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By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:44:45 +0000

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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Darby Lines, Max Roeleveld and Cory Anotado, André Knoche. André Knoche said: The @angry_drunk has the same idea as I: instead of owning a desktop & a laptop, keep the desktop & get an iPad http://is.gd/7hpm1 [...]

By: havochaos

havochaos — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:08:58 +0000

Let's be honest, the iPad was really made for one thing. Reading crap while taking one. No one wants a laptop in the bathroom and an iPhone is a bit tedious, plus you could lose it in the bowl far too easily. iPad fills the void.

By: Paul A. Chapel

Paul A. Chapel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:47:15 +0000

I find it amusing that geeks criticize the iPad for being just like the iPhone, as if it were a huge failure. And then you have these people who wanted the Mac OS on the thing. The iPhone is what everyone on the internet has been constantly talking about for three years. It has a buttload of developers and 140,000 apps. Why the heck would Apple go with anything else?

By: Gatesbasher

Gatesbasher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:14:19 +0000

Plus, remember half the internet trashing the iPhone because it had a camera, and would get confiscated at the security desk at a lot of companies? Now they're in a froth about the iPad not having a camera. Getting your phone nicked would be annoying, but what if it was your iPad you were going to make your Keynote presentation from? Oopsie doodle!

By: Viswakarma

Viswakarma — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:31:33 +0000

The iPad is good for executives, traveling sales persons, etc. who don't need a lot of horsepower that laptops provide. Further, it has iWork that provides enough power to make presentations, write memos, capture expenses etc. that is more than adequate for people who travel a lot. With 3G they don't need to be tethered to a wired connection to communicate with their more computing power that is available back at their bases.

By: jamesbailey

jamesbailey — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:43:38 +0000

Hmm, I've been using a laptop for years because it takes care of all of my use cases for computer use. I've always bought relatively small laptops with decent performance. I dock them for desktop use with a large monitor. I can unplug and go in a few seconds. Since I just use a laptop for everything, I don't have to worry about syncing anything. And since the introduction of the x86 line, performance has never been an issue. I had a Titanium G4 before the first 15" MacBook Pro that was getting to be a little bit under performing. But it was never really a big problem. Now I have a 13" MacBook (aluminum) that easily exceeds my needs performance wise.

Having said all that, in most cases I do not really need a laptop. It normally sits on my desk in my home office. Even if I take it to work, I generally don't use it much (depending on the job.) So, can I convince myself to get an iPad for those times when I need a computer when away from my desk at home? I'm not sure.

My last contract (I'm a software developer) was at a place where I could use my own laptop for Java development. Using my own computer was far superior to the piece of junk 3 GHz Pentium 5 they gave me to use. That thing was so slow it was hard to imagine that the CPU could really have been the 3 GHz that Windows claimed it was. So in that case, the laptop was invaluable to me but that situation has never happened before or since so I don't think it is a common use case for me at all.

This is going to take some thought but luckily the iPad with 3G isn't due until spring so I have time to consider.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:19:04 +0000

I've haven't really been surprised that the geeks are disappointed by the iPad. They always claim to be disappointed by Apple products, but I'm a little taken back by the level of anger I've seen on the net. You would think Apple came by their houses and raped their pet dog, the way geeks have been acting.

This is nothing new; the same thing happened with the iPhone release. The greater dorkosphere creates a product in their collective noggins that Prometheus himself couldn't deliver, the freaks the fuck out when reality sets in. The fun part is that they will all own one in six months and be pontificating about how they knew that the iPad was "game changer" all along.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:08:54 +0000

"in regards to the use-case that spawned the netbook, people were looking for a cheap laptop."

Says you. What most people obviously fail to get is that there are actually two markets for netbooks. One is the "cheap laptop" chumps you reference, the other is people looking for an ultraportable machine. Go back and read John Negroponte's early statements regarding the One Laptop per Child stuff, that was the true genesis of netbooks, and cheap was one of many factors.

"The iPad's solution is to do less for more in a large scale version of iPhone's OS."

This "the iPad is just a big expensive iPod Touch" crap is already played out just a day in. Get back to me when you've actually used one.

By: Paul A. Chapel

Paul A. Chapel — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:57:52 +0000

I've haven't really been surprised that the geeks are disappointed by the iPad. They always claim to be disappointed by Apple products, but I'm a little taken back by the level of anger I've seen on the net. You would think Apple came by their houses and raped their pet dog, the way geeks have been acting.

I also see this as a perfect solution for the chore that is browsing on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Browsing on a three inch screen hurts. The 3G component totally wipes out the need for a cell phone contract in my opinion. I already use Skype over Wi-Fi on my Touch. If I get the iPad, I can make VoIP calls anywhere. This is very attractive to me and I'm surprised that more people haven't picked up on it. Apple just removed the restriction on making VoIP calls over 3G. This is a huge deal.

The geeks are too obsessed with finding their stupid HDMI and SD cards slots to pay attention.