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Posted on 12/18/2010 3:04:48 AM PST by Swordmaker
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Time probably as the others like them will not award for true courage; etc.
It doesn’t fit their agenda of self adoring.
I have to admit that I’m thinking of getting one. Anyone here have one? Positives/negatives?
I have one. I love it. I would not have one as my only computing device. We needed a second machine so I didn’t have to keep begging computer time from my DH. I just needed something to do web based stuff. It works great for that.
If you can, I would put off buying one until spring. The new version is rumored to have a camera and a USB port.
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“If you can, I would put off buying one until spring. The new version is rumored to have a camera and a USB port.”
Yep, I’ve been lusting after one, but other things took priority. Now I’m glad it worked out this way!
I’ll buy one of the new ones once they’ve been out for a month or so to make sure they don’t have teething issues the way many Apple products have had.
Good advice on waiting for the next model - will they support flash as well?
Posting from one right now. Love it!
I have a 32GB WiFi only version. I should have held out for the WiFi+3G, and I should have gone with the largest storage available -64GB.
Not having Flash capability is an annoyance, but not a deal killer IMHO. Flash is a bloated and buggy application. More and more sites are starting to see the light and go with HTML 5 based content. There’s still a ways to go, but those sites that still rely on Flash, only, don’t get my “touches”.
Their loss.
You’ll still want a regular computer, be it desktop or laptop, but for about 90% of my needs, the iPad has been great. 10+ hours of battery; sits on the coffee table like a magazine; instant on, get what you need, and then instant sleep awaiting your next demands.
I've been helping an 82 y/o lady
With no prior iPod experience
learn how to use an iPad
She was up and giggling within 15 min.
e-mail within 1/2 hour
surfing within an hour
Remarkably tolerant of arthritic hands
it was very endearing to watch...
And doctors office and 'reading room'.
Since I'm not hooked up to a big cell phone account I opted for the 16gig WiFi model. Love it.
Looking at the new Samsung Galaxy, their 7" tablet, it's as much or more $$ than the iPad.
I have one; I actually won it from a vendor we do business with.
I am known as the family techie (though I am 50) and have been for the past 18 years. I make my living using computers, especially improving the end user experience.
The iPad is simply a new, more personal, way of interacting with content...be it business content, entertainment, news, games.
My wife loves it; my daughter loves it; I love it. And we only have one.
I find all of us spending more time using the iPad, in more and different ways. The way it presents information and content to the user is more like a magazine than a computer, and it is much more mobile than any lap top.
The only con I have seen is caused by my initial tendency to want the experience to be more like what I have on a notebook computer, especially when using a web browser.
Once I got past trying to make it into a notebook computer (in terms of how it is used), my own use of the device went WAY up.
I am plotting the next purchase — probably after the release of the iPad 2.0, which I expect will be in the first quarter of 2011. We definitely want the next one to have 3g capability.
It’s awesome.
Positives: Online anywhere, anytime. Crazy super convenient. Paid for itself in a hurry (really, it did).
Negatives: It’s not a “serious” anything...but what do you expect from a device no bigger than a notepad?
Ends the compromise between power and convenience. Take portable needs with you, leave the non portable “serious” bulky stuff on the desktop.
Indeed, disruptive technology.
I still can’t picture using one over my notebook but like you, I just found out I have a free one coming. I could see mounting on on the bathroom wall, but I don’t think Mrs. dangerdoc would approve. I’ll probably let the kids use it to decrease some of the congestion around the computer.
I bought my wife one for her birthday. It’s really awesome as she can pack her “brain” around with her. Notes, recipes, shopping lists, etc. constantly being used. Games and other apps are sweet things indeed.
I personally don’t like typing on it, and I would rather have a regular laptop so I can type. Maybe I want a Mac laptop?
God Bless you for that Good Deed.
For me, it is fun
And I have a personal interest in this
I've worked with computers since ‘72
Everything from board design, wire wrapping
machine language coding
“Converted” to the Mac platform in ‘84
Because, for the first time,
I could use a computer,
without “Thinking” like a computer
I can and do use any available platform
but I have an indelible gratitude to Apple
for permitting this “Switch”
Wow! How do you pull that off? Please post your secret.
:-)
I’m 77 and dumb as a rock so I would not be posting here if were not for the “bullet proof” nature of the Mac. My first one was a Proforma 6100 from Sears. My contribution to internet usage is trying to show my FRiends how to delete the return addresses in eMail they forward. My 12 year old grandson showed me how several years ago...
Is it better than the Kindle for reading books?
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