Introducing: The Apple iPad

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by tld221

is 16GB a lot of space for computing on a laptop-esque device? and what's the battery life?

16GB is good if you are looking at this as a portable media device for that particular sized model. This is not to be looked at as a heavy duty laptop computer but moreso on side of a netbook. I would say those that get that sized model (I would if I considered getting it) already have other devices such as laptops and phones that does the heavy lifting.

This isn't something I would throw say photoshop or something like that at it.

Battery life is reputed to be 10hrs but really if you do the math, I would say between 6 and 8 hrs is prolly a good guestimate.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

16GB is good if you are looking at this as a portable media device for that particular sized model. This is not to be looked at as a heavy duty laptop computer but moreso on side of a netbook.

Yeah . . . no.

Even the shittiest netbooks are currently rolling with 160GB of HD space, a 1.6GHz processor and RAM that can actually handle a full FSB load (i.e. "can multitask") - your netbook will be markedly more powerful than an iPad. 16GB of HD space will allow for, at most, 4000 songs or 4 movies.

The iPad is certainly not a "PC Killer" of any sort - it's really not even comparable to a netbook, it's more like an advanced version of a Kindle or iPod Touch. Cool looking technology and a step in the right direction, but it doesn't actually do anything. Yet.