Are you lusting for an iPad?
By Mari McGrath · January 27, 2010
Apple announced (and is still announcing as I type this) its iPad today in San Francisco.
We’re the first generation to have computers be a consistent part of our education and our lives. Our children won’t remember printers where you had to peel off the edges of the paper or Number Munchers on a Tandy. They also won’t know about making labels for your science fair project the night before with markers and construction paper.
If the iPad does what the iPhone did, everyone will be connected at all times to mobile computing. That’s both an amazing and scary notion. Is all this connectivity good for us?
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I was following the liveblog today, and honestly don’t think it will be useful in my life at all. I’m not sure what others think, but I like my iPhone and Macbook just fine, and feeling the intermediate is unnecessary.
I’m such a heavy user of my laptop and my unlimited data plan that I think I fall into your same category. If I were buying it for the way I use things, I would end up buying the $829 version. I’m listening to some of the pundits right now and I think what they’re agreeing on is that its going to kill the Kindle because at $499 for your parents to read ebooks and write the occasional email. I wish it had a camera because what a great Skype tool that would be. I’d like to hear from people who have a netbook since that’s much more the target audience. When I leave my house, I have my phone. I only take my laptop if I feel like I’m going to do real work. Otherwise I can write email on my phone. I think its brilliant, but not for me until there are a few more updates.
HP released something seven years ago that did everything the iPad does and more, without menstrual jokes.