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Ozymandias:
Multi-touch is a capacitive surface so it detects changes in its electrical field. Very small changes like pens don't work and require a second layer of sensitivity using something like magnetic sensors.

It makes it a lot more expensive, basically, and we won't see it in the iPad (or any slate possibly short of the Courier if it comes to reality) just yet.

Chesire Cat:
Well the tech exists.

David_Dovey:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 04 Feb 2010, 06:33 ---Fifty whole computers? wow that is a technology college.  :roll:

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Well uh we've only got like 100 students at the very most and we're mostly teaching audio engineering and film and every student has a laptop but thanks for being a cock anyway Joe.


--- Quote from: Ptommydski ---Actually to be fair, this is one of the things Apple is fairly good at. The iPad will work just fine, it just won't have a number of features which you and I would deem completely obvious from the off. For example, the iPhone worked perfectly well when it didn't have copy & paste. It still performed any number of functions, it just didn't have copy & paste. The iPad is the same. It will do the things it does well enough, it just won't have a whole bunch of stuff you and I would have considered necessary for a practical mobile computer.
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Yeah so it's not perfectly applicable it was just something that was sticking in my craw lately.

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jmrz:
See, I would probably buy an iPad. Having said that, I wouldn't buy one YET. With any hope, multitasking will come out with 4.0 - once it can multitask, I would buy it. I have an iMac, MacbookPro, iPhone and iPod and I would still find a use for it. Also the idea of being able to use it as a graphics tablets (which I've not actually seen the app for that yet, but I've been told about it) seems awesome to me. It has potential, and I think it'd be worth waiting until 4.0 or at least the 2nd Gen before I picked one up.

I can see the market for it - people like my stepdad, who likes having a phone for the purpose of calling and texting, but loved having a blackberry/similar for his email and stuff. An iPad would be perfect for him in terms of being able to carry it with him in his briefcase and internet and email and all that kind of thing when he's away from home.

It would probably suit a fair few students, at least the ones that can throw the cash at one - it's light, it's easy to carry around and for those that like to keep digital notes rather than paper ones, I think it'd work really well.

I can see a market and I can see how I could personally use one, but I'll wait until 4.0 drops and see how it goes with that.

messeduplilkid:
Going along with that in terms of education: all your textbooks being reduced to 1.5 pounds is a pretty nice change of pace as a student.

I commute to the chicago, so running from a side street I parked on to school can sometimes be strenuous with a laptop, 3 texts, and note books. Going from that to a notebook and the apple tablet, I think my spine would thank me.

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