The laptop is at its end. You may have already purchased your last one. We’ve touched the future, and it feels a lot like the iPad.
Is the iPad cheap? No. Is it flawless? Not at all. Omissions including support for multitasking, a built-in camera for video chats, and Flash support in Safari leave room for improvement, but otherwise, the Apple iPad is a very convincing debut.
Apple has pretty much nailed it with this first iPad, though there's certainly room for improvement. Nearly three years after making a splash with the iPhone, Apple has delivered another impressive product that largely lives up to the hype.
Is the iPad a good product? The answer is undeniably, enthusiastically yes…. Should you buy one? As always, that depends on what you want to do with it…"
The Apple iPad is the first affordable tablet computer worth owning, but it won't (yet) replace your laptop.
The iPad has numerous flaws—most of which can be fixed with software updates, and we hope that they will be—but it's still a device that will undoubtedly kick off a shift in how the general population interacts with software and content
After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.
I like it a lot. But it's the things I never knew it made possible — to be revealed or not in the coming months — that will determine whether I love it.
Like any 1.0 product, the iPad has its rough edges, the worst being the erratic Wi-Fi reception. However, the basic design is spot on.
The iPad...demands compromises just like its cellular sibling, but in return it delivers a user experience that borders on the enchanting. Cynics have had a field day with Steve Jobs’ repeated use of “magical” in the iPad keynote, and while we perhaps wouldn’t go quite that far, what we would say is that it’s a tremendously joined-up experience.
The techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on.
There's just something about its interface, its features and how the whole thing is put together that makes the device feel polished and fun to use. At the same time, it also seems unfinished. It certainly has potential. But potential is only good, of course, if you fulfill it.
At this point we've run the full spectrum on iPad opinion. It should be clear that there are aspects of this device which we love, and others which we clearly do not.
Apple looks set to shake up casual computing with a tablet that offers clever design and ease of use. But that streamlined approach may also be the iPad's weakness.
