iPad 2

KingBear

Hooligan
Got it a couple weeks ago after several early mornings standing in long lines, very out of character for me but it was worth the effort. I got a Black 64GB WiFi (no 3G). This is the natural successor to the iPod Touch I have had for about three years and which I love. The iPad will come in handy for entertainment as I begin two and a half months of constant business travel.

Anyone else caught the iPad bug?

(btw, for those of you who missed it last year, Happy Easter! NSFW!!!)
 
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badda_bing

Two Stroke
I love my iPad most of the time. There are a few quirks that piss me off, no flash support sucks, I wish there was a cursor key of the keyboard because selecting text is sometimes a pain in the ass. But magazines were made for the iPad, the games are amazing, check out osmosis if you dont already have it. Netflix works great. I got mine for Christmas so I did not get the second gen. But I really don't thing there is a huge difference in them other than the camera, at least not enough that I will sell this and try to buy another.
 

TheFixer

Two Stroke
I have the same model (2nd Gen, 64GB, WiFi Only) and love it. I bought it mostly for business and it achieves most 90% of what I was hoping it could do, which is:
a.) replace the multiple binders I use to manage various reports and references. No more constant printing and updating hardcopies. The iPad serves as a virtual binder and I always have the most current soft copy with me.
b.) replace the need to travel with a laptop. It is not a replacement for the actual laptop, but rather a great extension of it. Through services like Dropbox, or RDP, I can access everything on my laptop from the iPad.
c.) I was also hoping the iPad could replace the paper & pencil note taking system I use. Although there are some great apps out there for this none of them fully replace the efficiency. I am able to use the iPad for note taking in about 50% of my meetings. But if it need to refer to the notes quickly and often the moleskine (paper and pencil system) seems to work better for me.

I may be forcing a square peg into a round hold for all of these business uses for the iPad. However, what I haven't discussed yet is what the device was primarily intended for and it truly excels at - entertainment! The device rocks for convenient access to e-mail, internet, news, magazines, netflixs, books, music, movies. For business travel, the iPad is awesome as it replaces so much stuff you used to have to lug around. For home use and bee-bopping around town it is super convenient.

I also love it for the educational games my pre-school boys can play on it. It blows my mind the technology they have access to (and easily understand/use) at their age compared to what I grew up with.
 

KingBear

Hooligan
Uh oh, I just fell in love with my iPad all over again. I dragged PDFs of my Triumph service manual, torque specs, carb optimizing, etc. and dropped it right into my iPad book library. The iBooks app opens them beautifully. I'm going to transfer the PDF onto my work computer and do some optimizing/OCR, indexing, etc. and see what I can do to improve the service manual PDF we are all passing around.

This is gonna be sweet!!
 

BlueJ

Blue Haired Freak
I'm not into the conspiracy theories. You want to know where I've been, just ask.

I figure, the more up-to-the-minute the location info The Man has on me, the quicker they'll be able to find me when I call for backup!
 

BlueJ

Blue Haired Freak
Thats it,just give in.

I'll keep my independence.

I'm as independent as the next guy. There's a big difference between there being some electronic crumbs "out there" that correlate to your geographic location at some point in time and not being independent, able to travel at will, go where you want.

I just don't see the big deal. Unless you are off the grid (which if you're reading this post you certainly are not), you're leaving those crumbs. And if you're not actively committing crimes, then who cares??
 

KingBear

Hooligan
What a stupid thing to be concerned about. Every cell phone can have its location traced. Some hackers got into the iPhone and found something they didn't understand, raised an alarm, and now everyone is panicking over something that is an everyday thing.

If you are prone to paranoia you wouldn't want to own an Apple, Blackberry, Android, or any other wireless device for that matter. And avoid the Internet, every site you visit is stored in history somewhere.

Which brings us back to the happier topic of Internet porn. :wave:
 

Sal Paradise

Hooligan
If you had told people years ago that there would be machines that constantly track your position every minute and secretly record it they would be horrified. If you told those same people that folks would willingly give up their privacy and carry those machines around willingly for - a game - they would be completely baffled. As am I.

Privacy has a value. Sure there are all kinds of invasions, but there is a difference between sitting at home and knowing you have an IP address and this tracker. Go on and kid yourself, but you gave up your privacy for a widget.

My cell phone stays off unless I use it.
 

KingBear

Hooligan
I have found that the version of the Modern Classics Maintenance Manual (circa 2006) I loaded onto my iPad was just too big and slow to use, so I have reduced the size of the manual and broken it out into chapters. Now I just open the section I need in iBooks, and it is much faster and easier to use.

I still have it in my e-mail, so if anyone wants it let me know and I will forward it to you. It is all in one e-mail, and each section is a separate PDF attachment. Total is about 14mb.
 

Bonniebret

Rocker
When the iPad first came out I saw it as merely an oversized iPod touch and didn't appreciated it's potential. Now after having several business interactions with people using them I think they're a great tool.
 
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