Comments on: Liveblogging The Apple Event

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:02:31 +0000

fun stuff! http://www.geardiary.com/2010/01/27/liveblogging-the-apple-event/

By: dino

dino — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:41 +0000

RT @geardiarysite: Liveblogging The Apple Event http://bit.ly/cveArL

By: Douglas Moran

Douglas Moran — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:44:37 +0000

More from the specs: GSM support is in 850, 1900, 2100 MHz; I wonder if they will release this with 900/1800 MHz for Europe and the rest of planet Earth.

By: Douglas Moran

Douglas Moran — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:40:19 +0000

Resolution on the device, according to http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/, is 1024×768, which is the exact resolution of a TV set. I can’t decide if that’s a fail or not.

By: Douglas Moran

Douglas Moran — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:35:27 +0000

Two questions:

o) What gear bag would be right for this thing? And I would want a gear bag that could also fit the docking station, keyboard, and mouse.

o) Speaking of mouses or mice or meeses: did anyone get any information about mouse support?

By: Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:07:22 +0000

I personally have no interest. It is not enough of a computer to be a computer, but too big to be a handheld … it meets needs I don’t have.

Personally I like netbooks.

By: questionfear

questionfear — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:41:45 +0000

RT @GearDiarySite: Liveblogging The Apple Event http://goo.gl/fb/JWTa

By: Douglas Moran

Douglas Moran — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:23:44 +0000

Given that I travel a lot and am supplied with a Lenovo laptop by work, I want one and will use it in lieu of a new personal laptop. Add a portable keyboard and mouse, a monitor at home, and man am I a happy guy. And again, because I travel, I will *love it* for media and ebooks (I *don’t* like eInk). I bet my ripped movies will look like crap when sized up to fit the screen, though. Sigh. I’ll have to re-rip everything.

By: Douglas Moran

Douglas Moran — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:09:52 +0000

Random thoughts:

One question now for iPhone owners is: what do you do? iPad or no iPad? 3G, yes or now? How much memory? (I always try to obey Judie’s Law: “Even the maximum amount of memory you can get won’t be enough”.) Keep your iPhone or trade it in?

Looks like the back is anodized aluminum rather than plastic. Thank goodness!

Interesting to me how Jobs is implicitly invoking Clarke’s Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”).

What are those two dark areas on the side? Ports? What kind?

Will this encourage, discourage, or do neither to the idea of paywalls and subscriptions for newspapers and magazines?

That’s enough for now!

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:47:52 +0000

Few things to say. I want one. Mostly because I really want a GREAT media player. I don’t WANT eBooks on it. Eink is superior, for me, for reading.

The rest of the stuff is just candy for me. I wanted a really large media player for a while and unless something else better comes, this is it for large media players.

By: travisehrlich

travisehrlich — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:38:24 +0000

Liveblogging The Apple Event http://tinyurl.com/yaq4h8v from @iNewsApp