I don't see a sequential number anywhere on my "reserve and pick up" confirmation email, so I'm going to say: no, they're not included.
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Apple Estimated to Have Taken 50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours
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Yeah, but then I would actually have to use a dell laptop over the product I really want.
I'm more interested in Intel CULV and Core i5 UM right now.
Netbooks and other zone of suck devices don't interest me.
You try to make fun, but RT2020 makes a lot of good points. Using the iPad for anything other than consumption (reading, playing games, watching movies) does look painful. The problem is that input is so very limited. Even if you get the keyboard you're still typing and then reaching up and touching etc... It makes little sense. A typical user types a lot (email, chat, etc...) and that is going to be painful with the current on screen keyboard and laughable if people carry around the keyboard with them.
Apple is great at marketing so they will sell a bunch up front, but the tail is what will show how the iPad is really doing. Once you get off of Apple oriented websites I don't see many people that are that excited about it. This is very different than when the iPhone came out for example.
Over-sized.
Over-priced.
Over-hyped.
Under-powered.
Perfectly pointless device specially crafted for warped minds capitalist consumer societies. I am sure it will sell on the west - east, however, will ignore it for sure
Then it's a WIN for Capitalism. Apple is just trying its hardest to make an economic stimulus package in a 10 inch form factor.
Ok then fine.... This is a macforum. WTF are you doing here with your Dell netbook sales pitch. We don't do windows here. Find another forum to troll.
Hackintosh. And no I am not trolling. I just think that for the price of the CHEAPEST iPad, you can get two netbooks which can run OSX...
Oh and did you just join so you could post that ?
that's a goofy comment.
a: not true.
b: multi-tasking will be implemented via firmware shortly.
c: goofy comment.
People saying it should have been a real computer don't get it. You're right. It's not a "real computer". Not the way us geeks are used to thinking of them. But so what? The point wasn't to make a "real computer". We've had those for decades! Think of the iPad as a device. Not a "computer". You may as well complain that DVRs, cellphones and GPS units are not "real computers" either. Who cares? Normal people don't care if the iPad is a "real computer". Only geeks care about that. And geeks are NOT the target market.
My point is, just because the iPad is not useful to you... as a hardcore macrumors reading geek... doesn't mean the product will be a flop.
My point is, just because the iPad is not useful to you... as a hardcore macrumors reading geek... doesn't mean the product will be a flop.
I cant fathom the "its just a shiny toy" & "Anyone who buys this is a sheep!" guys. Anyone who disagrees with you is incapable of making their own choices? There are a lot of uses this thing is ideal for. Especially if you're a busy person.
It'd be super convenient with my toddler around for many reasons. She cant come up and close it or unplug it for fun. And she likes a few iphone games so it'd be nice for that too.
I really want to try things like Brushes on it, see if it works reasonably as a tiny sketchbook.. Other than that I'm going to hold off until it maybe gets a camera.
It'd be super convenient with my toddler around for many reasons. She cant come up and close it or unplug it for fun. And she likes a few iphone games so it'd be nice for that too.
I really want to try things like Brushes on it, see if it works reasonably as a tiny sketchbook.. Other than that I'm going to hold off until it maybe gets a camera.
Netbooks are truely garbage. I have owned one and browsing the web on that tiny of a resolution is horrible. Using Windows to me is horrible.
I would much rather have an iPad. Fits my needs for a mobile device.
I would much rather have an iPad. Fits my needs for a mobile device.
The iPad was not meant to compete with laptops.... period. If someone has some cash and doesn't have a laptop... then by all means I recommend the laptop. The iPad is marketed as something between smartphones and laptops. Things that the iPad can't do and laptops can, ARE BY DESIGN. For those things, USE A LAPTOP.
Your comments are spot on!
The use of touch as the primary input to the device necessitates a different way of interacting with the OS and apps. The new modality begets a different "kind" of computer. Apple took a serious risk in creating a new way of interacting with a computer with your fingers. Time will tell if it paid off.
Exactly. People need to stop thinking of the iPad as a computer. It uses computer technology (just as everything does)... but it's not a computer in the normal sense and it's not meant to be. Take it for what it is.
When you make an order, the order number includes ALL the items in your order, so the accessories aren't inflating the numbers. Accessories are not a separate order.