Mac Tablet -iPad

verizon is satan

and I refuse to carry a man-bag to tote this thing around in, so no maxIpad for me

Which telecom isn\'t satan?

Maybe T-mobile is the most customer-centric of them all, but it\'s way more popular in Euroland than US

[nO-One]

People really don\'t seem to get what this is targeted as... it\'s not an iPhone and not a laptop, like a netbook it\'s inbetween. It doesn\'t do everything but what it does it does better then anything out there.

I for one am way excited over this.

[Living-In-Clip]

Getting one, on day one. Already signed up for pre-order info. Want it mainly for the E-Reader.

[Titan]

People really don\'t seem to get what this is targeted as... it\'s not an iPhone and not a laptop, like a netbook it\'s inbetween. It doesn\'t do everything but what it does it does better then anything out there.

I for one am way excited over this.

I still don\'t see the point in getting a netbook.

I love mac, I own just about everything they make, but I just can\'t get behind this.  Don\'t get me wrong, I\'d love to have one, but it just doesn\'t seem all that functional for what I\'d want it for, entertainment.  If you want 3g support, it\'s extra, it has a reletively small hdd in the low end version, and NO FLASH?  I\'ll just keep my macbooks and watch hulu with my tethered iphone (which also lacks flash).  If mac could just get over this whole "flash uses too much system resources" and "adobe can\'t program for mac\'s and that\'s why flash 10.1 is buggy" BS, I\'d be a much happier person.

^ or sites could start using HTML5 and the < video> tag, and then we\'d be getting somewhere.

Death to flash >:-]

[videoholic]

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/29/display-of-flash-content-in-ipad-promo-materials-likely-not-indicative-of-actual-flash-compatibility/

[nO-One]

I still don\'t see the point in getting a netbook.

I understand that and completly agree. Netbooks don\'t make sense trying to copy the laptops using standard desktop style operating systems, yet aimed at light usage like web browsing, e mail and basic word processing. But the thing is, netbooks don\'t do any of those things well. They\'re worse in every way normal computers.

But there is a market for something that does those things, does it instantly and does it extremly well. The iPad does that and it does it stupidly well. There are times I like to do some light browsing while watching tv or something, I would definetly prefer an iPad over a full fledged laptop for something like that. I\'m also way excited over the iPad as a comic book reader.

And the app store will extend the iPad\'s functionality immensely just like it did the iPhone\'.

And the thing with Flash is.... it should die in a fire. Having a web standard controlled by one company is no good for anyone. It\'s a resource hog, those phones that have flash support slow down to a halt the second they start loading flash objects.

It might suck for the average consumer right now, but atleast Apple\'s taking a stand, if developers want their stuff to work for everyone including the millions of iPhone / iPod touch users, they should use HTML5 and the < video> tag. Hell it even works better, unlike flash the gpu on whatever device is being used will do the video decoding.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash

there\'s a lot of stuff there about the apple flash thing.

[Titan]

I understand that and completly agree. Netbooks don\'t make sense trying to copy the laptops using standard desktop style operating systems, yet aimed at light usage like web browsing, e mail and basic word processing. But the thing is, netbooks don\'t do any of those things well. They\'re worse in every way normal computers.

This girl I\'m seeing has only a netbook. I can\'t stand using it. Its so small. I move the mouse across the screen and the computer slows down. It barely runs youtube. Frickin youtube! And I can\'t see shit on the screen. If I need a computer to browse the web or check email, I\'ll stick with a laptop. They\'re not that much more expensive anyway. And if I need a smaller computer for travel, I\'d buy a smaller laptop.

[videoholic]

EVery netbook I see is hideous.  But that\'s because they are trying to run windows os . Ridiculous

[Titan]

Now if mac made a netbook.....

[nO-One]

They do, it\'s called the iPad

[Titan]

They do, it\'s called the iPad

I meant like a real net book

[nO-One]

yeah... like the iPad

[Titan]

yeah... like the iPad

but.....the iPad is just a bigger iPhone