Laptop computers

[Tom K]

"Charles" <fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote in message
news:290120101851544802%fort@his.com.remove.invali d...
>
> Almost all the 149,219 iPhone apps will run on the iPad. It does
> everything I need to do when traveling on a cruise or other travel and
> what I do with my laptop when sitting on my couch at home. Plus it will
> be an e-book reader. The pricing is a pleasant surprise to me. I was
> expecting $999.

Translation.... if they had a product that they expected to be VERY HOT....
they'd be pricing it much higher. Apple always prices high. Sounds like
maybe they're trying to come up with a pricing plan to save what they
anticipate will be a bit of a loser product. They probably put a lot of
money into this product, and need to recoup some of it, even if it's not the
hot item of the year.

--Tom

[Lloyd Parsons]

In article <60P8n.180895$IU1.80702@en-nntp-04.dc1.easynews.com>,
BikeRider50 <BikeRider50@takethisout**********> wrote:

> Charles wrote:
> > In article <9sq6m5tmuer3eu7h5mep6skeo66vc41v7j@********>, Dillon Pyron
> > <invaliddmpyron@austin.*******> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, we have now established that the iPad is $499 to $849.
> >> Competitive prcies with other tablets. Is it a Windblows tablet
> >> killer? Probably not. Is it a netbook killer? Quite possible. The
> >> problem is that it appears to be ARM based rather than Intel, so
> >> software built for X won't run on it. But, if it is ARM, and it also
> >> appears to be very close to the iPhone OS, there are (as of RIGHT NOW)
> >> 149,219 apps for it. A good code jockey cn write one a week. I could
> >> probably get one out every couple of months, and I haven't written
> >> "real" code in years.
> >
> > Almost all the 149,219 iPhone apps will run on the iPad. It does
> > everything I need to do when traveling on a cruise or other travel and
> > what I do with my laptop when sitting on my couch at home. Plus it will
> > be an e-book reader. The pricing is a pleasant surprise to me. I was
> > expecting $999. So I will be getting one. Have to decide how much
> > memory and whether to get the Wi-Fi only version or the Wi-Fi plus 3G
> > version. I got a few months to decide which.
> >
>
> New adoptee.
>
> Ipad has no camera, no ability to run Flash (so most web apps won't
> work), a keyboard that you can't type well on, no replaceable battery,
> no USB port, no way to multitask, too big to stick in a pocket, too
> delicate a screen and a way too small amount of memory and storage.
> Stupid.
> It won't replace a laptop or netbook and it can't replace a phone. It's
> just a large sized Itouch.
> No way it sells well, except to geeks with more money than brains.

Everyone one want to define it by what it isn't, wrong way to look, imo.

As to how well it sells, well maybe it will take them 2 days to sell out
the first production run instead of only 1!

You are basically saying some of the things that were said about the
iPod and how it just wasn't going to sell and do well in the market.

[Lloyd Parsons]

In article <7sjnpkFo0sU1@mid.***************>, Becca <becca@hal-pc.org>
wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> > If you look at it for what it is, the price is more than other devices
> > that do some of the things the iPad will do. And it will be, as the
> > iPods are, a product in transition. There will be newer ones made with
> > new features.
> >
> > As it is, this is one slick box for a reasonable price, imo.
> >
> > Think of it as a super iPod Touch and you'll be pretty close.
> >
> > Prediction, they'll sell a bazillion of them. One of them will be mine!
> >
> > Lloyd
> >
>
>
> It is nice to see you here, Lloyd.
>
>
> Becca

Thanks Becca. I still read in the Yahoo groups, but as you know, I
haven't been posting.

Winter is for geeky things and music!

So when is George gonna do a 'tiny little cabin' group on the Epic?

[Lloyd Parsons]

In article <hk2e8u0dr4@news4.newsguy.com>,
George Leppla <george@cruisemaster.com> wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> > In article <7sjnpkFo0sU1@mid.***************>, Becca <becca@hal-pc.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> >>> If you look at it for what it is, the price is more than other devices
> >>> that do some of the things the iPad will do. And it will be, as the
> >>> iPods are, a product in transition. There will be newer ones made with
> >>> new features.
> >>>
> >>> As it is, this is one slick box for a reasonable price, imo.
> >>>
> >>> Think of it as a super iPod Touch and you'll be pretty close.
> >>>
> >>> Prediction, they'll sell a bazillion of them. One of them will be mine!
> >>>
> >>> Lloyd
> >>>
> >>
> >> It is nice to see you here, Lloyd.
> >>
> >>
> >> Becca
> >
> > Thanks Becca. I still read in the Yahoo groups, but as you know, I
> > haven't been posting.
> >
> > Winter is for geeky things and music!
> >
> > So when is George gonna do a 'tiny little cabin' group on the Epic?
>
>
> Don't hang by your thumbs waiting for me to do a group on NCL. <vbg>
>
> I never say never, but it isn't in the cards any time soon.

OK, I won't hold my breath either!

[Dillon Pyron]

[Default] Thus spake Stu <info@foodforu.ca>:

>X-No-Archive: yes On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:53:00 -0500, Charles
><fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote:
>
>>In article <nd27m557r1nhoafqvl4hcjco044q1daql3@********>, Stu
>><info@foodforu.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Memory is cheap so go 8gig. As for the internet, go wi-fi plus 3g
>>> version, it gives you the wi-fi and if all else fails a 3g broadband
>>> hookup.
>>
>>The minimum it comes with is 16 gig. They have 16, 32, or 64. Anyhow I
>>have a few months to decide before they start shipping. Likely I will
>>get the 3G since the 3G plans are optional and not on contract. You can
>>buy a month and then cancel. Just buy it when you need it.
>
>if you can afford go 64

I am currently looking at two 64 gig thumbs that I bought for about
$128 at Frye's.

As far as 3G is concerned, oh yeah I'd buy one. I'd also look into
renting SIM card for whatever destination and buying 3G data for it.
Virgin Mobile in UK is pretty cheap. O2 in Australia is very cheap.
But free/cheap wifi is even batter, and more accessible than in the
States. My wifi detedtor (a t-shirt that can be bought at
www.thinkgeek.com found many wifi sites walking down down Ave. Rafeal
Melgar in Cozumel and a huge number betwwen the pier and 7 Mile Beach
in Grand Cayman. (It's a black shirt, so I change shirts after a
while)
--

- dillon I am not invalid

I love my country, It's my government I fear.

Hey, turnabout's fair play.

[Dillon Pyron]

[Default] Thus spake BikeRider50 <BikeRider50@takethisout**********>:

>Charles wrote:
>> In article <9sq6m5tmuer3eu7h5mep6skeo66vc41v7j@********>, Dillon Pyron
>> <invaliddmpyron@austin.*******> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, we have now established that the iPad is $499 to $849.
>>> Competitive prcies with other tablets. Is it a Windblows tablet
>>> killer? Probably not. Is it a netbook killer? Quite possible. The
>>> problem is that it appears to be ARM based rather than Intel, so
>>> software built for X won't run on it. But, if it is ARM, and it also
>>> appears to be very close to the iPhone OS, there are (as of RIGHT NOW)
>>> 149,219 apps for it. A good code jockey cn write one a week. I could
>>> probably get one out every couple of months, and I haven't written
>>> "real" code in years.
>>
>> Almost all the 149,219 iPhone apps will run on the iPad. It does
>> everything I need to do when traveling on a cruise or other travel and
>> what I do with my laptop when sitting on my couch at home. Plus it will
>> be an e-book reader. The pricing is a pleasant surprise to me. I was
>> expecting $999. So I will be getting one. Have to decide how much
>> memory and whether to get the Wi-Fi only version or the Wi-Fi plus 3G
>> version. I got a few months to decide which.
>>
>
>New adoptee.
>
>Ipad has no camera, no ability to run Flash (so most web apps won't
>work), a keyboard that you can't type well on, no replaceable battery,
>no USB port, no way to multitask,
Wait for it
>too big to stick in a pocket, too
>delicate a screen and a way too small amount of memory and storage.

Seems the same thing can be said for the incrediblly successful
original iPhone.

>Stupid.
>It won't replace a laptop or netbook and it can't replace a phone. It's
>just a large sized Itouch.

Netbooks don't replace notebooks. For most, same price, less
performance. In some ways, they chap Intel, since they are using the
Atom, which has a very low ASP and was really intended for the smart
phone market.

Flash. Well some insiders, on background, have said that Apple is
feeling enough heat on this one that we may soon see it. But "soon" =
June/July.

>No way it sells well, except to geeks with more money than brains.
--

- dillon I am not invalid

I love my country, It's my government I fear.

Hey, turnabout's fair play.

[Dillon Pyron]

[Default] Thus spake Brian K <brian1951BLOG@**************>:

>Dillon Pyron consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared On 2/5/2010 10:18 AM:
>> [Default] Thus spake Stu<info@foodforu.ca>:
>>
>>
>>> X-No-Archive: yes On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:53:00 -0500, Charles
>>> <fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> In article<nd27m557r1nhoafqvl4hcjco044q1daql3@******** >, Stu
>>>> <info@foodforu.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Memory is cheap so go 8gig. As for the internet, go wi-fi plus 3g
>>>>> version, it gives you the wi-fi and if all else fails a 3g broadband
>>>>> hookup.
>>>>>
>>>> The minimum it comes with is 16 gig. They have 16, 32, or 64. Anyhow I
>>>> have a few months to decide before they start shipping. Likely I will
>>>> get the 3G since the 3G plans are optional and not on contract. You can
>>>> buy a month and then cancel. Just buy it when you need it.
>>>>
>>> if you can afford go 64
>>>
>> I am currently looking at two 64 gig thumbs that I bought for about
>> $128 at Frye's.
>>
>> As far as 3G is concerned, oh yeah I'd buy one. I'd also look into
>> renting SIM card for whatever destination and buying 3G data for it.
>> Virgin Mobile in UK is pretty cheap. O2 in Australia is very cheap.
>> But free/cheap wifi is even batter, and more accessible than in the
>> States. My wifi detedtor (a t-shirt that can be bought at
>> www.thinkgeek.com found many wifi sites walking down down Ave. Rafeal
>> Melgar in Cozumel and a huge number betwwen the pier and 7 Mile Beach
>> in Grand Cayman. (It's a black shirt, so I change shirts after a
>> while)
>>
>I've heard the next new thing will be computers inbeded in contact
>lenses. Only thing is what would gamers use for a joy stick? ;-)

Sputter, choke. Rinsing beer off of keyboard. Again.
--

- dillon I am not invalid

I love my country, It's my government I fear.

Hey, turnabout's fair play.