iPad - Thoughts?

[Xog]

I really wish Wacom would lower the price on their Cintiq.

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more like maxipad

amirite amirite

The name itself is distracting, and yes It sounds like a feminine hygiene product.

I can see this taking off for the elderly that need a larger sized component to better understand the item. Just look at how the elderly ar taking off using wii.

I just do not see the use for it on my end, as for what I use a computer for. If anything, I will stick with my netbook when I need a smaller and more portable computer.

[Jedi DC]

apple -- who cares?

[Ephemeral]

Ipod represented a true paradigm shift since they lead the way in changing how many of us interfaced with our music and videos

IPhone was a small part of the entire cell phone technologies paradigm shift that changed the way we interfaced with our communication devices.

Ipad is in no way any kind of paradigm shift. No camera? No phone? No handwriting recognition? No speech to text? What is the point? It appears to me that this could be a potential platform to build on and the hype isn’t helping that.

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Ipad is in no way any kind of paradigm shift. No camera? No phone? No handwriting recognition? No speech to text? What is the point? It appears to me that this could be a potential platform to build on and the hype isn’t helping that.

HP and others already have this on the market with a convertible multitouch tablet that runs on Intel CULV and can be used as a slate or conventional laptop. I was just looking at the HP TouchSmart tm2t tablet PC. Not bad, as it lets you twist the screen and write or draw on it with a digital pen, nagivate with your finger, or type on the full size keyboard if necessary.

Just seems like the iPad offers too little at this point for the price tag they want and the lack of use this can offer.

[Ephemeral]

HP and others already have this on the market with a convertible multitouch tablet that runs on Intel CULV and can be used as a slate or conventional laptop. I was just looking at the HP TouchSmart tm2t tablet PC. Not bad, as it lets you twist the screen and write or draw on it with a digital pen, nagivate with your finger, or type on the full size keyboard if necessary.

Just seems like the iPad offers too little at this point for the price tag they want and the lack of use this can offer.

Understood. But my point was that for a device to introduce a paradigm shift it would need to be a convergence of ALL the technologies (phone/camera/etc.) for it to be really notable.

I'm thinking there were other reasons (legal?) that Apple didn't include the technologies that I mentioned to make it a truly ground-breaking product. For Apple, cost has rarely been a factor. Bought a 60GB IPod as soon as they came out even though I could have bought a small laptop for the same price. Why? Because even though I had years of experience with MP3s, mixing/burning CDs, a huge collection of classic vinyl and great equipment to play it all on, the IPod made me rethink how music intersected with my lifestyle. $300 later I had all my music/videos on a single simple device that fit in my pocket. If the IPad did the same, hooking me up with all my communication and information needs via a simple device, I would pay whatever they were asking and dump my cell phone, digital camera, IPod, tablet PC, and maybe even my desktop PC. As the IPad stands now, it wouldn’t replace much. Iwould just add it to my other stuff.

[Displaced]

MadTV ahead of their time

[phata$$]

It's probably the coolest lunch tray that I can put my sandwich and drink on.

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Why? Because even though I had years of experience with MP3s, mixing/burning CDs, a huge collection of classic vinyl and great equipment to play it all on, the IPod made me rethink how music intersected with my lifestyle. $300 later I had all my music/videos on a single simple device that fit in my pocket. If the IPad did the same, hooking me up with all my communication and information needs via a simple device, I would pay whatever they were asking and dump my cell phone, digital camera, IPod, tablet PC, and maybe even my desktop PC. As the IPad stands now, it wouldn’t replace much. Iwould just add it to my other stuff.

Are you honestly happy with the sound quality of an MP3? I think MP3's have done more harm in making music sound compressed and honestly just shitty. If your'e not an audiophile, then it really doesn't matter, but when you listen to a song that was recorded as a .wav format...even a .wma it is night and day better. I just do not like the compression and loss of sound that comes from MP3's. Probably why I went with an Archos portable music player years ago when Ipods came out. I had a 8 GB HD on that unit and it was less $$ than the Ipod I think almost 8 years ago? and it also had a camera on it and would take video as well as play it. 8GB lol....and that was enormous back then.

Really? MP3's and you are into music?

[Ephemeral]

Are you honestly happy with the sound quality of an MP3? I think MP3's have done more harm in making music sound compressed and honestly just shitty. If your'e not an audiophile, then it really doesn't matter, but when you listen to a song that was recorded as a .wav format...even a .wma it is night and day better. I just do not like the compression and loss of sound that comes from MP3's. Probably why I went with an Archos portable music player years ago when Ipods came out. I had a 8 GB HD on that unit and it was less $$ than the Ipod I think almost 8 years ago? and it also had a camera on it and would take video as well as play it. 8GB lol....and that was enormous back then.

Really? MP3's and you are into music?

Obviously I am not an audiophile. I am an old and feeble and my hearing was damaged years ago due to stupidity (if my ears weren't bleeding it was not loud enough) by sitting inside big concert speakers. Today I will occasionally roll out my old ADC turn-table and my "no highs, no lows, must be Bose speakers" and spin vinyl, I agree with your opinion about MP3s. But audiophiles dont determine the market place, mass consumers do.

[project dragon]

It's probably the coolest lunch tray that I can put my sandwich and drink on.

Too bad the back is not flat : (

[Fit of Rage]

Are you honestly happy with the sound quality of an MP3? I think MP3's have done more harm in making music sound compressed and honestly just shitty. If your'e not an audiophile, then it really doesn't matter, but when you listen to a song that was recorded as a .wav format...even a .wma it is night and day better. I just do not like the compression and loss of sound that comes from MP3's. Probably why I went with an Archos portable music player years ago when Ipods came out. I had a 8 GB HD on that unit and it was less $$ than the Ipod I think almost 8 years ago? and it also had a camera on it and would take video as well as play it. 8GB lol....and that was enormous back then.

Really? MP3's and you are into music?

It's not really a fair argument against mp3s. Unless you're storing all your digital music in FLAC (which is a huge amount of space), v0 VBR is one of the best quality and most compatible formats available. The losses in compression are far less than even a 192 kbps CBR mp3 while the file size is smaller.

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It's not really a fair argument against mp3s. Unless you're storing all your digital music in FLAC (which is a huge amount of space), v0 VBR is one of the best quality and most compatible formats available. The losses in compression are far less than even a 192 kbps CBR mp3 while the file size is smaller.

You forgot SHN files. I can play FLAC and SHN on my audio players and when they need to be burned to disc, it auto converts for that format as well.

I was just having spurring on conversation today with Ephemeral in good fun.

I am now up to two 1TB and two 2TB outboard drives on my home system with just music...in both cases, one is just a mirror of the other HD. I am a musiholic

[Galleleo]

The biggest thing apple has going for it is that they have copyright on that technology to zoom in and out using your fingers (at least, I think they have that?), which for a device like this is an awesome feature, but I do agree that they need to upgrade this to multitask and compatible with word/etc. If they do that, it could be a great device for students as well, taking notes like Eph mentioned.

[Epinephrine]

The biggest thing apple has going for it is that they have copyright on that technology to zoom in and out using your fingers (at least, I think they have that?), which for a device like this is an awesome feature, but I do agree that they need to upgrade this to multitask and compatible with word/etc. If they do that, it could be a great device for students as well, taking notes like Eph mentioned.

For the second time, it IS compatible with MS Word and so on. There are NUMEROUS iPhone apps (such as the ever popular Documents to Go) which let you edit pdf/word/excel/powerpoint files.