Anyone going to stand in line for this thing? Just wondering

[jj]

yeah cause the x1000 wil be amazing build quality
 
best be saving up well over £1k

[BigBenAussie]

I'll buy one.............................for my 70 year old father.
It is a great way for him to learn about this internet thing that he feels left out of.

I tried to teach my mother how to use a PC a few years back.
I said move the mouse pointer here.
She picked up the mouse and pointed it at the monitor.
I still giggle about that.
This is perfect for her too.

I'm happy to play with their iPad to see what all the hype is about.

Honestly, I'd like one to muck about with too, but I can't justify it when I have 2 laptops, a netbook and 2 desktops already. I'd jailbreak it right away out of principle.

[AeroMan]

iPad No, thanx....

[halvliter'n]

The only thing Iplate is useful for is to serve food on.

[Pyromania]

iPad looks like a good solution for people that don't understand regular computers. It costs a little more than big digital picture frames used to cost. Also works for iPod Touch owners that always wanted a bigger screen.

[odin]

I'll wait for the PADD with LCARS interface and neat beep-bop TV computer noises.

[Pyromania]

Apple should make an electric car next. The "iCar"

[som99]

I can say that the biggest reason for not wanting a iPad is because of the lack of decent multitasking, also I need and want a qwerty keyboard, myself I got a Nokia N97 just because it has both qwerty and touchscreen. (I know symbian aint great with no direct acess to the framebuffer etc when coding for it but I bought mine before I knew about the N900, might add I have a port of UAE on my N97)

Also a quite big reason is the lack of JVM on the iPad! I need JVM!

Also I have not liked apple since they went from PPC to wintel

I can admit I have a apple in my posession, but its an old iMac G3 with a 266MHz cpu that I bought a G4 expansion for and buffed it to max ram and me and a few friends hacked together a custom firmware so I could put Mac OSX on it. but that mac was only for the fun of doing something impossible with (before you write that the iMac G3 can run OSX let me remind you its the first REV and it had no supported FW to do so)

Enough talk about my old projects... I get carried away sometimes when writing so sorry

But as said, no JVM and qwerty are my strongest points also I do not like the OS, its to simple for me and feels somewhat they are aiming for young girls (no offence).

Also as im a linux nut I have preordered a Pandora http://www.openpandora.org
and thats a omap3.x handheld with full qwert and touchscreen and gaming controlls, as JamVM is in the repos all we need to do is build a plugin for Firefox on it and we are done! Ops allmost forgot to tell its a linux based machine Dont take this as advertising, I just love this machine and been with it since the early planning stages

So no iPad for me ever!

Sorry for the long post but im typing from my N97 at work and I get carried away :p

Over and out //som99

[outlawal2]

Hope it works better than the link does...   LOL

[som99]

Hope it works better than the link does...   LOL

Ummm, I just tried the link again and it works just fine even on my Phone ^^
or if the redict dosent work on your computer try http://open-pandora.org

[amoskodare]

@Pyromania

Not a chance!

[Arkhan]

Somewhere out there, children are actually starving to death.  And this is what these guys are spending their money on...

so?  Thats kind of a silly statement.   That would mean everyone that spends money on some form of entertainment should instead mail the cash to charity-funds, or hand out whatever it is they bought to the less fortunate.  Next time you buy ice cream, give it to a hobo.  :hammer:

3) Gamers.. Especially younger gamers that aren't interested in simulations that have entire keyboard overlays to play. This thing will become a force in the gaming community for simpler, cheaper games than Nintendo, PS3 and Xbox. A new gaming niche.

No!  Its already a joke in the gaming community, lol.  Apple doesn't focus on the same games that the actual gaming world does, and a giant 500$ device with such crummy gaming specs is sure as hell not going to do much.  For 500$ you can get a wii and a ton of simple, easy to get into games.  

Ever go on the WiiWare, PSN Store, or xbox live arcade?  Tons of cheap, hella easy games, on a real console, not some goony pad that you have to sit and poke.


I tried someones at school today.  over 1000$ for it + stuff, and all he had on it was his powerpoint notes.   I poked around, laughed, and showed him my equivalent: Pencil + paper.  

Sorry but I've yet to see any computer doodad top that as far as ease-of-note taking.    Theyre all clumsy and don't quite fit the bill.

[pan1k]

I got one. It's actually useful. Hey, it's faster than your or my Amiga. It's running a dumbed down version of OS X, but I can create spreadsheets and word process on it easily and not fumble around. Easy to play games and read on. I don't know why you guys hate on it.. it's kind of like my Newton, a semi-upgrade. Instant on, no boot time. carry my media around with me. It's better than a Netbook, cuz most netbook are running windoze eww!

[persia]

They hate it because it's a closed source hardware tied device that succeeded while Amiga on the other hand is a closed source hardware tied device that failed.

The device needs improvement to be sure.  Multitasking is a big missing piece, the "keyboard" has no tactile feel, they need to work on their upscaling of iPhone apps, the fonts look bad.  And the thing needs at least two cameras.  But overall I'm pleased with it.  Oh and iWork needs a button on landscape to get to the save pages, it sort of silly to have to turn it portrait to get the save button....

Oh did you figure out how to put iWork documents in folders?  I can't seem to find a way to do it.

[pan1k]

I have the Bluetooth keyboard. Don't need another dock. Multitasking would be nice. Then we can say it's better then a SAM. Faster with a working web browser.. all kidding aside, if you look back, the iPad is just running a custom version of NeXTSTEP!

[runequester]

All the mac hate is pretty hilarious on an amiga forum.