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Anyone got one ? I had a play with a couple of iPads yesterday and am unconvinced.....
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Do you want to be convinced or unconvinced?
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I'm verging on the unconvinced having read the online reviews, but I trust real people more...
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you want to be convinced about the IPAD or the Zoom?
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Sell the Macbook Pro and get a Macbook Air 13". Or keep the former and get a MB Air 11".
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well there is the problem see, if you like the Iphone, you will love the IPAD2. If you see the new macbook air you will think the IPAD2 to be a sheet of poo.
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R.P.'s got an iPhone and isn't sure about the iPad 2 he's seen/used.
I suppose I'd like a good tablet but I'm sure I'd not make full use after the 'new toy' period. Now a Macbook Air would be very nice.
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Get an iPad and jail break it. Then you have best of both worlds (a tablet similar to full blown computer - except keyboard off course).
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Colleague just bough a Macbook Air on a recent trip to the states. Bought from an Apple store so warranty is good in the UK, and they were positive he could just take it into a UK Apple store if he has a problem.
Reckons he saved about 300 quid over the UK price - It was the top spec one.
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>> recent trip
I hope it was very recent, as in the last week. That's when the much improved, faster Macbook Airs came out. Might explain why he thinks he got a bargain :-) I hope it's the new one.
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Cheapest I can get an Air is 798 direct from Apple. (on their EPP website.)
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The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten....or summat like that.
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Never mind the quality - feel the width.
What do you want to do with it? Or is it a case of shiny thing make it all better?
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You're right, one of the few things in life that have lived up to quality expectations have been made by Apple.....just clicked to buy, too late now...:-(
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Well no, my old Gateway laptop PC is coming to the end of its life, I want something a little bit more portable than my MacBookPro (for when I go away and that) to replace it, but there is a shiny kit angle....:-)
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Money no object - Macbook Air. Expensive web surfer/emailer though.
Although 'netbooks' are passe, I love mine (Samsung N150 Plus). I can do just about anything I need to, it's very portable compared with a laptop, robust, and the battery life is amazing. Comparatively cheap, so I don't worry unduly about damage or theft either. Dealing with photos is a bit limited, about the only thing that makes me reach for a bigger screen if there's one handy.
Whether generating content, as opposed to reading/surfing/watching videos, is more important is a factor for me in choosing tablet or netbook. I like a keyboard.
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iPad, you're not going to be glued to it but it'll just silently make life a bit easier.
Want to transfer money? Just pick up the ipad, no waiting for it to boot up. Battery lasts so long it's just always available and you never think about it.
Read a magazine? Wired's working pretty well on the iPad so is Evo, just wish Practical Performance Car was on there too.
Book? iPlayer? Going on holiday and need extra storage for photos? (will sync with both a digicam or snaffle the photos off an iPhone)
I bought one because i thought going on hols it'd be ideal - films for on the plane, maps for planning trips from the hotel room, photos, etc. It's turned out to be so much more than i imagined. We use it at least a couple of times a day and it just gets left about somewhere handy.
It weighs too much is it's only downfall.
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As an aside, I see Apple now have more cash reserves than the US treasury. Perhaps we should have a "what would you do with 76 billion dollars?" thread.
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Apple faces four questions.
- who will replace Steve Jobs,
- keeping the stream of novel products and services going,
- staying aspirational, and
- fending off the shareholders who want to see payouts increased and the P/E rising.
Not that the shareholders haven't done well enough already.
I can see why they want to hang on to some cash. Product development eats money, they need to be able to weather at least a couple of dud products, and they invest a fortune in the brand. $76m seems adequate.
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An easy mistake to make...I don't think I'd worry which fell into my lap!
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Nor me ! I was staggered that they had such a war-chest !
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I'm sure that was a typo, but it's billion, not million. Probably cost half of that to get the iphone 6 or whatever out though.
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You can get discounts via the EPP website in store if you ask. I know because I did that when I bought the iMac. Macbook Air is £798 for me too but I'd get it with 4Gb RAM as its not upgradeable at home.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Fri 29 Jul 11 at 20:31
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Shame, I delayed the decision until today, I was in Liverpool on Wednesday...I need to go back there at some stage if I want to upgrade to Lion on the MacBook Pro - I want to go and see U534 in "Birchinhead" as well, so I may take a ride across one day next month.
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You will need some form of ID though for the EPP scheme. And it took them a while with mine because they had to upgrade the RAM too.
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You will need some form of ID though for the EPP scheme
Oh.
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In Liverpool? Nah...tenner'll do it.
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The staff at the Liverpool Apple store are incorruptible...!
Having loitered in Liverpool on many occasions over the years, especially when at its roughest in the early eighties....I was shocked the other day to see what appeared to be a respectable cafe's owner brandishing a meat cleaver as a result of some provocation from a little thug....in broad daylight, in a very touristy area....!
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I spent a lot of weekends in Liverpool in the early '80s funnily enough. My ex was a student in the city and lived in Aigburth. I actually ( quite accidently ) drove through Toxteth on the night of the riots. Quite an experience.
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Just remembered about a a Peli Hardback case I bought for another purpose a couple of years ago...as it turns out, it will accommodate the iPAD for bike travel in brilliant waterproof, dustproof comfort. Kushtie....
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>> Just remembered about a a Peli Hardback case I bought for another purpose a couple
>> of years ago...as it turns out, it will accommodate the iPAD for bike travel in
>> brilliant waterproof, dustproof comfort. Kushtie....
Confused here.
Have you bought an Air or Ipad? or contemplating both?
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iPad - Air was too expensive for what I wanted, the iPad will complement the MacBook perfectly.
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Arrived today - As always with Apple the packaging is even designed/engineered - the experience starts there....ready to go out of the box, one BBC iPlayer app later (prompted from the iPlayer website) iPlayer works seamlessly, as does YouTube.
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Genuine question, RP, not trying to start on an anti-Apple rant again. On the BBC website, when you want to watch a news clip which isn't on iPlayer, i.e. it's an embedded video in a webpage like this one............:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14439898
............how do you watch the video on an iPad?
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Not tried it yet - will do in a minute.
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No it doesn't - doesn't worry me that much
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No it doesn't .... so it doesn't work?
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Not if you go into the BBC web site like that. That link was from a Windows portal.
If you enter from the BBC home page it picks up the fact you are not flash enabled, and provides you with non flash content.
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Zero, you confirm what I suspected. It detects iPad/iPhone/iPod touch and serves up alternative versions of the page. But my iPod touch is gen 1 so not a good test. And I don't use it much now.
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No won't work within Safari either
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I think Zero was saying the link above won't work as it has not detected the iOS device. So doesn't serve up iOS compatible video. Might try my iPod then.
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On my Galaxy S (not set to enable/download Flash unless I permit).... long press on the missing video (icon says there's content) and it loads and plays.... I could have it automatically download but had turned it off for the Tuscany trip.
iPod touch.... says it cannot play media. This is a gen 1 iPod touch though. Option to download the correct version takes you to Adobe and of course there is no correct version.
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......only a rude message about Apple !
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>> If you enter from the BBC home page it picks up the fact you are
>> not flash enabled, and provides you with non flash content.
It doesn't on our iPad, even when entering via the BBC homepage. Just gives an error message. Useless.
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Been tempted by the Asus Transformer - can be used a tablet, or linked to a keyboard to form a netbook. Android based, so doesn't have the multitude of apps of the iPad yet, but has USB, SD, HDMI and Flash capability. Plus you don't get the usual Apple constraints.
However, compared to laptops, tablets seem very expensive - for the price of a tablet you can get a fairly high-end laptop.
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Just found a BBC app that fixes the problem. Not that I bother with those video clips really.
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Motorola Xoom ?? - CGNorwich
