[GRLUG] iPad

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:35 -0500, Casey DuBois wrote:
> Will it do everything your netbook will?

It doesn't multitask!  All I can say is "Seriously?  .... Seriously?".
Who the *@^&* wants to use this thing?

> What will it do better?

Act as a portal to iTunes.

> What won't it do?

Real work of any kind.   I see some interesting uses for tablets [real
tablets] but I really can't imagine them. even good ones, competing
against real laptops or high-end netbooks [whatever that means], 

My biggest gripe [aside from the backbreaker of no multitasking] would
be on-screen-keyboard.  Once you bring up the on-screen-keyboard you've
lost a huge amount of real-estate on the smallish screen.  And sitting
and using the thing in any normal position would be really awkward.