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editor said:
No idea why you're bringing this up because that style of writing is no different to hundreds of news reports you'll read today and every other day.

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Nothing to do with style of writing.

I'll let you see if you can work out the difference between the two statements. ;)
 
I've almost cracked godammit! All that stands between me and an iPad now is $700 (my keyboard's doing weird layout things on here and the grauniad today...)

Must hold on til it's thinner.
 
It's thin enough, surely!

PS: It's still performing 95% of my home computing. The honeymoon is over and I'm not going "ooh shiny new toy!" any more. Just getting on with it. Excellent :)
 
Nah, next year Jobs'll come along and declare the original 'primitive' and unveil something an atom wide that comes in it's own force field to stop it slicing your hands in two when you hold it.
 
I also suspect that the $700 may well be insurmountable for at least a year or so, what with the cash hoover daughter on the way and all.
 
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Nah, next year Jobs'll come along and declare the original 'primitive' and unveil something an atom wide that comes in it's own force field to stop it slicing your hands in two when you hold it.
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I'd like an 5mp camera on the back and a front facing camera on it. Be nice if they dropped the wifi line and replaced them with the wifi&3G line at the same price point too while I'm wishing...oh yeah give is iOS4 too.
 
I'm usually pretty quick adopting new technology and I love the look of Apple's latest bit of gadgetry, but I'm still looking for the niche in my life that the iPad could fill.

If it had an SD card so I could use it for my photography then I might be interested - it would be ace to be able to slam in a card from my camera, check out the images on a bigger screen, make some quick edits and upload it from a tablet. It seems mad that it hasn't got a video camera seeing as that's a big feature on the new iPhone too, but I guess that's for the next update (I really can't see Jobs keeping cameras off the iPad forever).
 
I can see where it fits a great more easily if it had the camera. It'd good for casual sofa surfing, it'd also be useful with things like dropbox for reading briefing notes etc. It'd be great well doing viewings on properties, taking notes, photos etc...
 
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If it had an SD card so I could use it for my photography then I might be interested - it would be ace to be able to slam in a card from my camera, check out the images on a bigger screen
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Works well with the camera connection kit.
 
editor said:
I'm usually pretty quick adopting new technology and I love the look of Apple's latest bit of gadgetry, but I'm still looking for the niche in my life that the iPad could fill.

If it had an SD card so I could use it for my photography then I might be interested - it would be ace to be able to slam in a card from my camera, check out the images on a bigger screen, make some quick edits and upload it from a tablet. It seems mad that it hasn't got a video camera seeing as that's a big feature on the new iPhone too, but I guess that's for the next update (I really can't see Jobs keeping cameras off the iPad forever).
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I think you do too much regular content creation (esp. website editing) to have an ipad as a viable 2nd machine. The screen is lovely for photos though :)
 
Kanda said:
Works well with the camera connection kit.
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Too clunky, too easy to lose/forget/break (I have form in this area) and it kicks the already high price up even further.

My netbook is a hideous compromise and nowhere near as slick as an iPad, but it does all of the jobs I want to do a whole load better.

Mind you, I don't need a lot more features than what's already on the iPad, but the mix just isn't there for me at the moment.
 
Well, even the mini has an SD slot now, so it's not impossible that a future model will have one.

It'll be interesting to see if they expand the range of ipads - eg. an ipad pro with 15 inch screen, sd slot, usb etc.
 
A friend of mine who is a consultant asked me about it and I said I thought he'd probably find it more useful than I do professionally. One strength is that it's extremely quick to display and share information to people who are there. For example I had it in the pub this afternoon - somebody came in asking for directions and I was able to pull up a map in a few seconds, at a size that was reasonable enough to actually read easily rather than phone-squinty. I can see that going to a client meeting with one loaded with some Keynote, samples, case histories etc would be very handy.

What it's really crying out for is a good multimedia database app. I have Bento for it which transforms the desktop app from a mediocre list maker into something actually potentially very useful. But there's a lot better that could be done. Apps are in development for this purpose as well; Circus Ponies Notebook should be a killer if and when it emerges, for mac users anyway.
 
I know of a few industrial designers who use the ipad as a portfolio. I haven't used a paper portfolio for years, I always take my laptop, but the iPad is a bit small - a 15 inch one would be good, though.
 
Evernote is already quite good on it, although I'd like to be able to see images inline, without tapping them first
 
I think Im going to need to put in an additional standard VPN at work because the one we currently use isnt standard so wont work with the iPad, and the need to keep doing quick tasks on work machines is forcing me to keep using the laptop, reducing my iPad time.

I finally got the Apple case for it a few days ago, ahh thats it much more practical in a number of ways, although its a shame I can t take it in and out of the case more quickly.

In the coming hours Im going to have a go with trial version of Flash to see what their basic initial flash-HTML5 stuff is like, and to see how many different elements I can animate on the iPad with good performance. If flash does a poor job of generating HTML5 & CSS3 then I will build the animation tests manually, still well chuffed with how smoothly full-screen photos within webpages can be swiped within the browser using CSS3 transforms & transitions.
 
Oh yummy I just noticed there is now an ipad-optimised version of Google Earth :)

I didnt end up doing HTML5 flash tests tonight because a javascript touch-enabled application framework came out, its an iphone/ipad/android version of ext-js (now called Sencha) so there was lots for me to get my teeth into. Over the coming week or so I shall give it a try by writing an app that feeds off of JSON data from the likes of the Guardian.
 
editor said:
Indeed - and that's why something like the iPad could be a perfect back-up/image viewing tool for photographers - but give me SD slots dammit! And proper USB ports.
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SD slot? For sure - stupid ommision.
USB? not a big deal - dead input for the future.

The remote viewing over wifi, like I have on the iPhone for my Leaf digi back will come into it's own on the iPad with the ability to save to album as small jpegs added I'm sure.
& I'm certain that Canon & Nikon will have one for the higher end of their market very soon & eventually, the compact market will come on board too.
 
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