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Apple Begins iPad Pre-Orders in U.S.
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I ordered a 64GB WiFi. I probably would have been OK with 32GB.
My plan is to give this one to my wife once Gen 2 ships sometime next year. Until then, I will connect while traveling via my MiFi card, which I need to have anyway for our laptops.
By next year when I replace this with a Gen 2 model, I should have a good idea if an iPad (vs a laptop) is sufficient for traveling. I doubt that it will be... but I just don't know for sure. If it is good enough, then I will cancel my MiFi... and get a 3G (or probably 4G) wireless iPad.
/Jim
My plan is to give this one to my wife once Gen 2 ships sometime next year. Until then, I will connect while traveling via my MiFi card, which I need to have anyway for our laptops.
By next year when I replace this with a Gen 2 model, I should have a good idea if an iPad (vs a laptop) is sufficient for traveling. I doubt that it will be... but I just don't know for sure. If it is good enough, then I will cancel my MiFi... and get a 3G (or probably 4G) wireless iPad.
/Jim
It's not so much the quality, it's the ability to connect that's the issue. Modern devices have DVI, not VGA, and even that is rapidly being replaced by HDMI (and to a lesser degree, Display Port). Like I said, I don't even have anything that accepts a VGA signal anymore. The only reason I can think that they went that road is for projectors for Keynote presentations (still lots of these in the education market). But it's a poor choice for people not doing those presentations. At some point they're going to have to offer a digital output. HDMI makes sense because it's quickly becoming ubiquitous, can carry HD video as well as audio on one cable, has a small size connector, and already has protocols for content copy protection.
I can understand the sentiment, but I don't think that a physical connection will be an acceptable solution. I would make an argument that Apple will redefine AppleTV to be a wireless dock if you will with mobile devices, ie, WiFi just as AppleTV works with a mac. That way, you can continue surfing, texting or whatever while pseudo watching your movie.
Now all Apple has to do is actually create the next AppleTV; smaller, lighter, faster with more storage and an SD slot. If Apple doesn't make it, someone else will, but I think that with Apple developing the ARM, an AppleTV II will be on the horizon.
iPad Order Confusion
Yes, I ordered online early this morning too, thinking there was a "pick up at store" option. There was none. So I called Apple Customer Care. They said online order is for delivery only. If you wanted to pick it up at a store, you have to pre-order at the store. Hmmm....that's not what I understood. Then I asked the Apple rep about delivery, since the order said
ELIVERS ON 4/3 and reminded him it was a Saturday. He didn't know about that. That's the first time I have ever been dissapointed in Apple Customer Care. They are usually very helpful. Shipment to me onstead of store pick-up is fine I guess. It's just not what I expected.
Yes, I ordered online early this morning too, thinking there was a "pick up at store" option. There was none. So I called Apple Customer Care. They said online order is for delivery only. If you wanted to pick it up at a store, you have to pre-order at the store. Hmmm....that's not what I understood. Then I asked the Apple rep about delivery, since the order said
ELIVERS ON 4/3 and reminded him it was a Saturday. He didn't know about that. That's the first time I have ever been dissapointed in Apple Customer Care. They are usually very helpful. Shipment to me onstead of store pick-up is fine I guess. It's just not what I expected.
Hey, guys worried about in-store pick up. I was confused at 8:30 this morning because not all the links were up yet. If you go now to the main page you'll see a link about pre-order or reserve. On that page there are two buttons one for each option.
Between the composite, component, and VGA outputs, the only thing that doesn't connect is a DVI-only desktop monitor, which is not really the intended output device.
Absolutely.
Not really. It's electrically compatible with DVI, so the connector is sometimes thrown in, but nobody is using (or plans to use) HDMI itself natively for computing devices. DVI with HDMI output, sure. But in that case, you can go DP and get DVI, HDMI, component, and VGA as well.
All the other advantages you point out are also shared by DisplayPort. HDMI has one-way compatibility with DVI, which frankly has no more life than VGA in the long term. It's not a viable choice for computing devices because of inherent limitations in its design (for AV components). DP exists because of those limitations, and is meant to work with HDMI; the reverse is not true.
