iPad hands-on, detailed review

[jsbaugh]

It's amazing people complaining over a device that is only $499 and does all of that. I understand that some were letdown, but that is because you bought into all the rumors from the past year. So it wouldn't matter if the ipad walked on water there were some that would be disappointed. I really don't see how anyone can complain about this at that price. If it had been $999 then yea start bitching because you could just get a macbook. Apple did the right thing by keeping the price so low.

 

[master-ceo]

With the video and pictures this looks really nice..... I can't wait to get one in my hands. I will probably walk out with one too... Watching the video's this looks freaking slick!



Did you watch any of the video's?

I want it even more now. Playing "Kieth Sweat, I want Her" on my iphone.

Its a beast.

 

[jesaja]

The only thing that's really a show-stopper for me and the reason I will definitely stick to my netbook for the time being is the inability to multitask on the iPad (I hope they'll change that soonish)

When I have the time to sit down and go webbrowsing with a tablet (not being able to do anything productive at that time - no multitasking, remember?) - I want to have my IM running, as well as the IRC Client, something for twitter, a Mail- and RSS reader that notifies me when there's something new... Perhaps one or two of these can even run parallel on the iPad atm, but I want ALL of them, otherwise its no use for me, while my netbook does all of these tasks.
And don't tell me "It's no PC, it's not supposed to do that" - well, then it really is of no use in my opinion, it's like a car that has an advanced accelerator but no brakes and no steering wheel - maybe a new device, but kinda pointless.

Jojo

 

[bossxii]

Users love using these applications on their phone or their MP3 player because it's like nothing they've had before on such devices and there are few alternative devices which offer this level of polish.

We won't see anywhere near the numbers of applications developed for iPad because people simply won't be buying it in the same volume as iPhone and iPod touch. There will be a much, much lesser incentive for developers to make applications for it and doing so will be much more challenging.

As it's running iPhone OS, it's probably going to have all of the huge memory problems that iPhone does and it's going to suffer from these same developers not knowing how to create solutions. I can almost tolerate the OS taking 10 seconds to free up memory on my phone after I quit something, but on a device which supposedly replaces my laptop this would be unacceptable.

Oh yeah, and does Apple REALLY expect people to boot up a different computer every time they want to print a document from iWork? Do they really expect people to type on this thing or use it at the crazy angle shown in the keynote yesterday?

I predict there are gonna be a lot of people complaining of tired arms on the day the first devices start arriving.

You clearly missed the point of the device. No one ever stated it was a "laptop replacement", it's a media device. NOT A LAPTOP REPLACEMENT.

No part of the keynote states this, and why in the hell would Apple cannibalize it's own product line for a fraction of the cost? Sounds like a bad business plan to me.

If you don't get what the iPad is, not much anyone can say to make it any better. Some people see a need/want, others don't, that's the beauty of having the freedom to make that choice on an individual basis Enjoy your netbook.