If I'm not mistaken, they haven't said anything about connecting a bluethooth keyboard so I doubt that would be possible. Anyway, Apple doesn't intend the iPad to be a typing machine of any kind and the keyboard dock is just for occasional, very rare need for typing.
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If I'm not mistaken, they haven't said anything about connecting a bluethooth keyboard so I doubt that would be possible. Anyway, Apple doesn't intend the iPad to be a typing machine of any kind and the keyboard dock is just for occasional, very rare need for typing.
Anyway, good to know they'll at least allow users to connect a bluethooth keyboard.What this man wants is an Apple netbook, which was disappointingly not announced last month; instead we get the vulnerable & cumbersome iPad, doomed to be a lemon.
Imagine, two 9" screens folding out, and one of them can, when required, be an iPhone style keyboard, with its clever technology, and fast typing on the big keys.
M**ft may get there first.
Imagine, two 9" screens folding out, and one of them can, when required, be an iPhone style keyboard, with its clever technology, and fast typing on the big keys.
M**ft may get there first.
What people have to understand is that the iPad is a Portable Media Center.
Books, Music, Pictures and limited Internets.
If you need a word processor/code warrior, get a laptop. Touch screen is overrated, keyboard is timeless.
Books, Music, Pictures and limited Internets.
If you need a word processor/code warrior, get a laptop. Touch screen is overrated, keyboard is timeless.
Ah, master, understand only too well.
Not understand why master not prefer netbook, which does all and is also computer.
Not understand why master not prefer netbook, which does all and is also computer.
I actually disagree. Even if it has lower graphics, I think the iPad's big touchscreen will be a much better control method for an RTS game.
I'm imagining this. I'm also imagining how much it would cost, and what that would do to the number of potential buyers. Now I am trying to imagine what two 9" folding screens would do better than the iPad besides making the thing look like a laptop.
Yeah, I agree with you Carouser. I don't see much use to double 9" screens that fold out. Although that IS what Microsoft was working on…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049_U-0C9qU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049_U-0C9qU
I'd go with a MacBook. The iPad is something that communicates and syncs with your computer (like iPhones, iPods, etc.), so why get one if you can't even plug it into a computer. It's a product that fills the niche between iPhone and MacBook, instead of completely replacing a computer. Just my thoughts...