Comments on: The obligatory iPad reaction post http://www.annathepiper.org/2010/01/28/the-obligatory-ipad-reaction-post/ Where Anna the Piper geeks out Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heather Ingemar http://www.annathepiper.org/2010/01/28/the-obligatory-ipad-reaction-post/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Heather Ingemar Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:10:39 +0000 http://www.annathepiper.org/?p=3415#comment-642 I'm intrigued by it as well, but I don't think it's on my "next to buy" list. I don't like that it lacks a removable battery. Even my handheld from HP has that, and batteries *can* "go." I'm also with you that it would need some type of hard case. Those screens may be way more durable than they were five years ago, but they're still fragile in my book. Hearing that it won't let you run multiple programs at once makes me even less enthused. But the concept is definitely cool. I'll give Apple kudos for that. I’m intrigued by it as well, but I don’t think it’s on my “next to buy” list. I don’t like that it lacks a removable battery. Even my handheld from HP has that, and batteries *can* “go.”

I’m also with you that it would need some type of hard case. Those screens may be way more durable than they were five years ago, but they’re still fragile in my book.

Hearing that it won’t let you run multiple programs at once makes me even less enthused.

But the concept is definitely cool. I’ll give Apple kudos for that.

]]> By: Fred http://www.annathepiper.org/2010/01/28/the-obligatory-ipad-reaction-post/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Fred Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:22:46 +0000 http://www.annathepiper.org/?p=3415#comment-640 I figure that I've got 4+ years left on my MacBook, and depending on how the herd of my computers has fluctuated I'll probably get an iPad as a notebook replacement. Not as a primary computer, which my MacBook kinda fills, but as more of a front end for the big-honking-tower of legacy software & files that lives next to the TV (which is probably ripe for a second disk controller and a terabyte drive or two). All that said, I'll probably get the low end, no 3g ipad in a few years, of course by then it'll probably merge with the iMac, which will be a keyboard with IO, and the choice will be an Apple display or an iPad as a screen. I figure that I’ve got 4+ years left on my MacBook, and depending on how the herd of my computers has fluctuated I’ll probably get an iPad as a notebook replacement. Not as a primary computer, which my MacBook kinda fills, but as more of a front end for the big-honking-tower of legacy software & files that lives next to the TV (which is probably ripe for a second disk controller and a terabyte drive or two).

All that said, I’ll probably get the low end, no 3g ipad in a few years, of course by then it’ll probably merge with the iMac, which will be a keyboard with IO, and the choice will be an Apple display or an iPad as a screen.

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