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Canada4215 Posts
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. ![[image loading]](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/28/technology/28ipad6/blogSpan.jpg) oh goodie, the ipad can transform into an overpriced + crappy netbook | ||
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Snausages
United States529 Posts
On January 28 2010 10:28 lazz wrote: that onion video is so fucking relevant right now.. rofl seriously, it's like they can see into the future | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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. | ||
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DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
On January 28 2010 10:17 T.O.P. wrote: ![[image loading]](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/apple-creation-0092-rm-eng.jpg) OMG, PC Software. That just killed me. net books also have faster processors higher resolution displays and use pc software that can do anything much more that the ipad | ||
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Vestige
United States303 Posts
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AssuredVacancy
United States1167 Posts
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). | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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). i believe its because multi touch capacitive screens support human touch only. Using a stylus would require a resistive screen which doesn't support multi touch. | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
Like Cheapy D said. IPass. | ||
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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
However, I see everybody comparing it to netbooks and I am confused. 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. I have had two classes that I chose to buy the digital version of the textbook for and I loved it. | ||
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CommanderFluffy
Taiwan1059 Posts
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. I agree. When i first saw the maxiPad i thought, it's just a huge, expensive Kindle. On digital textbooks: i have a feeling if they really started doing that, knowing apple, they'd probably jack up fucking textbook prices anyway. | ||
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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11557 Posts
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CommanderFluffy
Taiwan1059 Posts
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. Hmm.. having a search function for a 1000pg textbook would be nice.. If textbooks really decided to go digital i think some people would pay for them the same way some people 'pay' for movies. | ||
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hoppipolla
Australia782 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash | ||
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11557 Posts
On January 28 2010 12:54 CTStalker wrote: one thing to note about the absence of flash -- even though it has to do a lot with apple retaining complete control over all the software on the device, the flash player for osx is utter garbage. http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash yeah I have huge problems with flash on this mac -_- | ||
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lu_cid
United States428 Posts
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