The iPad

My wife got me one for Father's Day/Birthday.

As expected it is definitely not something I will do any work on but great as a media viewer. I am a pretty lame gamer so the only app I have downloaded is Scrabble.

In Canada the iBook store is not up yet which is what I am really looking forward to.

 

I love my iPhone, but that's because it's small and I can basically have it on my person at all times. I dint think I could carry around an ipad. So, in that sense, it's just a really light laptop. I have a laptop.

It seems the only real use, to me, would be for traveling. If you are gonna be stuck in one place (plane, train, etc.) for a long time the portability wouldn't be an issue.

That scorekeeping thing sounds great. Would have been awesome for my days covering prep football. Plus you could maybe upload play by play to the web, so there'd be live GameCasts for prep games. Could be a big deal for some newspapers' web sites.

 

CoverItLive.com has an iPhone app so maybe an iPad app would come along soon. I'm not in sports anymore, but I could see where this would be a handy little device to carry into the courthouse for typing in arraignments or any other records I want to take notes from rather than jotting them down with pen. I'd probably still rely on pen and paper for anything in the actual courtroom like a trial.

 

Bumping this up because according to Gizmodo, the iPad is coming to Verizon.

iPhone next?

 

I've seen a few writers using iPads in the pressbox this season. It's made me lust for consider getting an iPad for work. My Powerbook G4 doesn't have many miles left on it, even though I baby it.

 

anyone here with experience with MS Office apps on the ipad -- like DocsToGo or anything like that? any recommendations?

apps i am using the hell out of for work right now: dropbox and evernote
apps that are great for non-work: standalone's crosswords (and this thing would be even bettre if i knew how to do cryptics). NPR's app is awesome too; easy to get lost in the music section

 

Glad to see I'm not the only one still using a PowerBook G4. Mine's still going, though after using my wife's new MacBook Pro I find myself wishing it would quit going.

 

I'm surrounded by Apple stuff -- using my Macbook, iPhone is next to me, iPod is across the room in my Bose system, etc. -- but the iPad is the one thing that never quite got me interested enough to buy one.

However, I can't wait to see what they look like a few years from now.