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Mossberg's iPad review is up! (come within)

Obviously a very pro-Apple review, but seeing as many readers here are big fans of Apple products (myself included), it's exactly what I want to hear. I can't wait to test one out myself.
 
What an utterly shocking review. I am stunned.

Mossberg is obsessed with comparing the iPad to netbooks, barely mentioning in passing that he prefers the iPad to the Kindle because of the color screen, the sharpness, etc.

My guess is that if Apple had not generated as much hype as they did he would have relegated his review to a few lines about what a nice netbook Apple has created.

I think he missed it completely. What does he think the iPad's impact will be on publishing? -- he works at the WSJ for crying out loud.

Oh well. I expected a more thoughtful look at the device and its impact. What he produced was a review that will be quickly forgotten.
 
Mad.Rider said:
wow 11 plus hours of battery life :eek:

I wonder though how warm does it get after such usage. I guess I'll find out after Saturday.
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You realize that the relatively small battery, coupled with the long life... means that it is dissipating very little energy to keep running, which means it will stay relatively cool. I did the simple calculations a while ago on this forum... and it is significantly lower than the laptops that we are used to.

Check out the specs on the apple site and do the math. You will be surprised how low it is.

EDITED:

I just checked the specs. the iPad has a 25WH battery... so over 11 hours, it is burning only about 2.25 W. By contrast, the 15" MBP has a 77 WH battery, so over its 7 hours... it is consuming about 10W. So the iPad is using less than 25% of the energy... which of course manifests itself as producing less than 25% of the heat.

Of course, the iPad has a smaller case in which to dissipate the heat... but still... its consumption is much lower than a typical laptop.

/Jim
 
talkingnewmedia said:
What an utterly shocking review. I am stunned.

Mossberg is obsessed with comparing the iPad to netbooks, barely mentioning in passing that he prefers the iPad to the Kindle because of the color screen, the sharpness, etc.

My guess is that if Apple had not generated as much hype as they did he would have relegated his review to a few lines about what a nice netbook Apple has created.

I think he missed it completely. What does he think the iPad's impact will be on publishing? -- he works at the WSJ for crying out loud.

Oh well. I expected a more thoughtful look at the device and its impact. What he produced was a review that will be quickly forgotten.
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So he didn't poop all over it, so you don't like it. Gotcha.

Why not go to Engadget and live in the comment sections? They poop all over it all day.
 
talkingnewmedia said:
What an utterly shocking review. I am stunned.

Mossberg is obsessed with comparing the iPad to netbooks, barely mentioning in passing that he prefers the iPad to the Kindle because of the color screen, the sharpness, etc.

My guess is that if Apple had not generated as much hype as they did he would have relegated his review to a few lines about what a nice netbook Apple has created.

I think he missed it completely. What does he think the iPad's impact will be on publishing? -- he works at the WSJ for crying out loud.

Oh well. I expected a more thoughtful look at the device and its impact. What he produced was a review that will be quickly forgotten.
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I thought he mentioned what matters. He mentioned the WSJ is more newspaper-like on the iPad than on laptops or desktops... he said he had no eye strain when reading... At this point, it's pretty much a given that as handheld computing takes off so will digital print. The big question with the iPad is how it relates to laptops (and netbooks), so that's what he focused on, and it made perfect sense to me.
 
I hope 11 hours is real on that battery. I'm starting to think I should buy one.
 
samcraig said:
so far both seem to think/imply that for content CREATION, the iPad isn't "better" (for example then a laptop). For consumption - it's a great experience. Interesting.
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For them it was not better but you can't say it won't be for someone else. This is a good review but this guys life and uses for the ipad is nothing like mines.
 
flyguy206 said:
For them it was not better but you can't say it won't be for someone else. This is a good review but this guys life and uses for the ipad is nothing like mines.
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well we can go around this discussion for days. Of course it will depend on each individual user as to what works best.
 
samcraig said:
The Bookstore - interesting that they are launching with only 60,000 books. I mentioned that an impetus driving the adoption of P.G. would be that they could already say they had 30,000 books. It looks like I might have been right about that because that's half of their library at current.
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This will be a big disappointment to me if the 60,000 books includes the 30k from Project Gutenberg. I know they will build more of a library, but this is a rather weak number to begin with.

Other than that there were no real surprises in the review (other than the battery life). Except for the iBookstore, the rest of the review meets my expectations of the device.
 
msduncan said:
So he didn't poop all over it, so you don't like it. Gotcha.

Why not go to Engadget and live in the comment sections? They poop all over it all day.
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Where you coming from?

Why would I want him to hate it? What I want, especially from someone who writes for a major paper, is something that doesn't compare the world's first important tablet to cheap notebooks.

With all the talk about the impact the iPad will have on publishing here is a guy who writes for America's more read financial journal talking about battery life.
 
GermanSuplex said:
I thought he mentioned what matters. He mentioned the WSJ is more newspaper-like on the iPad than on laptops or desktops... he said he had no eye strain when reading... At this point, it's pretty much a given that as handheld computing takes off so will digital print. The big question with the iPad is how it relates to laptops (and netbooks), so that's what he focused on, and it made perfect sense to me.
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Compare this to what Pogue states, which is the complete opposite -- you have to wonder if the two guys were testing the same device?

Both reviews are generally positive. Pogue is a more consumer-oriented writer. His views on the device as a reader, though, are completely negative. If he is right, this could be big trouble for the publishing industry which is counting on the iPad to be a hit as a reader. He obviously loves the device as a gaming and entertainment device. Mossberg seemed to like the iPad as reader, though, and didn't complain about weight or being able to use the device in sunlight (of course, maybe he didn't test it this way).
 
What does this mean

and it doesn't allow group addressing.

So you can't use distribution lists? I am lost.
 
pugnut said:
I was impressed with the iPad's battery life, which I found to be even longer than Apple's ten-hour claim, and far longer than on my laptops or smart phones. For my battery test, I played movies, TV shows and other videos back-to-back until the iPad died. This stressed the device's most power-hogging feature, its screen. The iPad lasted 11 hours and 28 minutes, about 15% more than Apple claimed. I was able to watch four feature-length movies, four TV episodes and a video of a 90-minute corporate presentation, before the battery died midway through an episode of "The Closer."
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That is great to hear. That was my favorite part of the review.

I was curious what kind of use Apple had in mind with the 10 hours life claim.
 
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