iPad usefulness?
in [UK Mac]
|
From: Graeme on 31 Mar 2010 12:58 In message <rku6r59idevmhi8d98n6nd2dgngb59anm4(a)4ax.com> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:04 +0100, Graeme > <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > >In message <1jg889u.p6s76ka8db0yN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> > > usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > > > >> Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >[snip] > >> > Are there any gotchas to buying one in the States? I'm off to Colorado > >> > in a couple of months, could be a good opportunity to acquire one. > >> > >> None immediately obvious. Colorados sales tax is quite low too, which is > >> good, except that some cities have their own tax too, so check what town > >> you are in! > > > >Denver > > > >> I did consider getting one from the many ebay adverts, but I would get > >> it for my company so it would probably work out more expensive that way. > >> However, if I was in the states this weekend I would have one! > > > >What about power supplies? > > All Apple power supplies are 100-250V, and the plug fittings are > swappable. I have an *awful* lot of US fittings... That's good news. Ta -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 13:07 On 2010-03-31 17:38:31 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > Mail/calendar/contacts sync to the cloud - yes, > MobileMe/Google/Exchange, though needs a computer at some point to set > it up. You can set all this up using Mobile Safari. It is awkward because of the screen size, but do-able. I set up my wife's iPod Touch to sync with google calendar all without using my Mac. > System updates - no. This will be trickier, but the iPhone/Touch > already do a two-partition scheme, / for system and /var/mobile for > the user stuff, so it should not be impossible. Like Sun's LiveUpdate? -- Chris
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 13:12 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:45:00 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:04 +0100, Graeme >> <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >What about power supplies? >> >> All Apple power supplies are 100-250V, and the plug fittings are >> swappable. I have an *awful* lot of US fittings... > >The newer plug fixings for the iPhone are not swappable. they are very >mini power supplies. Do we know what the iPad uses yet? I'd forgotten about those - my 3GS came with one, but I've got a small pile of varied USB chargers and tend to use those instead. Cheers - Jaimie -- Pain is nature's way of telling you that you are in terrible agony
From: Pd on 31 Mar 2010 13:15 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > All Apple power supplies are 100-250V Except for the very first G5 iMac, which had a US version that only took 100-120V. The UK and Rest of World version was 100-240V. -- Pd
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 13:20
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:07:42 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-03-31 17:38:31 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > >> Mail/calendar/contacts sync to the cloud - yes, >> MobileMe/Google/Exchange, though needs a computer at some point to set >> it up. > >You can set all this up using Mobile Safari. It is awkward because of >the screen size, but do-able. I set up my wife's iPod Touch to sync >with google calendar all without using my Mac. > >> System updates - no. This will be trickier, but the iPhone/Touch >> already do a two-partition scheme, / for system and /var/mobile for >> the user stuff, so it should not be impossible. > >Like Sun's LiveUpdate? Those are effectively zone upgrades, aren't they? I haven't played with Solaris for about four years now so I'm a bit out of touch. The iPhone updates appear to be simple compressed diskimages and blop straight over the / partition. Apple could apply those locally with slightly cleverer firmware, or have fs space for the before and after versions, or do it the clever virtualised Sun way but I suspect HFS would need more features. Cheers - Jaimie -- A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope |