>>1
What a stupid article. The PC died because Apple annouced a giant iPod.
Seriously. It doesn't even have multitasking. How on earth does this replace a PC? And why the fuck didn't they just put a real operating system on it?
Computing back then was all about the programs. Now, computing is all about the programming—the words and sounds and pictures and conversations that pour out of the Internet’s cloud and onto our screens.
As you can see, it's related to programming!
Until recently, we mainly used our computers to run software programs (Microsoft Word, Quicken) installed on our hard drives. Now, we use them mainly to connect to the vast databases of the Internet—to “the cloud,” as the geeks say.
That article is certainly not written by some Mac fanboy.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 5:00
>>3 Seriously. It doesn't even have multitasking. How on earth does this replace a PC? And why the fuck didn't they just put a real operating system on it?
My guess is the next major iteration of iPhone OS will include multitasking. I can't believe the current version scales very gracefully to a tablet. The iPad looks kind of cool, anyway. It could certainly replace my desktop at least for everything except programming.
The article may be overstating it a bit, though.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 5:05
as if i would listen to what steve jobs has to say -- he cant even cure his own cancer.
NEWSFLASH: Apple releases another hunk of overhyped junk.
Macfags go crazy and proclaim this the year of the mac and the end of all non-mac computers.
Everybody laughs at them, and macs never grow out of their niche market of hipsters and terminally stupid people.
>>12
If you were in front of me right now I'd break your fucking nose. I suggest you fuck off and die.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:36
>>17
say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:51
[b][i]IM SUCH A FUCKING TOUGH I WOULD TOTALLY KILL EVERYONE IN The WORLD IF I WASNT SUCH A FAT pUSSY SITTING IN MY BASEMNET
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Anonymous2010-01-28 6:53
macfags.each do |macfag|
macfag.stab :repeatedly if macfag.drooling?
end
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Anonymous2010-01-28 8:27
PC replaced by overpriced, inefficient, crippled tablet: news at 11.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 8:51
It would only be cool if it was faster than the fastest computer out there, and you could feel the keys you pressed, and it had a mouse, and it projected laserbeam holograms, and dispensed pizza and beer.
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Anonymous2010-01-28 9:08
Until recently, we mainly used our computers to run software programs (Microsoft Word, Quicken) installed on our hard drives. Now, we use them mainly to connect to the vast databases of the Internet—to “the cloud,” as the geeks say.
Someone should let him know that geeks don't use "cloud" in that way. Asshole marketing faggots do. The kind of people that brought you C++ as an "improvement" do.
I don't understand what makes this revolutionary in any way. We already had touch screen technologies. We already had flat screen technology (that was becoming cheap). We already had wireless technology. We have "cloud" computing, but barely anyone uses it with the exception of an odd number of businesses (but that's neither here nor there). Heck, a number of other products already have all that AND a replaceable battery!
I've not played with Macs and Apple products under the hood but, from what I've heard, they're not designed to be tweaked in the same way you can customize a standard PC either. This thing must be even worse. A single anything king of card must take up all the space. I wonder if you can feel the rotations of the CD (oh my blasphemous mouth--DVD) drive.
>>33
Maybe the big fucking apple symbol? Are you blind?
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Anonymous2010-01-28 16:24
>>34
Other things that are Macs: iPods, iPhones, the Apple ][, Apple Lisa, Apple Newton, cars belonging to Apple users (stickers), teachers' desks, and fruit.
>>36
You seem to be under the impression that we can't recognise a troll thread. We can, and we did the correct thing, namely to make troll posts in it. The only idiots in this thread are you for failing to recognise this, and me for falling for this likely meta-troll.
>>38
You should see /tv/, /v/, and /g/. IPAD RAAAAGEE
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Anonymous2010-01-28 20:57
Still waiting for the handheld that can replace a laptop. Looks like I still have a couple more years to go.
One reviewer said that such a device has to have bluetooth and usb for a real keyboard and mouse and some some sort of display port to connect up a real screen with a GPU capable of some descent resolution.
Come the fuck on Apple, 1024 x 786 is so 1992, even with the iPad docked and another screen attached you'll maybe get two displays at that crappy rez. I could almost set both of those side by side on this monitor running at 1920x1200. Calling bullshit.
"Posted from my iPad" posts is going to be effective trolling for years to come. And it's all because Jobs wanted to make a little joke about his favourite Tōhō meido.
Useless closed expensive shit, they only allow running approved software on the iPad, making it a mostly useless brick, but like that was not enough, they compilers/interpreters are the types of software which are not allowed by their Terms and Conditions for getting software approved for their AppStore (one of the few ways to get software on it). Isn't that kind of ironic, since I'm sure the web browser they're using contains a JavaScript interpreter :)
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Anonymous2010-01-29 0:39
>>45
Silly silly you, the Terms and Conditions only disallows third-party compilers/interpreters.
________________________________________________ Sent from my iPad
Look guys this is the first computer of its kind. Like any first technology it has not many featuers at teh start but they are probably working on that right now. Like when the first PCs came out almost everyone was still using a typewriter because PCs where os troublesome at that time. But now almost noone uses typewriters anymore.
I think we should give iPad a bit mor time to mature and eventually it will grow into a fine computer that can do anything you want it to without all the annoying other stuff like keyboards or mice or a huge metal box that does all the calculations attached to it.
>>48
... I'll bite in hope the conversation grows.
This is hardly the "first of its kind of technology." As someone above indicated, everything that it does is already out there in one form or another, and in some of those cases much more useful configurations. There's no excuse, this day and age, for a product with such well-founded technologies to lack essentials. Essentials that Apple products have been shunned for not possessing in the past.
Okay, you think the iPad could be good? Fine. But don't be an idiot: wait until the third generation to buy one, where most of those essentials are actually implemented. There's nothing benefiting this first model.
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Anonymous2010-01-29 11:22
>>54
Ofcourse i wouldn't buy one now.
A software is rarely good on its first release status.
I also waited about a year before moving to windows vista so that microsoft could work out the most annoying bugs.
But if there aren't some rch people who will buy the newest stuff just because its new, then the research for this product would not get funded very well. Alas thee company sees that the public demands more, they will put more money into the research. Sadly most of the times a research outcome is defined by how much money was invested in it.
>>55
Heh, when Vista came out we had a tech meeting and were like this thing is a piece of shit and we're not going to support it for at least a year. About a year later it was still shit, so we started transitioning to Mac, which made sense because the majority of our software runs better on a UNIX platform anyway, no more dual boot bullshit, plus you can still run Office and Adobe stuff.
>>57
Very similar story here at my work. Windows 7? Yeah the 3 people from Finance still running Windows.
But Apple sucks too; my Power Mac G5 users get their anus haxed by 10.6.