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IPads are on their way to waiting customers!
Mar 30th
Last weekend was a huge rush of people posting that their IPad orders were “Prepared for shipment”. So I hurried over to the Apple online store to check my order status, and low and behold, mine was “prepared for shipment” WOO HOO! By Monday my order was updated as shipped with tracking numbers linked to the UPS tracking page, but much to my disapointment, no information yet. So I waited, and by Tuesday morning I had the information I was looking for. My Ipad oprder had an origin scan from SHENZHEN, CN, What? I expected Apple to have the IPads stocked in the states ready for disbursment, but no they are coming directly from China. Apple is shipping them using an express shipping service through UPS that id designed for large shipments of time sensitive materials.
But don’t get too excited about getting your IPad before launch date because I’m sure Apple has made sure to have them held and delivered on Saturday April 3rd.
Check back daily and I will post every update to my IPad shipment for everyone to follow.
IPad for the artist
Feb 6th
A week and a half after Apple announced the IPad the arguments keep flying about how useless it is, and it’s lack of certain features. But interestingly enough, no chatter about the presentation of Brushes for the IPad at the Apple event.
After seeing the brushes application on the IPad I can’t help but think about how this may change digital artwork in the future. Being an amateur artist myself, I have looked into Wacom tablets for a more realistic approach to drawing on a computer. Unfortunately I never forked out the clams for one because the base models were over $100 and only gave you a 4 inch square to draw on. Also you are looking at the screen and and drawing blind, that didn’t appeal to me much. Now with Brushes on the IPad It looks like you are drawing on paper with a selection of brush types and no mess. This is a much more realistic approach to creating artwork on a computer, and you can bet this is something I will play with a lot when I get my IPad.
Just remember to check back here for a comprehensive review and pictures of the IPad in action.
Is the Apple IPad for you?
Jan 28th
I would like to see a discussion started here about whether or not you think the IPad is the device for you or not. Let us know what you think and why or why not.
I have posted a comment on the last post with my thoughts. I feel that the IPad would make a good addition for me, for content consumption. I do not feel that it will replace my netbook since I sometimes need to run multiple applications at once and typing on the IPad for lengthy posts or documents would be irritating, and uncomfortable. As for listening to music that’s what my Iphone and Ipod are for. But first thing in the morning reading the paper and kicking back surfing the web or checking facebook on the couch, The Ipad would be great. Watching movies in 720p would be nice as well. I also would make good use of the e-reader built in. So all in all I like it, it wont replace any devices i have now, but would be a great addition to my arsenal for easy and fast access to the content that I am hungry for at the moment.
The way of iPad
Apr 8th
Posted by Jerry in commentary
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It’s been several days now since the coming of the iPad. I am not going to give you a blow by blow description. That has been done by many and need not be redone.
Many have praised it’s lovely form, svelte figure and exceptional stamina. Others have cursed the limited vision, feeble mind and stocky build. The truth, I think, is somewhere is the middle.
While it is true that the cost was a bit high, it is missing what some would call needed access ports and can not even run flash. What it can do is run circles around other devices, the same big batteries add some weight to the beauty. It can show video well and on a large monitor with the VGA adapter. There are those wanting the aspect to be 16:9 for wide screen movies but it would make the device a look a bit like a plank. You can read your books, check your mail and tweet it all in turn while listening to some smooth jazz in the background.
What it can’t do is replace your laptop. It just wasn’t meant to. We heard all the same rhetoric when the netbooks came out.
It’s too small.
It can’t play WOW.
It won’t edit my file for the next viral video.
I think we need to do a bit better at determining what we want to do and then pick the gear that helps us do it. There will never be a device that is blinding fast, light as a feather and runs a week on one charge, for this year at least.
I still hold to my first advice. The iPad is a great device for easy access to the web, reading ebooks and entertaining yourself in general. It is not the device to write your next novel on, but will do a mean presentation for your next multimillion dollar proposal.