So what does it do? blox

So it's just an oversized iPhone.

Wow.

>>7293002
It's mainly a way for hipsters to identify each other in public

>>7293002
you can browse 4chan on a bigger screen while youre sippin your moccha latte cappo coffee

but without the added weight of a laptop

I can't make a call on that...

>>7293011
and you can't make calls with it, of course. Inb4 the sheeple eat it up to the dirt.

I will wait and see if it gets jailbroken of sorts. If I didn't have to sync through itunes and didn't have to use their shitty bookstore I think it would be pretty fucking awesome.

>>7293011
>So it's just an oversized iPod Touch.

Fixed.

I liked these better when they were called notebooks.

No fucking way am I getting one of those PoS.

I'd only get it if they make photoshop for it
otherwise why would i pay for a tablet that isn't mainly for drawing

It'll be cool for artists with the Brushes Apps and such... but something tells me they haven't done anything in terms of making the touchscreen suitable for hand drawing (draw/painting on the iphone is no fun).

I heard it doesn't have handwriting recognition either.

/g/ are having a fieldday with this.

Holy. Shit. I can't fucking believe all the hype for this crap. And the media sucks Jobs' cock like this is some kind of revolution. What the fuck is wrong with people? It's a goddamn large ipod touch. Just get a damn laptop.

Here we go again. They take technology that's been available elsewhere, which can be done better for a fraction of the price, and they slap an apple logo on it. They have the market fucking raped. They could literally put an apple sticker on shit and trendwhores would trample each other just to get a whiff.

Expect it to sell like fucking crazy.

Apple wants you to use one product, theirs.

I'll stick with my shitty phone to text and call, my computer for email and tasks, and a fucking PAD AND PIECE OF PAPER FOR MY ARTS!

It's a fucking ipod that's too big for a pocket and has no voice capability so it's worthless as a phone as well.

fail on both counts.

>>7293122
>>7293149
Two wise posts from two wise men.

/r/ing the iPad pantyliner shoop...

so you'd be paying $820+ for a MaxiPad?

Thank God I didn't buy a shitload of Apple stock.

This thing is gonna be their biggest failure since the Newton.

>>7293312

A 64GB MaxiPad with WiFi.

>>7293342

Hilariously wrong.
This must be a completely unoriginal, technology inferior device, but we all know it's going to make Apple a fuckton of money regardless.

I wonder how absorbent they are.

I might get one IF I can get it for less than 300 dollars and if I can get it to read digital comics. Then I'd carry it with my all the fucking time.

I would buy one to download and read books on, but glossy screen not epaper? wtf??

I gotta say steve was wrong when he said this was better than a netbook. It's nice hardware but pretty cripple software.

This is comming from a guy who owns an imac, macbookpro and ipod touch

"What this device does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it."


what gay piece of faggotry is this?

The real question is: WILL IT BLEND?

Does it have that tilt-and-the-screen-shifts like the iPhone?

>>7293417
Even my shitty Sony Ericsson has that...

Didn't Picard use these all the time? This shit's the future, baby!

ipad sounds like a retarded 4chan user trying to sound more retarded

This has a way better screen to watch porn in public on than the iPhone.

>>7293465
LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS.
LET ME SHOW YOU MY IPADS.

>>7293417

apple = taking advantage of dumb white people

Stick windows 7 in it, then I would consider one.

It will sell millions. All the Applefags at Art School will want one.

>>7293487
I'm an applefag at art school.

This ipad piece of shit made me rage.

I won't be buying, but I wasn't expecting too either. Also the relatively big black border around the screen bothers me immensely, technology isn't good enough to be without them.

>>7293481
It doesn't even run a proper computer operating system. It just runs a crippled iPhone OS

>>7293528
doesn't mean it lacks the hardware for W7, do you have specs?

Zune has 80gb for less than the price but it has the ugliest GUI i've ever seen...

This is the most lame shit apple has pulled in recent memory. Too expensive. Too crippled in functionality. The only people who will care are the ones who say to themselves "I WISH MAH IPHONE WAS GIANT SO PEOPLE COULD SEE HOW COOL I AM FROM FARTHER AWAY".

There is no other reason for this piece of shit. iPhone OS instead of Snow Leopard or the OS of your choice. Apple wants you to buy and sync everything from iTunes, no exceptions. This is not a computer. This is not a tablet PC. This is an overgrown ipod touch.

Without multitasking it's pretty much shit
I can see apple cocksucking drawfags eat it up even if it does suck I guess
Battery life seems to be shit
Fuck iTunes, I sync my iPod in foobar2000 to spite those faggots
Bloated pile of shit
imad

I was drooling so hard over 3G in 2006 or so, but it's turned into an expensive scam.

Honestly, the iRack from that MadTV skit was a better product than this

Looks like shit now, but you just know they have the real ipads that are actually win locked away somewhere so they can release Generation 2, 3, 4 etc. and make double money off Macfags. They do it with everything:

1. Release sucky product
2. Release next generation 3 months later
3. ?????
4. Double PROFIT

It's an awkward device because it fills a role that's kind of non-existant. It feels like a mish-mash of things (digital frame, eReader, netbook etc.)

Of course the big point is reading - books, magazines, newspapers... In line with the death of printed media. So it might be some time before it gets exploited to the true potential.

Personally I don't need one, mostly because it can't run Adobe Creative Suite.

It's sexy though...

>>7293541
iPad has a 1GHz processor that is specifically designed for it (It's not off-the-shelf parts)

>>7293610
PPC? x86?

>>7293577
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCCYLC-4xA

Did anyone note that the processor is some ARM shit, which means EVERYTHING will have to be ported? There's a reason very few people use ARM netbooks, and that reason is compatibility, motherfucker. Of course, this doesn't even matter because it runs motherfucking iphone OS, instead of oh, I don't know..having the ability to install any OS you goddamn please. The "good" version is 899 for fuck's sake, and then they have the balls to sell you a keyboard attachment and a dock for USB ports? I'm sure those will each be $99 or something. This HAS to be a troll. There's no way in hell this can't be a troll. If this is the way Apple is going, Steve is going to take a shit in a box, call it the iShit, paint it white, and sell it for $999.

Next up:

The MacBook Wheel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

>>7293635 This HAS to be a troll.

We say that every January bro.

>>7293621
apple A4

yeah, wtf is this.jpg indeed

So it's a less-powerful netbook with a non-useful touchscreen, no physical keyboard, only Apple-approved apps designed for the thing, no webcam, no removable storage, no USB, no flash (making much of the internet completely useless), no multitasking...

Why would you buy this over a nice netbook, again?

I honestly thought the first few people in this thread were trolls/people being trolled and that OP's pic was a shoop.

World, I am disappoint.

>>7293709
Cause you're a mac fanboy and will buy anything steve tells you to.

Actually the people who would buy this would also buy the MacBook Air...

>>7293709
People who want shiny business toys will remake their small business to utilize this for their inventory apps.Cause its apple, and people like shiny things.

>>7293709
HTC Shift>this pieceof crap

In addition to being a full Vista netbook/laptop/UMPC, it's also an oversized Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone and the two computer modes can be switched at will.

I can't believe this isn't a troll.

might be good if someone ports android or chrome os to it. lol

I'd use it if it had a better operating system and usb ports n shit

>>7293593
THIS. I FUCKING KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO DO THIS

>>7293893
B...b..but the iPhone still sucks...

Apple stocks dropped 4% when the iPad was announced.

Also, MaxiPad.

>>7293909
at least now it can send pictures!

>>7293854
holy shit that's a fuckin awesome phone!

>>7293593
i hate how nintendo does this with all gameboy products as well.

pocket->color
advance->sp
ds->lite

And every time, i was dumb and bought the first one.

>No USB ports.

Fuck this shit.

You know, I always wanted my iPhone to be too huge to carry in my pocket. I have also always wanted my laptop to have a huge glass screen, you know, so I can crack it. The iPad brings it all together!

>>7293931
I think they force you to use a headset for calls, though.
I guess they thought it would look silly holding a laptop to your head.

>>7293942
No, that is different. Those are simply updated versions of the original hardware with lighter/smaller/more efficient components to reduce costs. Same with the PS3 slim and it's removed PS2 hardware and Linux support.

>>7293798
I think the Air is actually more impressive than the iPad, in that it was incredibly fucking thin. It scored points for hardware design, if nothing else.

The iPad is literally an oversized iPod Touch with 3G. Look, it even has the same buttons!

I am now waiting for someone in the street to randomly take one out, and start screaming, "HELLO?? I'M WALKING DOWN THE STREET! I SAID I'M WALKING DOWN THE STREET! YES, THE RECEPTION IS HORRID!"

microsoft courier actually seems KINDOF practical...

is there a video of the presentation online yet?

>>7294014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj9nYPl5l8U

Fucking troll Apple.

>>7293987
I think it's too thin.

and from the price, why can't you just get a macbook with more ports?

true story bro


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>>7294099
And, you know, an OS that can actually do more stuff than only what's in the App Store.

Presenting the iPad. Comes standard with iMoron iLocator.

> I don't have to change MYSELF to fit the PRODUCT


I seriously threw up in my mouth a little bit when this doughenigger said that.

>>7293871
Probably not happening, bro. Just look at the iPhone.

Any way to just force it to run windows or whatever the smallest OS is in terms of hard drive space? If so I'd buy it just to have a tiny motherfucking computer. If not it's just a lame ass music player.

>>7294070

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THE CURE AAAAAAARGH

>>7294314
Well he's got a point, this thing is designed for douchenozzles like him.

>>7294070
>Usually when a new technology comes out the price starts off high and gets lower over time
>we wanted to do something different

I think they're not so subtlety telling us that the price is only going to go up.

>>7294363
>lame ass music player

NO IT IS THE PARAGON OF TECHNOLOGY GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>7294363
Well, since it has an ARM processor you can't exactly run desktop Windows on it. In theory, it can run Windows CE if you port it yourself. But good luck finding documentation on it's hardware, writing a Windows CE board support package and drivers from scratch with little/no documentation of it's customized Apple hardware.

>>7294374

ben folds. he covered the cure song

>>7293942
It's called planned obsolescence, and if you google it, iPod is the 3rd thing to show up.

It's the reason why we don't have robots and hovercars right now, because companies can make more money selling it each and every step of the way.

It's business. Jobs is a genius, and I hate him.

It has Steve Job's blessings, so therefore I must go to the nearest Apple store and jizz all over it. My master has said so.

>>7294484

BEN FOLDS! Fuck you man, I didn't care when you took The Flaming Lips, but THIS TAKES THE CAKE!

I'M COMING FOR YOU, FOLDS.

DO YOU HEAR?

I'M COOOOOOOOOMING!

IT JUST FEELS RIGHT.
DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT GUYS.
JUST DO.

iPad? more like iBad amirite?

>>7294758
u so funny

Tablet PCs are never going to be anything other than an expensive toy for artsy retards. You're never going to do any serious work of any kind on them; you can't even fucking use them for word-processing!

I'd rather have a netbook

It looks like a friggin iPod touch on steroids...that just about it.

>>7295005
It is! My good gentleman!

>>7294757
Is that Marc Hoppus from Green Day?

>>7294975
Convertible tablets are badass though.

My HP with 2.4 dual core / 4GB / 400GB with a 12" multitouch screen and stylus is awesome. Obviously, it has a reasonable sized keyboard as well.

I am going to buy an iPad and drill a hole in it and fuck the hole.

>>7292993
It sucks and people will buy it out of stupidity.

>>7292993

Normal LCD screen means it will be harder to read than kindle.

Costs as much as a more powerful, more competent laptop.

Can't install what I want on it.

No camera.

No phone calls.

No WiFi syncing except with PCs that have iTunes.

No handwriting recognition.

Since it's targeted to hipsters, I doubt the service will have anything intellectual on it

Pic related

its a really big Ipod

/thread

It's only $11 more than a Kindle with the same size screen, you can play board games on it (like you can on the iPhone but way better) of which there are a dickload available already, including games like Risk. You can take notes and browse the internet and email just fine, which is all people use netbooks for anyway, and while there are some cheaper netbooks, it still falls in the middle of that price range. You can use a BlueTooth keyboard if you have a lot to type, which is better the majority of netbook keyboards, and even carrying this along with a keyboard would take less room than most netbooks alone...

I don't see what you are all bitching about... :|

>>7294506

No, planned obsolescence is when the thing becomes useless after a certain period and the consumer HAS TO buy the new product.

Most tech related stuff works for decades. The first generation iPod works just as good the day they were released, they don't become obsolescence just because there is an iPod which plays video or can store more songs. Releasing an upgraded and improved version of something is not planned obsolescence.

>>7293016

so many things about this post angered me

8/10

>>7293854
Yeah cause a physical keyboard is better than a virtual one, even when it's totally unusable unless you're a tiny Asian girl - and they'll want the iPad anyway...

>>7295401

and its not cromey!

HUGH :*(

Given that this is the closest thing to the iPad before the iPad came out, and this is only $11 less, and does WAY less.. yeah, iPad, total failure.

>>7295386
Packard divided planned obsolescence into two sub categories: obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of function. "Obsolescence of desirability", also called "psychological obsolescence", referred to marketers' attempts to wear out a product in the owner's mind. Packard quoted industrial designer George Nelson, who wrote: "Design... is an attempt to make a contribution through change. When no contribution is made or can be made, the only process available for giving the illusion of change is 'styling!.'"[5]

Sure is full of apple loveing hipster starbucks race tratior niggers in this thread.mootblox

>>7295428
My friends tablet just acts like a normal PC, we play CoH on it some times.

What the fuck is that thing?

>>7295442
/thread

great photo, have any more like it?

It is shit behind a hideous paywall. And overpriced. People will go out of their way to tell you they own one.

Whatever happened to the Crunchpad?

See pic, boys. No need for discussion. Not that r9k would know more than /g/ on the subject anyway. Hell I haven't read the thread but people might actually think this product is good here.

>>7295442

Not that i'm advocating the iPad, but it does have widescreen

>>7295436

Upgrading hardware is not just changing the design of the thing, it's actually adding more function to the product.

>>7295583
>1024x768
>widescreen
You don't know much about computers, do you

>>7295499

It's a kindle DX book reader. Amazon sell them.

The only thing unaffected by the recession is Apple. Feels bad man.

>>7295428
No, tablet PCs were the closest thing to the iPad before it came out, mostly because the iPad IS a tablet PC. Tablet PCs have better specs than the iPad, for less money, and can ACTUALLY MULTITASK.

>>7295499
A Kindle HD

how come it doesn't support flash? seems very silly considering they're advertising it as a web surfing tool.

>>7295661
Because even if they plan on adding that functionality later to the iPhone OS, they don't want to spoil the supplies when they announce that as part of 4.0 - derp derp.

Also it creates publicity, like this thread right here - cause they are obviously smarter than the people who hate apple, if those people were smart they wouldn't shit all over the place and give Apple publicity, right?

>>7295712
support for flash seems like very basic feature. what prevents them from implementing it? is it some sort of, i don't know, licensing, hardware, software issues?

>>7295661
http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash

That's why.

>>7295760
>It's a chicken-and-egg problem. Publishers use Flash for web video because Flash is installed on such a high percentage of clients; clients support Flash because so many publishers use Flash for web video. Apple, with the iPhone, is solving the chicken and egg problem. For the first time ever, there is a large and growing audience of demographically desirable users who don't have Flash installed. If you want to show video to iPhone users, you need to use H.264.

>Apple isn't trying to replace Flash with its own proprietary thing. They're replacing it with H.264 and HTML5. This is good for everyone but Adobe.

interesting

While I am not going to get this Tablet, I'm glad it is getting made, because it will encourage other better companies to make better tablets and they should be available before I start law school. So this is some good timing.

I think the design is kind of ugly and currently the Asus T91 is better.

Just another overpriced, underpowered, and counter technology Apple product to me. I think if anything, I will by an iPad mini (iPod touch)

carl needs to market this.
"hey uh, fryman, you see that new ipad"

BEST FEATURE OF IPAD:
You can control it with your penis.

bump12

>>7296157

well actually the ssd might work well for such a device so it's not necessarily worse than the hdd

The iPad is proof positive that Apple can deliver exactly what people want and yet not meet their expectations.

>>7292993
OH I AM SO SURPRISED! APPLE MADE A SHITTY PRODUCT!

They do it all the time you retard.

>>7298831
>exactly what the people want
>another shitty product

That does not compute.

I'm still rockin an sony erikkson phone from 2005. Shit hasn't died yet somehow. I should get a new one though..the calls on this bitch always seem to fuck up somehow.

You mean Sony Ericsson?
Yeah i'm rocking my w810i.. Had it since 06.
Works great.
No need for a pile of shit "smart phone"

triggerhappybloxxasfaslkj
>>7293987
Am I the only one who got that reference? I loved that fucking show. I think I love you already.