Apple Announcement: iPad, more like iPass, amirite?

[Rman]

Curious to see what Apple has in store. 

Livefeed:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/

[archie4208]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

[Human Snorenado]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

IT GONNA SUCK YO DICK, MAN

[Rman]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

No one knows yet.  The rumors are that is will have a unique user interface and be used a content delivery device for books, magazines, tv shows and movies.

[Robo]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

IT GONNA SUCK YO DICK, MAN

 

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

- act as an iPhone, that means you would be able to call/ text from it just like from iPhone using the same SIM card. No need to carry an iPhone and your Apple Tablet at the same time.

[archie4208]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

No one knows yet.  The rumors are that is will have a unique user interface and be used a content delivery device for books, magazines, tv shows and movies.

So it is a souped up Kindle with multimedia playback?  Cool, I think.

[Rman]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

No one knows yet.  The rumors are that is will have a unique user interface and be used a content delivery device for books, magazines, tv shows and movies.

So it is a souped up Kindle with multimedia playback?  Cool, I think.

Too bad it will probably cost 3x as much as Kindle.

[Human Snorenado]

What is the tablet supposed to do?  I've seen Mactards hype it up to the moon and I'm not sure why.

No one knows yet.  The rumors are that is will have a unique user interface and be used a content delivery device for books, magazines, tv shows and movies.

So it is a souped up Kindle with multimedia playback?  Cool, I think.

Too bad it will probably cost 3x as much as Kindle.

BUT IT GONNA SUCK YO DICK!

[Flannel Boy]

I'll take two.

[Madrun Badrun]

Headline:  Man from Winnipeg buys series of Apple dicksucking devices, all devices spontaneously brick themselves before use.

[Brehvolution]

Whatever it is, it will cost $2500

[Eel O'Brian]

What is the tablet supposed to do? 

remove $800-1000 from your bank account

[Human Snorenado]

What is the tablet supposed to do? 

remove $800-1000 from your bank account

And that's before you get started buying crap from the iBook store.

[Eel O'Brian]

i bet they gimp stanza (free ebook reader app which is compatible with just about every format and lets you load your own files) because of this

[Eel O'Brian]

he just took a shot at netbooks

this tablet will be less powerful than a netbook

[Eel O'Brian]

apparently it comes with its own convenient jobshead icon for mactards to nut on

[Fragamemnon]

Looks distinguished mentally-challenged, and will definitely be priced distinguished mentally-challenged.

[Madrun Badrun]

what's the dimensions?

[Eel O'Brian]

actually i think it looks pretty cool for what i'd use it for (comics, ebooks, webrowsing), but he keeps saying "better than a laptop" so you know this thing is going to be stupidly expensive

[Eel O'Brian]

Not widescreen

that makes more sense for displaying ebooks and magazines

[Flannel Boy]

Looks distinguished mentally-challenged, and will definitely be priced distinguished mentally-challenged.

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[demi]

Wow it's like an Onion article in real time

[Eel O'Brian]

actually a glorified touch is what i'd kind of personally want just for reading and browsing, but not at a macbook price

hp slate will cost half as much and have a lot more functionality

[demi]

Guys you can play Farmville on it

[Eel O'Brian]

i'm not interested in sales figures, i'm interested in functionality at a fair price

[elektrikluv]

actually a glorified touch is what i'd kind of personally want just for reading and browsing, but not at a macbook price

hp slate will cost half as much and have a lot more functionality

lol hate on the apple tablet as much as you like, but that is just a joke

[cool breeze]

I don't get it.  This is the size of a laptop or netbook without being able to do actual work on it.  If it's for quickly browsing the web or something, isn't that what the iphone is for? and for reading, it's not e-ink, so you won't have the clarity or battery life that those have.  I don't get the practical application for this.  Couldn't they just make an apple netbook with a swiveling screen?

well, it apparently has 10 (more like 4) hour battery life.  that's not bad. 

[Eel O'Brian]

actually a glorified touch is what i'd kind of personally want just for reading and browsing, but not at a macbook price

hp slate will cost half as much and have a lot more functionality

lol hate on the apple tablet as much as you like, but that is just a joke

i'm not hating on apple, i have an ipod touch that i love

but hp slate runs windows 7 and is pretty much a handheld pc, you cannot deny that it will have more functionality and endless amounts of free software

[cool breeze]

One neat thing is that it can run all iphone/ipod touch apps at native res or full screen.

[Eel O'Brian]

i never got the e-ink thing, myself

i read off a computer screen several hours a day and don't get the eyestrain and headaches others claim to get

[Brehvolution]

i'm not interested in sales figures, i'm interested in functionality at a fair price

I don't think Apple has that.

For what it's worth, I recently bought an 8GB iphone 3g for $99. I think that is a fair price.

[Flannel Boy]

i never got the e-ink thing, myself

i read off a computer screen several hours a day and don't get the eyestrain and headaches others claim to get

I can't read more than a few long paragraphs without eyestrain.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Congratulations, Jobs, you've invented half a laptop!

[Madrun Badrun]

i never got the e-ink thing, myself

i read off a computer screen several hours a day and don't get the eyestrain and headaches others claim to get

I can't read more than a few long paragraphs without eyestrain.

same.  Hate reading off a computer screen. 

[Eel O'Brian]

i read off the touch i have, i just set the background to a lighter gray and turn the brightness down

it took a little while to get used to it, but it works fine for me now

[Howard Alan Treesong]

All the functionality of the iPhone, with none of the convenience! Apple iPad^TM

"Netbooks don't do anything." Except run Windows 7, you fucking hack.

[Eel O'Brian]

Congratulations, Jobs, you've invented half a laptop!

half the laptop, twice the price

16-64 GB of storage, i'm calling $700 for the 16GB model

[CajoleJuice]

"A truly magical and revolutionary new product."

[Madrun Badrun]

 

[cool breeze]

i never got the e-ink thing, myself

i read off a computer screen several hours a day and don't get the eyestrain and headaches others claim to get

It's part that and part how long the battery life is.  I mean, other than the Nook that gets drained faster for having an LCD screen, they last a long time.

It takes a long time for me to get eyestrain from reading off a computer screen, but having used e-ink devices before, I would much prefer to read on them both in short and long stretches.

[Eel O'Brian]

this thing will end up being my psp go, i just know it

[Howard Alan Treesong]

They haven't mentioned 3G/data yet, have they? Just WiFi?

[Eel O'Brian]

that's for iPad 2, can't blow the revolutionary and magical wad straight out of the gate

newspapers and magazines look really slick on it, embedded video

[Eel O'Brian]

the paint program looks fun

now some ea dude is up showing need for speed shift, looks impressive

[huckleberry]

Wife wants one, so if it is cheap enough I will bite.


I just wish they would get past this iPad shit and move one to the rest of the show. 

[Fragamemnon]

you know what's impressive? NFS shift on a god damn PC.

I want to see what acer/asus/lenovo come up with. Specifically, I'd like information regarding battery life while watching video.

[Flannel Boy]

bollywood gaming

[bachikarn]

Mod on Gaf threatening poster for expressing his disappointment, lol

[Howard Alan Treesong]

at last, a platform where I can play Need for Speed Shift! Because I didn't have enough places I could play it already

[Eel O'Brian]

you know what's impressive? NFS shift on a god damn PC.
 

true, but for a blown up ipod touch it looks decent, xbox1 level with a few more effects

[huckleberry]

I'd like information regarding battery life while watching video.

battery life guaranteed to suck with video and gaming playback. 


**crosses fingers that I'm wrong**

[Rman]

I'm a huge Macfag and I'm disappointed so far.  I'm content with my iPhone and notebook combo.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"iBooks"? that about wraps it up for the Kindle app

also my interest

[cool breeze]

no flash? wow

[Fragamemnon]

I'll say it now-I'll buy the first tablet that will let me watch a 2 hour starcraft proleague match without being tethered to a power cable. I long for a winter late night of cocoa+snuggie+korean SC without wires.

omg no flash? 

[Eel O'Brian]

it's about what i wanted/expected out of it, a big nice handheld screen to read comics/web browse on while lying on the couch, play a game or two, maybe occasionally watch a video when i am out and about

specs-wise it seems fine to me, the disappointment will come with the rectum-bursting price tag

[Flannel Boy]

omg no flash? 

Apple Fanboy: Flash sucks (The grapes are sour; I don't want to eat them).

[huckleberry]

I am waiting on the price tag too.  The longer this douche talks the higher the price gets.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Eel, I'm honestly not seeing anything this does my netbook doesn't do nearly as well. I mean, you could say the same thing about the iPhone, but that has the size and device ubiquity working for it. This, I'd rather just carry around my netbook. There's no Category Killer app for this.

Get Marvel/DC out to announce iComics and I'll change my tune