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January 29, 2010
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Young Fart

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I was just wondering what everyone here thinks about apple's interesting take on a tablet; the iPad.

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January 29, 2010
4:26 AM

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It's a horrible product from what I can gather. $500 for a larger iPod Touch! Yay.

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January 29, 2010
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Young Fart

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I too am rather sceptical on a few of it's features. A 10-hour battery life while watching a video? Yeah right.

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January 29, 2010
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A little skeptical, but still think it could be really neat. I think a lot of magazine publishers are going to be creating interactive magazines unlike what you could do with the Kindle since e-ink has a much slower refresh rate.

But Apple is really good at inspiring hype and love for it's products. I know that I thought it looked really fun. But only time will tell if enough people can justify it at that price point (especially those who already have iPhones and MacBooks).

January 29, 2010
3:30 PM

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A few friends and I were discussing this- we all agree we want it, and that Facebook will be great on it, and that it really is just a glorified iPod Touch. I commented that the iPod Touch line shouldn't be an iPod line at all, it's so much more. I thought that they should be iTouchs.

iTouch 1G

iTouch 2G

iTouch 3G

iPhone 1st gen

iPhone 2nd gen

iPhone 3rd gen

iTouch Pad 1st gen

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January 30, 2010
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@Locutus

That WOULD make more sense, especially since and ipod touch can be jailbroken to do almost anything a normal pda can do. It doesn't really fit in the class of ipod.

If it weren't for the ipod touch we wouldn't be saying that this thing looks like a big ipod. This thing looks like it can do whatever we would need a tablet like this to do. IMHO

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January 30, 2010
5:24 PM

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I am thinking about buying it. It would make taking notes in class a hell lot easier than having to bring my laptop, who's battery is pretty much dead. Anyone know if it comes with a stylus?

January 30, 2010
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Nope, no stylus. You have to type on it like you do on and iphone, but the keyboard is almost full size.

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January 31, 2010
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It doesn't come with a stylus, but you can get one for it. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10443415-233.html

January 31, 2010
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It still doesn't look like it will be able to convert your handwriting to text like on a Palm (though perhaps they have their own software to do that)

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January 31, 2010
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I think there are apps that do the handwriting conversion. I don't think the iPad has any handwriting recognition built-in.

February 1, 2010
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Nice looking "Toy." Just not my cup of tea tho. If I spend that much on a toy, it'd better make a bang noise a second before a pop can sitting on a stump about fifty yards away jumps off the stump. But that's just me.

Power to those who buy one. May it be every bit as fun as you hope it is! Smile