Excellent Apple iPad review

[rpm]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/ipad-therefore-iwant-why-idunno

A few snippets from the review:

A star appears over San Francisco and a new gizmo is born. The iPad! At first glance it resembles an iPhone in unhandy, non-pocket-sized form. But look a little longer, and . . Nope. You were right first time.

It's an iPhone for people who can't be arsed holding an iPhone up to their face. A slightly-further-away iPhone that keeps your lap warm. A weird combination of portable and cumbersome: too small to replace your desktop, too big to fit in your pocket, unless you're a clown.

Absurdly, Apple keeps trying to pretend it'll make your life more efficient. Come off it. It's an oblong that lights up. I'm sick of being pitched to like I'm a one-man corporation undertaking a personal productivity audit anyway. I don't want to hear how the iPad is going to make my life simpler. I want to hear how it'll amuse and distract me; how it plans to anaesthetise me into a numb, trancelike state.

Some people are complaining because it doesn't have a camera in it. Spoiled techno-babies, all of them. Just because something is technically possible, it doesn't mean it has to be done. It's technically possible to build an egg whisk that makes phonecalls, an MP3 player that dispenses capers or a car with a bread windscreen. Humankind will continue to prosper in their absence. Not everything needs a 15-megapixel lens stuck on the back, like a little glass anus. Give these ingrates a camera and they'd whine that it didn't have a second camera built into it. What are you taking photographs of anyway? Your camera collection?

 

[rpm]

I missed this gem:

I just hope buying a MacBook won't turn me into an iPrick.

 

[LazyLion]

I missed this gem:

Yep... most important statement of the entire review! And the most realistic.

 

[killadoob]

Yup so many mac owners think they are superior because they buy expensive hardware and treat pc users like the poor guys who cannot afford expensive stuff .

 

[Keeper]

Yup so many mac owners think they are superior because they buy expensive hardware and treat pc users like the poor guys who cannot afford expensive stuff .

meanwhile the PC users are blowing R7000 on gfx cards or R2500 just on a power supply

 

[killadoob]

meanwhile the PC users are blowing R7000 on gfx cards or R2500 just on a power supply

Ya but remember that 25k apple comes with a nvidia 220 which makes you l33t and uber cool and you can run any 10 year old game high on your 25k system. The coolness factor is the price you are paying for low end hardware. It makes you way cooler than a pc oke blowing 7k on a vga card .

 

[assagai]

excellent, lets have the same old argument again, from the beginning.
yes, remember folks, your choices as a consumer are what define you as a person!