hopefully the ipad is quite reasonable to note taking at uni - thats the main reasoning for me wanting to purchase it
I'm going to be very surprised if the iPad keyboard is actually useful for taking notes. It looks very awkward to me in the videos.
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I'm going to be very surprised if the iPad keyboard is actually useful for taking notes. It looks very awkward to me in the videos.
This is also exactly how I plan on using the Ipad. The Ipad will never replace a computer and I feel laptops are a huge waste of money for what you get. A desktop at any given price point will always blow away a laptop of equal price.
As an artist I have had laptops in the past and I know a lot of other film makers and artists that buy 17" laptops for horse power on the go. It has been my view however that most of those people including myself have hardly ever done any real work while sitting in a coffee shop. Usually it is surfing the web and hogging one of the limited seats for 3 hours. The ergonomics of doing production work in that environment are just horrible and non productive.
So for me my last Mac was a 21.5" Imac. It has about as fast of a dual core cpu as you could want and the Nvidia gpu is more then enough for web design, Photoshop work and everything but the most hardcore demanding animation. I can fly through FCP and Motion and Cinema 4D even runs very well. I bought an Ilugger bag and actually take it with me to work so in many ways 90% of the use of a laptop is already filled with the Imac. I can take it to and from home and work with little effort and it is half the price of a 17" MBP and still faster and can upgrade to 8GB of ram.
For those rare moments when I actually have time to sit and waste at a coffee shop the Ipad will fill in perfectly what the Imac would just be too complex. Of course I would have preferred Flash support because I do happen to view a lot of Flash based websites created by other advertising firms or production companies. It is part of what I do so it is important. I'm not talking Hulu either but actual Flash websites. Since I do use a Imac for 99% of my day however I think it will be fine. For me the Ipad is more useful as a device to take notes and keep documents of projects related to projects at work. I can quickly jot down notes in a meeting and then hopefully sync it up with my Imac once I get back to my office. The Ipod/Iphone was just too small for me for this purpose but the Ipad could be perfect. Of course I have to actually see how it feels and functions before I buy it but I am excited to try it out
As an artist I have had laptops in the past and I know a lot of other film makers and artists that buy 17" laptops for horse power on the go. It has been my view however that most of those people including myself have hardly ever done any real work while sitting in a coffee shop. Usually it is surfing the web and hogging one of the limited seats for 3 hours. The ergonomics of doing production work in that environment are just horrible and non productive.
So for me my last Mac was a 21.5" Imac. It has about as fast of a dual core cpu as you could want and the Nvidia gpu is more then enough for web design, Photoshop work and everything but the most hardcore demanding animation. I can fly through FCP and Motion and Cinema 4D even runs very well. I bought an Ilugger bag and actually take it with me to work so in many ways 90% of the use of a laptop is already filled with the Imac. I can take it to and from home and work with little effort and it is half the price of a 17" MBP and still faster and can upgrade to 8GB of ram.
For those rare moments when I actually have time to sit and waste at a coffee shop the Ipad will fill in perfectly what the Imac would just be too complex. Of course I would have preferred Flash support because I do happen to view a lot of Flash based websites created by other advertising firms or production companies. It is part of what I do so it is important. I'm not talking Hulu either but actual Flash websites. Since I do use a Imac for 99% of my day however I think it will be fine. For me the Ipad is more useful as a device to take notes and keep documents of projects related to projects at work. I can quickly jot down notes in a meeting and then hopefully sync it up with my Imac once I get back to my office. The Ipod/Iphone was just too small for me for this purpose but the Ipad could be perfect. Of course I have to actually see how it feels and functions before I buy it but I am excited to try it out
PC Desktop, Android Phone, iPad the best of all three worlds LOL
My PC is a beast I could never live with an iMac, I had iPhone for a long time but after using a Nexus One with AMOLed screen I could never go back and so now I will pick up an iPad for surfing on the bigger screen and to play all those games on the app store.
I might end up getting a 17" MBP when they refresh to have something for when I travel for extended periods of time but for now will stick to the iPad because I mostly want something small and light with a big enough screen to not have to scroll all over web pages and to be able to play games without my thumbs covering 2/3rds of the screen LOL The only thing I wish is that the ipad had flash :/ after using flash on the web browser on the phone it is so nice to be able to watch videos on web pages, the ipad would be perfect for this.
My PC is a beast I could never live with an iMac, I had iPhone for a long time but after using a Nexus One with AMOLed screen I could never go back and so now I will pick up an iPad for surfing on the bigger screen and to play all those games on the app store.
I might end up getting a 17" MBP when they refresh to have something for when I travel for extended periods of time but for now will stick to the iPad because I mostly want something small and light with a big enough screen to not have to scroll all over web pages and to be able to play games without my thumbs covering 2/3rds of the screen LOL The only thing I wish is that the ipad had flash :/ after using flash on the web browser on the phone it is so nice to be able to watch videos on web pages, the ipad would be perfect for this.
The new iMacs are pretty beastly themselves. It's actually hard to build a similarly spec'd PC for that price.
tv+iphone3gs+ipod nano+ imac+macbookpro+ipad =winMBP + iPhone + iPad =
I know it appears to be the opposite of what a lot are thinking but my MBP effectively becomes my 'desktop' and the iPad becomes my curl up on the couch to surf, email and read magazines & books. With my iPhone for the daily rail commute.
I currently have a few magazines via Zinio but can't wait to be able to read them and books on the iPad.
It's the touch based interface I love - apart from screen size I prefer browsing the web on my iPhone to my MBP.
Obviously i'm not saying iPhone is better than a MBP for surfing it's too small compared to the MBP, I'm saying that i prefer 'touch' and the iPad gives me 'touch' with a decent size screen real estate.
I know it appears to be the opposite of what a lot are thinking but my MBP effectively becomes my 'desktop' and the iPad becomes my curl up on the couch to surf, email and read magazines & books. With my iPhone for the daily rail commute.
I currently have a few magazines via Zinio but can't wait to be able to read them and books on the iPad.
It's the touch based interface I love - apart from screen size I prefer browsing the web on my iPhone to my MBP.
Obviously i'm not saying iPhone is better than a MBP for surfing it's too small compared to the MBP, I'm saying that i prefer 'touch' and the iPad gives me 'touch' with a decent size screen real estate.
pbook g4 12" + 2 24" imacs + iphone 4g + ipad = one very happy person...
who could use a (future) museum glass 27" imac and an mba too.
who could use a (future) museum glass 27" imac and an mba too.
I build PC's to benchmark, it's my hobby much like people build race cars to run at the drag strip, I use my PC's to go for the #1 benchmark spots on 3dmark, pcmark, super pi and other benchmarks. I can assure you there is no chance of an iMac ever being considered beastly in my house! It would be more akin to a fluffy bunny
I build PC's to benchmark, it's my hobby much like people build race cars to run at the drag strip, I use my PC's to go for the #1 benchmark spots on 3dmark, pcmark, super pi and other benchmarks. I can assure you there is no chance of an iMac ever being considered beastly in my house! It would be more akin to a fluffy bunny
lack of overclockability + that GPU = not a very fast machine for benchmarks i agree, but its a pretty good machine for a imac!
They are nice machines for their purpose no doubt. If Apple ever decides to make a touchscreen iMac I will probably buy one.
would you really? i dont think that id purchase one. i think my i7 imac is brilliant for my needs, i dont do CPU intensive tasks persay, but i do lots and lots of multitasking with VMs and applications, so the RAM 16GB (current) limit was the main reason why i got it!
VM's as in using Windows? LOL That's another big reason I stick to PC but yea if the iMac filled some niche that a PC desktop didn't for me I would pick one up to use as a daily driver and then could go really overboard on my bench machines but as it stands I use the same machines I bench with as daily drivers because everything I could do with Mac I can do with Windows whereas with Mac I would constantly have to be booting Windows anyway so so I can't really justify the expense of another computer for what would really only equate to a pretty OS that I hardly ever used.
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fair enough and that's totally up to you of course! What sort of work do you do that demands the high end machines? Or is it more of a hobby?
My imac is more of an investment machine. I have my osx server on constantly - I remote into it from external locations for security.i also have a windows VM for BD ripping, windows crap etc, I am a nazi multitasker and will often have +20 apps open at a time (or is that unorganized lol?). I plan on getting into video editing soon and I'm at Uni doing networking & security so I use 2 more VMs for server/client. But yea I plan on having it for a long time, investment
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fair enough and that's totally up to you of course! What sort of work do you do that demands the high end machines? Or is it more of a hobby?
My imac is more of an investment machine. I have my osx server on constantly - I remote into it from external locations for security.i also have a windows VM for BD ripping, windows crap etc, I am a nazi multitasker and will often have +20 apps open at a time (or is that unorganized lol?). I plan on getting into video editing soon and I'm at Uni doing networking & security so I use 2 more VMs for server/client. But yea I plan on having it for a long time, investment
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fair enough and that's totally up to you of course! What sort of work do you do that demands the high end machines? Or is it more of a hobby?
My imac is more of an investment machine. I have my osx server on constantly - I remote into it from external locations for security.i also have a windows VM for BD ripping, windows crap etc, I am a nazi multitasker and will often have +20 apps open at a time (or is that unorganized lol?). I plan on getting into video editing soon and I'm at Uni doing networking & security so I use 2 more VMs for server/client. But yea I plan on having it for a long time, investment
Mostly hobby, these days I hardly ever even actually play the latest games anymore. Benching is my game LOL If I could stick a touchscreen iMac on the desk to my right (Corner desk) and poke at the screen while I was benching that would be pretty cool though. But with mouse keyboard etc it takes up too much space to have 2 computers on the desktop.
I might get a 17" MBP one of these days though for when I travel, the iPad fits a niche that it will go with me everyday in my bag and I will use it in my downtime whereas laptops are too big and cumbersome to always take with. So with the addition of the iPad for everyday/anywhere use I can afford to get a bigger laptop since I will only take it along when I am staying away from home for an extended period of time, was originally going to get a Sony Z but thinking the iPad/bigger laptop combo will end up working better for me.
hahaha i guess its a type of gaming, hardly tests the hardware over long periods though. theoretical benchmarks are nice and all but i prefer using the hardware in the real world
(video converting, gaming etc). get one of those switch things for the KB mouse. (forget what they are called!)thats my outlook also. i have my 15" MBP for taking around, but if the iPad works decent enough for me then i might not need to use the MBP so much. time will tell i just wish that it would hurry up and come out!
I definately agree. I kind of want to sell my macbook to get one but I need something with OSX cause there are just somethings my pc cant do and I just pop on the macbook for a second. Thinking about selling my ATV and Macbook for an Ipad and used mini.