Apple tablet: Thoughts?

[Raul Gonzo]

Hopefully someday-
a tablet like this will be able to connect to a Red camera
the way Red's new touchscreen LCDs work
and you will be able to access menus
and pull focus with the touch features...

 

[mikeburton]

Seriously, from what i've read about this thing and what I would use it for (watching HD videos etc) I could just bring my 15' MacBook Pro with me. I don't see the excitement around this thing at all.

 

[Raul Gonzo]

True-- I won,t find in real use for it unless it works as good as my wacom tablet
(or better).
((or what I mentioned before))

 

[Graeme Nattress]

iPad it is.

 

[Harva Raj]

iPad !!!!!

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Steve Jobs with iPad.

iPad

iPad

iPad

iPad

iPad

Jason Chen:

"Now, Time Magazine. Next, Fandango, because Steve Jobs wants to buy some tickets for a movie. “Grab the tablet that’s in the kitchen, go to the iPad and buy your tickets.”

 

[C.H.Haskell]

hmmm...thats one thick boarder. 4:3 aspect seems a strange choice. I dont know folks...what the hell is this.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

It's a surfboard you can play with.
Not too good for full rez realtime debayer, but we have the Rocket for that...

 

[C.H.Haskell]

Oohhh, cause it looks like an oversized iphone. The only interesting thing I could see with this is if someone developed a way to control epic and monitor stats with it.

 

[Mark Collins]

I don't see a use for this product at all. It's too big to fit in your pocket, yet too small to be a comfortable laptop, and not quite as good as a Macbook Pro.

So, for around the same price you can just get a Macbook, which has more functionality, a keyboard, mouse, etc, and be able to do more with it.

The only place I could see this work is in science labs and such, or maybe on construction sites. For the general consumer, there is no point.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I know my 8 year old son already drools over this mega-pod as a mobile gaming platform with Youtube, live conferencing with my brother in Barcelona over Skype and online gameing...

and I'm affraid I'm not kidding.
The fact that you can call from it too, doesn't mean much to him.

 

[C.H.Haskell]

BUT you can change the background on this one!

 

[Graeme Nattress]

Is it anything more than a big iPod Touch?

Graeme

 

[Gunleik Groven]

... and he most probably will...

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Is it anything more than a big iPod Touch?

Graeme

hopefully on some sorts of stereoids, but that's exactly the point...

For my son :smile:

 

[C.H.Haskell]

Is it anything more than a big iPod Touch?

Graeme

Nope. Clearly apple is moving in the direction of creator products that introduce more ways to buy shit...good for them.

 

[David Wyatt]

Hmmm, interesting...they made their own processor for it...the Apple A4!!

 

[Steven-Marc C.]

Does it have an HDMI connection?

 

[Kevin Wild]

No 3G? Unless they intro a new version at the end of this. That is a shocker and one of the bigger selling points for me. Always on...anywhere.

 

[Denis Haineault]

"Apple is a mobile device company..."

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/27/apple-tablet-media-event-today-come-see-our-latest-creation/

Remember the days when Apple sold computers?