The point of an iPad

[SimonR.]

I'm curious to what you use them for. I cannot understand the point of a giant iphone.

I have an iphone for when I'm out and a macbook for home. The macbook is also small enough to travel with.

Explain spending £500 on a screen

 

[Andy.]

watching p**n in the bog without overheating your lap.

 

[Gally]

Tbh I thought the same when they first came out but they are so much more than that.

 

[Truffs]

You find you use it more than the laptop web browsing, emails, etc

 

[SimonR.]

The only thing I have thought of is using three of them as a mixing set up, but not worth £1500 for something inferior and will wear off

 

[C.J]

Mine is used for all web browsing while at home.

Checking emails, forums, FB, remote desktop, logmein (work PC), remote control AppleTV (far better than the iPhone can).

Can't imagine not having one, far easier to use than a laptop.

 

[Andy.]

TBH it's not a must have for me but a nice to have.

I can browse internet and emails quicker
I can copy photos over from my camera and show them to clients in a fancy format and without lugging a laptop around
I can hand it over to the kids and get an hours peace and quiet
I can take over my PC at work when in meetings in or out of the building and do tests/ send files or whatever else I need to

Aside from being quicker to load up and being light, it does nothing that a laptop can't, but I wouldn't be without it.

 

[Tom]

Films on a plane.

 

[SC03OTT]

Web browsing, email, eBay, PayPal, paying bills, reading (iBooks), alarm clock, magazines and showing people holiday photos are a few uses that spring to mind for me. Mine gets well used, as does my MacBook.

 

[silentsnake]

Films on a plane.

Sequel to snakes?

I don't see the point in them either tbh, seem like a good way to chuck £500 away. Iphone>Ipad imo.

 

[Revels]

It does everything most people use a laptop for.

Except it's smaller, faster and more user friendly.

 

[SimonR.]

I suppose its aimed at the 'general' market. I can't see it running logic with all of my audio units and samples :L

 

[.Adam.]

I don't have one, but I want to get one purely for when I go on holiday.

Full of win for the plane journeys etc!

 

[Alexiooo]

It does everything most people use a laptop for.

Except it's smaller, faster and more user friendly.

This^^^

 

[C.J]

Iphone>Ipad imo.

That's like saying 'Bed > Chair' Totally different uses.

My iPhone is used when out and about, my iPad is used at home, on the sofa.

 

[-Jason-]

I was thinking of getting one but think the money would be better used to get a laptop with a blue ray burner and hdmi etc built in, I have an iphone 4 and can create a network using that and a wifi sd card to have images pop up on the laptop.

 

[Papalaz]

When people say its faster, do they mean its faster to power up when its first switched on? Faster out of hibernation?

Once its up and running it cant be that much faster at web browsing surely?

Even my poverty spec laptop will open a browser window in about 1 second, how much faster is a tablet?

I really need to try one as I do think they look cool, just afraid I wouldnt use it that much.....:S

 

[Pedro]

I thought the same until i bought one, now I can't put the bloody thing down!

 

[jenic]

I am still trying to work out why I'd use one, and cant justify it yet.

 

[Fletcher]

Mine still hasn't arrived yet

 

[theduck]

Dont you need itunes though? So still need a computer?

 

[SimonR.]

There is something about it that makes me want one but I literally have no use for it.

What are the battery lives like on them?

Buy for a week of holiday then return? :L

 

[Fletcher]

Dont you need itunes though? So still need a computer?

Yep.

 

[Kane.]

Only if you want to change music on it, I havent plugged mine in since buying it last year.
I use it at work and at home, never use my laptop anymore.

 

[SC03OTT]

You don't back it up? Sack that.

 

[Dean.]

Can you download normal stuff onto them? Or does it have to be from the app store?

E.g. Traktor pro

 

[Revels]

App Store only.

 

[Dean.]

Fair enough

 

[Knuckles]

All the fun of a laptop with none of the keys

I didnt see the point in them at first but after I played on a few I'm sold, they're so much more convinient than a laptop... I use my phone for everything now... It's actually faster than my laptop so I think an iPad would just be a more comfortable version of an iPhone, less strain on fingers and eyes after long periods of use.

I still wouldn't want one just for the price. £500 for a big iPhone? Srsly?

 

[Revels]

It's brilliant when people use the price as an argument but add 25%.

 

[Kane.]

You don't back it up? Sack that.

No but it doesn't really bother me, have nothing mega important on there.

 

[SC03OTT]

I have nothing important on mine either, however the backup was invaluable when mine crashed last week. It reset itself to factory setting and everything was gone. Plugged it in, restore and boom it was all there again (minus a book I had bought but iTunes customer services sorted that for me). I'd have hated to have to trawl through iTunes looking for every app I had.

I'd definitely recommend at least a monthly backup .

 

[Kane.]

That is very true, I think I'm going to do a backup now

 

[Danny133]

Picked my White one up today after searching for a week for one in stock!!!

Picked it up at one and still havnt been able to go home and play FML

 

[markkram]

Mine lives on a table in the lounge and is used every day for web browsing, e-mail and the odd game. When not is use makes a nice photo frame.
You will be amazed just how much you use it when it's just sat there ready and waiting to go in an instant.
My macbook never leaves the home office now.

 

[Munson]

I may buy one but it'll be purely for surfing and email.

I think the touch interface will be sensational for navigating the web, and it's a more social thing to have in the lounge when friends or family are over. Everyone has access to the internet in an instant. Plus HDMI mirroring on my (soon to be) 55" TV will be awesome for showing pics and watching youtube stuff. People who think they have no use need to think outside the box.

 

[jenic]

Out of stock everywhere

Think I've decided I need one now.

 

[Tom]

Hdmi mirroring is great, makes a hotel TV awesome.

 

[Danny133]

Out of stock everywhere

Think I've decided I need one now.

welcome to my world .. ended up buying a bigger model just to get one

 

[Andy.]

Hdmi mirroring is great, makes a hotel TV awesome.

Good call, hadn't thought of that. Something to add to my shopping list for the holiday.