The iPAD touch looks....

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chrisfreez

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The iPAD touch looks very promising. However, the screen is less than 10 inches which is a big turn off to me. I had a 10 inch netbook but gave it to my daughter because the screen was too small. I bought a 12 inch netbook which is plenty big for a portable computer.

If Apple makes a 11.5 or 12 inch iPAD with a decent camera they will not be apple to keep up with the demand. And if they put a phone into an ipad well they'll sell a Zillion in one year. I'd dump my cell phone and computers in a nano second if there was an IPAD touch with a camera and a cell phone built in. It's very possible and we already have the technology. The phone keys would of course be software related. Boy, that would almost put an end of consumer notebooks, computers, and many cell phones.

To those of you who will say we don't need a phone iin the Ipad because we already have that in a cell phones with screens. Yeah, on a miniture screen.

Do any of you remember the bottled water commerical years ago when a man in the commerical said. Hey lets sell bottled water. another man said are you nuts, water is free no one will buy bottled water. You all know the rest of the story.

The ipad with a camera is right around the corner, and one with a 12 inch screen and a phone may be 3 years away.
 
meh, im plenty happy with my iphone its a cell phone dont need to have a huge screen not to mention it would be an inconvenience having to lug that everywhere and trying to talk and dial on it while driving i dont even wanna imagine it.

when i logged into aol the other day there was a story about a bunch of ipads already being returned because people werent happy.

basically once they bought it they found out how pointless it is, id rather spend money on 2-3 netbooks than on ipad.

but thats just me.
 
Who in the world would wont a phone that is that big. The only way to talk on it would be Bluetooth which personally I find annoying. Secondly an iPad is NOT a computer and is NOT and never will be a replacement for one. The iPad is nothing but an oversize overpriced iPod touch and there is no point in having one other then saying you have one. Personally I am more interested in the tablet HP has coming out which has build in USB and SD card reader and will hopefully be more of a computer then a silly gadget.

Apple A4 CPU Dissection: iPad is Just a Big iTouch: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ipad-iphone-a4-arm-cortex,10089.html

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Meh i wouldn't say promising, i think its a bit of a gimmic, and yeah its basically a big ridiculously overpriced ipod touch. I don't think it will get many says imo
 
chrisfreez said:
To those of you who will say we don't need a phone iin the Ipad because we already have that in a cell phones with screens. Yeah, on a miniture screen.
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First, the iPad is not a netbook replacement, it doesn't run Windows or OS X, only runs apps designed for the iPhone or iPad, no USB, etc.

How do you expect to make a phone call on the iPad? That would be a pain, and would cost a lot more per month.
 
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First, the iPad is not a netbook replacement, it doesn't run Windows or OS X, only runs apps designed for the iPhone or iPad, no USB, etc.

How do you expect to make a phone call on the iPad? That would be a pain, and would cost a lot more per month.
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Actually Geoff it runs a HEAVILY nerfed version of OSX, if you wanted to make a phone call you could go Dom Jolly:

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PabloTeK said:
Actually Geoff it runs a HEAVILY nerfed version of OSX, if you wanted to make a phone call you could go Dom Jolly:
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It run's a beefed up version of the iPhone OS. There are virtually no similarities between the iPad OS and OS X.
 
Fatback said:
Who in the world would wont a phone that is that big. The only way to talk on it would be Bluetooth which personally I find annoying. Secondly an iPad is NOT a computer and is NOT and never will be a replacement for one. The iPad is nothing but an oversize overpriced iPod touch and there is no point in having one other then saying you have one. Personally I am more interested in the tablet HP has coming out which has build in USB and SD card reader and will hopefully be more of a computer then a silly gadget.

Apple A4 CPU Dissection: iPad is Just a Big iTouch: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ipad-iphone-a4-arm-cortex,10089.html

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Yeah, except then you would have to put with a rubbish HP product. Once the iPad and iPhone are updated with multitasking (new iPhone OS) it will be a perfect netbook replacement. What's wrong with the Apple A4 CPU? It does exactly what it's supposed to, and it does it fast. That's far more than you can say about cheap netbooks trying to run a bloated Windows OS on those watered down Intel Celeron's redubbed "Atom"
 
Ethan3.14159 said:
Yeah, except then you would have to put with a rubbish HP product. Once the iPad and iPhone are updated with multitasking (new iPhone OS) it will be a perfect netbook replacement. What's wrong with the Apple A4 CPU? It does exactly what it's supposed to, and it does it fast. That's far more than you can say about cheap netbooks trying to run a bloated Windows OS on those watered down Intel Celeron's redubbed "Atom"
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Who would choose an iPad over a netbook? it cost more, and can't do nearly as much. Also XP and W7 run great on a netbook. I wasn't trying to say there was something wrong with the CPU I was just pointing out that it has the same processing power as the iPhone hence why it is nothing more then an over-sized iPod touch.

I just don't think it will ever be more then what it is. There are a ton of changes they need to make before this thing even comes close to a netbook IMO
 
The only things the iPad does better then a netbook in my opinion, is at reading eBooks, browsing photos, and surfing youtube.
 
I was looking ......

I was looking out 2 to 4 years from now. HP is working on a similar product that I believe will have a USB port and maybe a camera.

I have an acer 1410 notebook computer but it is as small, and thin, and light as a netnook. In fact it looks more like a netbook than a notebook. It has the celeron processor with 2 GB Ram upgradable to 4 GB Ram. It is fast with 2 GB Ram so i have not upgraded. The acer system I have could very well be used in an ipad or similar product.

If the process i have in my acer 1410 12.5 inch screen notebook computer was in an iPAD or the HP tablet I buy one in a nano second, and give my notebook to my kids. My little acer with the celeron is very powerful for its size, and its much faster than the ATOM processor.

You can bet your bottom dollar that a product like the ipad will replace the notebook and the netbook in a few years. The writing is on the wall. I am not saying it will replace the high end stuff, but it will replace many of the small to mid range capacity netbooks and notebooks.
 
Ethan3.14159 said:
Yeah, except then you would have to put with a rubbish HP product. Once the iPad and iPhone are updated with multitasking (new iPhone OS) it will be a perfect netbook replacement. What's wrong with the Apple A4 CPU? It does exactly what it's supposed to, and it does it fast. That's far more than you can say about cheap netbooks trying to run a bloated Windows OS on those watered down Intel Celeron's redubbed "Atom"
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As if everything HP makes is crap...have you used one of their high end notebooks lately?

And the Atom is more of a CPU than the ARM/A4 can ever hope to be. It runs Windows just fine. And if it's too slow for you, Linux will run faster, and will STILL do more than the iPhone OS, even after the update.

Perhaps when apple releases the full-featured version it'll be better, but right now, there's no way in hell I'm paying that much for a giant ipod when I can pay less for a complete computer.
 
Apple is just milking its cows :P


Though I will admit its a neat idea but id prefer a Kindle over the ipad.
 
The HP tablet will be slow and full of bloatware. Like every other HP product. They seem to just love to rip off Apple these days. The Envy lineup is a poor man's Macbook Pro copy, but more expensive. The Probook lineup is aluminum with multitouch. I wonder where they got that idea from. And now the Slate.

The apps for the iPad will be what makes the product special. That's where no other manufacturer can come close to competing with Apple. I can also see this being a big hit in the service industry. Instead of a clipboard and paper at the doctors office an iPad would be far quicker and efficient in transferring information between doctors, nurses, and receptionists. Also instead of waiters/waitresses using pen and paper, quickly taking orders with the iPad would make things easier. Most coffee shops and the like have touch screen computers at the counter. Why not make it portable?

And I think it's a good thing Apple don't have flash support for the iPad. Flash is slow and unreliable, and Adobe do nothing about it because it's their cash cow and there's no real alternative. However, now HTML5 is getting much more attention, and it should as it's far superior to Flash in every way.
 
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