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Will iPad be an end of the Mac's historic role in content creation?

MisterMe said:
No, they don't. Many recent buyers of computers will have more pixels than this. However, the vast majority of computers in the installed base have been in use for years. The pixel count of a substantial fraction of their monitors don't even approach the pixel count of the iPad.
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This is 2010, not 2000. While I would agree that quite some people might still have 1024 x 768 screens, you can not be serious with your "doesn't even come close to that resolution" comment. Many websites haven't even been optimized for anything smaller than 1024 x 768 for years. Either you are talking about mobile phones and not desktops, or you just woke up from the 90ies.
 
chrono1081 said:
I have designer and photographer friends who are DYING to get these for that sole purpose. Its really a great idea.
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A portable, onsite, portfolio is pretty much the only reason a designer or photog would buy one. If you buy a 3G enabled one, the cost over the year is more than an Macbook Pro 13" (significantly less if you buy refurb), and 1/10th as usable. If your shooting for the WiFi version, it makes more business sense to buy the MBP 13" as well. At least on a uMBP13 I can shoot tethered, have a nice spacious hard drive, auto-redundant backup on external drives, and enough juice to actually do quick retouches with Photoshop and the like. From a photography business point of view, the iPad is a horrible "investment." You use it professionally for mainly one thing, and it sits the rest of the time, or perhaps relegated to the task of 500.00 pad of paper/pencil. (As a side note, a parallel priced tablet is the new Asus netbook tablet. It can do all of what the iPad can do, and most of what the uMBP13 can as well.)

The iPad is an overgrown iPod Touch that is targeting people in the same manner as the Touch ... a portable entertainment device. Be it eBooks, music, movies, or document viewer the iPad will never be able to overtake a good old fashioned desktop/laptop machine. Yes, like the iPod, it will evolve over time and become more and more useful, but in the long run it will still be a media delivery device.
 
chaosbunny said:
This is 2010, not 2000. While I would agree that quite some people might still have 1024 x 768 screens, you can not be serious with your "doesn't even come close to that resolution" comment. Many websites haven't even been optimized for anything smaller than 1024 x 768 for years. Either you are talking about mobile phones and not desktops, or you just woke up from the 90ies.
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Out of curiosity, I checked whether you can buy 1024 x 768 at all. I checked www.dabs.co.uk which has hundreds of different monitors. Smallest size is 1280 x 1024 - with the exception of six touch screen monitors at 1024x768; the cheapest one £260 (review calls it cheap and tacky), the rest £290 upwards. This is very close to the price of the cheapest iPad.
 
If it can't run Photoshop or Dreamweaver it won't get very far. I don't know how graphics design would be made easier by touch screen either, that kind of work demands precision.
 
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