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From: Hugh Browton on 29 May 2010 06:24 On Fri, 28 May 2010 15:25:07 +0100, Ben Shimmin wrote (in article <slrnhvvki3.up7.bas(a)rialto.bas.me.uk>): > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk>: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:49 +0100, Ben Shimmin wrote >> (in article <slrnhvv5hh.up7.bas(a)rialto.bas.me.uk>): >>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: >>>> Calling all iPad owners - could you post your first impressions here? >>>> >>>> Keep it short. Post the good. Especially post the bad. >>> >>> - Doesn't appear to have Flash (?!). >> >> No!!!!! Really?! > > Stunned, I was, stunned. > > Many of my colleagues find it hilarious that I've bought an iPad -- I'm > a Flash developer -- but I actually find it rather nice having something > that I can't even begin to do my day job on. > I call that a smart move anyway. That way you can enjoy the device without being even tempted to work. "Keep work out of the home!" -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
From: T i m on 29 May 2010 06:23 On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:47:47 +0100, djmaizels(a)mac.com (Debbie Wilson) wrote: >jim <address_is(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> I can seriously see myself persuading Dad to get one for Mum. It's truly >> an Everyman device. > >Is it essential to have a 'real' computer in order to run one? I have a >technophobic friend who is about to hurl her PC laptop through the >window and an iPad would be perfect, except for the lack of printing >ability and the need to connect it to a computer from time to time. She >wants rid of the PC at all costs! > Out of interest, any idea what it is about her laptop that is causing her such stress? I mean is it 'Windows' that is the problem in which case she could try Ubuntu quite easily? If it's computers in general then as you say an iPad may be better. Jim's comment got me thinking about my Mum and her computing needs and whilst she really only uses her PC Laptop to chat to us on MSN now and again, I'm pretty sure �500 would be out of the question and I'm not sure how well she would be able to hold one with her arthritic hands. ;-( Cheers, T i m
From: SteveH on 29 May 2010 07:04 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > I mean is it 'Windows' that is the problem in which > case she could try Ubuntu quite easily? ROFL. -- SteveH
From: Jim on 29 May 2010 07:08 Debbie Wilson <djmaizels(a)mac.com> wrote: > Is it essential to have a 'real' computer in order to run one? Difficult to answer. You certainly need a computer initially purely to unlock it, but presumably if you got it in an Apple Store they could do that for you. The danger would be that if you then subsequently docked it to a computer it might overwrite the device. But basically, if you can put up with not being able to back it up then a computer isn't -essential-. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: jim on 29 May 2010 07:21
Having had a chance to play with it a bit more (once I'd wrestled it from SWMBO's grasp) here are my thoughts: Weight: definitely heavier than they look. Not by much, by enough so that holding one up becomes tiring quite quickly. In my brief forays into eBooks I find that I must rest it against something in order to be comfortable. Screen: gorgeous. Also a total fingerprint magnet, but you tend not to see this when in use. It's only when you put it down and look at it that you realise. *huge* viewing angle. Safari and web browsing: fantastic. Utterly fantastic, lack of Flash notwithstanding. The Mail app is a more polished version of the iPhone's, not too surprisingly. Good without being great. OS4 is, I think, meant to bring some improvements such as a single unified inbox. iCal: see Mail. Contacts:ditto. Keyboard: very usable, especially in landscape. You're not going to touch type but you can still get a decent turn of speed out of it. I need to get a stand for it. Nothing fancy, just a simple dock-and-prop affair. Recommendations sought. Jim |