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It does mean I can't sync from my linux based laptop as there is no linux version of iTunes. (alright, I could run windows in emulation....yadda yadda). But I have other windows computers in the house, so it's no big deal for me. I actually use Stanza as my reading app and load my books either from online sources like Fictionwise or wirelessly from my computer (the linux one) via Calibre. I am sure that Stanza will run on the iPad. But if not, it's no big deal. Lee |
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Nooooooo! No way. You're having a laugh, right? Why would I want to do that? (Why would anybody want to do that?) Not because I refuse to buy 'sight unseen' - Nexus One evidence of that. Just too many unanswered questions.
Like DRM - so you can load 'free' epub books, great. And for the techno-wizz community who are happy with python scripts they can illegally strip the DRM off non-free books and load them (via i-Tunes, ugh!). So that's somewhere less than 1% of users. You don't even know if the Apple DRM is going to be unique to Apple - if it is any book you buy from Apple is tied to the iPad. And the reader app, what's it actually going to be like? And the battery life in real world situations? And reading in sunlight? Plus the things we already know are bad: No Flash support No USB no doing more than one thing at a time having to use iTunes - are you aware how much garbage iTunes loads onto a Windows PC - there are more processes running than fleas on a dog I just thought of something else - another reason you can't use it as a PC replacement. Without a PC running iTunes you can't actually load anything on to it, right? Oh no. No. Not now. Probably not never. Life's too short and insanity too close. |
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@redheadpeter the last three words in your post, explain your bizarre (and inaccurate) rant.....
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Wait a minute. You guys are confusing me. I will be able to use it as a computer, right?
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The Dank Side of the Moon
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It's not a laptop replacement, its a media device. It's basically a large iphone without the phone or camera part. It can run most iphone apps, but it would be a stretch to call it a computer, it doesn't have near the computing power of even a netbook.
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If you need to hook up your iPad to our computer you have to buy the $29 camera connection kit, which has the adapter for USB connection. How cheap were they in not just including that adapter ? But at least the camera connection kit has a, I think, microSD card reader in it. Quote:
Edit Added: By the way, PC World has a very harsh column on iPad pre-ordering folks. at http://bit.ly/pcwipordr In reply to them, some columnists who did not initially like the idea of the iPad loved it when actually playing with it for 20 minutes to half an hour. (How do people in England or Boston differentiate between iPod and iPad?) Last edited by andrys; 03-13-2010 at 11:53 AM. |
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*I* wouldn't be able to "use it as a computer". I could only use it for *some* or things I usually do on a computer. I couldn't install just any program I wish on it. The only software that is allowed to be installed on iPad is from the Apple app store. And for apple store you need a credit card. And I do not have one. And even if I had a credit card I wouldn't be willing to register to the Apple store. And even if I had an account in the Apple app store I wouldn't be willing to pay for things like, for example, iWorks. Not when I can install Linux distribution on my computer and use OpenOffice.org, or Koffice, or Abiword, or ... I couldn't, for example install Calibre on it. I wouldn't even be able to install [shudder] Vim text editor on it now that I think about it. I wouldn't be able to prepare, convert, manage my e-books collection on it. There are lots and lots of things the iPad is not built for. You can not install AutoCAD on it, or Photoshop, or video editing software, you can not burn DVD or CD on it, you can not rip a DVD or a CD on it, you can not write your own program or script. There are MANY games you can not install on it. If all you ever do with your computer is: - consuming media - light browsing of web - writing and receiving emails - playing [some] games - creating short and simple documents in a lightweight office suite such as iWorks for iPad then yes, it can replace your computer. iPad is an interesting device for quite a few things but for me it definitely isn't a replacement for a general purpose computer. Oh ... and I like to upgrade various components of my computer from time to time. Like memory, or disk, or a graphic card, or a raid array. I have lots of components I have purchased second-hand, or bartered, or pulled out of trash. |
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And we certainly did call those things computers. Our company financial system used to run on a beefy 486 PC based server with SCO Unix and Informix database. And it supported 10 simultaneous users accessing it from terminals (286 class PCs with terminal emulator software) The thing is, you are not allowed to use its computing power. |
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