Ipad as a notepad

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Peder

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I am kind of interested in a Ipad since i want to go a little bit more paperless

What is the ipad like to make notes on? is it worth it or am i going to go back to paper after a while?

I was just wondering, i see you can get pogo but have no idea whether it will work or not.

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It's alright. With some apps you get finger sketching, with others typing, and others have both. It's still not as quick or easy as paper but does have advantages.

Penultimate (great sketching app) with a stylus apparently works really well.
 
Synaesthesia said:
It's alright. With some apps you get finger sketching, with others typing, and others have both. It's still not as quick or easy as paper but does have advantages.

Penultimate (great sketching app) with a stylus apparently works really well.
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I guess i will have to find someone with a ipad to actually test it, i just wish the Ipad would be released in SA already...

I seem to lose all my notes on a regular basis so i would really like to keep my notes in one place (but the idea of a keyboard does put me off a little bit)
 
I had one. Sold it last week. The keyboard is faster than scribbling notes for text input, way faster.

If you wanna just scribble though, Penultimate and a stylus are the way to go. Check this video (from about 0:55)
 
I use my iPad all the time for making notes, using the Apple note app. I find it handy for quickly jotting down notes, order numbers, street addresses etc. As you know, a notebook can get very full, very quickly.....but it is a snap with the iPad to find a note - using it's built-in search function, just type in a word/name to find your note. It also stores the date and time that you made the note, so it is easy to go back and look at past notes. This note app is obviously one really small, feature of what can be done with the iPad - just last night I hooked up my iPad to one of my Windows computers wirelessly...and I could control my windows PC from the iPad, with the whole windows display appearing right on the iPad - I could play music/movies on my PC, and it would appear right on the iPad, with sound, as if I was running windows on my iPad. As you probably know there are more than 300 000 of these and other handy apps on the app store
 
Just on this - how's the typing speed on an ipad versus say PC. I've got an iPod Touch, and the touch screen keyboard is great, for a touch screen, if not unprecedented. Buut, it get's left in the dust by virtually any device i've owned with a physical hardware keyboard. From my limited use of iPad I don't know whether note taking would be a major use of it for me...
 
It's fairly slowish on the portrait orientation, but ok for quick typing. Turning it to landscape you can actually type fairly quickly with two hands. Not as fast as a real keyboard but fast.

It's like the iPod Touch/iPhone: you type quite easily, faster than you expect.

Of course you can always use a real keyboard.
 
Shot for the info. Possibly another weird question. But how is the iPad in bed. And I mean in terms of reading while in bed.(weight and comfort). =)
 
Perfect! Slightly heavy but nothing like a laptop. A case helps, my grandpa made one out of wood for me!
 
Wood?Nice! You wanna post a pic perhaps? Dude, I'm so envious. iBooks on ipod touch is a dream - but having +4x the screen real estate would literally be a match made in heaven for me...
 
It's great. I'm actually surfing on an iPhone here and its so tiny! Yeah I'll put up a picture later.
 
dudesweet said:
Shot for the info. Possibly another weird question. But how is the iPad in bed. And I mean in terms of reading while in bed.(weight and comfort). =)
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Dude, the iPad is good in bed....and it never has a headache.

WRT typing speed - like anything new, it takes a bit of practice, but in landscape mode using both hands, you can go along at quite a good speed
 
played with one yesterday - the book reading is par excel-lance. Typing is much easier than on iPhone/iPod due to the much larger keys. It is very responsive.. iBook page turning is very quick and you will not lose your place - I am busy looking for the basic model myself. Core is non committal on the SA release. Should work a treat with my Apple BT keyboard.
 
surfs-up said:
Dude, the iPad is good in bed....and it never has a headache.

WRT typing speed - like anything new, it takes a bit of practice, but in landscape mode using both hands, you can go along at quite a good speed
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Sounds like my type of girl this iPad ;)
 
A bit messed up that the iPad costs so much in SA. Guess once there are proper local distro channels then it will come closer to market price.
But try compare the price of an ipad vs a low-mid-range laptop in the states. You'll see that the iPad is like an entry level laptop PC ($500-1000) whereas in SA the cheapest one is about R7k, which puts it quite above very acceptable lenovo and acer laptops at 5-6k.
 
dudesweet said:
A bit messed up that the iPad costs so much in SA. Guess once there are proper local distro channels then it will come closer to market price.
But try compare the price of an ipad vs a low-mid-range laptop in the states. You'll see that the iPad is like an entry level laptop PC ($500-1000) whereas in SA the cheapest one is about R7k, which puts it quite above very acceptable lenovo and acer laptops at 5-6k.
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yeah that is rather unfortunate!

I am really wanting a Ipad, just wish i had the moola...
 
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