Ipad, is it worth buying? - Page 5

On January 28 2010 05:25 Hyde wrote:
Lol you can get a keyboard for it and a stand too should you have to do some serious typing hahaha keyboard charges it apparently.

On January 28 2010 10:28 lazz wrote:
that onion video is so fucking relevant right now.. rofl

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

On January 28 2010 10:17 T.O.P. wrote:


OMG, PC Software. That just killed me.

On January 28 2010 12:26 AssuredVacancy wrote:
No flash means no watching online videos other from youtube, or playing flash games. This is unlikely to change because apple doesn't want flash stealing dem moneh from the appstore/itunes store.
This fails as an ebook reader because it has an LCD screen and kills your eyes. The kindle's eink technology exists precisely for this reason.
I don't understand why they didn't support handwriting though, since art/design students are their biggest market(and fanboy clubs).

On January 28 2010 12:39 Bosu wrote:
It certainly has its problems. It needs flash, multitasking and USB to name a few. I highly doubt I would buy one without these necessary additions. And I would never buy a first generation apple product.

However, I see everybody comparing it to netbooks. I see it more akin to a Kindle. I definitely would love to read books and especially comic books (especially comic books) on the go with one of these.

What I would REALLY like to see is a push for more textbooks to be available digitally that would work on both laptops and tablets like the Ipad. I think Apple being in the tablet market could spark a big push for digital textbooks.

On January 28 2010 12:45 Bosu wrote:
Well they would probably sell them for the same price as in college bookstores. Which for digital media that can't be resold is jacked up. I honestly wouldn't care though and would probably pay the same price for the digital version just to have it on the one tablet and search functions.