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what would Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemmingway say?

I have an iPad, and I manly use it for shcool work.

I’m 15 (almost 16) and being dyslexic, writing is not my fortay, I used a peace of shite called an alphasmart for a while but as soon as I saw the pages app for iPad and that it could use a blue tooth keyboard I knew what I wanted it for.

So my setup involves an official apple iPad case for propping the screen up, pages for iPad and an apple blue tooth keyboard (which I’m using on my windows machine now) and it works brilliantly except for the fact that I have to go through bloody iTunes to get the files off the thing.

It also comes in handy in biology lessons for playing games ;)

In my experience, the ipad does not get hot. Nothing like the powerbook in that regard.

I’ve found my iPad to be a useful timewaster (there’s an oxymoron for you) rather than real tool for productivity. It’s form factor makes it awesome for the things it was designed to do. Browse the web, read books, play little games. But it’s too uncomfortable to spend long hours hunched over doing anything constructive. And it’s only connectivity is by proxy; transferring files by email, ‘the cloud’, or via the accursed iTunes, ani’t no fun.

There’s a little Tenori-On style music app I like to play with called Beatwave. It can produce some pretty cool beats with very little effort, but once you’re done you just can’t do anything with them. It’s annoying because you can imagine all the things the platform could do, if only Apple would grow some spuds and let people get stuck in.

In summary, awesome kit limited by an overprotective developer.

I have an iPad and I find myself using it quite a bit just to surf the web, despite the fact that I have 3 other computers. The browsing experience is phenomenal, however I’ve yet to come across an app where I can’t live without. So really any tablet would do for me, but mine was free :)

Regarding music apps, TouchOSC is worth the price of an iPad alone. It makes a perfect Logic controller, just amazing. There are a couple of other excellent music apps too like the Korg Electribe or the Electrify groovebox, which are plain fun. Both the hardware and software are very worth the price in my opinion.

I almost rented part of their warehouse in SF. Cool watching them get made, very manual process.

the library card is a nice touch

If I were you I’d wait for the second generation (that should be announced end of Q1 next year), but yes, the iPad is quite excellent for a few things.

You were talking about the lemur… Just like Autoy said, check out TouchOSC, really. I know you use vdmx a lot, this may revolutionize the way you do live shows, and I mean this seriously: imagine, fully customizable interface, sliders, buttons, XY pads… All you could ask for.

And if you’re using ableton LIVE, then there’s the ultimate: Touchable. When I’m on the road, I can’t always bring my physical controllers with me, and the integration with live is so perfect, I don’t even need them right now. Ho, and it actually looks very cool for people who never seen anything like this.

The iPad is also a great comic reader, or book reader for that matter. Although, surprisingly, it lacks something I consider essential: a good RSS reader, synced with google reader.

But honestly, it’s probably the only reproach I can give… I’m using a leather M-edge case, too, they make some really nice ones, with great feel and touch, and very practical (make sure you can use your protection as a stand). The dodocase is nice, but would you be able to make it steady if you ever wanted to watch a video?

We’re looking into getting iPads for us employees at work (well, only top management seeing we’re a 16.000+ company). Really looking forward to not having to carry around a heavy laptop to all my meetings. The future is bright …

$59.95

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Really interesting video on how they are made. I wonder how many crafts people they have making them. How many could they produce at maximum output, it seems a slow process, which is good.

Can the Dodocase sit on its side horizontally for video watching? I don’t see a photo of that setup on the Dodo website.

That’s something the simple Apple case can do, and it’s a must-have for any case I would consider.

I have an iPad and the Dodocase, the case is lovely and I have never felt the ipad might fall out of it. The label inside is a like a bookplate not some tacky bit of branding you’d want to remove (but if you did I imagine it wouldn’t be hard). What I really like is that makes the ipad inconspicuous, is easily removable and is wearing nicely… I don’t like things to look to “new”.

Can’t say enough good about the iPad, I use it constantly, can’t imagine I’ll ever buy another laptop.. The guy who lamented the lack of RSS readers…there’s actually loads? but the best is Reeder, beautiful minimal design, syncs with Google Reader and gives you lots of options for doing stuff with your posts (send to Instapaper etc).

The issue of getting documents on and off it is an issue but one that a DropBox account pretty much solves, I have the 50Gb account and so have effectively added 50gb of storage to my 32gb iPad. DropBox is also becoming accessible by more and more apps so it’s almost a sync-able filing system now..

In terms of useful apps, as an illustrator who usually works on a 27″iMac and Cintiq Wacom tablet, I’m amazed at how god the drawing apps are (ArtRage is my current favourite), the iPad is a true digital sketchpad.

Remote control of you Mac is also nice and with the new Airplay features it works nicely with an AppleTV too…

Honestly this thing is light years ahead of the competition, I feel like I’ve been living in the future since May…