iPad

[Cloudane]

Mine Want want want.
Great price! (Of course, I bet Apple seeded that $1000 idea)

Not bothered about the 3G version - I'd just use the 3 mifi, and as a bonus this means just one contract for this growing list of mobile devices.

[RiK]

Not bothered about the 3G version - I'd just use the 3 mifi, and as a bonus this means just one contract for this growing list of mobile devices.

Quite.

[Firefox]

I like the keyboard dock thingy.

I wonder if you'll be able to do native development on it, or will you still need a separate Mac?

[t0ne]

On a separate Mac I'd bet. The updated SDK already has the iPad simulator in it apparently.

[flookster]

http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

[F-ZeroOne]

Will iBooks be available for the iPhone/Touch as well or is that a stupid question?

[Misfit]

http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

Beautiful.

Really no flash though? Huge downer.

But it won't stop me!

Do we have a confirmed UK date?

[WiteWulf]

Lovely bit of kit but not impressed at the pricing for the models with more storage and the lack of an SD slot...

$499 - 16GB
$599 - 32GB
$799 - 64GB

Apple know how cheap flash storage is and this is just blatant protectionism.

I'm still having one as soon as I can, mind! It'd make a great replacement for the old Macbook at home (still got a Macbook Pro that follows me backwards and forwards from work every day). The killer for me would be whether or not it has multiple user profiles for me and Sal to both use it. Can't afford one each, even at that price, as we both already have iPhones.

[disciple]

And here's the video for those of us who watch Quicktime videos through players other than Quicktime. (cheers Apple)

Quote from the video : "I don't have to change myself to fit the product, it fits me"

Hmm yes ok.

http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/official-ipad-video/

[benedictw]

Adaptors for USB and for SD cards. Could you pull the photos off a digital camera with this? Stupid if you couldn't.

[WiteWulf]

So they're really pushing it's video capabilities: I'd love to hear the reasoning behind them not going with a 16:9 display. Seems a very odd decision to make, especially as the iPhone's 16:9

[Nixie]

so is it a laptop sans keyboard (fully functional pooter) or is it a huge ipod?

And biggie for me, how powerful is this apple chip, and is the screen pressure sensitive?

[WiteWulf]

so is it a laptop sans keyboard (fully functional pooter) or is it a huge ipod?

Huge iPod Touch...

And biggie for me, how powerful is this apple chip, and is the screen pressure sensitive?

No idea on processing power, but Apple's not punting this as a multi-function computing device (i.e. a laptop. Think about what can currently be done on an iPhone 3G, though, and bear in mind that, in raw MHz, this device is ~2.5x faster and has fancier 3D graphics hardware and I think it'll be pretty sweet. If that graphics hardware is also somehow accessible in a Grand Central sort of way then you could possibly do a lot more with it.

The screen is almost certainly not pressure sensitive as this only got mentioned this morning:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/20 ... ility.html

So the person on the TUAW liveblog saying it was a Cintiq killer is probably overreacting a little...

[WiteWulf]

Adaptors for USB and for SD cards. Could you pull the photos off a digital camera with this? Stupid if you couldn't.

I think is very much being seen as a companion to a desktop Mac or Macbook; you'll be needing to get your photos off your camera and into iPhoto on the Mac then sync the albums across to the iPad, which seems like a real faff to me.

[Firefox]

The iPad site is now up:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/