[geeks] iPad - a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Chad McAuley]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Mark Benson wrote:

> Well it's been a rumour for slightly longer than a roll of Andrex, but it's
> finally dropped. iPad, the fabled Apple tablet.
>
> So it looks really nice, and it's not a bad price either, but... nope sorry.
I
> don't want a giant iPhone. I don't want the shackles of Apple and their
damned
> App Store crap[1], and I don't want to carry something that sounds like a
> women's sanitary product. Oh and it's a netbook size device with a 1GB ARM
CPU
> and it likely won't multitask[2]... GET REAL!
>
> Sorry. No.
>
> [1] It uses iPhone OS 3.2 apparently. Although I don't know for sure if the
> App Store restriction is in place on the iPad but I'd guess it is as it's
> basically a large format iPhone on juice pills.
>
> [2] Also an assumption based on the OS and the iPhone lineage.
>

I'd have been all over something like the iPad if it came out 10 years ago
when I was getting ready to go off to college (assuming it could multitask).
Have most/all of my books on there as ebooks, have the keyboard dock on the
desk back in my dorm room/apartment, use it to take notes in class and work on
papers, be able to surf the web/play games/study if I had some time to kill
between classes, and all on the same device? That would've been very handy.
Now? Not so much.