Apple's iPad

[*Bob*]

No.. he does actually look a bit like a younger version of Jah.

The crossed eyes is incidental.

I have no idea if Jah is cross-eyed or not. His eyes were shielded by some very trendy spectacles at the time.

[Jah Lush]

Good grief! *Bob* I know you. You're the guy I give my small change to.

[*Bob*]

I know!

Just another few weeks of iBegging and I can afford that iPad.

[Brendan]

I?ve seen a younger version of Jah, that guy?s hair isn?t nearly long enough.

[mockney piers]

iYoung???? is even more scarily long haired. Talk about casual!!!!!

[Jeremy]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> And how much have you spent on these things (your

> laptop, your broadband bundle, your mobile plus

> call package) over the last few years?

Bob, I think you're missing the point somewhat. This isn't a replacement for a phone or a proper computer. It's something in between... something Apple are hoping people will buy in addition to the other things.

Yeah I'm sure it's a cool gadget, but what would you actually use it for?

[*Bob*]

Yes, I get that. I have a proper computer, which I use as a proper computer, and a phone, which I use as a phone.

Specifically, I (we) would use if for internerd, (seemingly) endless photo and HD vid sorting, and writing (which I do but would rather sit somewhere else in the house than in front of music gear) and (of course) watching some online telly content 'wherever'.

Just the regular stuff that we do on a laptop, if we had one that worked.. only we don't.

I did try with a Netbook. I tried. But it was rubbish. And it still cost ?300.

[david_carnell]

I figure it's one step closer to the Star Trek touch screen paradise that all nerds crave.

[*Bob*]

Just think.. I can set it up in the kitchen and pretend to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report - only I'll be ordering seeds, as opposed to working in a crack PreCrime department sometime in the future.

[Brendan]

Give it a few weeks and Mockney will start a thread about what he can do with his.

[*Bob*]

He'll be knee-deep in sticky green excrement by then, surely?

[Brendan]

I think he's got an ap for that.

[woofmarkthedog]

Well *Bob*

Where are we on this one ?

I need an up-date on my screen

Like " by yesterday" latest

W**F

[MrBen]

Think of it as a giant, heavy i-phone. Doesn't look such a "must have" does it?

My 13.3" macbook beats any windows PC I've had and does all that the ipad does and more. It all feels a bit like selling sand to Saudi Arabia. And then watching them buy it in droves.

I do love my macbook though. And as *Bob* has noted its like having an old volvo estate. They last for $%^$%^$^ ever.

[*Bob*]

iPad, and iPad pricing is not yet available. Still a good month of umming and ahhing to go.

The most pratical and honest review so far has come from an unexpected quarter - longtime Mac-hater Charlie Brooker (soon to be smugging it up with his own Mac after finally coming to terms with the fact that he'd "rather use a laptop that just works") - who has fingered the nub of the iPad's appeal once you've washed-off the sheen of Apple's marketing bullshit.

Whether it has a camera, weighs more or less than an iPhone, does more or less the an iPhone, compares favourably or not to a Macbook is neither here nor there. 99% of its usage will taken-up by emailing and surfing the web whilst watching tv - a scenario where iPhones and Laptops fall short - and one where the iPad will excel.

[mockney piers]

link?

[*Bob*]

Here

[mockney piers]

ta for that.

[MrBen]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> iPad, and iPad pricing is not yet available. Still

> a good month of umming and ahhing to go.

>

> Whether it has a camera, weighs more or less than

> an iPhone, does more or less the an iPhone,

> compares favourably or not to a Macbook is neither

> here nor there. 99% of its usage will taken-up by

> emailing and surfing the web whilst watching tv -

> a scenario where iPhones and Laptops fall short -

> and one where the iPad will excel.

Which can all be done with a macbook? Usually on my lap whilst watching a film on my television set anyway. Unless we're talking about TV on the move - on trains for example? Its a giant iphone witha decent UI for mainly portable entertainment purposes. It's hardly some paradigm shift surely?

[*Bob*]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Which can all be done with a macbook? Usually on

> my lap whilst watching a film on my television set

> anyway.

Sure.. if you've got one, which I haven't.

For me, buying a Macbook would mean me spending twice as much as on an iPad, for extra functionality which I don't need, packaged-up in a form which is slightly more cumbersome to use.

I have enough friends who own ?1000 emailing machines without needing to join the club myself.

[Brendan]

Please don?t use the word ?paradigm? when referring to consumer goods.

Please.

[mockney piers]

"I have enough friends who own ?1000 emailing machines without needing to join the club myself"

so very very true.

macbook vs pc. so pointless a debate when a toaster loaded with linux and connected to a keyboard and a teleprint would probably do for most.

The quality of the porn is pretty terrible mind, and you'd always get melted butter on it.

[*Bob*]

Alternatively, I could buy a PC laptop, which would cost me around the same as an iPad, give extra functionality which I don't need - in a slightly more cumbersome form - and not even do the three things I wanted it to do in a pleasing fashion, let alone the things I don't need it to do.

Alternatively, I could buy a netbook, which would cost slightly less than an iPad, would give me around the same functionality, only in a slightly more cumbersome form and not even do the three things I wanted it to do in a pleasing fashion.

Or there's the iPad. Which might just do exactly the things I want it to do, in a thoroughly pleasing manner, for a price that (compared to the alternatives) doesn't start to look so bad.

[*Bob*]

If only it didn't have that stupid glossy screen.

[Brendan]

I?m pretty sure it comes complete with a philosophy too.