Apple iPad

[imdying]

Nonsense.

I dunno man, once you've got your man bag you won't feel bad about getting a perm.

[Brian d marge]

Meeeeeh

I have an Iphone , its nice and has some good features such as maps , train times etc , Its easy to type emails etc but no USB , No SD card No document reader , no bluetooth ( yes but its crap)
I jail broke mine , MUCH better but still

I have also just bought a Net book , MSI WIND ( end of line half price etc ) 27 000 yen (usually 50 000) and threw linux on it
Skype works out of the box , all media play , its not much thicker than an ipad the battery life is crap , but thats the low end battery I have , can be improved
and 160 gig storage! and it does MSN chat and video out of the box !

Sorry apple classic fail buddy! IMHO

Stephen

[CookMySock]

If she just wants something easy to use that is hard to break, I'd get a tablet and boof kubuntu on it. Trim the apps back so theres just the basics. Kopete does MSN + camera IIRC.

Dunno if that will have the language capability you need though.

Then you can do as you choose with no one telling you what to do. It will be nearly impossible to wreck it, bar dropping it, and if she does manage to trash her account, just make another one or keep a spare as a backup.

Steve

[Grasshopperus]

The ipad is not going to support anything that detracts from their iTunes/iphone/ipad store. They already know that people will spread their cheeks for anything with an apple logo on it so here comes the ultimate creditcard prising device.

Too big to be a mobile phone
Too crap to be a laptop
Just right for poseurs

[MaxB]

Ask the teenagers. They are on to it.

Mine bought an iPod touch and had it on the net on WiFi in minutes and uses a Bluetooth phone combo for web access away from home. The kids quickly caught on that the iPhone is wank and bought the cheaper Touch and adapted them.

As for the iPad, it does not even rate a mention amongst the kids so it will probably flop.

[Grasshopperus]

Oh, and add this to the flames too. Hitler says no

[Big Dave]

Ix - It's the size of the glass that is the issue with the camera.

>>The ipad is not going to support anything that detracts from their iTunes/iphone/ipad store.<<

They are advertising that it has 140,000 apps already for sale or download and some of the iPod motorcycle games will be mint on a bigger screen. Most of them are vector art and quite scalable too.



Dunno why they can't sort the flash thing though - what is the HTML5 they are quoting?

[Ixion]

Ix - It's the size of the glass that is the issue with the camera.

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Tcch. Real bikers drink straight from the bottle.

[Winston001]

Bad news Ixion... the era of the man bag might be upon you

That's exactly what I thought last night watching TV news. Girls carry bags already so they won't mind. I use a small shoulder bag on rallies, its very handy cos I can hate lumpy stuff in my pockets.

We may see foldable screens in the near future - the technology already exists. But cutting down weight while keeping strength is difficult. So sod carrying a folding Kindle or iPad in my pocket dragging everything down. Much easier in a slim bag.

[Big Dave]

Bottle man don't no no bottle lad. Sook't right from keg like.

[Big Dave]

When I first started at KR I used to make jokes about the size of Osborne's back pack that he used to have carry for a photo shoot.
Particularly on a trail ride or something like that. 'Need extra air there Geoffrey?, you better take the big bike to get up the hill'.

Now I carry a bigger one and all his kit fills the luggage compartment of a range rover.

[imdying]

We may see foldable screens in the near future - the technology already exists.

I was hoping they were actually going to release the next big thing... a tablet 5mm thick that could be rolled up or folded. Wishful thinking of course, that tech is still a little way away from prime time, but still...

[Ixion]

That's exactly what I thought last night watching TV news. Girls carry bags already so they won't mind. I use a small shoulder bag on rallies, its very handy cos I can hate lumpy stuff in my pockets.

Sigh. Young people nowadays

We may see foldable screens in the near future - the technology already exists. But cutting down weight while keeping strength is difficult. So sod carrying a folding Kindle or iPad in my pocket dragging everything down. Much easier in a slim bag.

Folding = Fail.

Roll up, a little better. But why must we have screens. Why should the soaring virility of human imagination be tehthered and constrained to the narrow confines of metal and plastic.
Really, when you look at it objectively, the entire PC/laptop/netbook/Ipda/iPhone thign is SO archaic. There's scarcely been any reall progress since like, forever. At least 10 years. All the innovation and imagination seems to have been squeezed out of the huan race these days.

Holographs FTW.

[Big Dave]

I was hoping they were actually going to release the next big thing... a tablet 5mm thick that could be rolled up or folded. Wishful thinking of course, that tech is still a little way away from prime time, but still...

I look forward to when video is embedded in the individual magazines.

That does like this
http://kiwirider.co.nz/vicload/cover.html
but is on the device you pick up from the newsagent or on your tablet this type of way:
http://www.kiwirider.co.nz/binov.html

[SpankMe]

Again, seriously? no multitasking!?!?