You're ignoring video, which I would assume would be something people would want on a large screen. If all you're going to put on your iPad is music, why get one? I'm talking music, video, books, and pictures. 64 Gigs is not a lot, and 16 is really not.
I think this is where some of the fanboy accusations come from. Rather than just admit that maybe the Sun Times overreached in their quote, you guys are trying to persuade me that people don't need more than 64 gigs. If someone in a review said that the Droid (which I think is an amazing piece of technology) could do anything that a PC could do, I'd at least admit that they were over-exaggerating. My Android fanboy-ness has limits. Oh well.
Back on topic, if you look at Engadget, there have been a ton of streaming iPad apps announced by ABC, CBS, Netflix, etc, so I'm guessing they figure everything will be streamed instead of stored locally.
Holy cripes. Did you just call me a fanboy for telling you how much space my music takes up on my iPhone? Wtf. You're lucky I'm in a good mood today.
Video, if ripped properly and at super-high quality, takes 1.5-2GB at the most. Pictures and books are irrelevant in terms of space. In other words, a 64GB iPad would hold my entire music collection, 10 pages of apps, 15 movies and about 17 million pictures and books.
Apparently your definition of "every document, book, movie, CD, email, picture, or other scrap of data they’re ever likely to want to have at hand" is far different than mine. Someone should tell the hard drive industry that they're wasting their time with these big drives.
I assume you're using incorrect numbers (ie, 17M images = 34 terabytes) purely for exaggeration and ridiculousness, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the whole concept. The fact that none of the Apple fans seem to be able to admit a single fault in their products is where the fanboy stuff comes from.
The fact that none of the Apple fans seem to be able to admit a single fault in their products is where the fanboy stuff comes from.
I've admitted a few faults with the iPad in this very thread. You should probably leave the high horse at home next time. It's ok to be wrong about something without having to insult the other guy on the way out.
Nope, if that little arcade machine that you plug the iPad into and you can play old school video games is real, I'm going to go line up at the Apple store right now.
It can't be real though, far too awesome to be real.
EDIT: Aw man it's just Think Geek being awesome.. *sigh*
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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.
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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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.
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.
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^ Yeah, I already have the iPod touch, and I don't personally find the wi-fi useful at all. Maybe I use it wrong - who knows - but I have my heart set on the 3G version. I'm hoping for something similar to what they have in the US as well, but I'm not getting those hopes up too high.
I was going to go wifi to save $130, but in the end the fact that you don't have to buy it if you don't want it, and the extra gps functionality is too much to pass up. My original goal was to buy the wifi version, jailbreak my iphone and use it as a mifi, but jailbreaking has turned into a bit of a pain in the ass for me.
QCI and FanIn, how about you work on your reading comprehension rather than trolling and flaming away at each other?
Andy Ihnatko's comment was that this device can hold every KIND of data you'd want at hand, be it movies,music, images, documents, books, web pages, PDF's, emails, etc. Any kind of content you are likely going to need, not EVERY PIECE OF DATA YOU OWN OR USE ON THE NET
Good grief...
Why do you bother wanking back and forth about this stuff? Really
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QCI and FanIn, how about you work on your reading comprehension rather than trolling and flaming away at each other?
Andy Ihnatko's comment was that this device can hold every KIND of data you'd want at hand, be it movies,music, images, documents, books, web pages, PDF's, emails, etc. Any kind of content you are likely going to need, not EVERY PIECE OF DATA YOU OWN OR USE ON THE NET
Good grief...
Why do you bother wanking back and forth about this stuff? Really
Edit: On second thought, I have more important things to worry about than this crap. The guy said 64GB was too small, I said my 16GB iPhone holds 72 albums, he called me a fanboy... But I'm the prick?
The air hockey app should be enough for any Flames fan to go out and buy this. Not a fan of using itunes for document management but...
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