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Come on you techno geeks is this the next biggy or what?

I thought it was just an irish Ipod?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8483654.stm

Can't see it taking off in a big way. Think it will be a niche product for those who have a specific reason why its practical for them.

ppl prob love them because they are apple and fashionable

10 hour battery life, pretty impressive in it's self.

Probably sums it up.

Apple fans/suckers and the very very small minority that it actually helps will buy them (the first category being several times larger than the second obv.)

What Apple have done is quite clever - they spotted that netbooks were going to be a busted flush and so have, at a swoop, come up with something which will fill that place in the market.

It looks great.

Don't be trash talking my Barbie like that!  A regular laptop would be miles too heavy for me to carry around on a regular basis and I'll be lost without it if they stop making netbooks.

As one commentator put it: "Imagine how much money Apple wouldn't have made if it sold a netbook". They just steal sales from more expensive/profitable computers.

(http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/?src=http://www.torontosun.com/life/gadgets/2010/01/27/jobstablet640.jpg&size=640x480&quality=60)

Its gonna be massive.

looks abs incred

    * .5 inches thin
    * 1.5 lbs
    * 9.7 inch IPS display
    * Capacitive multitouch
    * 1GHz proc Apple A4 chip (PA Semi!)
    * 16GB, 32GB, 64GB
    * 802.11n WiFi
    * BT 2.1
    * Compass
    * 10 hrs battery life
    * 1 month standby

Steve Jobs has been shrunk in the wash and he's holding an IPhone?

Price?

Actually I can make a guess... too bloody much.

$499/$599/$699 has been thrown around - don't know if it's been confirmed.

Kudos to the first joker who pulls one out on the train, puts it to his ear and shouts "I'M ON THE TRAIN" :)

Easy to hold?

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1348.html

And that's exactly why it'll fail. An IPhone does 80% of what this does on something that fits in a pocket. No point having a word processor on something that doesn't have a proper keyboard. Netbook cheaper + better.

Yep - gg apple

and the IPad doesn't have a camera - so the iPhone has that advantage over it.

Can you multi task with netbooks?

Because I just read that you won't be able to have more than one application open on the ipad at the same time - which is pretty bad, but I don't know if that's worse than netbooks or the same?

The iPad doesn't have a camera because Apple want people with an iPad to also have an iPhone, and use that to make phone calls and take photos.

It doesn't multitask because Apple don't want people to use the iPad as a replacement for their Mac desktop.

They don't want people to get an iPad instead of an iPhone or Mac, they want people to get all of them.

Netbooks can multi-task, obviously.  This is a negative aspect of the iphone against some other smart phones.

This ipad will sell, because Apple know how to market - not because it's good or fills a niche (except the niche for people who want an iphone that doesn't fit into their pocket).  It doesn't allow you to multi-account on it either, so the idea that you could have one floating round the house for all to use when needed is lost.  Won't stop it selling though.

It seems it can multitask, but only when using apple apps and not 3rd party apps.

The Register seem to think it's the latest incarnation of a portable telly.

I'm not so sure. I was sceptical about the IPhone, but it now sells pretty much on the back of the App store. What Apple have done there is impressive. So the IPad can run App Store apps, which is obviously a big plus, but there still seems very little reason to get one over an IPhone. From what I've read of it, it's bigger, and that's about it.

:)

I don't really see the point of it.

To me the main failing seems to be the software. The iPhone OS is pretty good for what it is. It lacks features such as multi-tasking (for the most part) but I can live with this because at the end of the day it's a phone. But on a tablet PC which I would expect to be able to use more like a laptop I can't really look past this sort of missing feature.

And on screen keyboards suck. I can't imagine ever using it for anything which requires extensive typing.

So it's basically a bigger iPhone. So what's the point?

oh, and it also has a stupid name

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzhXMbOWHE

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26645016-5003402,00.html?from=public_rss



Microsoft made so much money from ripping off apple macs that some clever person at apple realised the profit in taking good gadgets and making them easier to use. If you can master technology there are better products and usually cheaper just not idiot proof.

Sandy

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary)

No Flash for it either (like the iphone) - so if it's competing against netbooks, that's another negative for it.

Hitler has already responded:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4

Reminds me of this:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdOMH_Tmx24

One day, I too hope to be able to be reminded of something after a whole 3.5 hours have passed :).

There's probably an app for that.

Sigh.

My iphone obviously didn't display Mosk's post...or something.

Would be funny if all this about the ipad being effectively a large iphone is just a level, and it's actaully going to be an amazing, powerful tablet macbook.

will you be able to play online poker on it , i have the i touch and you cant on that ?????????

With no flash support, you'd have to have a downloaded app that designed specifically for the OS - so at the moment, no.

It can run windows though :P

Wow, that Macbook Wheel was a stupid idea

? ? it's their biggest seller in the states

(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/Andr4w/ipad.jpg)