Poll: Ipad
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The latest Atoms (Pine Trail) have onboard GPUs as well. Some of the SoC GPUs are actually quite powerful; nVidia's much-hyped Tegra 2 is an ARM+GeForce SoC.Ph33nix said:
Early reports actually indicate that the iPad's graphics performance is very good.
I've been thinking about the IPad for a while, trying to figure out where I've seen them before. Then it hit me when I thought about a different post from the other day about which was everyone's favorite incarnation of Star Trek. The IPad reminds me of the computers on the Enterprise (Star Trek Original and Star Trek The Next Generation), only without the talkie part. Think about it... it doesn't play games, you can't plug anything into it (the basic model, anyway), and it seems to have the bare minimum of equipment to be classified as a "computer".
Smells like a netbook for Apple geeks with entirely too much money in their pockets. Anyone want to bet that Apple will open an exclusive IPad app store?
Smells like a netbook for Apple geeks with entirely too much money in their pockets. Anyone want to bet that Apple will open an exclusive IPad app store?
I can't believe people are actually buying the POS. $700?! What the fuck! I have an ipod touch that does exactly the same thing thank you very much.
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The purpose of the iPad is innovation. Have any of you heard of the "App Store." It's a brilliant ingenious place where people like you and me can find things made by other people. Price isn't the topic here.
For example, "Jimmy" here is college student with a spinal injury dating back to the early years. He still has the intentions of being a successful being to develop for the future world by going to college. Those text books sure are heavy for him, however. With this glorious iPad storing all his text books and his notes he's taking during class, he's now the coolest kid in class. It's a shame that everyone else is lugging around their $1,500 dollars worth of text books. Jimmy got all the books at a fraction of the price all in one convenient little device.
Sure, you may not be going to college. You may be beyond that. There are alternative uses yet to be developed. The iPhone has applications to use the camera to scan bar codes, be a friendly GPS while driving, tell you what the song is on the radio, help you solve any problem on a piece of paper EVER with measurements you've never even heard of. It's all in due time.
The purpose of the iPad is innovation. Have any of you heard of the "App Store." It's a brilliant ingenious place where people like you and me can find things made by other people. Price isn't the topic here.
For example, "Jimmy" here is college student with a spinal injury dating back to the early years. He still has the intentions of being a successful being to develop for the future world by going to college. Those text books sure are heavy for him, however. With this glorious iPad storing all his text books and his notes he's taking during class, he's now the coolest kid in class. It's a shame that everyone else is lugging around their $1,500 dollars worth of text books. Jimmy got all the books at a fraction of the price all in one convenient little device.
Sure, you may not be going to college. You may be beyond that. There are alternative uses yet to be developed. The iPhone has applications to use the camera to scan bar codes, be a friendly GPS while driving, tell you what the song is on the radio, help you solve any problem on a piece of paper EVER with measurements you've never even heard of. It's all in due time.
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sidenote: I have yet to jump onto the i-bandwagon. I've never owned an iPod [except for those couple of gameplay minutes in that Metal Gear movie on the PS3] with no plans to buy one. At some point I stopped lamenting the lack of a clock radio for Zune...Well, it was at the point I realized I can stream music through my PS3 using a PSP [and that my alarm clock has no major defect anyway]
And you read right: I am that 0.02% who is happy as a Zune owner
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sidenote: I have yet to jump onto the i-bandwagon. I've never owned an iPod [except for those couple of gameplay minutes in that Metal Gear movie on the PS3] with no plans to buy one. At some point I stopped lamenting the lack of a clock radio for Zune...Well, it was at the point I realized I can stream music through my PS3 using a PSP [and that my alarm clock has no major defect anyway]
And you read right: I am that 0.02% who is happy as a Zune owner
It's useless, overpriced and average attempt at something that's already been done before, but with an added gimmick to make up for the fact it fails on a fundamental level. Of course I'm not getting one.
Wouldn't buy one as I have no real use for one. Haven't heard anything about the iPad that is even remotely close to convincing me to buy one. That said, I wouldn't say no if somebody gave me one for free
virtual books cost just as much and most text books are not online because alot of professors (atleast in my experience) use the books that they wrote. also being an apple app developer sucks they really mistreat those guys. I looked into getting the software in order to develop for apple because it looked like a good way to make some extra cash and keep my skills sharp but you are lucky to break even making those apps with in the first 3 years. Apple wants you to buy their software pay a annual fee for them putting "your product" on their servers and then they want a cut of everything you make and they take a big cut.OmegaXzors said:
I am currently lusting for one of these. At the moment, I have a Macbook Pro as my workstation. It's a fantastic machine and I love it dearly (especially after installing Snow Leopard on it), but it's little more than a portable desktop. I don't use it for more than email, internet, writing and media when I'm lugging it around town or around the house. I have no need for such a powerful machine away from my desktop. The iPad is absolutely perfect for my needs: A lightweight machine that I can use for a myriad of things.
Someone mentioned sketching, I think. This is a great point. I have a Wacom at my work-desk, with its spiffy pressure-sensitivity and large drawing surface. The iPad I could use for casual sketching using a rudimentary tool, anywhere I'd like, and then I could import my sketches into my desktop machine and do the heavy-duty work there. Perfect.
My dream scenario is owning an iMac as a desktop machine, and an iPad for everything else. I'll probably end up selling my laptop, as it seems I'm not actually in the target demographic for one of them. I don't do any heavy graphics work, programming or heavy-duty gaming outside the house.
I'd like to point naysayers to an interesting article I just stumbled upon:
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been
It's quite interesting, and very relevant to this discussion.
Someone mentioned sketching, I think. This is a great point. I have a Wacom at my work-desk, with its spiffy pressure-sensitivity and large drawing surface. The iPad I could use for casual sketching using a rudimentary tool, anywhere I'd like, and then I could import my sketches into my desktop machine and do the heavy-duty work there. Perfect.
My dream scenario is owning an iMac as a desktop machine, and an iPad for everything else. I'll probably end up selling my laptop, as it seems I'm not actually in the target demographic for one of them. I don't do any heavy graphics work, programming or heavy-duty gaming outside the house.
I'd like to point naysayers to an interesting article I just stumbled upon:
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been
It's quite interesting, and very relevant to this discussion.
Really? What, pray tell, is the point of computers?Ph33nix said:
Today, the computer is a versatile, ubiquitous tool. You see computers used for number crunching, databases, research; as well as e-mail, gaming, web-browsing and the list goes on.
There is no one point of computers. As computers get cheaper and more wide-spread, they get delegated to more mundane tasks. Tools that were once mainly used for scientific research are now used to consume media and spread social interaction.
So, tell me. What is the point of computers?
My friend is co-founder of an LLC developing apps for the iPhone and iPad. Because his brother is working on the new "Transformers: War for Cybertron" game, he gets the development app free of charge. A lot of developers in big name companies work in an environment already where Apple provides the program in hopes of creative material.Ph33nix said:
Apple cuts 30% of all sales. If your price is $9.99, they cut 30% of that. Also, if your application has good ratings, they'll feature it randomly at no extra charge which rakes in more sales. I wouldn't say that they are mistreated. Especially when I hear that the annual fee for the program is only $40. Not to mention, the program to develop pretty much gives you step-by-step instructions to make sure "what you want" is done correctly and smoothly. I wouldn't say Apple isn't greedy, but they certainly aren't assholes. They want things added to their tiny world. It's why the iPhone generates 20% of the entire cell phone market across the globe.