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Re: iPad
Just booked my shipment from Bundlebox. It will be in the UK later in the week.
In all it's going to have cost around £500 thanks to the bundle box buy for me fees, shipping from the US in a fast way and VAT.
Hopefully I can claim the VAT back, making it around £435. Of course I could have claimed the VAT back had I waited in the UK too, so still would have been much cheaper to wait (assuming the sub £400 price point).
Had I thought it through and done some numbers after Deckard posted about Bundlebox, and if it really is released on the 24th, then I should have waited.
Will I care later in the week when it arrives? Probably not...
In all it's going to have cost around £500 thanks to the bundle box buy for me fees, shipping from the US in a fast way and VAT.
Hopefully I can claim the VAT back, making it around £435. Of course I could have claimed the VAT back had I waited in the UK too, so still would have been much cheaper to wait (assuming the sub £400 price point).
Had I thought it through and done some numbers after Deckard posted about Bundlebox, and if it really is released on the 24th, then I should have waited.
Will I care later in the week when it arrives? Probably not...
Re: iPad
This really is the killer spec for me. How long does it work for in reality (actually using it, not letting lie in a corner with the power on) ?GeeZa wrote: Battery life is amazing, finally no real worrying about shit going blank after two hours. This is so important, so critical.
If it can last 15 hours for real then it is going to be a major advance.
I didn't think much of it when I heard about it first ("Giant iPhone, big deal"), but now
I can see how this could just take over the netbook and tablet PC market altogether in one go.
Unless you need to type a lot, this is a fantastic machine that is going to push Apple to new heights for certain.
Now if they port OSX to the custom ARM it uses and all that goes with it and make desktops as well as tablets that use this combination,
I might even be tempted to move over from Windows for good.
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No worries man, it all adds to helping folks make buying decisions.PVB wrote:Questions:GeeZa wrote:Geometry Wars shows the way, fast, pretty, well controlled and often spectacular.
Yeah it's a bit heavy, and it requires a powerful USB port to charge (it won't charge from my Intel MacBook).
How does GW play? You have your finger on the screen? If so, doesn't that block your vision somewhat?
Powerful USB to charge?
If my PC didn't have the right ports, how else am I going to charge it?
Ta muchly for the review.
GW plays by having movement via a virtual thumbstick on the left-side and firing on the right. You hold the pad in landscape. As other games like Minigore show, twin shooters can work well if the controls are tweaked. There is some obscuring obviously but it's pretty minimal. The biggest irk is that the bomb is placed in the middle and that's really a bit dumb. Touch controls are something you do kinda have to get used to I think.
Yep, there's a mains charger included.
I just watched Dune (2 hours 15 mins) over Netflix which combines Wifi streaming and full video playback and at the end my battery showed 79%. And I'd been on the net for an hour beforehand. So that's 6-8 hours streaming, likely quite a lot more if played off the SSD. Very impressive. Web browsing seems to use next-to-nothing.
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Re: iPad
That's okay then.RiK wrote:With the supplied charger?PVB wrote:If my PC didn't have the right ports, how else am I going to charge it?
Ta GeeZa.
I see the C64 emulator's back on the iPhone/Touch App Store, along with Hover Bovver and AMC (for free) in their online shop. If they get the rest of the back catalogue on there (with Llamasoft's permission), that would be cool.
http://www.c64iphone.com/
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Re: iPad
I can see them waiting until v4 is released.Deckard wrote:Didnt take long [youtube]dgHNayVtHkQ&feature[/youtube] but will they wait for v4 before releasing ?
But if v4 has multitasking (which we expect announced for the iPhone on Thursday), and as it's not a phone it won't need unlocking (and one has to assume the 3G model will be unlocked anyway), I can't see much point in needing it jailbroken?