I think it's going to be successful. Even though I wouldn't find one useful, I think people will be happy with what an iPad can do.brambos wrote:kbaccki wrote:Spoken like a true Apple fan. "It's the perception of what's possible, not the reality of what is that really counts"... or some such outside-the-box gobbleygook.brambos wrote:Spec-obsession is sooo last century. It's the orchestration of the user experience and the convenience of product/service ecosystems that counts in the real world (i.e. outside the techie-community) these days.
We'll see in a couple of months.
Maybe the iPad will be a big flop, like all the technology-tinkerers are hoping, maybe it will really prove to be a game changer and a *lot* of people will be buying it (and using it for things most of us here can't even predict yet).
I'm betting on the latter.
A real tablet computer is great. I've been a tablet supporter for a long time because doing millions of clicks kills my fingers/hand/arm. A touch screen is neat but I need a Wacom digitizer and a stylus for the precision and I need to rest my palm on the screen while I work.
PC Board work
Schematic Capture
This is cool. I've had a pile of paper, highlighters and colored pens in various working conditions as long as I can remember. It's gone and pens never explode in my pocket anymore. With Microsoft Onenote you also get "Ink" that you can cut, copy, paste, search and convert to text. I can always go back and edit a drawing rather than start over. In my life, this is revolutionary. BTW this is all running on XP Tablet edition. I haven't installed it yet but they say Win7 is much better at doing all of this.
Free Hand
Enough power and freedom to run what I like is nice too.
Playstation Emulator
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