Apple iPad
| AAA |
 Posted: Sun, 04/04/2010 - 9:41pm
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Does anyone know of a legit place to order these now? They were released in the states last week I believe, so some company must ship them over here now? |
| nothingelseworked |
Posted: Fri, 01/06/2012 - 5:25pm
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might be selling a brand new boxed ipad 3 next week, what should i be looking for pricewise? 16gb wifi £399 brand new, knock like £20 off and it'll go quick. |
| Serbia |
Posted: Fri, 01/06/2012 - 5:33pm
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thanks |
| Ketters |
Posted: Mon, 04/06/2012 - 7:13pm
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Anyone got any good sites for HD wallpapers? Got loads of things I'd like but none of the resolutions are big enough. Struggling to find anything other than shit tacky stuff. |
| Goldie |
Posted: Sat, 16/06/2012 - 12:40am
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Best cases/screen protectors? |
| Mookie_blaylock |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 1:46pm
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Microsoft announces tablet http://www.designweek.co.uk/3034763.article?cmpid=DWE05&cmptype=newsletter&email=true |
| MoB |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 1:48pm
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i read somewhere it's gonna be about £500. Good luck with that, expect it to be half price in about 5 months. |
| nothingelseworked |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 1:58pm
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i read somewhere it's gonna be about £500. Good luck with that, expect it to be half price in about 5 months. If that's the price of the one with the i5 core in it, then that's a bargain. Especially as it'll have a full desktop OS under the Metro UI. (Edit: Nevermind, the one with the i5 will be priced like an ultrabook). I still think this tablet has potential, the OS is great and this new hardware looks nice. Android has really failed all-round on tablets, meaning there's still time for MS to break in here, unlike the phone market. Edit: But to be honest, they've really failed on marketing here. They've announced it, but they haven't given a price or release date. They always fail to ride out the hype and by the time they've got the numbers out, everyone has forgotten about it. |
| MoB |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:04pm
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it;s just too expensive, it won't sell enough. Whats the point in having a tablet for the price of an ultra book? Ridiculous. |
| phelen |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:28pm
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it;s just too expensive, it won't sell enough. Whats the point in having a tablet for the price of an ultra book? Ridiculous. You're wrong. There's 2 versions. The RT is for consumer, to compete with Android and iOS The Pro is the higher and more expensive option, there to compete with the Ultrabook market. It looks fantastic but then it depends on the software application, if the digitiser is powered by Wacom and I can certain programs like Adobe and Ableton on it with no issue on the pro I be copping if the reviews are good. |
| nothingelseworked |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:32pm
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it;s just too expensive, it won't sell enough. Whats the point in having a tablet for the price of an ultra book? Ridiculous. There's going to be two tablets. One with an ARM processor, which will only have the Metro part of the Win8 OS, so it'll match the iPad. Then there'll be one with the i5 processor, which will have the Metro UI and the Win7 UI, so you can use it as a tablet and then switch out to bigger desktop apps if needed. tl;dr Two tablets |
| troll |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:47pm
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looks chunky ...
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| MerciBeau |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:57pm
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it;s just too expensive, it won't sell enough. Whats the point in having a tablet for the price of an ultra book? Ridiculous. There's going to be two tablets. One with an ARM processor, which will only have the Metro part of the Win8 OS, so it'll match the iPad. Then there'll be one with the i5 processor, which will have the Metro UI and the Win7 UI, so you can use it as a tablet and then switch out to bigger desktop apps if needed. tl;dr Two tablets And I'm out - anything you can't do something as simple as download torrents on is a fucking excuse for a grown up computing device |
| nothingelseworked |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 2:59pm
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looks chunky ... I believe that's the Pro tablet. The RT tablet is the same, or thinner I think, than the new iPad. |
| troll |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 3:15pm
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it all sounds interesting especially the metro ui but microsoft is already worried what people are thinking about the huge paradigm shift from windows 7 traditional desktop to windows 8 metro ui tiles otherwise they wouldn't give the option on the pro to swap to a traditional desktop on surface. there is a lot of chatter that enterprise will not be interested in shifting to tiles, think it will work with the consumer model but not the pro which will I guess disappear after a while. it seems that they can't get away from the desktop mindset that has brought them success and this muddied one foot in each camp from microsoft is going to hurt their sales along with the rumoured price and the fact that it looks awful. a pity because apple could do with more competition in this space. |
| burny |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 3:17pm
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Looks crap. And that's all that needs to be said really. No one wants it for the hardware. |
| nothingelseworked |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 3:19pm
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it all sounds interesting especially the metro ui but microsoft is already worried what people are thinking about the huge paradigm shift from windows 7 traditional desktop to windows 8 metro ui tiles otherwise they wouldn't give the option on the pro to swap to a traditional desktop on surface. there is a lot of thought that enterprise will not be interested in shifting to tiles, think it will work with the consumer model but not the pro which will I guess disappear after a while. it seems that they can't get away from the desktop mindset that has brought them success and this muddied one foot in each camp from microsoft is going to hurt their sales along with the rumoured price and the fact that it looks awful. a pity because apple could do with more competition in this space. Hm that's one way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is that they're essentially putting desktop power (Both h/w and s/w) into a mobile device, meaning this could be your desktop. You could carry it around and use it as a tablet on the go (With Metro) and then when you get home or to work, you could plug it into a dock that connects to a monitor and you can power away productively using the desktop OS. That's the way we should be moving anyway; a seamless and dynamic experience in a single device. |
| phelen |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 3:52pm
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I'm expecting the fact that Office is available on these things to be a big driver for sales. If you have that and a browser, along with media functions, well that's all most people use a computer for anyway. They're going to have to sell it on this basis, because they sure as hell can't sell it based on third party software support. There are tens of millions of iPads knocking around in the world after all. I don't think the issue is the quality of the hardware, or the quality of the OS. Arguably Asus and Samsung have already released tablets that rival or better Apple on this front. They need to build the platform to critical mass before it can sustain itself. If they don't throw money at developers the app system will die. If they don't continue making their own tablets, and back them with heavy marketing, the general public may not even know Windows RT exists or why it is good. Apple have so much of a head start and they need to spend so very much money to catch up. |
| MoB |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 4:00pm
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Who wants a £50 bet with me that within 6-9 months of release it's deemed a failure and is on firesale somewhere? |
| Mookie_blaylock |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 4:02pm
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The problem with the MS tablet is that no matter how good the hardware and/or the software is, it is too late to start competing with apple and other android tablets. |
| phelen |
Posted: Tue, 19/06/2012 - 4:08pm
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Who wants a £50 bet with me that within 6-9 months of release it's deemed a failure and is on firesale somewhere? I will. |
