>>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.