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Author Topic: Are you gonna get an iPad? Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-28-2010 06:03 PM                        iRag anyone?  |  IP: Logged Alex Edwards Expert Film Handler Posts: 114 From: Iowa Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-28-2010 06:05 PM                   |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-28-2010 06:08 PM                  Mike, iTab sounds like a diet cola drink from the 1960's.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 01-28-2010 06:21 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley Anyone going to get one? Not I.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-28-2010 06:23 PM                         |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-28-2010 06:25 PM                      |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 01-28-2010 07:44 PM                     quote: Mark Ogden The iPad is the kind of thing the word "meh" was invented for. ...don't forget "Kitteh"  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-28-2010 08:44 PM                     I use my PS3 to surf and occasionally post here. Need to get a keyboard for my PS3 and then I'll be all set  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-28-2010 09:28 PM                        And another thing... why does this revolutionary device for the 21st Century have a 4x3 aspect ratio screen?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-28-2010 10:58 PM                     I really do not understand why the "iPad" (as well as the "iPhone") does not support Flash. Sure, I know quite a few people cannot stand Flash-based animations and what not on web site layouts. However, so much video content on the Internet is all Flash-Video based. Gotta have Flash to do that. I'm still farting around with the Samsung mobile phone I've had for 3 years. So far I have seen nothing that interests me enough to upgrade to a net-enabled "smart phone." Flash support MUST be a part of that. But all or nearly all so-called smart phones do not support Flash at this moment (although I hear rumors the "Android" OS based phones will do Flash some time in the "near future"). Until these idiots can get their shit straight, I'm sticking with the old phone even if it has a "Cingular" logo on it. BTW, the iPad seems to be marketed as a more fashionable (but much more expensive) version of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader. Until the iPad can properly support all the bells and whistles of the modern day Internet I'll stick with the Kindle if I ever have the urge to read an entire novel via a LCD screen. As it stands, I'll probably just stick to reading books that are printed on dead trees.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-28-2010 11:19 PM                     Apple will not allow Flash because it allows code to be downloaded and run from another source. Flash is essentially an open conduit for viruses and malware. Secondarily, the iPhone and iPad run under tightly controlled power management systems. Flash does not obey this kind of power management. Your batteries would last a fraction of the time they do, now, if flash ran on the computer. I am "interested" in seeing an iPad and I will probably visit an Apple Store to try one out but I won't be buying one soon. I'll wait until a few months after the second generation comes out. THEN I'll decide whether I want one.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-29-2010 01:00 AM                         |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-29-2010 01:47 AM                     Joe, did you make that? No one can see me right now, but I'm CRYING with laughter. Sometimes, something just hits the spot, and that just did it for me. I'm off to get some Kleenex.  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 01-29-2010 04:47 AM                    That was really funny, Joe. Anyway. My worthless (and blunt) opinion. 90% of the people buying this are idiots unless: -It had an SD slot/USB port for mass storage or -Its cost was $275 The way it is now, with $500 and no SD slot (or 3G or camera), it's like Apple holding your wallet while looking at you straight in the eye and asking you to bend over. If you wanna take it, it's your choice. But you'll get little respect. At least from me. Otherwise, it would've made a fun multimedia/games/ebook product for those that don't want a real computer and don't mind the apple-monopoly. I'll stick with a regular notebook/netbook which, undoubtly, will come down in price even more and be even thinner/lighter/more powerful/longer lasting by the time the iPad hits the streets.  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-29-2010 07:33 AM                        ipad was made for one reason... ebook market! not the netbook market. regarding flash... the thing has a youtube App so you can watch all the videos you want. The old print media is going to love this thing! and people who hate computers, hate OS's, mice, etc..  |  IP: Logged

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