blessingx Posted March 8, 2010 Author Report Posted March 8, 2010 Like the Apple commercial, just a little clunkier... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MSjwUrxT0 What's up with the video links today?
morphsci Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 Typical BS like teh internets, email, calendar, photos. Other stuff: Light MS Office stuff, Music (ability to be music server as well as straight player), watch movies, hop on my parents' networks because they always screw them up. A netbook should be able to do all of that unless you are doing a HD-video. The MBP may be overkill unless you are doing some significant number crunching with things like video editing and such. That being said there are those members of Team Massive Overkill that may disagree.
grawk Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 The MBP has the advantage over a netbook in screen real estate, and keyboard and trackpad usability, however.
morphsci Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 Screen: Yes if you need the real estate on the road, otherwise an external monitor kicks ass. Keyboard: Yes. Trackpad: Absolutely. Just depends how much the size affects your ability to actually use it when you need it the way you want to use it. Wow, that was pretty circular.
grawk Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 I got really frustrated using my netbook. I've gotten to where I'd only use it when travelling or in a pinch. The ipad is way more appealing to me at this point than going back to my netbook. We'll see how I feel June 3 (after 60 days of use)
morphsci Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 I still use my netbook quite a bit and will probably use it more now that I have a nice pared-down version of Win-7 on it. But my guess is the iPad will take over most of its duties except as music server since it now has a nice 640Gb drive in there. We'll see though. I am taking it down to SC next week and it will be the only machine I have for a week.
Hopstretch Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 I think Dinny should buy a refreshed MBP and an iPad. This is the HC way, amirite?
morphsci Posted March 8, 2010 Report Posted March 8, 2010 I think Dinny should buy a refreshed MBP and an iPad. This is the HC way, amirite? Now who can argue with that?
penger Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Not sure how credible this is but... Jobs: No Tethering Between iPad and iPhone Reportedly no tethering.
grawk Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Not sure how credible this is but... Jobs: No Tethering Between iPad and iPhone Reportedly no tethering. Why wouldn't it be credible?
Hopstretch Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Because it's stupid? When AT&T enables tethering on their network, why would an iPad be treated any different from a laptop?
penger Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Why wouldn't it be credible? Because of this statement? According to a one-word reply from Steve Jobs in response to an email sent by Swedish website Slashat.se, there will be no way to tether a 3G connection from Apple's iPhone.Some of the rationalization later on in the article does make some sense though. /shrug
grawk Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 I don't see any reason to expect there would be a way to tether the ipad with an iPhone. If you want to tether instead of getting a 3g ipad, you'll have to either get something like a mifi, or hack something to allow wifi tethering.
Hopstretch Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Seems like a pretty simple hardware matter of 30-pin connector to 30-pin connector. Again, how do AT&T justify discriminating against one particular computing/display device once you've paid for a certain amount of tethering bandwidth?
grawk Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Seems like a pretty simple hardware matter of 30-pin connector to 30-pin connector. Again, how do AT&T justify discriminating against one particular computing/display device once you've paid for a certain amount of tethering bandwidth? Because they think people will pay the extra $30
Hopstretch Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Except tethering will probably cost more than that. And their CEO says no one will want the 3G version anyway.
jvlgato Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 Portable BT keyboard, coming spring of 2010. For iPad, AND iPhone/iTouch. I know, I know, I'll believe it when I see it. But we know an external keyboard will be allowed for iPad; I wonder if this would automatically allow external keyboards for iTouch and iPhone, since they are essentially the same OS? Perhaps Apple was delaying allowing this until iPad gets a foothold? I know that in the past, I would have been happy w/ an iTouch, if only it had an external keyboard. But now that I've been thinking of the ways I could use the iPad (esp as a VNC), I'll get an iPad over the iTouch. (Currently I have none of the above - only my Palm TX, which is on its last leg!) Jorno | Fold-up Bluetooth Keyboard - Home Coming Late Spring 2010 A modern, fold-up, Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Windows Mobile, and Android device
grawk Posted March 9, 2010 Report Posted March 9, 2010 I signed up for the mailing list on that keyboard
blessingx Posted March 9, 2010 Author Report Posted March 9, 2010 Looks like Verizon has big plans for the iPad.
thrice Posted March 11, 2010 Report Posted March 11, 2010 iPad pre-orders: tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. PT, 8:30 a.m. ET | iLounge News Fire up those credit cards!
jp11801 Posted March 12, 2010 Report Posted March 12, 2010 not sure if I need one but I am also not sure I can resist
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