[GRLUG] iPad

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> 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.
>

 Wow.  Going for that substance thing
again when a iPad has such nice glitter.

As for size, fear not! I've heard rumors
already about the MaxiPad.

    -- Bob
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