Apple IPAD Owner's Thread

[rglore]

I also picked up a VGA accessory for the screen to input to my Home Theater PJ.

I read that the VGA adapter only works with Keynote. You may need to use the component adapter instead. Let us know if it works.

[DodgerKing]

Slight correction to my prior confusing post on the charge- I thought it didn't have the battery fully charged but it was. I've only had it on the wall charger for about 5 minutes when I discovered it indicated full 100%. What I meant was the ipad required software setup with itunes and I had to install that first, then sync everything with my laptop. Now I have all the music, videos and pictures on the ipad. That took about an hour.


Some of the apps that are for ipod or iphone need to be rewritten for the ipad and larger screen. NY Times is like that, While you can expand to full screen the pinch zoom features don't wort but double tap does.


Having some issues with wifi out by my pool and patio. While the Dell Laptop works out there with weak signal, the ipad loses connection. Looks like I'm going to need to configure an additional wifi hotspot for the patio.

So, what is the advantage of this over a laptop? The laptop can do hundreds of more things.

[Don Landis]

I'm on the iPad right now. Comparing to the TP2 the iPad is literally 100 times faster than a cell phone for working satellite guys. I don't need to shift into PDA mode. it is more comfortable than the laptop and from off to typing a message its much faster due to no boot up time as compared to the Dell. For certain uses as I intend for it it will work great.

Another negative report
The keyboard has no arrow navigation. Apple forgot?

[olliec420]

Well to add to the iPad hype..... I am making this post from mine, it just came in! It's very cool and satguys looks flawless on it. Will for sure be using this when tuning the dishes to look at all the info I need.

[Jeff0575]

I like the whole idea of the ipad but right now they is just way to much hype I think I would wait til the hype goes down come. I think it could be a laptop killer.

[sampatterson]

Replying from iPad. Ok, I may be getting more addicted! I am amazed. This will definitely replace my iPhone or notebook for browsing the web from my recliner!

[olliec420]

Replying from iPad. Ok, I may be getting more addicted! I am amazed. This will definitely replace my iPhone or notebook for browsing the web from my recliner!

For sure that's what I'm thinking too. I used to use my iPod touch in bed and stuff but it's just too small to be practical for surfing but this is perfect.

[mike123abc]

So, what is the advantage of this over a laptop? The laptop can do hundreds of more things.

The form factor is easier to handle. Unless you really need to do a lot of typing, why do you need the keyboard, it just makes the laptop hard to balance or you need a table. Have you ever tried to walk around and use a laptop at the same time?

I could see easier traveling with this. The laptop is always a pain at the airport. They have big clunky chargers, this could share your iphone's.

I use my laptop for couch surfing and bed surfing. I have desktops for the office. I could see the iPad being easier to use for me than the laptop.

[Ken S]

Besides not having Flash it also doesn't have the ability to print.

Contrary to an earlier post...the first generation iPad does have a 3G capability. They will be available later this month. My guess is they needed to work out the procedure for the service with AT&T. The initial iPad launch and the related activation problems probably led them to splitting the launch of the two models.

I do think the Sony PSP is in trouble though as the iPad will probably become a great game and portable video player.

As an e-book reader it's just too heavy. Sure it looks great and has wonderful animation, but I wouldn't want to hold it for long periods. The Kindle just is a better form factor for this one type of use.

Finally, there is one real danger to the iPad/iPhone/iPod business model and that's the closed aspect of the app store. When you only allow one reseller to sell products and they are openly censoring competitive products you really risk stunting software development.

Can you imagine if Windows 95 had been limited to an App Store...think we would have ever seen Netscape?

Still to those that purchase the iPad...I hope you enjoy your new toy.

[Don Landis]

re: printing. I just downloaded an app for this thing that does printing of document files including graphics files on display. It's slightly more robust than the printing app I have for my TP2. It found my network MFC color laser printer with no problems.

I do agree that the Apple business model with that iTunes store is a real cash cow.

Here's the bottom line to this iPad as I see it. Don't try to replace a laptop or your smart phone. Instead think of it as an information appliance.

The battery is doing great but I did confirm that it will not charge from my Dell laptop USB port. After about 5 hours of on time it is reading 66%.


Flash. Some of you are quite concerned over this as the iPad killer. Please send me a couple links you must have that you feel won't run on the iPad. So far, I have loaded weather channel and weather.com and the map overlays for radar looked like they didn't work but all the videos did work. Wall Street Journal video works as does several other newspapers.



Typed this from the iPad. In fact I will make it a point to do all my posts from the iPad to this thread in the future.