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ipad anyone?
hyiu:
why sit outside for 5 days ?
my sis-in-law ordered one online, and it UPS to his place that morning...
no waiting... no fuss...
once I get a chance to play with it, I'll let you guys know if it lives up to the hype...
(I have not seen one in person, but so far, from what I read from the web, I'm not impressed...)
shmokes:
My friend just went to the local Best Buy and picked one up on launch day. No line.
Malenko:
sorry to hop in all late, but I was reading about all this cornfusion for streaming from a PC or whatever to an Iphone , PS3 , etc
I use Tversity, it runs in the tray and even when I'm streaming to my PS3/360/other PCs/etc I don't notice any slow down, and you can stream to the Iphone via the built in safari browser. Now I know you mentioned Tversity then sorta dropped the conversation, but its super simple to use and I have zero complaints about it (and it supports DIVX)
Blanka:
I just have been watching the video review from Engadget.
Some findings:
- This thing must be low on RAM. They say Safari is speedy, but it does not look like that (grey areas all the time when scrolling). You see that the buffer cannot hold one complete page, not to mention fast tab switching. You see the page regenerate all the time, and switching tabs looks like a complete reload.
- Design of apps is realy a mess. Why does an E-book have to look like an old medieval book on display in the National Museum? Maybe Apple should include a old-paper-stink-generator too. Mail looks very Mail-OSX like (like it needs a mouse and the menu bar can pop in any time), Calender is pretty down-to-earth iPad style. Contacts is very boring. Hey where was your imagination on that? Not even big facials or browse by picture. Fun too see that the bad taste of Steve (or is it his wife? or just being American?) kicks away Ive's minimal-oriented brain sometimes.
- Too much iCandy. Please pay us back killed time on sweeping pages, zooming dock icons, rotating orientation switches, fancy photoalbum zooms. Make a "don't steal my time with fancy stuff" button in the preferences.
- Apple keeps struggling with the rotation sensor. Forget the lock switch and auto-turn. Just introduce a manual big turn gesture that works all the time.
protokatie:
Ok, after testing the iPad out for a few days, I will give my first "official" byoac report (as it seems I am the only byoac poster who has one).
First off, the lack of flash is becoming more and more of a problem. I do not use a computer for just casual browsing of the web, and many sites that I like to visit use flash. Those flash based sites that also use the <video> tag as an option also seem to not work on the iPad.
The lack of multitasking is also a bother, but for such a device it is ok. Right now as I am typing this on my iPad, I see why multitasking is not allowed. I am currently dling a video podcast and the on screen keyboard is now reacting very slowly. I do not think the iPad has the CPU power for real multitasking.
The lack of samba is annoying, but expected. The inability to dl video off of a web site was not expected tho and hinders the usefulness of the device.
The new (ie larger) on screen keyboard is nice tho, and almost allows for touch typing.
All in all, this thing is not a big deal. The form factor is nice, but it's lack of certain key features cripples it for any serious use. If you want to do anything serious with an ultra portable computer, stick with a net book. I know I will. But the Ipad does have it's uses and it would be useful to just consider it a large iPod touch.
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