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I'm at best buy demoing an iPad right now
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yayitsezekiel
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afireintonto
macrumors 6502a
each time i've played with an iPad in store, (thinking about buying soon) i find that hunt and peck works best. because you cant rest your hands on the keyboard.
Sleazy E
macrumors 65816
My hands are big so I have found portrait mode using both of my thumbs works great. I can reach all the keys and type pretty darn fast.
I've had mine for two days and I already type as fast S I can on my net book... So i would say very good
I did this exact same thing last night at the apple store, though I was typing pretty fast with two hands when I first got it. I found it pretty easy since I type all the time with a wireless keyboard on my lap. I was just whiling away the time and setting my feelings for the device in concrete waiting for my 3G version coming later this month. I was absolutely amazed at how responsive and fast it was correcting typos. Woo Hoo!
Agreed. It is not really a mater
of comparing the iPad virtual keyboard to a traditional one - it is more about learning how to master the keyboard in this new format. I find that I am not typing with the traditional finger placement, but I am still typing as fast as I would on my laptop.
silverblack
macrumors 68030
I typed this in just over five seconds.
When I get into a groove on my iPad I can type at a fairly quick clip. It's certainly easy enough to get what I need to get done in it done. The autocorrect sometimes screws me over though, just like on my iPhone. And nah, I didn't time this paragraph, watching golf at the same time.
When I get into a groove on my iPad I can type at a fairly quick clip. It's certainly easy enough to get what I need to get done in it done. The autocorrect sometimes screws me over though, just like on my iPhone. And nah, I didn't time this paragraph, watching golf at the same time.
AJsAWiz
macrumors 68040
I wish😉
I had to leave because I had been using it for nearly 20 minutes and the apple specialists were eyeing me
when i first tried to type I was finger pecking, but I soon figured it out and by the time I typed my original post I had the hang of it, however I found that typing while holding with one hand was very awkward because of the size of the keyboard, they should offer an option to use a iphone size keyboard because then you could finger peck a lot faster while holding it with the other hand
I had no problem with finger prints, you can't see them while the screen is turned on, but you can when it is off
Apple made a good choice with the IPS screen, the colors are phenomenal
I think I could read a book on the iPad, I would turn down the brightness though (which you can conveniently do right in iBooks)
I can't wait for the 3g I'm planning on getting a 32gb😀
