iPad 2

[Alf W]

The best thing is that all the dumb iTwats that have bought an iPad 1 will now go and upgrade and I'll be able to pick up several for about a tenner a pop and leave them around the house for casual browsing and in the car. I might even get one to leave out for milkman.

I have a Plan B idea. Buying second hand ones and shipping them out to remote parts of Africa so they can be used as multi media table mats.

iTwats - you were warned! iPad 3 will be out in time for Xmas.

[stek]

I think we have to look at what we use our laptops/tablets/iPhones et al for.

For me if I want to run multiple Linux distro VM's, code my bollocks off, etc I'll get a desktop or a super laptop. No issue. Actually for the VM's I get a pSeries or Coolthreads but we'll let that go for now...

But for me I just want to surf, email, facebook, wank, do spreaddies, docs, presentations, iPad/tablet does it.

I can see a market for it even though when it came out I couldn't - realistically, how much do you really use your lappy for heavy tasks?

[Board Game Geek]

Anyway, bloke down pub sold me a new iPad3 last week....

[d000hg]

Eh? Define "modern".

Come on grandad, did you scoff at the iPod too because "I've already got a Walkman"?

[d000hg]

The best thing is that all the dumb iTwats that have bought an iPad 1 will now go and upgrade and I'll be able to pick up several for about a tenner a pop and leave them around the house for casual browsing and in the car. I might even get one to leave out for milkman.

I have a Plan B idea. Buying second hand ones and shipping them out to remote parts of Africa so they can be used as multi media table mats.

Except that you can buy cheap alternatives for as little as £100 already, and the iPad will never be that cheap, you're onto something.

[NickFitz]

Nice to see that the usual morons still think that braying "I don't get it" makes them look clever

[Freamon]

Come on grandad, did you scoff at the iPod too because "I've already got a Walkman"?

Micro hard drive based MP3 players already existed when the iPod came out, all the iPod did differently was the look and feel.

[amcdonald]

There isn't a standard price, Apple were the first ones to bring out a modern tablet after Microsoft

FTFY

[Churchill]

I'd use one for browsing and remote desktop to my server at home.

Oh well. Better start saving up.

[VectraMan]

There isn't a standard price, Apple were the first ones to bring out a modern tablet.

That's a bit like saying Christopher Columbus was the first person to discover America. Except for all the people that had been living there for years.

I had a proper play with an iPad the other day. Cynicism aside, the touch screen and the way the gui responds are quite impressive, as is the feel and lightness of the thing, although there's absolutely no reason why a Windows or Android system couldn't do exactly the same (sorry fanbois, but that's just how it is). I was somewhat underwhelmed by the screen though. This belonged to my Step-Father who has a load of books on there, but I'm not sure it's a screen I'd want to read off. My 3 year old cheapo Dell laptop is much nicer for that (even if it does burn my legs).