Last night, Apple launched iPad- the Company’s own version of a tablet computer. For weeks now, I have been awaiting Apple’s new gadget as it may be a good laptop replacement in view of my current laptop’s impending death.
The iPad is basically a cross between an iPhone and a laptop. According to the news, the device weighs 1.5 pounds and has a touch screen that is 9.7 inches diagonally. It comes with a relatively smaller flash memory storage, but has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Also, the iPad has a long battery-life of 10 hours and is said to last for a month on standby mode. It looks like a big iPhone and does what a normal iPhone does such as e-mail, internet browsing, files management, photo, music and video storage and other applications such as Apple’s iWork suite, sans the phone calls. The iPad is also said to compete head-on with Kindle, with Steve Jobs announcing Apple’s new e-book store called iBooks which lets users buy and download books from five major publishers in the United States.
The greater challenge for Apple now is how to sell the iPad to any ordinary consumers who already have an iPod and a laptop. Jobs, however, said that unlike a laptop, the iPad is lighter and easier to hold for long periods of time while watching a movie or TV show. Also, as compared to a smart phone, the iPad’s large screen makes it much easier to touch type and is extremely more responsive to finger swipes and taps for easy scrolling through Facebook, photo albums and news articles. However, I believe the real attention-grabber to the iPad its $499 price tag, which is way lower from what everyone was expecting.
However, the iPad also suffers some drawback according to critics. First, it does not have a built-in camera. Second, there is no Flash support for web browsing. Third, you can’t run multiple apps at once on the iPad screen (which an ordinary laptop can do). Indeed, for some critics, the emergence of the iPad in the computer world was not as revolutionary as the original iPhone.
Am I still considering the iPad? Now, the iPad’s features are impressive, but given the traditionalist in me, who’d only use a computer for research (including “social” research) and drafting pleadings, I’d rather get the good old trusted and sturdy ordinary laptop for my no-nonsense kind of work.
(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple;_ylt=AqRQBP2vMuhLPAUnWtskka0jtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJkcWdlNzBnBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTI4L3VzX3RlY19hcHBsZQRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzMEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDZnVsbG5ic3BzdG9y,http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/64350; photo:http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/patterson__18/patterson-454646165-1264623832.jpg?ymYTjlCDYg1iaWbe)
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