This is good advice. Personally, I'm waiting for the next rev of the iPad before making any purchasing decisions. Not having a camera on the device is a deal breaker for me ATM. Another thing I'd love is an option to use someone other than AT&T as a data carrier, but I know that's a ways off and, in the meantime, the wifi-only version will do most of what I want.<br>
<br>Oh, and the storage size needs to bump up to at least 64G (iTunes U videos take up a lot of space).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Agreed. I have read more books in the past two months than I have read<br>
in the past 6 years since I got my iPad. I play a few games on it,<br>
browse the web, watch YouTube videos, and occasionally VNC to transfer<br>
files to my DVR without having to get off the couch. But would I write<br>
a term paper on this thing? No way.<br>
<br>
Back to the original question, I think you should go to a store and<br>
try to use an E-Ink device first. Then go use an iPad. I think you'll<br>
decide to wait and see what sort of iPad competitors come out later<br>
this year, or early next year, instead of getting the E-Ink device.<br>
That, or just go ahead and get an iPad. The E-Ink stuff is so slow as<br>
to be frustrating and unusable.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It's a common misconception that these things are content creation devices.<br>
><br>
> I think from an overall design standpoint, their best application is one of a content consumption device.<br>
><br>
> Now, make no mistake, on the iPad I have iWork and do indeed create presentations, text files, remotely control windoze, ssh into my systems and do work (and even code perl!). So, I'm not asserting that statement is absolute, but I think to consider the device a place to run offiice of any kind (with the hope of being productive and creating content) is misapplied and you'll never be happy with any touch-oriented device.<br>
><br>
> My biggest uses for my iPad have turned out to be note-taking in meetings, to-do lists, email, calendaring and meetings, SSH, and reading. The real killer app is that I have most of the technical books I own in PDF format as well as printed and have imported all those PDF books into iBooks. My whole library with me everywhere I go in a single device. That's just freaking delicious.<br>
><br>
> I guess what I'm trying to say in short is, this is not a netbook and isn't intended to be one. It isn't your laptop and isn't intended to be one. It's a niche right between your power machine and your mobile, and some people just don't have the need for it.<br>
><br>
><br>
> -- Jerald Sheets<br>
<br>
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