If it's a 3rd party the pad won't let you multitask. Which would be a pain.
If it is the same OS as the iPhone then jailbreaking will not be far away i imagine, and then its multi-tasking fun ahoy! Like i have on my iphone.
Battery life?
plumber ..... up to 10 hours
For all the Flash lovers, I hate to be the bringer of bad news but in 5 years Flash will be pretty much gone.
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Agree with the sentiment, but "ugly" is rarely a good description of Apple devices.
Normally I would agree but i think the pad hasn't been particularly well thought out on any front. And I'm not an Apple hater by any stretch of the imagination - if anything I just expect better from them.
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Someone copyrighted that pic? 🙄
Anyways, it is good to see MS Paint still being used.
There seems to be a consensus that multitasking will arrive (for both iPhones and iPads) with the 4.0 release of the iPhone OS, probably around the time the iPad arrives.
Be interesting to see what the UK pricing is, £499 at $1:£1 or roughly £299 at $1:£0.62, it's a big difference.
[url= https://www.krcs.co.uk/shop/product/details/apple-ipad-16gb-with-wi-fi ]KRCS[/url] has got some estimated prices on their site for iPad pre-orders.
enduro-aid - Memberplumber ..... up to 10 hours
Providing you don't touch the thing, otherwise it'll be 3 or 4max. 
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Ah so in 5 years time the iPad will be more practical, that's good to hear.[/i]
Well, I was actually being conservative - I think TBH it'll be less, with most of the major websites that people actually use a lot dropping it well before that. Good riddance too, the HTML5/h.264 combo is a much better way to deliver video anyway and i for one won't miss the CPU load of badly-written Flash apps.
Heathen, I think it could be great, but I'll reserve judgement until I've actually seen one: as is said [url= http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/ ]here[/url], it seems you really need to use one to get the full picture. It certainly has a lot of potential for the academic market and for education in general, as well as a general-purpose surf/entertainment device. Also, I think we'll see some interesting applications coming out between now and launch. Time will tell.
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Stephen Fry quite likes it.
Well that's as good a reason as any I've heard not to get one.
Stephen fry like bumsex with men.
i think i would rather have an ipad
Every single excuse not to have one that's been put forward are just spurious. Battery life exceeds most laptops, I don't know a single person with a laptop who has it sitting in the middle of the livingroom just in case they might want to brows the net or google something. I can read books perfectly well on my phone for several hours, and sometimes a whole working day when it's a quiet period with no problems at all. It's black text on a white background, just like paper, and I can read it in a dimly lit room as well. I've looked at ebook readers, and I see no advantages at all, nothing could induce me to buy one, and they can't even reproduce colour, so useless for magazine or newspaper reading, and they cannot reproduce a convincing mono halftone image either. Waste of money. Just being able to see much larger areas of OS map on screen than I can on the phone will be a big advantage, then I can take a screengrab and print straight to my printer for a hardcopy. I can't do that with my laptop; nobody does a Mac OS X OS mapping app. My laptop spends most of its life under the tv, 'cos it's a pain having to wait while it boots up, and I have to keep it plugged in 'cos the battery will only give about two hours runtime now, and it also has an external drive attached too.
And no, I've no available space for a desktop machine that can be left permanently switched on, even my Epson printer is wifi and sits on the a/v stand under the tv along with the SkyHD and the DVD.
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I don't know a single person with a laptop who has it sitting in the middle of the livingroom just in case they might want to brows the net
Hello. Now you do.
Netbook permanently resides by the couch for surfing. (tho I do use the iPhone most of the time as I prefer the form factor)
Every single excuse not to have one that's been put forward are just spurious
Lol, I didn't realise it was going to be compulsory
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Every single excuse not to have one that's been put forward are just spurious. Battery life exceeds most laptops, I don't know a single person with a laptop who has it sitting in the middle of the livingroom just in case they might want to brows the net or google something. I can read books perfectly well on my phone for several hours, and sometimes a whole working day when it's a quiet period with no problems at all. It's black text on a white background, just like paper, and I can read it in a dimly lit room as well. I've looked at ebook readers, and I see no advantages at all, nothing could induce me to buy one, and they can't even reproduce colour, so useless for magazine or newspaper reading, and they cannot reproduce a convincing mono halftone image either. Waste of money. Just being able to see much larger areas of OS map on screen than I can on the phone will be a big advantage, then I can take a screengrab and print straight to my printer for a hardcopy. I can't do that with my laptop; nobody does a Mac OS X OS mapping app. My laptop spends most of its life under the tv, 'cos it's a pain having to wait while it boots up, and I have to keep it plugged in 'cos the battery will only give about two hours runtime now, and it also has an external drive attached too.
And no, I've no available space for a desktop machine that can be left permanently switched on, even my Epson printer is wifi and sits on the a/v stand under the tv along with the SkyHD and the DVD.
*note to self: tell Count Zero about bullet points*
has anyone mentioned the enhanced likelihood of the screen being ****ted by way of it being unprotected in numerous man bags and on Philippe Stark coffee tables?
i'd rather spend about £280 on a hackintoshed mini dell with a 120gig drive and full OS
I don't know a single person with a laptop who has it sitting in the middle of the livingroom just in case they might want to brows the net or google something.
Now you know two. Can also download my HRM sitting in front of the TV, or do a variety of other things you won't be able to do on an iPad (including very basic stuff like sitting it on my lap and typing whilst looking at the screen without giving myself back problems!)
I can't do that with my laptop; nobody does a Mac OS X OS mapping app.
So your problem is actually being an Apple FanBoi rather than something inherently lacking in a Laptop. Though you can apparently get software to make your Mac look like a proper computer and so run these mapping apps.
*note to self: tell Count Zero about bullet points*
He must rely on an app for that
He must rely on an app for that
Wow. That joke just never gets old does it?
Wow. That joke just never gets old does it?
Which is weird, as you would think it would get old REALLY fast. It just doesn't though. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
no usb, no drag and drop, makes it a toy.
no usb
no surprise there really. Apple devices work well because they are a closed system. A USB port means you can attach anything from a [url= http://www.everythingusb.com/usb_airsoft_turret.html ]USB AirSoft Turret[/url] to a [url= http://www.everythingusb.com/solidalliance_ghostradar_usb_memory.html ]USB Ghost Detector[/url].
So USB means either Driver Hell or folk complaining that their [url= http://www.pointlessbutcool.com/gadgets/usb_fondue_set ]USB Fondue Set[/url] doesn't work on the iPad 🙂
no drag and drop
Eh? What do you mean?
There's no reason you can't do drag-and-drop on a touch screen, in fact it is arguably more intuitive.
no usb, no drag and drop, makes it a toy.
Using logmein on my iphone i can drag and drop when connected to my macbook. So i can assure you that it is easy to do on a touchscreen. It is just a double tap and keep your finger held down on the second tap and move it where you want.
Friggin' double post.
I'm can't wait for the new i-wheel...apparantly it's the next big thing and will somehow provide a means of transporting goods on a sleigh even when theres no snow!! Insiders say the i-wheel will be designed to simply attach to an existing sleigh and can be "rolled" to provide forward and backwards motion!!!!
Early prototypes can't change directionlike a conventional sleigh but the boffins at Apple are working on a "steering" mechanism, whatever that is !!!
You gotta hand it to these guys they are ace 😆 🙄 ffs
Using logmein on my iphone i can drag and drop when connected to my macbook.
so you need a laptop with you to export files easily?
its not what i was hoping for
WTF are you on about bigrich?
What does "drag-and-drop" mean to you? [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-and-drop ]To me it means a user interface interactions where you can drag interface elements around and drop them on other elements.[/url]
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No?
What does that have to do with exporting files?? Exporting files to where?
Can't believe this thread has run to 6 pages already! If you don't like them, don't buy one. Sheesh.
Maybe this thread should be preserved somewhere for posterity, then in two years time half the posters can feel very smug and the other half can admit they were wrong..... oh hang on, this is STW, posters are always smug and no-one ever admits they were wrong. 🙄
i'd rather spend about £280 on a hackintoshed mini dell with a 120gig drive and full OS
Likewise... So nearly have done at many points over the last few months, but for lack of funds and "no real need" other than it'd be nice to have...
no surprise there really. Apple devices work well because they are a closed system. A USB port means you can attach anything from a USB AirSoft Turret to a USB Ghost Detector.
Whoah! I NEED that USB Airsoft Turret! That is sooooooo cool! Shame I'll have to plug it into my computer though eh! 😉
i'd rather spend about £280 on a hackintoshed mini dell with a 120gig drive and full OS
Which I'm sure makes you just the kind of buyer Apple are aiming the iPad at - not! 🙄
so you need a laptop with you to export files easily?
Eh? All i was saying was it is possible to drag and drop using a touchscreen interface.
Considering the amount of random USB stuff out there, Windows does a pretty good job of making it all work nowadays.
It does have a camera connector accessory which allows you to import photos either from an SD card or via your camera's USB connector. I wonder what would happen if you plugged other USB peripherals into the USB camera connector?
Considering the amount of random USB stuff out there, Windows does a pretty good job of making it all work nowadays.
Indeed, but it does often involve drivers etc, which means dodgy third-party code, security holes and system instability (sometimes).
People often talk about liking Apple stuff because "it just works". Limiting what you can do with it is one way they make sure that the things that it does do "just work".
I wonder what would happen if you plugged other USB peripherals into the USB camera connector?
I'm guessing it'll just say - that's not a camera, **** off.
that's not a camera, **** off.
Now there's a pop-up I'd like to see 😆
Eh? All i was saying was it is possible to drag and drop using a touchscreen interface.
so if you are eg in the states for two days, (where you pack a suit, two shirts and some pants cos its lightweight and you dont have to check baggage) instead of your pad and a usb stick, you need a laptop, pad, and stick. or a laptop and stick
i'd like a portable work/entertainment device please, not just a pad to watch star trek in low def downloaded from itunes.
Nope. Still don't know WTF you are on about bigrich, sorry.
i'd like a portable work/entertainment device please
So that'd be a laptop then.
you obviously dont have to work, yet waste time on the move then. seems its a toy. no thanks