iPad

**Dmmos** · 28th January 2010, 05:40 AM

I did it - I woke up early to read live blogs

Initial thoughts?

I think it looks cool, but I'm not sure that I'll be holding my breath till it comes out, impossible to tell I guess without holding it, etc.

Apple - iPad - Features

**flagg** · 28th January 2010, 06:20 AM

looks good.

The pedigree of Apple and tablets is second to none (newton) and this time apple isn't going to let it fail. Tablets have waxed and waned for 10 years now and no one has been able to make them successful (Apple included) because while they are no doubt cool, no one really knows what to do with them that you can't do with a notebook that costs half as much.

Even though I love them, I will not be getting one for two reasons:

1. Never buy revision one Apple anything.
2. It doesn't run Ozi

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 28th January 2010, 07:25 AM

It's Apple cool as ever. It will be interesting to see how they price it here, given they are charging over 1k already for an iphone, and $1200 for a macbook.

Personally I don't have a use for it but I can see that many people would have one.

Tombie · 28th January 2010, 07:29 AM

I love my apple gear (currently have 3 ipods, 2 MBPs and 4 iphones

) but i cant see myself owning this at all...

**Quarks** · 28th January 2010, 07:34 AM

I wanted something like that 5 years ago. Since there were only rumours at the time, I ended up getting a hp tablet.

However, I have found it just about perfect for taking notes for school and uni - as a kind of crossover between a writing/ sketch pad and a laptop. Searchable handwriting is awesome!

Still definitely a niche market though - most people who asked me about my one are suprised at how old it is! That said, I'll wait a few more years before I spend up on another tablet. Then apple might be off revision 1.

**solmanic** · 28th January 2010, 11:58 AM

On the keynote Steve Jobs referenced the Netbook. It is clearly lightyears ahead of any Windows based web-laptop product so if the price is even 30% higher they will grab pretty much that whole market. For my mind, if I was wanting to get my kid a laptop for school then this would be perhaps the first item on the shopping list (with a suitable case of course).

I suspect $499US for the base wi-fi only model will translate to about $649AUD here and $829US will be $1099AUD.

**Scallops** · 28th January 2010, 12:02 PM

I'll be getting one - I need a portable device. I'll be waiting for the next G version. Life is too short to use PC's.

**solmanic** · 28th January 2010, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by flagg

...1. Never buy revision one Apple anything.

Maybe. But this is not really a revision one product. Just about all the technology is borrowed from the iPhone & Macbook where it's pretty well bedded in. The only thing I can see them doing a controlled, marketing upgrade on is the internal storage. 64GB will soon become 128GB then they will shoehorn in a 250GB SSHD... and so on.

**weeds** · 28th January 2010, 12:15 PM

where is the link?????

Apple - iPad - Features - The best device for web, email & photos.

**Dmmos** · 28th January 2010, 12:28 PM

I'm definitely in two minds - pricing will be very important in Aus; I think they'll bring it in at $699.

It looks gorgeous (although, by the way, does anybody else think that the apps all look far too small and spaced out?)...

Interesting review here; Five things the iPad is missing | Crave - CNET

I agree completely with the following (given it couldn't have been too difficult, and I would be lining up now if it had this feature);

No camera
One killer feature that would have made this a must-have for many people would have been a forward-facing Webcam for iChat-like video chatting. Sure, MacBooks and iMacs have them already, but that's more to the point. A mobile, anywhere-in-the-house device like this seems much more video chat-friendly than a laptop or desktop. It seems that Apple could have used this opportunity to really introduce the video phone appliance as a reality but for some reason it didn't.

Services like Skype are already in the App Store. Including a forward-facing camera would give users many choices as to which VVoIP (Video and Voice over IP) provider they'd use with their family and friends. As more people started using these services, it would attract more buyers of the hardware. If the son or daughter at college had video chat on his iPad then the mother or father back home would be apt to buy one for themselves.

And the design of the iPad, especially with the iPad Dock, makes it a much more attractive solution than a laptop or desktop for video chat. Video chat needs a killer appliance, the iPad could be it. The iPad needs a killer app, and video chat could be it.

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