So for about the same cash, you can buy an 27" iMac+iPad or get a 15" MBP. I'm deliberating between the two options for my next setup. If the iPad had flash support, I would be all over the imac+ipad combo because that would mean i can watch hulu on the ipad. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Will your next setup be an iMac+iPad or a MBP?
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Disclosure: I already have an iPhone, so that may skew me a bit.
I'd get the 15" MBP with an external monitor and keyboard/mouse. For me, having an iPhone and a MacBook Pro makes the iPad a needless intermediate.
I'd get the 15" MBP with an external monitor and keyboard/mouse. For me, having an iPhone and a MacBook Pro makes the iPad a needless intermediate.
Yeah I agree with the first reply, I already have a 24" iMac + iPhone 3G
Once the MBPs are updated I will be selling my iMac solely for the purpose of getting the MBP.
The iPad just doesn't seem like a good product in my eyes. It's just a bloated iPod touch / iPhone - yet it can't make a phone call nor does it have a camera. Maybe the iPad v2 will have more compelling features, but for now I'll be perfect with an MBP and maybe get an external monitor for more screen space.
Once the MBPs are updated I will be selling my iMac solely for the purpose of getting the MBP.
The iPad just doesn't seem like a good product in my eyes. It's just a bloated iPod touch / iPhone - yet it can't make a phone call nor does it have a camera. Maybe the iPad v2 will have more compelling features, but for now I'll be perfect with an MBP and maybe get an external monitor for more screen space.
A netbook is better. Get one with the Broadcom chip and it can do full screen Hulu. I really think hte iPad is a huge failure.
Apple might come back in a year with a major software update that really cahnges things, but for now it literally is nothing more than an iPod Touch for people who can't see too good.
Apple might come back in a year with a major software update that really cahnges things, but for now it literally is nothing more than an iPod Touch for people who can't see too good.
As people have already said, if you have the smartphone and the notebook, there's no need for a middle thing. But I think I'll buy the iPad and use it with my eMac (yes, eMac) until I can afford an iMac. And, Steve says "the 2010 iMacs will take macs to the next level."
same problem here, I have a MBP+24 ACD, i'm thinking about changing the combo for an Imac 27 + ipad
I was thinking of going back to MBP and large monitor instead of another iMac but the iPad might change this. I expect that I'll use the iMac a lot less once I have an iPad. Perhaps I will only have 1 Mac in future.
I'm going with macbook pro + iphone. So nice to be able to open my full desktop anywhere and crack on.
Just suits my purposes. If I just needed minimal document editing and web browsing on the move I'd consider an ipad +imac, but I need horsepower on the road.
Just suits my purposes. If I just needed minimal document editing and web browsing on the move I'd consider an ipad +imac, but I need horsepower on the road.
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I need portable internet, I have it with my iphone even if it is crippled without flash, to have a desktop is pointless to me and a ipad without flash cant view many websites, unfortunately adobe is right, flash is needed. It sucks on mac though and if they really want it included they need to lose their invincable attitude and work on improving the software. Regardless I will not be buying an Ipad, I am perfectly happy with my macbook pro. If I were to buy another mac it would be a refurb 21,5" imac to replace a stationary asus laptop we have in our kitchen which works great but the screen sucks (way too dim)
I need portable internet, I have it with my iphone even if it is crippled without flash, to have a desktop is pointless to me and a ipad without flash cant view many websites, unfortunately adobe is right, flash is needed. It sucks on mac though and if they really want it included they need to lose their invincable attitude and work on improving the software. Regardless I will not be buying an Ipad, I am perfectly happy with my macbook pro. If I were to buy another mac it would be a refurb 21,5" imac to replace a stationary asus laptop we have in our kitchen which works great but the screen sucks (way too dim)