why is the ipad the best thing produced by our shitty sentient species

[Ichirou]

Nobody knows who Prole votes for when he's in that voting booth by himself.

[Cormacaroni]

but this is about WHY THE IPAD IS MAGICKAEL, not how i spend my suburban upper middle-class evenings

Tell us then! I'm sold on it already (just waiting for it to be released in Japan) but if there's anything cool that you've found that isn't widely known already, please let us know

[Van Cruncheon]

hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

[CajoleJuice]

this is more earth-shattering to my worldview than the first time a girl intimated that she wanted to have sex with me

[Van Cruncheon]

so this is the first time your weltanschauung is tested, then

[MCD]

it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience.

[Cormacaroni]

cheers, prole!

It all makes perfect sense to me. The iPhone fills a similar niche in my life but I can really see the iPad being better for so many things. The haters just lack imagination.

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and cash lol

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[CajoleJuice]

so this is the first time your weltanschauung is tested, then

i expected more from you!

although i guess you tried to spice up the easy joke with another langauage

[Van Cruncheon]

yes, $15/month for 250MB or $30/month unlimited. it is not tied to a contract, it's just a subscription.

[Mandark]

Damn it all, Prole.

I'd hardly given the iPad five minutes thought up to this point, and now I want one.  Desperately.

[Smooth Groove]

hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks.

Not at that price.  $750 for 32gb is a rip.  For that price, I'd rather have a 250gb SSD. 

[CajoleJuice]

You can tether the wifi iPad to your iPhone, if you have one, apparently.

[Smooth Groove]

What does 3G do for the ipad if you're not taking it outside the house?  

[Van Cruncheon]

nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

[chronovore]

What does 3G do for the ipad if you're not taking it outside the house?  

It gets rid of surplus income.

[Smooth Groove]

nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 

[Madrun Badrun]

nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 

Just marry a pornstar, then you will get to see his big black cock every night.  Problem solved.

[Great Rumbler]

Damn it all, Prole.

I'd hardly given the iPad five minutes thought up to this point, and now I want one.  Desperately.

And with that, another check is mailed to the Prole household.

[Diunx]

hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

tl;dr: its a giant smartphone.

[Ichirou]

"The iPad...it was made for a specific lifestyle - MY lifestyle."
          /
:himu

[T234]

nothin'. however, i use it the most outside the house.

That's why I don't wanna get married just yet.  Adult entertainment becomes such a hassle once you're no longer single. 

HEYYYYY

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

I predict you'll sell it off within six months.

Sounds good though but there's no way I'd buy a first generation product.  I'll wait for the inevitable kinks to be smoothed out later.  As well as larger capacity, like 64-128 GB.

[huckleberry]

If you "find" your books elsewhere you can use a program called Callibre to convert them.  It has worked pretty well so far.

[muckhole]

i will not be playing agarest wars!

Still "busy" with the sepcial edition mouspad, eh? I guess you could just review that. 

Seriously though, I'm curious to hear how reading a full book on this thing works out. I'm in love with my current eReader, and I do most of my reading in bed as I'm falling asleep. Dunno if I could hack it with a backlit screen.

[chronovore]

Is most epaper reflective, rather than self-illuminating?

[Rman]

No.  Think of a real book page.  That's pretty much all there is. 

[naff]

Is most epaper reflective, rather than self-illuminating?

Yeah I think so, no backlighting with e-ink/e-paper, just like a normal book. It really is just a kind of ink, in a screen made of some special material.

[Phoenix Dark]

hm, i've been discussing this with fellow ipadsexual tvc15, and we kinda agree that the ipad, like the wii, is NOT something for hardware geeks. however, UNLIKE the wii, it isn't made on the cheap and doesn't revolve around stupid gimmickry. it's a device for a specific lifestyle.

for me, it really works because it is a great, unobtrusive, slick form factor that works GREAT for casual web browsing, movie streaming, book/comic/manga reading, wiki plundering, and magazine/newspaper browsing. i already spend a great deal of time just reading and consuming information on the internet, and this is like the perfect convergence form factor and experience for INFORMATION CONSUMPTION -- in fact, it really feels like the ideal lifestyle device for me. it's my morning newspaper; it's my lunchtime teevee stream; it's my before-bed book or web crawl; it's my bored-at-the-parents manga session; it's my "let's play air hockey" or read winnie-the-pooh on the road moments with my daughter; it's my sunday afternoon couch-bound slog through the news of the week experience. i don't hafta be propped up in front of a keyboard; i can easily use it to show friends shiz; you can put it on its back and play little games with the kid or wife; it streams and plays movies like a champ; you can have it open next to you for convenient gamefaqqery or im chats with online pals. i find it so trememndously useful for the absurdly technophilic "always connected" way i conduct my life that i can't imagine why i was so down on it to begin with. it's made my netbook feel cumbersome and useless, by comparison.

my recommended apps:

ibooks
newsreaders for: nyt; usa today; bbc news; npr
wikipanion plus
civilization revolution
netflix
pages (for jotting down notes)
the built-in email client
im+
a bunch of simple games for the fam, like crosswords and word searches and air hockey
safari (really fast, surprisingly)

[Cormacaroni]

Just pre-ordered mine, wifi-only 32GB.  Think i'm gonna get a personal wi-fi thingy so I can use it with all my devices (laptops, iPhone etc) rather than 3G. May rethink that if the wifey wants one as well.

[chronovore]

What is a "personal wi-fi thingie"?

[Van Cruncheon]

[Oblivion]

[Raban]

[Phoenix Dark]

 

[Great Rumbler]

Two iPads? 

[Brehvolution]

 

[Reb]

And so the seed was planted in Prole's mind...