Q. My dad said he'd get me an ipad if I researched what it can do besides games. That help with school and other stuff like that.
A. IPad can help you anyway you want. Internet is a flow of information that can help you with you school projects etc.
You can connect any camera,USB keyboard,headset and Memory card or USB hub to iPad through Camera Connection Kit that has two dongles, one for camera and the other one is for SD card.
You can import photos that includes Raw photos and video.
I don't know about BB but I connect my iPhone and camera quite often.
Few people will say you need to buy Camera kit. But it's available for only $30 what's the big deal in it?
Flash is past all the websites have recoded their content into HTML 5 which is supported by iPad.
You can also download movies into your ipad. Go to http://moviesforipad.org/
will the apple iPad be a good laptop replacement for a teenager ?
Q. Son said he likes the ipad , when is it coming out and do u think it will be better than a laptop?
A. No it will not.
Summary of the iPad:
-You cannot multitask. You can only do one task at a time. If you want to surf the web and type into a document, you canât. Listen to music while you surf the web? Nope. You need to exit one and then open the other.
-No flash support. Enjoy the web without much of its content!
-No camera. A $30 Tracfone has a camera and an expensive Apple product doesn't? Wow.
-It doesnât have an SD card slot. You want expand it from the limited capacity options that Apple offers? You can't. Want to easily load all your photos and music on it? You can't.
-No USB ports. You need to buy a special dongle and attach it to the iPad if you want to use any peripherals. Ah yes, thatâs convenient and cost-effective. Peripheral support will also be very limited by its operating system.
-Doesnât use a real operating system, like Windows or Mac OSX. It runs like an iPhone, not a laptop. If you want to install a program, a special iPhone app needs to exist.
-Apple wants to say it will be great for reading books and magazines, but it has a bright, glossy LCD screen. Meanwhile, electronic book reader devices use an electronic ink technology that doesnât strain the eyes and can be used in the sun. The iPad is like staring into a light bulb... so great for long, focused reading. Also, electronic book readers can run on battery for days, whereas the iPad claims up to 10 hours, but probably has much less with mixed use.
-You need to lay it flat and look straight down at it to type on it. Itâs not like a netbook or laptop where the keyboard is flat and the screen is in front of your face.
-You can buy a keyboard accessory â you can spend extra money to turn a low-power netbook-type tablet into a non-portable desktop computer. Meanwhile there are products like Lenovo U1 Hybrid where you can slip the tablet into a netbook shell and turn it into a portable, foldable laptop.
-It costs $500, minimum, and has a 1 ghz processor. Youâre paying $500 for something that has about the same capabilities as an iPod Touch, but is huge. Products with similar specs and abilities as the iPad cost less than that. If you want the model with enough disk space and 3G to make it worth your while, itâs $800.
My netbook has a 1.6 ghz Atom processor and cost me $200. And my netbook has an SD slot so I can make the hard drive space as large as I want. And my netbook has USB ports. And I can do multiple tasks on my netbook. The iPad is a giant iPod Touch without the iPod Touch's main selling point: it being small enough to fit in your pocket.
Fact is, tablets have been around forever and the mainstream market didnât want them. Just because theyâve slapped an Apple logo on it, should people suddenly want it?
I would like to know more about the benefits of having an ipad and getting rid of my PC?
Q. It looks like the ipad is going to take the place of our bulky table and laptop PCs? yes? I would like to know what pro;s and con's you think there is in replacing these for the ipad?
A. I normally avoid personal comments but I am compelled to comment here on Computer Tech.
I think he doesn't keep up with new technologies.
iPad has a set of two dongles that lets you connect digital camera,USB hub,keyboard and memory card.
No Flash: Why do you require flash in the first place? You want annoying pop ups? Or you want stupid ad banners while watching movie.
iPad streams video from almost all websites without a problem. Flash is not required anymore to play video online.
Full size keyboard: I type 60 words per minute on my iPad many cant do that even on physical keyboard. Apple case makes typing on iPad a charm.
But if you want physical keyboard. You can either get a blutooth keyboard or a wired one both works flawlessly with iPad.
Multi Tasking:You can split in two or three parts and do two or three things simultaneously with radio playing at the background.
iOS4 is on it's way to make things even easier.it will available for FREE for every iPad owner.
Coming back to the asker question :: answer depends on what you use computer for. If you wanna print hundreds of documents every day then iPad is not the right choice.
iPad is not meant to replace a computer.However there are apps that make an iPad a smarter option.
iPad can do almost everything a regular user would do on a computer but there are occasion when iPad fails and you will need a computer.
For example : when iOS4 releases , you will need to download it on computer first then sync iPad and update it.
Other than that iPad does pretty much everything. You can download media and document from websites using app GoodReader.You can play thousands of games.
iPad version of iWork ( iWork is MS Office for MAC) works really good and you can create any document easily and quickly.
Photo and video editing on iPad is amazing. If you don't have thousand dollar software like Photoshop,Final Cut Studio on computer than iPad beats PC in every single way.
Battery: no laptop can even come close to iPad. iPad's battery last over 15 hours easily.
Watch movies : Netflix works on iPad vey smoothly. Besides, you canalso watch movies online for free. There is a site totally dedicated to iPad and iPhone.
TV Shows : watch full episodes of tv shows on abc and CBS.You can also watch some live events like today I am watching performance of Taylor Swift live on my iPad.
Last week I watched MTV movie awards live on iPad using FREE app MTV.
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