iPad love/hate thread

[Surf314]

I played around with one today and I have to say it seems to do what it is designed to do extremely well. Typing on the on screen keyboard is shit for trying to approach normal speeds but I found out you can use a wireless keyboard with it and I have a spare floating around. Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for school.

[Versus]

I played around with one today and I have to say it seems to do what it is designed to do extremely well. Typing on the on screen keyboard is shit for trying to approach normal speeds but I found out you can use a wireless keyboard with it and I have a spare floating around. Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for school.

plus you won't be distracted by online games

[rumsfald]

Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for law school.

No. Word blackline and acrobat (full, not reader, so you can OCR to search-able text) and lexis-nexus and westlaw are mandatory, and will be no fun on an ipad. Plus there's that firefox plugin for free public domain court opinions.

I'm liking my ipad, but you always need the right tools for the job.

[Greatbacon]

I played around with one today and I have to say it seems to do what it is designed to do extremely well. Typing on the on screen keyboard is shit for trying to approach normal speeds but I found out you can use a wireless keyboard with it and I have a spare floating around. Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for school.

I'd recommend a netbook instead.  Full keyboard for actually typing papers, plus they're super lightweight and easy to carry around.

[copulatingduck]

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I played around with one today and I have to say it seems to do what it is designed to do extremely well. Typing on the on screen keyboard is shit for trying to approach normal speeds but I found out you can use a wireless keyboard with it and I have a spare floating around. Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for school.

I'd recommend a netbook instead.  Full keyboard for actually typing papers, plus they're super lightweight and easy to carry around.
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Personally if I'm doing anything but an absolutely trivial report I would not enjoy writing on a netbook, or most laptops even. Netbook is def the way to go though if you're going to be spending a lot of time in libraries doing research.

[Greatbacon]

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[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=4471.msg150430#msg150430 date=1272920921]
I played around with one today and I have to say it seems to do what it is designed to do extremely well. Typing on the on screen keyboard is shit for trying to approach normal speeds but I found out you can use a wireless keyboard with it and I have a spare floating around. Could be a great alternative to a full laptop for school.

I'd recommend a netbook instead.  Full keyboard for actually typing papers, plus they're super lightweight and easy to carry around.
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Personally if I'm doing anything but an absolutely trivial report I would not enjoy writing on a netbook, or most laptops even. Netbook is def the way to go though if you're going to be spending a lot of time in libraries doing research.
[/quote]Yeah, I mean typing on a desktop is way easier.  The only reason I prefer typing on my netbook sometimes is because we don't have wireless in the dorms so it's harder to get distracted.

[Surf314]

I still have the macbook pro but I'll probably be moving fully to OSX. I forgot about the research tools I will be needing. I find it a bit funny I'm already familiar with some of them due to public affairs reporting and applied research when I was a journo major.

[CaffeinePowered]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/195444/fe...probe.html


Apple....just as bad as MS when it comes to competition...you don't say....  :



If they got forced into an open platform I just might consider buying an iPhone....

[Ianki]

this might not do much to help your data rates rummy, but it must be better than the native file transfer protocol

http://mashable.com/2010/05/04/dropbox-ipad/

[Surf314]

Rumor has it next iTunes will let you stream your library. That and the software update will make even the 16 gig attractive. I really want to wait and see what google delivers though.

[rumsfald]

Thanks, Ianki. IIRC, I think Dave Winer was singing the praises of dropbox for his ipad.

Hey Caff, today I tried the NPR app. Free. Oh my how sexy, browsing news stories, setting up your own playlist of stories to queue, skim reading the ones you are half-interested in, being able to live-stream some of the nation's popular stations (like WBZN and WHYY), stream some old shows (car-talk=yes, wait wait = yes, fresh air = yes, this american life= no), all while streaming the entire new Dead Weather album from now until it's released for sale on May 11.

[Ianki]

This american life has it's own app to stream it's past shows.  I think it might be free as well.

Rummy, you should check out the RadioLab podcast.  It's like This American Life but for hard science questions.  It is the only show i have ever seen to get science almost right for mass comsumption.  I'm particularly impressed with their shows on nuerological and cognitvie questions (see: memory and forgetting; sleep; where am i?).  As an educated man who hates how the brain is treated on the news (OMG MACHINE CAN READ MINDS) i'm so so very happy that something like radiolab can get it just correct enough without sacrificing a good narrative (i.e. fMRI studies, under large statistical sampling, can partially recreate what images you were looking at by comparing firing patterns in V1, but that's still cool dude).

Okay, back to the matter at hands.  I'll visit my brother in boston this weekend and play with his ipad while he's at work.

[Surf314]

This American life is done by public radio international which has a free app but only has the last show of TAL. TAL has an app of all thier shows for $3. Also no American public media app which makes me sad bu The Story has a podcast so whatever.

[copulatingduck]

this american life owns

[Ianki]

This American life is done by public radio international which has a free app but only has the last show of TAL. TAL has an app of all thier shows for $3. Also no American public media app which makes me sad bu The Story has a podcast so whatever.

you need to be listening to radiolab too surf.

listen to this one first.  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/09/25

[Ianki]

played around with my brothers ipad.

Comics look awesome on it.  Lux still plays wonderfully, even though it's just the iphone app.

Feels like something i would play around with all the time if i owned it, but would never find the discretionary income to pick one up.

[Didzo]

[Vandamguy]

rofl , had to +1

[cbre88x]

this american life owns

this + planet money + car talk

[HeK]

I listened to cartalk once, got annoyed and turned it off.