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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
Man those are some annoyingly gushing reviews... I mean, come on!
The big one is 64 gigs. I know people who have that much music, not to mention movies and pictures. I have 15+ gigs of just "Quad City Image" files.
Whatever the iPad is, or isn't, it DOESN'T have a lot of storage capacity. To claim it can hold everything you ever need seems crazy in the days of 2TB hard drives.
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I have 10 gigs of photos from my trip to Hawaii ... I would hardly consider them all to be content that I immediately need on hand. I won't sit here and tell you you're wrong though, as you mentioned in your other post, obviously your needs differ from the needs of some others. That's totally cool. If having 500 gigs on your person is of importance to you, than the iPad surely isn't the device for you.
I'm extremely excited after reading the reviews. The article you quoted as being annoyingly gushy had some pretty legitimate complaints about the device (like there not being a perfect solution for getting data on and off the device). For many people those drawbacks will be deal killers. If you want a large amount of storage, the ability to view flash and be able to listen to pandora while you do it, then you don't want an iPad, you want a netbook.
The thing that sticks out to me is how the reviewers are talking about the virtual keyboard. I'm not sure which review it is (perhaps the NY Times?) but one wrote the 1000+ word article with it. That is very very cool. It sounds like concern over ergonomics or comfort might not be as big an issue as I had thought originally. I had resigned myself to carting my bluetooth keyboard around everywhere, but now I'm second guessing the need if actual writers find it acceptable.
I was able to listen to Andy Ihnatko (the sun times article writer) on the train ride home last night discussing it and it built the anticipation up quite a bit. I thought it was interesting to say it could replace a netbook if your needs aren't overly specific, but it wouldn't replace a laptop. This isn't unexpected, but what I thought was interesting was how he plugged it as a great companion piece to the laptop (he likened it to an overly capable secondary display). Many people who have laptops question if they would use an iPad, and it sounds like for some people it would be a great addition to the laptop.
I plan on spending all day saturday just geeking the hell out on blogs trying to live vicariously through our neighbors to the south.
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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I really want to know what they plan to do with the 3G model up here. When is it out? How will the plans work?
I'm going to try to hold out for the 2nd generation of this device ... but I don't know if I can.
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The 3g model is supposed to come out worldwide at the end of the month (americans can only get the wifi model on Saturday). If the rumors of Apple Store employees in Canada are true (nobody allowed to not work on the 24th), then it appears the 24th will be the day. No mention of plans yet, but if it's comparable to the states I would predict we could see pay-as-you-go 250mb for $25-$35. Just speculating of course.