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Using an Apple 'exchange rate' derived from the basic MacBook ($999 / £819)...

$499 converts to £409

So not £600 at all then gabi. :rolleyes:
 
It's growing on me.. I don't think the Home screen does it any favours.. looks dated.. I'm very interested to see how some of the music apps scale up/developed.. like Beatmaker.. Noise io.. even the piano app.. I can see some potential for music production vst type plug-in apps..
 
Ok, fair enough, I'm shit at maths, but I've done a quick attempt here based on apple's site...

iMac in the UK - £969.00 ($1,565)
iMac in the US - $1,199

Which is pretty different in my mind, hence why i always buy my stuff over there. happy to be proved wrong though.
 
dogmatique said:
No mention of 3G. Which limits it A LOT. I presume tethering to the iphone so you can drain its battery instead of the iPad.
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TBH I'd see that as a good thing or else you'll end up getting stung for two data packages. I wonder if its just the iphone you'll be able to tether it to or other mobile devices?
 
No phone calls? If you've got a 3g connection why no phone calls? They didn't make ripping the sim out of the iPhone particularly easy so that will just be annoying. Is there bluetooth?

So who wants one then?

I quite like it, but I'm sitting here with a desktop and a laptop and an iPhone. Do I really want or even need to splash out on it? Does it offer me anything new? I don't thing it does. So from that stand point its all a bit meh

I look forward to the update to the iPhone which clearly isn't today.

e2a: Well bluetooth is there but that 10 quid a month extra on o2
 
My initial reaction (as posted on Wirefresh - which has just had a record amount of hits for one day!):
Our initial reaction is that we’re a little underwhelmed after all the hype.
Sure, it looks better than any netbook we’ve ever seen, but we’re finding it hard to find what niche this is going to fill.
For portable emailing and web browsing, we’ve got our iPhones, and for knocking out large amounts of text, a cheap £200 netbook will do the job just fine.
With the iPad offering no memory card slot, it wont be so hot for quickly backing up photos when were on the move, and seeing as it can’t run industry standard programs like Photoshop, it looks like we’ll still need to pack our netbook or small laptops when we’re out on assignment.
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If I had £400+ right now I'd get a new laptop.

I could see myself getting something like this one day though, with one specific need: As an SLR tether for shoots. Lots of photographers use netbooks / laptops for this at the moment, but a 10hr battery tablet would be waaaay better. Keyboard largely irrelevant for that application. Multi touch massively beneficial.
 
I can imagine that someone would want to look at a spreadsheet with one rather than edit one but for the odd edit, it might be OK.

Today Apple lost the momentum of the iPhone, until they release the next iPhone of course.
 
paolo999 said:
If I had £400+ right now I'd get a new laptop.

I could see myself getting something like this one day though, with one specific need: As an SLR tether for shoots. Lots of photographers use netbooks / laptops for this at the moment, but a 10hr battery tablet would be waaaay better. Keyboard largely irrelevant for that application. Multi touch massively beneficial.
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Still waitin on your response. Are my maths off?
 
So let me get this straight, I have to take out a seperate monthly contract from my mobile phone (which has unlimited data), just for data?
 
paolo999 said:
If I had £400+ right now I'd get a new laptop.

I could see myself getting something like this one day though, with one specific need: As an SLR tether for shoots. Lots of photographers use netbooks / laptops for this at the moment, but a 10hr battery tablet would be waaaay better. Keyboard largely irrelevant for that application. Multi touch massively beneficial.
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With the IPS display they really missed a trick with the photographer. Being able to have a such a good quality display to preview pictures would have many of them standing outside queueing up with the geeks. No memory card reader and they have gimped it. Why have an IPS display if your not going to use it for photos.
 
I'm knackered after knocking out five articles on Wirefresh about this in 90 minutes - and having to listen to those fucking awful US webcasters the whole time.
 
What it offers me that is new is the ability to access the web whilst lounging in bed, without the screen being too small or the os & interaction getting on my tits, or a fan & exhaust spitting hot air and making a noise. There are a few other devices around that could probably get close to doing this too, but they have limitations I dont like. The limitations of this iPad, and there are certainly some, arent ones that bother me.

The only thing I might be disappointed about is the screen res - it wasnt mentioned and the words HD werent used as far as I noticed, so I guess it will be below the 1280x800 I had hoped for. Perhaps it is 960X640, which would be amusing to me because when I was pondering best res for a tablet years ago, and what res I should use for HD video, I had quite a fling with 960x something resolutions.

I intend to buy the cheapest model (or maybe the 32GB depending on price) as soon as I can (60 days if initial stock is enough to meet demand or I get lucky) for development purposes. If I wasnt planning to develop on one then I would probably still buy one as I have no doubt there will be quite a few killer apps written for it. Then at my leisure I will decide whether to upgrade to a 3G one, Im not sure 'everyone will want one' but I dont anticipate too much trouble reselling the non-3G one I will get first.
 
Touchscreen presentation and mapping software could be promising mind.

As most others I'm a bit meh. But on the other hand what would have really won people over given that it's a tablet? I'm cynical, but I can't help feeling that tablets will take off at some point and this is as good and comprehensive stab as any. If the content becomes compelling it could have wings.
 
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