[X4U] One must be an American

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Tue Apr 6 19:44:57 PDT 2010


Honestly, the touch screen aspect is one of the things that turns me off.

Zane



At 8:53 PM -0400 4/6/10, William Scammell wrote:
>Zane:
>
>you're forgetting about the neato-factor of the touch screen.
>
>remember, it's a media device, NOT a laptop replacement. both have 
>their place, but it depends on the enduser.
>
>now, if they put the touch screen on an update to the powerbook line 
>... i would so buy that!!!
>
>-bill
>
>
>On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>
>>I'm taking a wait and see attitude.  Someone needs to show me a really
>>compelling reason to buy one.  Even in the US they're very expensive, for
>>the price I could buy a cheap Windows laptop and a copy of Lightroom 3 if I
>>was careful and was willing to wait for a good deal.  That would get me
>>basically everything I'd one from an iPad.
>>
>>Besides until Apple releases a new Mac Pro, I'm still running a G5 2x2 with
>>10.4.11, so unless I'm mistaken I can't even use an iPad on my computer at
>>the moment.  Yeah, requires 10.5.8 or newer, BUT it will work with my PC
>>running WinXP.  Way to support your customer base Apple.  Actually that
>>doesn't make sense, I can run iTunes 9.1, so why can't I connect an iPad?
>>
>>Zane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>>
>>>Here in the newspapers is written that the sale of the iPad isn't 
>>>that spectacular because the 300.000 are the pre-orders and few 
>>>now will buy one.
>>>And then there are these who wait for updated versions.  One with 
>>>a camera for instance.
>>>
>>>Paul Moortgat
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