The iPad is here!

[JLAAPRTM 12]

www.apple.com/ipad/ <----About

The iPad is a new Apple product which is basically an iPod Touch/Phone but bigger and better. You already probably know all about it, because it has been out for a while now. It was origanaly going to be called the iSlate, but it soundly odd, so the name changed to iPad. On it, you can take pictures, organize them, play games, read books, listen to music, get help, go online, almost anything you can imagine! Many people made jokes about it, about its size and negitives, but it turned out to be a great thing! If you need anymore information about it, your welcome to search the web.

It is NOT a better thing than an iphone/ipod touch because it isn't a smartphone! It's only a keyboardless laptop. My mistakes.........

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: JLAAPRTM

Many people made jokes about itquote>

I've got a couple more, but, PG-13...

[Easy Bakes 253]

In this case bigger is better.

Finnaly a smart phone you can actualy  read something on.

[hamsterTK 93]

Uninterested and I dislike Apple products for reasons such as how it is a closed market and their company philosophy of intentionally only selling stuff that's expensive, and I don't buy into Steve Job's celebrity star power either.

I'd wait a while and buy the 400 dollar Made in Taiwan version that can run normal programs and has stuff like USB ports.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

It is not a smart phone. It has no ability to make calls. Therefore, it CANNOT be better than the iPhone!

Do you have no idea what it is? It is a laptop with a touch screen. It is not a phone!

[sneakeypete 16]

Bigger isn't better for a phone. the size it is, where are you going to put it? if you get some sort of carry case, then you might as well carry a laptop. Has more function, and keys.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Is it a phone? No, you can't make calls with it. Is it a netbook? No, you can't use some programs you may need, like text processors. Is it an e-book reader? No, it's way too expensive to be an e-book reader.

I think the problem Apple have had is that they haven't established its use. I mean, the iPod is for listening to the music, the iPhone is used (esentially) to make calls and surf the internet but the only use the iPad seems to have is to surf the internet and this use has been covered yet by netbooks which give you the opportunity of use them for many other things...

[JLAAPRTM 12]

Well, iPad doesn't make calls (lol! imagine holding an 11' phone to your face!), that's for sure.

[Easy Bakes 253]

My mistake I thought every i product made calls

Does it have some kind of bracket on the back so you can use it at a comfortable angle?
or will you have to buy an aplication for that?
 

[morriswalters 16]

Jerry Pounelle and Larry Niven predicted this a number of years ago in the Mote In Gods Eye.  But theirs was way cooler.

[morriswalters 16]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

My mistake I thought every i product made calls

Does it have some kind of bracket on the back so you can use it at a comfortable angle?

or will you have to buy an aplication for that?

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Costs extra.

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Once upon a time in the 1950's we predicted that the computer would be a small box stuck to the back of the line printer.  That printer weight several hundred pounds, had a big drum, piin fed 15 x 11 paper, tubes, and a mercury pool delay line for a buffer.  It had a fixed, 48 character, upper-case font.  Getting a bold line meant overstriking about three times.  When a job banner printed the sound was like ticketa-ticketa-bam-bam-bam-zhick.  Operators new when a new job output was being started.

The computer it was attached to filled a large room that had a floating floor for the air conditioning, and power/cable leads coming in from the drop ceiling.  The various units were cabled together with very carefully calibrated cables that had to be of a specific length for each unit in order to keep everything in sync.  It was a really big machine with 32K of 24-bit memory.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

Once upon a time in the 1950's we predicted that the computer would be a small box stuck to the back of the line printer.  That printer weight several hundred pounds, had a big drum, piin fed 15 x 11 paper, tubes, and a mercury pool delay line for a buffer.  It had a fixed, 48 character, upper-case font.  Getting a bold line meant overstriking about three times.  When a job banner printed the sound was like ticketa-ticketa-bam-bam-bam-zhick.  Operators new when a new job output was being started.

The computer it was attached to filled a large room that had a floating floor for the air conditioning, and power/cable leads coming in from the drop ceiling.  The various units were cabled together with very carefully calibrated cables that had to be of a specific length for each unit in order to keep everything in sync.  It was a really big machine with 32K of 24-bit memory.

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And you only had to wait till 1962 for  your  xerographic printers.

[Bukumi-san 0]

IN stead of an I mat why not just make an I wall? It has all of your apps plus functions as a computer and a TV. Add in touch screen capability and bam! it will be the biggest thing since sliced bread!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

And you only had to wait till 1962 for  your  xerographic printers.

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Actually, we still had these noisy printers at 2,000 lines per minute in 1990, but by then they were belt printers with IC guts and they made a kind of high-pitched zizzing noise.  There were also very high speed xerographic output devices that could print, collate, and bind up to 32 copies of a report in the time it took to print it on the line printer once.

The main frame had grown to a very big box of small dimensions containing vector, decimal and logic processors (up to four) and multiple I/O controllers (also up to four) and as many communication processors as you wanted to hook up.  At the time I was downsized, these babies were running in the nanosecond range for simple binary instructions and had up to nine path prediction pipelines.  You could run four copies of the time-sharing environment, and up to 50 other job streams concurrently.  The processor dispatcher was eclectic in that any processor could be dispatched to any job wanting processing cycles.  The whole business was memory oriented and had no single bus.  Memory cycles were granted on demand by any active unit over up to four memory channels each on up to four memory controllers.  Expensive, but for some jobs, like mid-course corrections going to Mars, machines like this were very nice.

And this was only one small machine.  You should have seen what happened if you dualed this up and ran guaranteed up time scenarios where either machine could take over if the other failed.  The definition of failure was a pretty complex affair.  Modules switched over automatically.

The funny thing is that all this can almost be replaced by a hypercube of simple PC's.

[Slashback 136]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK

Uninterested and I dislike Apple products for reasons such as how it is a closed market and their company philosophy of intentionally only selling stuff that's expensive, and I don't buy into Steve Job's celebrity star power either.

I'd wait a while and buy the 400 dollar Made in Taiwan version that can run normal programs and has stuff like USB ports.

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I couldn't agree more, except from that i wouldn't even buy the Taiwan version...

[sneakeypete 16]

I thought the ipad is made in taiwan...

edit: oh no wait, it's made in china.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

The iPad has a speaker and microphone and is compatible with headsets so using the Skype for iPhone app, you can make free calls to other skype users (or have pay skype like a phone company).