Yes. Most mutli-tasking is really just app switching. Few people actually have multiple apps actually running and crunching the cpu simultaneously. As long as it allows for push-notification to major apps I'm okay with it. The type of multi-tasking that really concerns people is moving from say photoshop to illustrator (or something similar). Since the iPad is not designed for that, I find it hard to call that a shortcoming. I cannot use mail and safari at the same time, so as long as one of them has a background state that preserves my draft while I look up something on safari to put in my email then I think the iPad performs well. Now, I have not found this to be true on the iPhone. Is it possible on the iPad, or is this considered multi-tasking? Game/app pausing would also be nice. Is this considered multi-tasking?
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Yes. Most mutli-tasking is really just app switching. Few people actually have multiple apps actually running and crunching the cpu simultaneously. As long as it allows for push-notification to major apps I'm okay with it. The type of multi-tasking that really concerns people is moving from say photoshop to illustrator (or something similar). Since the iPad is not designed for that, I find it hard to call that a shortcoming. I cannot use mail and safari at the same time, so as long as one of them has a background state that preserves my draft while I look up something on safari to put in my email then I think the iPad performs well. Now, I have not found this to be true on the iPhone. Is it possible on the iPad, or is this considered multi-tasking? Game/app pausing would also be nice. Is this considered multi-tasking?
well then obviously this isn't the machine for you. .... um ..so why are you here......? Oh yeah your a hater.... if i were more like you I'd go find a kindle forum to hate on.. but I got better things to do... don't you Velin?...
Does anybody fast touch typing?
Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location through muscle memory. Touch typing typically involves placing the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard (the home row) and having them reach for other keys.
I can type 100 words/min (learned that at school). How does this "blind, all fingers"-system work with the virtual iPad keyboard? Thanks in advance for enlightenment.
Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location through muscle memory. Touch typing typically involves placing the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard (the home row) and having them reach for other keys.
I can type 100 words/min (learned that at school). How does this "blind, all fingers"-system work with the virtual iPad keyboard? Thanks in advance for enlightenment.
Well it is a lot faster to use than my PC, no waiting for virus checks and the like. Seriously though it is faster than I expected and I run an 8 Core MacPro so I do have a feel of speed, single or multitasking or not. I am using the iPad now and have been all day now, the thing rocks!
Well you just proved that not only do you not have an iPad you apparently have no experience with iPhone OS. Since there are 1/2 dozen pdf viewers that are both free and would maintain your place in the document, you are just um wrong.
You really are looking foolish, stop trying so hard, it is ok if you do not want one, just let it go.
I'm sorry that you have other financial responsibilities, but you don't need to be thinking-out-loud on the forum about your bad financial situation. It's annoying.
If you had a couple of decent paragraphs with something actually to say and then had to opine your decision to wait until funds surface, that would fine, as you would've contributed to the thread's focus.
I would prefer to see "FIRST POST!!" than this.
Goods news for you: if you wait long enough, they'll be cheaper or better (or both).
You are being overly dramatic and making invalid assumptions.
Such as:
1. You assume you will be at the exact spot in your word doc where the content you need is. In other words your search step may still be needed.
2. You say "Close your pages document." Uh, no, you just hit the home button and tap the text doc. That's the genius of this interface.
3. You say, "they remain open and running -- side by side on your screen"
Really? Side by side on a 9" screen. I think not. On my 30" inch monitor yes of course, but not on an iPad or netbook. No way. You still have to reorient your self to the document you've switched to.
No one will argue that for true 'battle mode' production multitasking is not valuable. But I will argue that this custom processor and iPAD OS go a long way down the road towards making this omitted feature less of an issue for casual production.
If that is what you need to be doing on a regular basis, the iPad isn't the device for you. WHy can't people understand, it's not a fracking computer replacement.
Really?
Did you just bring two-monitor editing into a discussion of an under 10-inch media device? Get a grip. You are arguing in the wrong forum. Try to keep your discussion in terms of the planned uses of the device. My truck doesn't fly, but I have yet to complain to the manufacturer because I realize its not a plane.
Did you just bring two-monitor editing into a discussion of an under 10-inch media device? Get a grip. You are arguing in the wrong forum. Try to keep your discussion in terms of the planned uses of the device. My truck doesn't fly, but I have yet to complain to the manufacturer because I realize its not a plane.
Of course you are correct. I think we respond to some to prevent people, reading to learn something, from believing the crap they spew, to kind of leave a sensible answer to redress the misleading stuff they type.
Sure, of course, but I'm not chained to my desk right now.
On Monday morning when I am I can power up the Keynote presentation on my dual 30" monitors with all my text intact and add graphics and transitions. My text and colors don't take dual 30" monitors to get right -- they take a calm, imaginative, creative mind -- sometimes this state of being is not compatible with my desk.
I like getting out of prison.
I get where your going. I'm a professor and often type large files. It would be obvious that the touch pad would slow down touch typing ( a lot at first but then speed should pick up, some) having tried an Ipad out I will be buying a blue-tooth keypad ( such as apple's) and use that for larger typing task. The one advantage over the ipad doc is that the regular Apple bluetooth pad is slim and will easily fit into a bag.
True, It is not really about the trolls, I just hate to leaave blatantly inaccurate statements just hanging out there. I will leave them alone now, I think everyone is aware they are just making things up now.
The book store just has the leisure books. No tech books. This is my only negative. Loving browsing the web with it. Works as advertised.
You have no idea what you're talking about. This is simply BS.
Last night, I was tooling around the APPs store, making a list of the apps I wanted to download on Day-1 (which for my $829 purchase, won't be for another few weeks)...
Over 40 apps with the vast majority being completely FREE! Besides, I'm not afraid to pay for some content. If I download free apps, then I owe to Karma to sometimes pay for an app that I want. In this case, I want rougly 10 that I'll have to pay for. No prob. Great device deserves great content.
-------- My list ---------
IPAD APPS TO GET:
1) Shazam - Free
2) SkyGrid - Free
3) Netflix - Free
4) Marvel Comics - Free
5) Yahoo! Entertainment - Free
6) IMDb - Free
7) Twitterific - Free
8) WeatherBug - Free
9) NBA Game Time - Free
10) ABC Player - Free
11) eBay - Free
12) NPR - Free
13) Scrabble - $9.99
14) iWork Suite - $30.00
15) iBooks - Free
16) World Atlas - $1.99
17) Articles - Wikipedia client - $4.99
18) Wikipanion Plus - $4.99
19) Desktop Connect - $11.99
20) AccuWeather.com - Free
21) BBC News - Free
22) AOL AIM - Free
23) USA Today - Free
24) WSJ - Free
25) NYTimes - Free
26) Weather Channel - Free
27) Dictionary.com - Free
28) AP News - Free
29) TweetDeck - Free
30) Bible HD - Free
31) Draw for iPad - Free
32) Craigsphone - Free
33) We Rule - Free
34) Reuters News Pro - Free
35) Voice Memos - Free
36) Doodle Buddy - Free
37) Toy Story Read-Along - Free
38) iMahjong 2 - Free
39) Labyrinth 2 - Free
40) WordSearch Lite - Free
41) Granimator - Free
42) Alice for iPad - Free
A couple more things
After playing with the demo unit for about a half hour, my hands were getting cramped and tired. The iPad really does have a lot of heft to it (which I assume is caused by the batteries). It felt almost as heavy as the small MacBook Pro. I found the fingerprints noticeable and distracting. I hope Power Support makes an anti-glare film for it (which Apple won't sell).
I played a couple games on it. Zen Bound was strangely laggy, as if it were only hitting about 15 fps. Real Racing HD faired slightly better. The accelerometer seemed way more responsive and accurate than the iPhone's. The Maps app was a bit of a mess. The satellite rendering was badly pixelated and wouldn't resolve when I zoomed in. I wish I could have rotated the view, a la Google Earth.
Mail is a big improvement over the iPhone version. But I still don't understand why Apple won't allow me to e-mail to a group; I still must select everyone individually.
The selling point for me, though, was Pages. The interface was elegant and easy to use. I'll bet that's going to be the future of desktop publishing. We'll actually be doing layout on a desktop-like surface with virtual clippings that we slide about with our hands.
Now I just have to wait for the 3G version.
After playing with the demo unit for about a half hour, my hands were getting cramped and tired. The iPad really does have a lot of heft to it (which I assume is caused by the batteries). It felt almost as heavy as the small MacBook Pro. I found the fingerprints noticeable and distracting. I hope Power Support makes an anti-glare film for it (which Apple won't sell).
I played a couple games on it. Zen Bound was strangely laggy, as if it were only hitting about 15 fps. Real Racing HD faired slightly better. The accelerometer seemed way more responsive and accurate than the iPhone's. The Maps app was a bit of a mess. The satellite rendering was badly pixelated and wouldn't resolve when I zoomed in. I wish I could have rotated the view, a la Google Earth.
Mail is a big improvement over the iPhone version. But I still don't understand why Apple won't allow me to e-mail to a group; I still must select everyone individually.
The selling point for me, though, was Pages. The interface was elegant and easy to use. I'll bet that's going to be the future of desktop publishing. We'll actually be doing layout on a desktop-like surface with virtual clippings that we slide about with our hands.
Now I just have to wait for the 3G version.
According to TWiT it is almost as good as a small Macbook and a whole lot better then the Touch.
Yeah, I fast touch type. It's a little hard in portrait mode, the keys are closer than I'm used to. (auto correct pops up a lot, and when it's wrong, I need to spam the delete key and retype.) I might be able to adapt, but I haven't had my iPad long enough to find out.
Landscape mode has just the right spacing for me. The iPad keyboard seems much more responsive than my G1 iPhone, and I can touch type at basically full speed. I put the iPad flat on the table in front of me, and just type like normal.
Go get yourself a slate with windoze 7-downgradable-to-XP(marketed as a feature)/MS Office/Messenger/IE, and let these people enjoy their state-of-the-art next-gen computing device.
No, the iPad does need multitasking.
Imagine when you're using Safari, that Mail is in the background. You get a new email, an unobstrusive notification comes up (from a local app, not the cloud), and you switch to Mail directly and instantaneously - i.e. no looking through pages of all the apps you have for Mail. Multitasking lets you group programs you're using for a particular task(s) and switch between them instantly without searching through every app or loading times.
If Apple were going to make this work, I'd imagine they give every session a task, which is a group of applications. When you launch any application, it's added to your current task in order. So, let's say I open Mail. Now that's in my current task. I go home and open Safari. Now Mail and Safari are both in my current task. Now I want to open Mail again, so I do a long horizontal swipe across the screen to switch to the previous app in my current task (or do some other gesture to see a grid of thumbnails of all the apps in my task).
In a sense, it's like spaces for OSX, with fullscreen apps so each app gets its own space. The apps in other spaces don't actually have to be running, so long as they resume their state quickly.