I forgot about that. I heard you can't install applications that you would normally install on your PC at home. They have to come from the App store. Not cool.

Another thing you can do with the iPad. Since I bought a Pontiac G8 GT I've been on the G8 forums and this gentleman put an iPad in his car to display gauges to monitor his car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLtQ6dBPjE&feature=player_embedded

lol for $500 I could buy your mom.

No seriously, I was in a forum like this before, and one thing I love about windows above all OS's:

EXE FILES

Indeed you could.  Send me the 5 small and I'll give you directions to her grave.

That's actually a pretty sweet setup he's got. Thanks for sharing

you should have bought this

http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/index.html?country=us&lang=en

its the same with soo much more for less $$$

even has a vga output that puts out 1080 p

well they say there is no such thing as bad publicity....

The inside of an iPad...

Interesting... what happens if i remove the iPhone from iPad?

But now seriously. I'm thinking of buying the iPad. Got too much money. My home PC is actually a laptop, a laptop that never leaves it's place since it's a bit too big to carry around when visiting friends and such. But the iPad seems to be right size... and i have a feeling it'd be a nice device to have while PnP RPGing. All the notes there, character details, and easy access to Internet in case i need to check something from DnD SRD. Also, it might be cool to show it to friends.

The fact you must buy stuff from AppStore is a bit turn off but maybe people hack/mod the system or find workarounds. And so is non-replaceable battery but maybe by the time it dies there are newer models...

And it'd be nice if they were already in stores in Finland... No one knows when they're coming here, just "soon", "later this month", "next month". I wonder about the price.. usually anything bought in Finland costs 150% its price in dollars ($100=100 euros).

Should i buy it, what size i should choose? 16 or 32GB? 64GB is probably going to be a bit costly since i probably ain't going to need so much space.

EDIT wait, what that's Archos thing? Half the battery life, no touch screen (trackpoint and mousebuttons? No TY)... Skype is nice but i have a cellphone for talking. And it ain't much cheaper either... Plus it has Windows 7... while i haven't had any real problems with WinVista, i don't want every device i own to have Windows or Microsoft on it.

You don't want Windows, but you would rather have the totalitarian regime of Apple? The company that locks everything down and only wants you to buy from them and from them only? The company that blocks flash, so they can sell you apps and games you could get for free otherwise? Yeah, Windows is evil.

And as for DnD, remember, you can't multitask on the iPad. Write a note, save and close, open browser. Close browser, load note, save and close. It's coming down the line, but really, there's no reason to buy an iPad now. Like the iPod, Apple lags behind on features and introduces them in later models.

Yeah, sure, Apple sounds worse than MS.  But as i said, i have too much money ATM. Need to use it for something... It's no good sitting there and doing nothing And preferrably i'd use it for something i can use for something useful, rather than games i play for a week and then forget them. Short attention span nowadays

ANd yeah, that lack of multitaskin is a bit meh but i realised after writing my post that we're going to use 4th edition, so no SRD.  Erratas etc. i copy and paste them to appropiate notes.

I wonder whether that Archos tablet can run Elemental... And whether its touch screen is just for typing or if i can use it as mouse too... And there's this last thing: is or will it be availabe in Finland?

Too much money? Go buy a nice mountain bike.

You could give it to me....

I'm sure I could get it doing 'something'...;)

this is Apples Vista huh? seems they are not immune to making junk.

Meh... i'm not the biker type... Besides, there are no mountains in Finland. And certainly not in Helsinki, it's all even..

Hmm. I wonder how long it will take before Apple makes another iPad, and whether it'll actually address all the weaknesses of the current iPad. Non-replaceable battery, no flash, no multitasking. Those are the biggest issues right?

Good advice.  But if you aren't the biking type, find something else to do outdoors.  Get out.  Get some sun.  There's a whole world out there that some of us used to play in, you know, back before there were cell phones and playstations...Anyone remember building forts or damming up creeks?  I love to watch my kids outside using their imagination to play.  They don't need techno garbage to have fun.  And the best thing about it is I can play with them and have almost as much fun as them.

Haha, mountain bike. If you have too much money, put it in a savings account. If you had $100,000 in a savings account, you could make $1/2000 a year just for having that money in that account. You could make more if you invest, but savings accounts are also risk free and mindless.

Until there's a run on the bank and it goes under....;)

As far as I'm concerned, there's no reason to get an iPad when you have much cheaper and more useful netbooks.

its useless but their are the mindless followers who will buy it, just look up irack on youtube.

I don't think Apple is relying on 'mindless followers'.  They will have investigated the potential market before committing to a new product.

There is [as they see it] a legitimate market place for it.  I just don't see one in my own future, but then I use a mobile phone for - phone calls.  Even the included camera is just junk that serves an emergency function, nothing more.

Each to his own.

I looked at the iPad at Best Buy. Virtually every feature was locked, you had to purchase every "app" to give it even the semblance of the functionality of a simple netbook.

This is what I hate. The price tag for these things are much, much higher than their listed price. Like the Xbox and the PS3. Dear god it's frustrating.

I'm a week-and-a-half into the iPad experience, and I love the damn thing. It's at my side all the time. Surfing the web is great when lounging on a coach. I'm halfway into Remnick's new biography of Obama, so about 350 pages and reading on it is a pleasure even though it's not e-ink. Netflix streaming is wonderful. I've watched the third season of Arrested Development while in bed. Marvel comics look great. Plants vs. Zombies is a blast on the ipad, and someone just released an open-source version of Trainsport Tycoon for free on the ipad, and it looks exactly like Chris Sawyer's original. I love it.

A waste of time on a time wasting machine.  I like that.

I am a hard core PC user who has always avoided Macs like the plague (I have too expensive a library of non-compatible software to own one).  I laughed when I heard the "big secret" of the iPad revealed.

But, as it so happens, I've spent the past several months working up a local web marketing business in my area (I do my own graphics and Flash design).  So as I happened into Best Buy the other day I went over to scoff at the ridiculously expensive and pointless iPad but as I picked it up I was really struck by the ergonomic elegance and ease of use.  It is perfect for presentations of web based materials to potential clients.  It actually has one of the best viewable screens for anything in it's size class along with the advantage that it can be held and tilted like a piece of paper or a clipboard for the best view in bright light (something not practical with a laptop). The cheap plastic cases of netbooks and even the minimal keyboard/body distract from projecting any sort of style and sophistication and the iPad simply oozes it.

It's a one-trick pony but it is the closest thing to a genuine "Star Trek: The Next Generation" pad that's out there right now.  It really projects function, utility and style.  So I am buying one next week. As a Flash designer I abhor the virtual lack of it on the iPad but I gleefully await the results of the efforts by the hordes of jailbreakers that are already descending on it.

On that same note, a nine year old girl was demoing one next to me today and I asked, "Are you getting one?".  She looked to where her mom was standing and said with a great sigh, "I hope so!".

All this from a die-hard and lifelong Mac scoffer.  This thing simply looks and feels advanced (though it still needs true flash support).