Speak for yourself, Flash has been anything but fine for me on my Sony Vaio laptop, or on my PC, or on the 30 odd different PC's I've used at my university. Or on the two Mac's I've used at my fiancee's office (one a Mac Mini, one an iMac). Or on my mum's PC. Or on my old Gericom laptop. Shall I go on?!?
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I returned my iPad back to Apple... I toughed it out
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Speak for yourself, Flash has been anything but fine for me on my Sony Vaio laptop, or on my PC, or on the 30 odd different PC's I've used at my university. Or on the two Mac's I've used at my fiancee's office (one a Mac Mini, one an iMac). Or on my mum's PC. Or on my old Gericom laptop. Shall I go on?!?
I returned my iPad too a few days after launch. Thought I had too much money into something that was promising but mostly a net surfer.
iPod already did music. I watch video on my big screen. Don't care about it on the iPad. Ipod was fine for occasional car trip or plane trip.
Typing sucked. Very annoying. Would have to shell out at least $100 for keyboard and case if not keyboard dock to remedy this.
Browsing was killer app, but checkerboarded too often. And didn't seem designed for iPad as much as it could have been.
Mail was pretty good.
GAmes were mostly meh. Touch screen isn't meant for most games. And I have enough games on console, computer etc.
Only had 256mb memory. (or at least that annoys me now.)
And so I returned it. I will probably wait until at least version 2 now. Although lately I've been tempted to go back. Software has improved quite a bit. And 4.2 is around the corner and looks to improve the experience quite a bit.
iPod already did music. I watch video on my big screen. Don't care about it on the iPad. Ipod was fine for occasional car trip or plane trip.
Typing sucked. Very annoying. Would have to shell out at least $100 for keyboard and case if not keyboard dock to remedy this.
Browsing was killer app, but checkerboarded too often. And didn't seem designed for iPad as much as it could have been.
Mail was pretty good.
GAmes were mostly meh. Touch screen isn't meant for most games. And I have enough games on console, computer etc.
Only had 256mb memory. (or at least that annoys me now.)
And so I returned it. I will probably wait until at least version 2 now. Although lately I've been tempted to go back. Software has improved quite a bit. And 4.2 is around the corner and looks to improve the experience quite a bit.
I think returning something after a few days wasn't the right thing to do.
Although that's the risk with buying on release date.
I got mine on the UK release date, but had used one at work and several in the US, so I knew what I was buying into.
Typing takes more than a few days to get fluid in, but the iPad is basically all I use for email and any writing that I do at home or mobile.
Although that's the risk with buying on release date.
I got mine on the UK release date, but had used one at work and several in the US, so I knew what I was buying into.
Typing takes more than a few days to get fluid in, but the iPad is basically all I use for email and any writing that I do at home or mobile.
So you don't care about the music or video on the iPad. The typing sucked. Games were no good as a touch screen 'isn't' meant for an iPad. Only had 256MB of memory which annoys you, and you sign it off as an expensive 'net surfer'.....
However....you are looking to buy the next version when it comes out. Yeah, that makes sense...
