestly though, I was a iPod hater when they first arrived nearly ten years ago, $500 was absurd in my eyes and I put my money behind minidisc due to it's live recording features and because I loved accumulating a shelf full of discs... which are now sadly all boxed away

I think the same applies to the iPad - it might not be the end all godsend at launch, but I do believe products like it could indeed have the same influence that the iPod has had over the years. And iPod wasn't even the first mp3 player, but it was the arguably the best. The same applies to the iPad which is the most likely going to the best best tablet on the market. I think a lot of people who would never consider needing a laptop are going to eventually realize that this is the perfect thing to tote around, whether it's to occupy their kids on vacation, as a business tool for meetings and conferences, or to kick around the living room so they don't have to constantly tend to their desktop to receive emails, check ebay auctions, play music or watch videos.

I know I'm so accustomed and comfortable using a mouse and keyboard, but I think in the future voice and touch will heavily replace them, iPad is a step in the right direction, now only if people were okay with talking to their computer...

[nimitz]

For $599 I feel like I'm robbing Apple

[chempop]

haha, it was a ridiculous statement, I'll give you that. But it's about the same price as an iPhone! (when you buy one without a contract)...
I was expecting them to be in the $1000 range.
anyway, I'm done on this subject.

[nimitz]

I bought an ipod touch for 250$ (CAD) 2 years ago...still does everything I care about that an iphone can do.

600$ is just insane, you can get a great 10 inch laptop for 400$.

[DC906270]

you can get a great 10 inch laptop for 400$

yes, but it sucks for reading

[dmauro]

haha, it was a ridiculous statement, I'll give you that. But it's about the same price as an iPhone! (when you buy one without a contract)...
I was expecting them to be in the $1000 range.
anyway, I'm done on this subject.

o_0

But it's just a gimped netbook + Apple sheen. Oh wait, you're right, their computers always cost twice what they're worth.

p.s.
wrong subforum

[chempop]

it cost is less than two of these

http://usa.hermes.com/webapp/wcs/stores ... oryDisplay

[dmauro]

From now on I'll be thinking of my rent in terms of Hermes Boxers in light pink cotton poplin.