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iPad= inferior Laptop/Iphone hybrid?

MegaDell said:
No one here is being specific. Just incredibly vague. It does "stuff" better. Other devices can't do the same "things" as the iPad.

Like what? Apps? Applications? You think Apple invented software or something?
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The iPad-dedicated apps are amazing on the iPad. For instance, I've been just as efficient on my iPad writing emails as I am on a desktop/laptop. The photos app is amazing, and is seamless. I love surfing YouTube videos on the iPad. I love just holding it and using the internet. The iPad wasn't made to be "better" or "do more" than laptops or desktops. Watch the keynote - the iPad is an in-between device. If you don't see the need for one then don't buy one.

Listen to me: Try using the iPad. There is no point debating you on what the iPad can or cannot do when you haven't used it. I can say, "The browser is awesome!" or "iPad-specific apps are great!" but you'll still bitch and moan about how stupid of a product it is.

This is because you are a troll. You aren't ever going to believe that the iPad is a good product, so quit wasting our time. Please.
 
hobo.hopkins said:
The iPad-dedicated apps are amazing on the iPad. For instance, I've been just as efficient on my iPad writing emails as I am on a desktop/laptop. The photos app is amazing, and is seamless. I love surfing YouTube videos on the iPad. I love just holding it and using the internet. The iPad wasn't made to be "better" or "do more" than laptops or desktops. Watch the keynote - the iPad is an in-between device. If you don't see the need for one then don't buy one.

Listen to me: Try using the iPad. There is no point debating you on what the iPad can or cannot do when you haven't used it. I can say, "The browser is awesome!" or "iPad-specific apps are great!" but you'll still bitch and moan about how stupid of a product it is.

This is because you are a troll. You aren't ever going to believe that the iPad is a good product, so quit wasting our time. Please.
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But you already have a laptop. You already have a device that can do everything you're talking about. The ipad it a tiny circle that overlaps a small portion of a laptops huge circle. And the circles represent functionality.
 
I've already said several times that the iPad wasn't made to replace laptops. If you have a laptop and don't mind using it for all my aforementioned tasks, then an iPad is not the device for you. I do most of my internet surfing on my couch, and the iPad is far more enjoyable to me than my laptop.

Again, watch the keynote. Steve said a million times that this was an in-between device between phones and laptops. It wasn't made to replace all of the functionalities of phones or laptops.
 
hobo.hopkins said:
For instance, I've been just as efficient on my iPad writing emails as I am on a desktop/laptop.
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So then why didn't you save your money, and, um, write emails on your laptop, using a keyboard.

This hardly sounds like a reason to run out and buy an iPad.
 
I also have a reason for buying an iPad. Two reasons:

1. School essays
2. Average home use

I currently have a netbook, but I really dislike using it for school essays and web surfing because of it's crammed-in keyboard, it's slow booting, and it's tiny trackpad. For heavy-duty typing, the tiny keyboard just doesn't cut it for me, which is why I will be getting an iPad with a keyboard dock and case.

Like I mentioned earlier, another thing that bugs me with my netbook is that it's slow to boot up and slow to open applications (e.g. Microsoft Word) at school, which is quite a big problem because it wastes valuable lesson time. From the reviews I have read, it seems like the speed of the iPad is fast, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. The main selling point for me is the snappiness of the iPad, and it seems like the iPad fits the bill perfectly for that.
 
Velin said:
So then why didn't you save your money, and, um, write emails on your laptop, using a keyboard.

This hardly sounds like a reason to run out and buy an iPad.
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Velin, Velin. I didn't say, "I bought an iPad because I can write emails efficiently!". Come on. The thread starter asked for specifics, and that was one specific way in which I can use my iPad instead of my laptop.

Let's be a little more mature, and not take quotes out of context.
 
After playing around with one for a few hours and knowing that it was a device that I did not have a real use for except that I love cool new tech gadgets, I would agree that it does not do anything that my iphone or 13" macbook cannot do RIGHT NOW with the exception of a few things but I am sure this will change pretty quickly
1. The USA Today and NYT apps are very cool and I think will replace print some day. The ipad does these right. Phone is too small, Macbook does not have the touch screen or form factor. I hope and believe that more print material will go this route.
2.Video- While I watch movies when I travel on the iphone and sometime on my laptop, the screen and size of the ipad is just a better fit.
3. The screen is much nicer than the kindle. I much prefer to read on the ipad.It is a little larger and would be harder to hold in one hand but I like the landscape 2 page mode.

These are just a few things I have noticed after a short time.
I have a computer at work, laptop and Imac and home, iphone, HP netbook(not even close to this device) and while I have no real need for my new ipad, I still love it.

I think in a year from now there will be so many apps that people just have not even thought of that it will make the ipad an even more useful device in the future.
Look at what an iphone can do that nobody really thought of a few years ago.
Just my $.02

Kenal0
 
I'm going to use mine as a digital sketchbook. In order to do that on my laptop, I'd have to buy a separate tablet. I could use my iPhone's little screen for sketching, but why do that when the iPad has such a big screen for sketching on?

So for my purposes your argument doesn't apply.
 
Justin122 said:
I also have a reason for buying an iPad. Two reasons:

1. School essays
2. Average home use

I currently have a netbook, but I really dislike using it for school essays and web surfing because of it's crammed-in keyboard, it's slow booting, and it's tiny trackpad. For heavy-duty typing, the tiny keyboard just doesn't cut it for me, which is why I will be getting an iPad with a keyboard dock and case.

Like I mentioned earlier, another thing that bugs me with my netbook is that it's slow to boot up and slow to open applications (e.g. Microsoft Word) at school, which is quite a big problem because it wastes valuable lesson time. From the reviews I have read, it seems like the speed of the iPad is fast, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. The main selling point for me is the snappiness of the iPad, and it seems like the iPad fits the bill perfectly for that.
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So you're gonna swap a terrible keyboard for a terrible keyboard that at least provides some form of tactile...ness? And last I checked, the iPad has no multi tasking. What, you're gonna go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth between things while typing up school projects? That'll save you valuable lesson time.

How bout you sell your netbook, and with the money that you would have spent on a iPad, buy what you seem to really want....a laptop.
 
I tend to agree with the OP, and if you read most of the reviews again without Apple-color glasses you'll notice most say "No one needs one". What everyone is amazed by is the slick UI and packaging. Take a closer look and you find the shortcomings. The Phone OS was intended for a 3.5" screen where everyone can control the device with a single thumb. Use a modern mouse on a PC and all it takes is a minimal movement of your wrist to access any part of the screen. Now you're balancing a 1.5lb weight in one hand while traversing a 9+" screen with the other. Is this really more efficent?

The App "advantage" looks less rosy when you notice iPad apps are pricier than most iPhone apps were, yet don't necessarily do anything more than be bigger. I've read new owners happily spending another $150 or more on apps first day, yet when I find out what the apps were I can find shareware/freeware PC versions for most. And the PC versions that benefit from printing can.

You don't need an iPad to read or find ebooks. Any PC/netbook/notebook/tablet PC can do that. Epub or Kindle, makes no difference. You don't need an iPad to check your email. You "might" be able to find an extra app to print an email out though. You don't need an iPad to browse the web from your sofa while excusing FLASH as inefficient. You don't need an iPad to look at digital comic books. You don't need an iPad to play great computer games. You don't need a ($500) iPad to play scrabble. You don't need an iPad to check the weather... and on and on. The recurring theme here is "you don't need an iPad.

Mobile? OK, if you say so. But any app that benefits from going mobile will benefit more from being pocketable, and you'll likely find that app for cell phones or dedicated GPS devices already.

iPad is cute though. It's new. It's tech. It's fun. It will do a growing slew of things. If you want one then get one. It's just nothing anyone needs.

I'm open to and expect to see a "killer app" for the iPad that proves to be something everyone will actually need. I thought the level/angle finder/plumb-bob apps for the iPhone Touch might be that, until I realized my hardware store sold solutions that were 1/20 the price of an iPhone or Touch.

Find that killer app. An App that does something incredibly useful, and has no parallel for other devices. One that makes unique use of the iPad's unique hardware. Until then the iPad is a just another less capable, thinner, yet more expensive netbook.
 
MegaDell said:
That's what it seems like. Nothing, NOTHING that iPad can do, can't be done on a laptop or a smartphone, which, if you're interested in an iPad, I'd be amazed if you didn't have both of these things already. So who wants to carry around yet another thing that can't fit in a pocket like an iphone or make calls, or take pictures?

And when it comes to a laptop, carrying it around in hand seems like a hassle, so you're gonna need a carrying case for it, but why get a VASTLY inferior computing device?

To surf the net on it's terrible browser if for no other reason that by lacking flash, however bad Apple like to claim it is, it's what the internet runs on, and it'll be years before anything, be it HTML5, or maybe something else, replaces it. Or the wonderfully horrible experience that is typing on something too big to use your thumbs, but too small to really use your hands like on a real keyboard.

I'm sorry to troll, but I just don't understand the hype. I don't see the purpose. It's functionality overlaps with a lot of other things, but it does the same jobs in such a poor way, and then there are just mountains of things it can't do. Sure, it's pretty, it's sleek, but it's just 4 ipod touches fused together.
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Yet you must have absolutely nothing to do. I mean really... it's Saturday and you came specifically to a forum for a product you don't want or can't understand to post.

Can't you find something to do?
 
hobo.hopkins said:
Velin, Velin. I didn't say, "I bought an iPad because I can write emails efficiently!". Come on. The thread starter asked for specifics, and that was one specific way in which I can use my iPad instead of my laptop.

Let's be a little more mature, and not take quotes out of context.
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No, he asked what I asked. What can the iPad do specifically, that you can't already do without running out to spend another 500 bucks?
 
4DThinker said:
I tend to agree with the OP, and if you read most of the reviews again without Apple-color glasses you'll notice most say "No one needs one". What everyone is amazed by is the slick UI and packaging. Take a closer look and you find the shortcomings. The Phone OS was intended for a 3.5" screen where everyone can control the device with a single thumb. Use a modern mouse on a PC and all it takes is a minimal movement of your wrist to access any part of the screen. Now you're balancing a 1.5lb weight in one hand while traversing a 9+" screen with the other. Is this really more efficent?
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This.
 
MegaDell said:
No, he asked what I asked. What can the iPad do specifically, that you can't already do without running out to spend another 500 bucks?
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He did not ask that, he took one comment out of context from my post and made it seem as though I wanted people to buy an iPad solely because of it's email abilities.
 
hobo.hopkins said:
He did not ask that, he took one comment out of context from my post and made it seem as though I wanted people to buy an iPad because of it's email abilities.
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That's because it was the only feature you mentioned. I mean, if you've got an email address to check, obviously you've got another device, likely multiple devices, with which to check it. Do you need another?
 
MegaDell said:
That's because it was the only feature you mentioned. I mean, if you've got an email address to check, obviously you've got another device, likely multiple devices, with which to check it. Do you need another?
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That was not the only feature I mentioned. I've said it a million times: the iPad is not a device to replace others, it is a supplemental device. Do you understand me? I wouldn't say it is a necessary device for anybody. It is a nice device for me and others to use in certain situations instead of a laptop or phone.

Did any of that register to you? An iPad is not for everybody, and you certainly seem to be the type who doesn't need one. No amount of debating is going to change that.
 
4DThinker said:
You don't need an iPad to read or find ebooks. Any PC/netbook/notebook/tablet PC can do that.
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Are you for real? How many times do we have to go around repeating the same stuff till nerds like you understand.

The iPad is not a computer. It is closer to being an appliance than a computer. Of course, I can take my netbook to bed to read a book. But it is A LOT more convenient and natural to use an iPad. If I wake up in the morning and want to read news, I don't want to open a goddamn computer just for that. Just like you would pick up a newspaper and are already reading. You "touch" the early edition or digital post icon and you are reading it. You CAN do all that on a PC, but it is NOT the same.

Of course, you can play plants vs. zombies on your PC but playing it on an iPad is NOT the same. It feels better.

Your post summarized: ALL THE STUFF I CAN DO ON AN IPAD, I CAN DO ON MY WINDOWS 95 DELL PC. THEREFORE, THE IPAD IS A PIECE OF ****.

People like you stifle innovation.
 
MegaDell said:
What things are blinding you? Specifically. Yes, the iPad has a ton of hype, but whether or not it delivers, that's another issue entirely.

But again, what specific functions does the ipad offer you, that has you go excited? And I ask, is it ANYTHING you can't already do? Anything you've haven't been doing for the longest time already?

Again, if you've got a laptop, who needs another piece of plastic? It's like buying a little moped that can only hit 20 mph, when you've got a real motorcycle in the driveway, and both are the same price.
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I have both a full size ThinkPad and net pad and still see great value in the iPad. Most the time I do not care to have a laptop with full keyboard on my lap to do the news, check my stocks and sale on eBay. The screen size is perfect and as you know the human interface is simply the best, a better experience that a laptop.

I am not going to argue as to who is right as there is no right. I will bet that a lot of people who are not getting the iPad either can not afford one as if you like the Apple interface and you are hear in this forum, most would have one if they could.

Good for you the you do not want one (LOL) I order both the wifi and 3G unit the day it became possible. You can't rain on my parade!
 
What part of this do people not understand?

People who buy iPads buy them because the want to.
People who don't buy iPads don't buy them because they don't want to.



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boss1 said:
What part of this do people not understand?

People who buy iPads buy them because the want to.
People who don't buy iPads don't buy them because they don't want to.



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You do realize that just by posting this, you bumped the thread yourself?

Edited to answer below question, WITHOUT bumping the thread: Yes, I realize that. ;)
 
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