Ars Technica review

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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