Comments on: First Thoughts on the iPad

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:24:05 +0000

In which the privileged gossip about their toys..

By: John

John — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:58:48 +0000

But will it blend?

http://gizmodo.com/5509793/watch-ipad-meet-blender?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

By: Meng Bomin

Meng Bomin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:57:22 +0000

I’m actually in favor of the iPad. It has the real world benefit of parting fools and their money.

By: Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:40:38 +0000

Sean said: “Only one thought, actually: why don’t I have one?”

umm… because you are still paying off your Segway?

By: Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:05:34 +0000

let the war begin…

By: Tod R. Lauer

Tod R. Lauer — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:52:27 +0000

Hmmm, why do you want one Sean?

Saw it at the MAC store yesterday, and really had trouble understanding why I would want one, given that I already have both an iPhone and a MacBook, which I think pretty well cover the bases. The obvious new thing, is likely to be all the aps, which indeed may be vastly better on the iPad, rather than the iPhone; but this is something that will have to shake out over time.

Mainly, though, I didn’t like the iPhone-style keyboard, with its involved access to punctuation and numbers – plus it takes up a huge amount of screen real-estate when you use it. I would also miss the “messy desk” feel that windows system allows. This is not the tool of anyone who does any amount of writing.

My conclusion is that it may be very attractive to those who want to use/consume things on the web, read & look at stuff, and play with things. But right now, it’s hard to understand how those who use computers to create would want to trade in their laptops for one of these…

By: gopher65

gopher65 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:17:51 +0000

Not to mention that the iPad is merely a cut down clone of a Chinese tablet PC, the P88. The iPad is a little bit lighter, but it also has inferior hardware… and the P88 released in what, August 09?

(As for the name, I’m given to understand that “P88″ sounds cool in Mandarin, and has a (somewhat) clever double meaning. It sounds silly in English though.)

By: Javier

Javier — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:56:31 +0000

I put a link to another tablet PC (an archos 9) that is a viable option to the Ipad, and was marked as spam.

I have no any particular interest in promote the archos 9. I mentioned because I already have it. But in fact I would recomend also any other tablet PC with a windows 7 OS.

The advantage of that systems is the wide availability of professional software that you have for windows. In particular you have mathematica, matlab or whatever it is your favorite math software. There is not (and probably there wil never be) the same for the IPad. Certainly one can’t do intensive computer calculations with one of these tablets. But still is a good option to have it.

And, of course, you have access to pdf file with adobe reader that guarantees you that you will always can see the documents in the right way. Or powerpoint for ppt presentations (for example the ones of strings 2010 for example). They are not (at least still not) available for the IPad. And you can read djvu documents.

And the Ipad is not properly multitask. And it doesn’t supoort flash so you can’t gestinate the statistic of blogs (among a lot more things that you can’t do in the web witouth flash).

Seriously, there are many better options that the Ipad.

Well, I know I am not going to convince to any fanboy out there, but maybe still is not wasted time .