The Shattered Potential of the iPad - Student's Perspective

[bpd115]

It doesn't come with a stylus, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

There you go. Now you just need to find the best app to use to take notes and do your diagrams.

As far as multitasking? It exists for Apple apps which I would assume would include the iWork suite.

So yes, you should be able to launch a song on the iPod app, move into Pages, start typing, switch to Safari, research and copy/paste what you need and move back into pages without missing a beat.

They need to extend this to 3rd party apps, and I'm sure it's coming soon.

 

[MikhailT]

For those of you who don't understand why a stylus is important, the problem with keyboard is that you can't enter diagrams/shapes and equations with it. Mouse is definitely not comfortable for those type of inputs. A combination between keyboard/finger/stylus is the way to go here.

There are a lot of netbook makers that are trying to convert their netbooks into tablets. Some are trying to include a wacom based touchscreen with stylus input. We'll just have to see how it goes.

I wish the iPad was the one for this, but with no multitasking and stylus support, it's not the ultimate solution for students at this moment. HP Slate is better for students at this moment, especially with OneNote.

 

[3N16MA]

I have said this already in many threads but multitasking would have made the iPad a definite buy for me. The OP's point about Safari and Pages is the whole reason I want multitasking on this device.

 

[Unprocessed1]

It doesn't come with a stylus, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

There you go. Now you just need to find the best app to use to take notes and do your diagrams.

As far as multitasking? It exists for Apple apps which I would assume would include the iWork suite.

So yes, you should be able to launch a song on the iPod app, move into Pages, start typing, switch to Safari, research and copy/paste what you need and move back into pages without missing a beat.

They need to extend this to 3rd party apps, and I'm sure it's coming soon.

We can only hope, a stylus experience on this device would be great if the software is good.