It's rather interesting that it was this past week that I got my hands on a demo iPad for about 4 days. My impression was that it looked and felt cool, but mostly useless. The latter part was due to 1) difference in the modus operandi (I don't use web-interface for reading e-mail, rather it is either shell-based, such as alpine, or Thunderbird) 2) Among the apps installed, there were very few that attracted any portion of my interest, and I was not installing any new ones.
For the 1) above, - the lack of keyboard was definitely a hindering factor. I am using a lot of short-keys on the keyboard even to control web-browser. I was not used to how to do copy-n-paste between apps /browsers. Lack of possibility to switch between different windows, and lack of multitasking (I know, there is a hack that allows to enable that - so that you can listen to built-in iPod while doing something else, but I was not going to bother.) The screen is very nice. I also liked gesture-based touch-screen navigation for certain websites (in particular, google maps). At this point, I do not see using iPad or any similarly sized pads. If anything, I may consider a small device like Viliv N5 - for communication and web browsing: http://www.liliputing.com/2010/07/viliv-n5-handheld-mini-notebook-now-shipping-in-the-us.html Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
