Ipad - Personal Experience?

iPad was the smoothest man in the bar. He talked me into his bed without any problems.

The sex was good. He was tender but rough when I wanted him to be rough. He is a generous lover.

If he had only called me the next day, I would have given him five stars instead of four and a half.

phil, youre a weird dude

i wanted my five stars. i just hate talking on the phone.

Laptops aren't really a big pain to carry from room to room. If you want to use the iPad to write, don't. The key board is too small and you have to pay an extra ten dollars to use Word. If you already have a laptop you'd be wasting your money.

If you want to read books on a sleek, non-book device, why not get a Kindle or a Nook?

Don't buy just now. The iPad is due to be revised shortly, which will either add a slew of new features you'll want, or drive the price down on the original if you choose to go with that one.

That, and Apple's rumored to be offering 3G service through Verizon on the revised model, so the pricing on that may be more competitive once two players are in town.

Yeah I may wait a while, but a kindle would be exclusively to read on. Thanks for the advice, I'll atleast leave it till april till the Ipad2 is out.

I think its just having money and wanting cool technology to spend it on!

I think its shitty that the kindle, nook, et al offer free 3g and the iPad makes you sign a contract and pay for it monthly.

I have replaced all of my laptop usage with my iPad, with the exception of web development and Photoshop/Fireworks. So I suggest them to nearly everyone.

If you can wait till April, it's probably worth it, but even if you need something right now, I don't think it would be a bad purchase.

Laptops aren't really a big pain to carry from room to room. If you want to use the iPad to write, don't. The key board is too small and you have to pay an extra ten dollars to use Word. If you already have a laptop you'd be wasting your money.

Believe it or not, a lot of people can type on it pretty easily. The keyboard isn't really any smaller than a netbook. My cousin can bang out text on it. My hands are a little too big but they are for a netbook too.

You have to pay extra to use Word on any computer, so I don't see why you wouldn't pay for it on iPad. And hell, $10 is a steal compared to the cost of MS Office.

Yeah I may wait a while, but a kindle would be exclusively to read on. Thanks for the advice, I'll atleast leave it till april till the Ipad2 is out.

I have an iPad and a Kindle. I read on the Kindle, but it is nice that my books are synced through the Kindle service so if I'm out and have a little downtime I can also read my books on my iPad. Sure, it's not as nice but at least you can.

I think its shitty that the kindle, nook, et al offer free 3g and the iPad makes you sign a contract and pay for it monthly.

What you're not considering is that for the Kindle/Nook you're only downloading at most a few hundred kb whenever you buy a book.

With an iPad, you're using all the internet offers, watching Youtube, streaming netflix, playing games. Though both are technically using the same network, they aren't using it for the same thing. If you could do even a fraction of that on a Kindle, the 3g service wouldn't be free.

My last point would be for you to consider if you really need a 3g iPad. Most people I know don't have a 3g model unless they travel a hell of a lot. If you don't just get the wi-fi model. You would be shocked how available free wi-fi actually is for when you decide to go to the coffee shop or something. Also, you probably don't need anything more than the 16GB version, unless you intend to store lots of music and movies on it.

Oh, one more thing... Though it is probably at a point where it could use some updating, we ran a really solid article about writing on the iPad last summer.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/workshop-essay/the-future-of-writing-...

Try the iPad.

both of you have kindles and ipads. I are jealous.

How much does the 3g set you guys back? I dont wanna ram myself in debt with net charges!

Well, you'll shell out an extra $130 on the iPad for 3g. Then I think AT&T charges you something like $30 a month? I could be wrong, I didn't even look into it.

yeah, that doesn't sound worth it. The 3g for the kindle was only an extra $50, so I went for it. I rely on my neighbors for wireless and like the idea that I will be able to download a book while sitting on the beach.

If I got an ipad I wouldn't pay for service. Just find some good spots with free wifi. The ipads I have used have pretty good wifi receivers.

If I had the money I would get one. They're nice. I would use it to surf the web and write - email - etc, and could leave this old beater g4 powerbook at home for mah design and development work.

It comes with Scrabble, dude. Just sayin.

I'm always late in technology anyways, but I'm waiting for like 10th generation iPad before I get one.
Can you imagine how freaking awesome those are going to be? It'll be like the size and thickness of a sheet of paper and have a 500 gig hard drive in it! You'll be about to just roll it up and shove it in your back pocket!

By the time we get to the 10th generation, it won't have a hard drive, all of your data will be on the cloud.

I just write mine off as a business expense, so when iPad 2 hits, if it is a big enough enhancement I'll buy that, write it off and give this one to my mom.

You'll be shackled and burned at the stake with witchcraft speak like that!

but, kirk.. i thought you hated ms word

Did I say somewhere that I like it? "Word" doesn't even exist on iPad, but there are compatible options, such as Pages. Having to pay $10 for something like that seems more than fair to me.

I seldom steer folks away from Apple products, but unless what you're planning to read is diagram rich technical .pdfs you'll need to pinch and zoom into, just get a kindle. reading a book for more than a couple hours at a time hurts on any LCD display - eInk is perfect for reading.

Plus, the Kindle is far, far less expensive if reading is really all you want to do.

It's got fuckin Scrabble man