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Warning: Nerd Nudity Here…You Will Not Be Amused.
This…this is your iPad.
There she is bare nekkid, in all her mediocre glory. Look, but don’t touch.
And what can we see from this? Well, nothing really, unless you’re a total chiphead….like, say, the people at Chipworks. They brought their iPads back to their labs and took them apart piece by piece in lovely detail to find out that….the iPad really is just a big iPod Touch. The iPad is pretty much a fancy screen, lots of battery space, not a USB port, and a little A4 chip that’s not that different from her iPod Touch predecessor.
Honestly, nobody is really surprised by this. It’s not the first time that Apple has taken a meh hardware system and put it in a pretty package…the reason they do well though, has more to do with the software than the hardware. And that’s where the iPad is likely to shine too…all your social networking sites (or whatever you look at on the interwebs) will run on the iPad, just as they would on the Touch, even if you can get the miniature version for a fair bit cheaper…
iPad: Is it awesome?
So the iPad broke onto the scene much the way that Simba was introduced to the animals in “The Lion King“, lots and lots of cheering, some oooh’s and aaahhh’s, and a handful of people in the corner going, “Wait, what?” Also, I think that means that Steve Jobs is Rafiki, which I feel is oddly appropriate.
Here’s some specs on the oversized iPhone:
Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
Weight: 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;
1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS
16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive
1GHz Apple A4 chip
25 Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery (good for 10 hours of web, video, or music)
Price: $499-$829
There’s some stuff in there that’s pretty sweet, some stuff that’s pretty meh, and some stuff that really boggles my mind, being the hapless techno-weanie that I am.
In the category of Awesome:
.5 inches thick (that’s pretty sweet)
10 hours of doing things (’cause, you know, I do things)
$499 (that’s self-explanatory, I hope)
Apps are backwards compatible. (too bad the ps3 isn’t anymore, right? Sony, take note here.)
iBooks (seriously, a library at your fingertips, who doesn’t want that?)
In the category of meh:
Apple claims it’s the best web experience ever. Hands down. (Unless you happen to live in an area not covered by AT&T, ’cause guess who has the contract?)
Apple claims it’s the best video watching experience, too. (My 46″ HD TV at home begs to differ.)
The keyboard is slightly smaller than a laptops. (I hope you don’t have gorilla hands.)
In the category of WTF?:
No Flash support. (Really? So it’s the best web experience ever, but it can’t open a large portion of the web’s content? That sounds right…)
No USB data input. (Unless I’m wrong, the USB port is for power only. So if you’ve got anything you want to put on there, you better start uploading it to the internet somewhere, so you can download it again. I hope I’m wrong on this.)
This list and categories might be updated as I find out more about the tablet.
Here’s Chris Hardwick of G4TV to do a way better job than me at this.
Read more: http://g4tv.com/videos/43928/Chris-Hardwick–Apple-iPad/#ixzz0dvCyOrK2
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