
The day has finally arrived folks. Apple has finally taken the wraps off of their Jesus Tablet, which has been given the name: “iPad”. So is it cool enough to live up to the hype that has been literally saturating the internet for the last month? I’m not a tablet fan and even this has my interesting piqued. The iPad is the fruit of well over a year of labor between scores of Apple employees. It is easily the best tablet “computer” available on the market. And starting at $499 it will be impossible to beat. Shall we…?
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iPad: Starting at $499!

-Hardware
- Hardware-accelerated OpenGL for graphics
- Select iPads: AT&T provided 3G — $14.99/month for 250MB data (why bother?) | $29.99/month for unlimited data (I can hear AT&T’s towers weeping…)
- iPad 3G activated right on device itself — pre-paid = No Contracts!
- Uses new GSM micro SIM cards
- All iPads: WiFi 802.11n/Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
-Dimensions, Storage, and Pricing
- 10 hours VIDEO battery life — “over a month standby”
- Price: (WiFi Only) 16GB - 32GB - 64GB | $499 - $599 - $699
- Price: Wifi + 3G) 16GB - 32GB - 64GB | $629 - $729 - $829
- WiFi models available in 60 days, WiFI + 3G models coming in 90 days.
- **Notifications, background processing, phone calls?!

iPad Software

- **Can run ALL iPhone apps out of the box
- iPhone apps run in native resolution or “Double Pixel Mode” (read: blown up)
- Auto-rotation — hold in any position
- Special iPad apps shown off by EA, MLB.com, and more
- **Sadly, no background processing to speak of.
iPad Software cont. — iBooks, iBook Store and iWork for iPad

- 5 big partners: Penguin, Macmillion, Simon & Shuster…”and more”
- Change fonts within books
- iWork for iPad — completely redesigned UI
- Pages, Keynote, etc for iPad cost $9.99 each. Not bad eh?
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January 27, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Gah, mike, you have the best coverage that I can find right now….i swear.
Rich your cuz in Austin
January 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm
lol thanks. I wish. I just took a bunch of info from other places and put it into a quick and easy to read list…with lots of pictures of course.