Tablets forum: Poll: Are you going to buy the new Apple iPad?

Pretty damned sure it's 'no'. I've already done the Touch...no more ecosystem lockdown for me.

Plus I've got my eye on other things for what little disposable income I have these days to play with. An iPad doesn't even break into my Top 10.

That I can read books on it; play games; surf the web; and it's light weight and portable.

It's gotta run Keynote, Keynote on the iPad has to be able to edit math equations, and Pages has to be able to print to pdf so I can interface with the icky Windows-only environment at the community college where I teach. For that matter, Pages and Keynote and Numbers docs I've already created have to be happy on the iPad.

it does less than an iphone. You can't call anyone!

I have no current plans to buy either an Ipad or netbook and do not really see a personal need in the future - but never is a long time.

I just bought an iPod Touch a month or so ago (which I love), so no, I don't see the need for an iPad. It's just a bigger version of the Touch and I personally like smaller devices. Maybe I'll get one in a year or two when the price goes down and there are new versions, but right now, I don't need it and don't have the money for it anyway.

There is no way anyone with any intelligence could ever consider one of these apple 'Toys'! When the proprietary batteries die, as they inevitably will, apple will apparently be charging around $100.00+ to replace them, this is absolutely ludicrous. Why can't they use standard N.I.M.H. rechargeable batteries? These can be purchased just about everywhere at fairly reasonable prices.

Why would I want a Giant Iphone that cant make phone calls?
I'll wait for a real tablet.

I have 5 i pods and use them all frequently, but not sure that I have a need for an i pad. It is kind of pricey at anywhere between $400 and $800, and not much reason to buy it and put it in a drawer.

When a company builds something and can't even spell the name properly, I don't trust anything about the device or the company. I don't need ANYTHING whose name starts with a lower case "I".

to many to name

Besides not being one to get the hype over Apple products when you consider their penchant for high prices and the suspect service I received for the two Apple products I have owned, I own a Motion Computing Tablet and am in love with it. I have owned mine for over three years(so much for this "new" iPad concept) and it has been at my side no matter where my current jobsite is at. It has stood up well to both cold and hot weather. It is equally capable and at home in an office building, the countryside, construction site, swamp & desert to name a few of the places we've been. I could go on and on about it's features and capabilities, but this isn't meant to be a commercial spot for The Tablet that I own. My point is that there are capable, well built tablets or pads already available by companies that have been perfecting this class of computers for more than seven or so years that don't get the due they deserve for the work they have done. Apple suddenly decides to realease one, and all of a sudden people start losing their mind and act similar to the way cavemen must have acted when they discovered fire, or the wheel. I didn't realize the future of computing and Earth hinged on an Apple product to solve the problem of how do I listen to my iTunes/imovies and use apps from the iStore when I don't want to lug around my macbook, yet I need to do some computing that is beyond the capabilities of my iPhone or iPod. I'm glad to see that crisis has been resolved.

My Ipod communicates with my laptop through itunes. I need special programs to view folders and files at my ipod. Before I spend $600 I want to be sure that this device will communicate with Windows XP properly and would not need another $50 program to communicate.

Simple. Word Apple is synonymous with arrogant and over valued under worthed. Apple, Sony, and greed run in a pack I avoid. Others will bring out mo-better stuff soon.

I never like the Idea of multi-purposed Toys a phone a phone etc, So since I prefer paper books to this new age silliness. Plus why the reverse of a good trend, big is better. When TV first tried probable tv
well it did last do to the small hard to see details screens, so now we give up seeing details for what?