Early iPad Reviews

Post #323,852 by Bman 4/1/10 3:09:43 AM Reply	Early iPad Reviews http://www.macrumors...d-reviews-appear/ "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Post #323,860 by SpiceWare 4/1/10 10:54:14 AM Reply	not surprised I figured hands on would really sell it. They missed Dr. Mac http://blogs.chron.c...han_expected.html Speaking of my wife, prior to our iPad's arrival she said she didn't understand why anyone would want or need an iPad. Now she just keeps saying, "No, you can't have it back." It was part of one of the plot lines in last night's Modern Family: http://abc.go.com/wa...6466/game-changer
Post #323,898 by SpiceWare 4/1/10 4:44:28 PM Reply	Stephen Fry http://www.time.com/...9,1976935,00.html
Post #323,918 by pwhysall 4/2/10 4:15:12 AM Reply	Hmm. I can't really tell from that article whether he likes it or not.
Post #324,010 by Another Scott 4/4/10 1:08:59 PM Reply	Another - a short one. http://www.balloon-j...ghts-on-the-ipad/ The filing issue seems to me to be a big one. I wonder how that will be addressed. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,019 by SpiceWare 4/4/10 6:37:27 PM Reply	Re: Another - a short one. It needs a better file management system, some way of storing pdf files and djvu files so that you can search them all at once with something like Spotlight. I donÂt think this thing is going to work properly on the iPhone operating system, itÂs going to need something different/better. Somebody's not well informed here's a nice page at Apple's site, "If itÂs on your iPad, Spotlight will help you find it." http://www.apple.com...tures/search.html
Post #324,022 by Another Scott 4/4/10 6:53:05 PM Reply	Dunno. From the comments, it seems like one needs a PDF "app" to do things like searching. And Apple's blessings are needed. "Air Sharing" is mentioned - http://www.avatron.c....php?10,8646,8646 The iPad sounds like a neat box, but it is a v1.0 device. I'm going to resist the temptation for a year or two, if I can, to let things mature a little. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,024 by SpiceWare 4/4/10 7:08:13 PM Reply	works fine on the Mac I don't have any Adobe PDF software installed on my MBP and Spotlight has no problems finding things inside a PDF file.
Post #324,026 by Another Scott 4/4/10 7:20:46 PM Reply	Seems to be an iPad/iPod OS issue. Spotlight uses plugins to expand search functionality on OS X. The iPad/iPod OS doesn't support plugins (at least it didn't in December). http://www.avatron.c...646,8646#msg-8646 (and the rest of the thread). At least that's my understanding of the situation at the moment. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,035 by SpiceWare 4/5/10 10:27:08 AM Reply	that's probably not the real issue if I open up a terminal session and create a new file vitestfile, as soon as I save it I can spotlight search it and it shows up in the Document group of Spotlight's results with vitestfile as the name of the document. If the search happens to turn up file ~/Library/Mail/.../52813.emlx then spotlight shows the results in the Messages group with the email's subject as the name of the document. I suspect the only thing the plugins do is allow spotlight to return a more meaningful description for the results - most people wouldn't know that 52813.emlx was an email message and thus whether or not it was what they were looking for. What's probably up on the iPhone/iPad is that Spotlight's been changed to not search everything since the filesystem is locked down as far as the end user is concerned. Before the iPad there wasn't much content created on the iPhone, so Apple probably didn't have a way for the third party apps to tell the iPhone's Spotlight engine "index this directory, it contains the user's documents." I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the next iPhone OS update includes an API call to indicate searchable folders.
Post #324,218 by SpiceWare 4/7/10 8:11:22 PM Reply	Gruber As always, Gruber has a lot of insightful things to say, the good, the bad, and the ugly. http://daringfirebal.../2010/04/the_ipad
Post #324,221 by Another Scott 4/7/10 9:23:17 PM Reply	Thanks.
Post #324,244 by SpiceWare 4/8/10 11:08:45 AM Reply	Ars Technica review http://arstechnica.c...4/ipad-review.ars
Post #324,274 by SpiceWare 4/8/10 5:47:00 PM Reply	useful for remote admin Found this via the Ars review http://tugrik.livejo...l.com/834583.html The results so far: yes, it's one hell of a remote-admin console. When I'm on call, I need three things: Cisco VPN, a good SSH program and one (or more) remote desktop viewers. Luckily the VPN client is built in to the devices already; the iPad loaded the corporate VPN/Email/WiFi profile without a hitch! As far as the applications I need go, my iPhone has all three but they're a nightmare to do more than simple/short commands on, due to the phone's size. The same apps are not only available for the iPad, they're already available in "HD" versions that take advantage of the full screen size. he's got screenshots of it in action
Post #324,294 by crazy 4/9/10 7:37:50 AM Reply	Standard - yeah, but The guy loves it. Yet that lack of multi-tasking is HUGE. I alt-console back and forth between sessions like crazy when I'm in remote admin mode. People love the eyecandy and interaction basics so much, they gloss over (and hope for a 4.0 fix) that issue, yet every review points it out. They give reasons why it is not so bad. Not so bad? Damned with faint praise? no, Not so bad doesn't even reach that level. I'll wait for a real multi-tasking one, or I'll go for an Android based tablet in a year after the competition hones them a bit.
Post #324,295 by malraux 4/9/10 7:39:10 AM Reply	The next version of the iPhone OS has MT Dunno when iPad will be on it. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #324,296 by crazy 4/9/10 7:45:00 AM Reply	I just saw that after I wrote that Which of course had me drooling like a fan-boi for a bit. When ssh, vpn, rdp, citrix, and vnc sessions stay connected, this thing turns into the ultimate wander-around the office console.
Post #324,336 by crazy 4/9/10 7:11:00 PM Reply	It seems like the bad old days Cooperative multi-tasking. Calls within the program to cause certain things to happen. But it also required you to code (damn, i forget the exact call) release() all the time, to tell the OS it was OK to task switch to anything else. By default, everything was critical code. How is this different?
Post #324,338 by Another Scott 4/9/10 7:40:26 PM Reply	Apple seems to know how to extend the OS over time. They've moved through many CPUs and many OSes. They seem to know how to do the architecture so that they can swap out the hardware and so forth without the users noticing except for the faster speed. Yeah, if it's cooperative multitasking initially, that's not ideal. But it'll probably work better on a locked-down platform like the iPad than it did in Win2.x Presumably, if someone writes an app that hogs the system, Apple won't let it through. Supposedly, future versions of the iPod and iPad will have the ARM Cortex 9 dual-core chips, so they'll have the hardware for more advanced schedulers, etc. Apparently, it's not so much "cooperative multitasking" as limited exposure of system multitasking services - http://www.tech-news...multitasking.html FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,301 by Bman 4/9/10 10:12:42 AM Reply	Re: The next version of the iPhone OS has MT this summer "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)

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