I'll take a swing...

http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/w...answ/NjjkM.jpg

iCarrammba
http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/...zales-5258.jpg

Let's see...

No built in camera
No Flash Support
No multi tasking
No USB port without some overpriced apple dingle dongle.

Does everything my touch does.... wow.




Pass.

Uh huh.


usb support is a non issue for many of us.
I could give a shlit about a low res built in camera
The multi tasking is also a non-issue.
An iPad is not an iPod Touch. It's a new category. And you'll have one within a couple of years. Most of us will.

But I'll have one first. Rather my kid will. But it's all in the family.

The degree to which people who have never laid hands on this gizmo are ready to trash it does astonish me. The positive reviews by the WSJ's Mossberg and the Times' Pogue led me to order this today, answered my last questions. I have found their reviews spot on over the past few years on just about everything by the way. They both think this is a new category and a killer product.

Who here has a Cervelo TT bike and Zipps (808s I think) in Northern VA? I waved to you today. You didn't wave back.

Oh and

So? Do you?

Ummmm...... Dick Cheney?

pcad.. same goes for those who praise it and haven't laid hands on it..

Mossberg and Pogue wrote extensive reviews after having the device for a week. I'd say I'm far more informed about the gizmo I just purchased than 99% of the idiots who are bad mouthing it on the web, such as yourself. The predictable 'it's just a big iPod Touch' commentary is so incredibly stupid it's almost - BF-like. No, and trust me on this, you really don't get it about this category in general, and this device in particular.

Hey pcad.. and I really don't care. I just want to see this stupid thread get to 100 pages. ;)

I know you do kd and thanks. I just figured if I turned this into an iPad Pissing Contest it would add a page or two right there. Hey, if you don't want an iPad, don't buy one, but trust me, these things will be in everybody's home within a couple of years. The capabilities will blow your mind when you finally get to play around with one in person from what I've gleaned from lots of reading and videos of this thing in action.

The iPad is a not-so-capable macbook that costs half a grand. It is barely more than an ipod touch.















I want one.

You guys don't get it. It's not a MacBook or an iPod Touch. It is a new category. You'll see.

Coasting - you here? What's the black star next to your name mean? Someone else can answer this too.

Part of the problem here is that nobody understands this new product. But S. Jobs is a master at creating products we never really knew we wanted, until something like the iPod comes out. Then we all gotta have it. The traction this gizmo will get when friends see their friends using it is inestimable. BIG. It will be a huge success.

He has been cast in the coveted title role in the upcoming Brit remake of 'Shaft'.

I never buy a first gen apple anything... worked for me so far.

I started buying first gen Apple products in 1984. Worked for me so far.

Should make it to page 94 soon :)

This thread leaves me with an empty feeling. It's perfect.

There's only like 5 people who often contribute. There's what, thousands of bf members? We're getting there.

Oh there's a shock.

Flash is web cancer and deserves to die anyway.

Correct.

Meh. I ordered iPad Thai.