iPhat?

[Dave]

http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/d2b7 ... &rel_pos=1

Haha

 

[Mike]

http://www.beautynaturals.com/product.asp?ref=BE-8169 ?

I already own a laptop and mobile phone that are working perfectly fine, and listening to music "on the go" does not really appeal to me, and so, this, nor any other Apple products, appeal to me at all.

 

[ECG]

Love the Dom Joly one there Dave!

And the Eye Pad is also good Mike.

Thanks for the chuckles guys, but Erol is down right hilarious.

 

[Gazza]

Add lack of a handwriting stylus as another missing feature.

Not really. I've never had a handwriting recognition thing work properly. That's something Apple are good at, they'll release something that works well, and if they can't get it to work well, they won't bother.

Handwriting recognition has always been awful.

Make that lack of a stylus in general, so graphical editing is probably out (Though I guess it's sort of a moot point given this thing needs special iPad versions for its software, and lack of multi tasking would make doing graphical work impractical)

I don't think that's an issue. So what if it does wobble? You're not using it as a tea-tray are you?

But it's distracting and uncomfortable. To see what I mean, get a desktop keyboard and flick only one of the angle adjustment legs up, and try typing for any length of time.

Edit:
People should watch the official video on the product http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tjtrZl7sdQ
The first 2 and a half minutes are pure cheesyness.

Take this quote at 2:04,

"With a screen this large, you can see more of the web as you're surfing it, take the NY Times, you can see all of the top stories, they're all just right there. If you see something, you just reach out and tap it, it's completley natural, you don't even think about it! You just...do!"

 

[wash]

Meh, by itself it looks cool, but with that price tag... not so much. For what they're charging, it should have all the basic functions of an actual computer. I'd be fine with it if it had more features or if the price wasn't much more than an iPod, but as is I don't really see who's going to buy it. Also, it looks worthless as a business machine.

 

[marc]

^Care to provid us with evidence to why you think that satement is false?

I own a Macbook Pro and I get a solid 11 hours usage out of it... 2 hours more than its suggest 9 hours.

Proof enough?

Did you get a new Macbook Pro, I only get 3-4 hours if I am lucky out of mine and its only 2 years old.

You will be able to buy addons for the iPad for USB and SD cards.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/27/ap ... -adapters/

To transfer photos, music and videos you can use iTunes the same way as you do for your iPhone and iPods.

 

[Martyn]

Add lack of a handwriting stylus as another missing feature.

Not really. I've never had a handwriting recognition thing work properly. That's something Apple are good at, they'll release something that works well, and if they can't get it to work well, they won't bother.

Handwriting recognition has always been awful.

Make that lack of a stylus in general, so graphical editing is probably out (Though I guess it's sort of a moot point given this thing needs special iPad versions for its software, and lack of multi tasking would make doing graphical work impractical)

True, but the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad touchscreen won't accept a stylus anyway, it's fingers or nothing. It doesn't even work if you use your fingernails (if they're long enough!)

Making it a Wacom type tablet would be nice, but I don't think it's possible without losing the multi-touch, gesture based system from the iPhone.

I don't think that's an issue. So what if it does wobble? You're not using it as a tea-tray are you?

But it's distracting and uncomfortable. To see what I mean, get a desktop keyboard and flick only one of the angle adjustment legs up, and try typing for any length of time.

Yes, but like I said, it's not designed to be sat flat and typed on, because the screen angle is all wrong for that, so that problem becomes irrelavent.

 

[ciallkennett]

3) The battery life is only 10 hours. I know that in future models this will increase, but what with Apple's quite poor battery history, you should expect to lose 20% minimum capacity per year at moderate use. Not quite good enough at the moment, but plenty of room for improvement.

Thats the biggest pile of SH.T EVER!!!!!

^Care to provid us with evidence to why you think that satement is false?

I own a Macbook Pro and I get a solid 11 hours usage out of it... 2 hours more than its suggest 9 hours.

Proof enough?

Apple tends to favour using Lithium-ion batteries, which at a 100% charge level, a typical Li-ion battery that is full most of the time at 25 °C or 77 °F will irreversibly lose approximately 20% capacity per year.

That's my point.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

^ Which loefet has proved that to be false.

Oh yeah and Marc, I got my Macbook Pro in October

 

[Ollie]

I'm loling at the poll results. Everyone's saying it's nothing interesting or they're waiting to see and there's one saying it's something they desire.

I wonder who that can be?.....

 

[Inverse]

well... Some people would buy a steaming turd if Apple stuck a logo on it.

The Mac/PC debate is stupid, I use both daily and think they are different tools for different jobs. The iPad is the same, if you want to do exactly what it provides, it's great. Go off script on an apple product and it's terrible.

PCs are "worse" because people who don't know how to use them make them worse, whereas the same people couldn't screw a Mac up so easily...

It's almost the wrong way around in culture. Those who want basic, no nonsense, everything in one place computing should buy a Mac, but they don't for price reasons, but they'd be much better off for it. PCs can be more specialist tools, but at the moment Macs are considered elite.

 

[jokerman]

PCs can be more specialist tools

For some things, but Macs are more specialist for a lot of things. Macs are fantastic when yo need to do design work, and I use them all the time for music work. i personally only see macs in use for specific jobs, and find Pcs to be a more general tool.

 

[Inverse]

I'm a recording and mix engineer, it's where I use macs, as I said above, daily. The only advantage Macs have over PCs in the music industry are the Apple brand products included in the Logic Pro bundle, but alternatives are available and in my opinion, preferable. There is no hardware advantage.

And in design culture it is just a matter of style, key design programs operate well on both platforms.

You're right in what you see... Macs are used more specialist and PCs more generally. Amusingly, however, this is probably the wrong way around.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

^ There are advantages other than package bundles...

How about the lack of a registry for start?
Makes everything 10 million times quicker than a PC.

Theres so much more a Mac can do that a PC can't.

I'm loling at the poll results. Everyone's saying it's nothing interesting or they're waiting to see and there's one saying it's something they desire.

I wonder who that can be?.....

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Though I really meant something I need... But hey ho...

 

[ECG]

^LOL :lol:

Your absolute lack of any knowledge highly amuses me to no end.

 

[Dave]

It's like people who are into Metal music, they get so fixated on the genre that they cannot accept any other form of living.

 

[kimahri]

^LOL :lol:

Your absolute lack of any knowledge highly amuses me to no end.

*grope*

 

[Inverse]

How about the lack of a registry for start?
Makes everything 10 million times quicker than a PC.

Mac use .plist files as a registry? It's not that there is a lack of registry (or equivalent) it's that there is a lack of registry editor... Which is classic Mac. Just like the program files, you can't get to them but it doesn't mean they're not there.

EDIT to prevent a double post:

Charlie Brooker has an article on the iPad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/ipad-therefore-iwant-why-idunno

As always, he gets to the heart of the matter whilst making you laugh.

 

[Martyn]

Inverse is correct.

 

[tks]

Since tablet pc's haven't exactly been a huge hit before I don't really see this taking off. The portable music player and phone industry were extremely well established before the iPod and iPhone were brought out. Yet tablets seem to be this middle ground between laptops /touchscreen phones that whilst may look cool, nobody really needs.