has anyone bought, used, or seen one ? looking to buy one hard to decide what size or wether to get a 3g one or not?

Should be called the IPOO another usless bit of junk to waste money on

I work in advertising and the guy in the pink suit who get's paid lots of money, drives a porche, and does very little in his day bought one from America some months ago.

I think he's a complete dick - but his ipad was fantastic and I want one. I will wait for the second generation though - can't wait.

can anyone recommend a laptop or something similar which is a better option?

I got one a few weeks back. Fu$&@n love it. Suits my needs perfectly. What do you want to do on it?

^^ zeitgeist. Simple as that.

Laptop = yawwwnn... like soooo 90s.

igad(get) = hey I'm so kn funky I paid more for less and here is the proof! All worship me!! Prepare for dazzling solar rays as i bend to tie my shoes.

ok said...

can anyone recommend a laptop or something similar which is a better option?

any tablet pc built in the last 7 years?

all i want is something that i can download music and movies on thats not gunna cost alot of money what does flash actually do?

pooman said...
no flash = no website content ie videos, animations, interactive forms, web apps and games. Big example would be Vimeo videos

From http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/

Vimeo
The popular video-sharing site Vimeo.com features an HTML5 player that displays most videos on iPad.

Flash is so 90's

I had a play with an iPad before they were released over here, I couldn't see the point for me, although there is one function that would be very cool...

You can use it as an external screen for a laptop.

So imagine this: You run an iPad as an external screen in a holder on your desk. You want to go watch TV but not bring your laptop... pick up the iPad and you're on the couch, surfing when you need to

As your only computer though, it would get pretty frustrating very quickly, at least for me... Look at all the ads for it, one hand is always holding the damn thing.

dan berry said...


And get the 3g, worth the extra if you need to be mobile.

Just be real careful if you start surfing the net on 3g you could easily rack up huge bills without realising.
Make sure you are on a good plan, with plenty of download capacity.

I'll admit I am a bit of a mac hater (actually just a fanboi hater, their gear is good its the fanaticism that irks me) however work gave me one a couple of weeks ago to trial and I actually quite like it.
They seem to have gotten the form factor right, it feels nice in the hands.
the screen is incredibly clear.
Its surprising how using your finger feels good where the pens on the older tablets was a real pain.
It is limiting having to link it to Itunes and the lack of a USB port just seems dumb. Itunes in the cloud (which I believe is on the way) will help.

Would be a good tool for a rep who wants to show pictures or presentations, but at the moment it would be difficult to then turn it around and take someones order, so its not quite there yet.

I also dont like the way you cant create an in-house company specific app and just load it on without going through the app store.

best thing to do is go into dick smith, or wherever, and use one. Make sure you annoy the sales guy and use it for a good while before you make up your mind.

aS far as the download issue goes, you can check your useage in the settings and keep track that way. With movies I guess you would down load onto iTunes at home then transfer from there? Yea USB would be great but then you would be getting too close to laptop territory, not a good thing business wise for apple. Most of the files I handle on it are relatively small so I just email them and transfer that way.
We are about to swap from pc to mac for the home office, we need to keep using myob and the invoicing program which are both ms only. Does any one have experience with parallels or fusion to run the ms versions on a mac?

Wah Wah Wah...

The misses has one, uses it for work - I've had a play, they're good fun and great for travel.

^^^funny as hell photostrip!

In keeping with the theme...bought 2 'mp3' players for the kids Xmas pressies @$15 ea from Aldi's...they're great! just copy/paste from folder to folder, no I-store or I-tunes. Simple enough that a 4yo can work it too! (still not simple enough for me unfortunately)