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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator
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      Here's a link to the Official Video

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      iPad

      Explore the world of iPad. Featuring iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad.

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      Apple (www.apple.com)

      You gotta love the enthusiasm of the Senior Hardware VP

      Must say that i'm really impressed by the iPad's capabilities. I've been an iPhone user since launch and curently use 3GS for all my needs. The iPad will hopefully be a welcome addition. I'm watching closely the see what kinda Apps developers will create before i consider purchasing.

      But with all new tech it's greeted differently depending on your taste and interests. I like to read the 'No Camp' opinions as some valuable points are being made.

      Keep up the great debate πŸ‘

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      • jeff hammondJ Offline
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        @remus said:

        I have no doubt that processing power and such will increase with time and given a couple of years it seems fairly reasonable that you could be running straight os x apps on it (or at least apps that are similarly powerful and diverse.)

        supposedly, you will be able to do some of that immediately..
        iWork (maclike versions of excel, word, and powerpoint) has already been written for it..
        i use iWork for estimating, job tracking, and presentations and really, they take a bit of power to run ok so if the ipad can handle some of my spreadsheets ok then i'm sold.

        [ *imagining keynote (powerpoint) presentations being projected from an ipad/gestures instead of a laptop/mouse/trackpad.. ]

        dotdotdot

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          driven
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          If Google do put Sketchup on their 'cloud', the power of the beast won't make a lot of odds

          just a thought

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          • EarthMoverE Offline
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            Not too long ago I was considering dropping $400 on a palm sized projector for my laptop to do sales presentations. For an extra $100 I could put my whole portfolio and a clients renders on this puppy and have it to do all kinds of other stuff as well. Unfortunately I don't have AT&T and don't plan on switching. I wonder how long before someone "jailbreaks" it to work on all carriers.

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            • jeff hammondJ Offline
              jeff hammond
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              adam
              it does work on all carriers πŸ˜„

              [well, once they update to micro sim cards]
              http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358489,00.asp

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              • EarthMoverE Offline
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                That's odd. Why not make it compatible on all carriers with a standard sim card reader? Why a microsim that no carriers are even using and wont say if they plan on using...weird.

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                • Mike LuceyM Offline
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                  Now we could be seeing unfortunate iPad users being hit by cars!


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                  • Mike LuceyM Offline
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                    MadTV Predicts Apple’s iPad

                    http://blog.cagle.com/news/2010/01/27/mad-tv-predicts-apples-ipad/

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
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                      @earthmover said:

                      That's odd. Why not make it compatible on all carriers with a standard sim card reader? Why a microsim that no carriers are even using and wont say if they plan on using...weird.

                      probably something to do with apple not wanting everyone to stick their existing sims in the ipad.. maximizes additional money for the phone companies via the ipad?

                      i'm not really sure what it's about but more likely than not, it can be traced back to money.

                      dotdotdot

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                      • david_hD Offline
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                        @mike lucey said:

                        Now we could be seeing unfortunate iPad users being hit by cars!

                        Yeah . . .and. . .? πŸ˜†

                        actually. . .it could be worse.. .they could driving cars.

                        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                          tfdesign
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                          @earthmover said:

                          Not too long ago I was considering dropping $400 on a palm sized projector for my laptop to do sales presentations. For an extra $100 I could put my whole portfolio and a clients renders on this puppy and have it to do all kinds of other stuff as well.

                          At first I thought I didn't need an iPad, but last night, while nodding off to sleep, it came to me in a vision...... 😲

                          Adam, Bang on! Great minds think alike!! πŸ˜„

                          In fact, I was thinking, Unity 3D, which works with SketchUp and LightUp, has already been specifically written for iPhone too. Having a digital, touch-controlled, interactive portfolio on you at all times, simply cannot be ignored!

                          Have a look at this free Unity 3D-based app;

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                          (itunes.apple.com)

                          Your model....in 3D.....interactive.....on an iPad..... ❗ πŸ’­

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                            @tfdesign said:

                            Having a digital, touch-controlled, interactive portfolio on you at all times, simply cannot be ignored!

                            That's the first thing I thought when I saw the device: sketchup + layout presentations to clients...

                            Google, can we have an iPad version of SU+LO please, to view models, walkthrough models and view presentations?

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                            Oh, and ditch incandescent light bulbs.]

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                              tfdesign
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                              To be honest Ronan, I'd rather not have SU on the iPad, as I'd rather Google write a Linux version of SU, and/or just improve SU more on existing platforms. The iPad wouldn't be here to replace my Mac, only to supplement it. πŸ˜„

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                              • Mike LuceyM Offline
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                                Its nice, but whatever way you look at it, its really a big iPhone. I am not tempted to order one in March. I still see the MacBookPro as the ideal 'carry around' tool for presentations.

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                                  @mike lucey said:

                                  I still see the MacBookPro as the ideal 'carry around' tool for presentations.

                                  I think that is a good point, because I have a late 2006 Macbook Pro, and my colleague Jim has the newer one, without that bloody awful catch bar at the front- "it just opens"!! πŸ˜‰ So I understand your reasons for this Mike. My next computer will be a desktop type (laptops give me neck ache, and monitor performance decreases slightly when a secondary display is plugged in, but I should point out that this is nowhere as bad as the performance using two displays when running XP). I intend to get a Mac Mini, which isn't that portable- just tiny, with a brick (but nice white shiny brick πŸ˜‰ ) for a PSU! The Mini also, unlike my MBP, will run Windows 7, if I ever need to use it. So the iPad would fit very well.

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                                    remus
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                                    @tfdesign said:

                                    ...is nowhere as bad as the performance using two displays when running XP.

                                    Off topic, but thats likely due to a slow graphics card rather than any inherent fault in xp.

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                                      tfdesign
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                                      @remus said:

                                      @tfdesign said:

                                      ...is nowhere as bad as the performance using two displays when running XP.

                                      Off topic, but thats likely due to a slow graphics card rather than any inherent fault in xp.

                                      Works absolutely great on Mac, with BOTH screens going. So is that the graphic card's fault, or just that the ATi XP driver for that particular card (X1600) just happens to be bobbins? πŸ˜’ πŸ’­

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                                        remus
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                                        Still cant really blame microsoft if vendors are writing bad drivers for their products.

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                                          tfdesign
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                                          @remus said:

                                          Still cant really blame microsoft if vendors are writing bad drivers for their products.

                                          I'm not blaming microsoft. I would imagine that the X1600 was designed with a very close relationship between Apple and ATi. It was probably never designed to work with Windows. I would also imagine that there is also a special relationship going on now with NVidia and Apple. I think this is what always trips up the non-Apple users of this community (windows users), as they probably see those same cards as 'not as good' as other cards- ie 'underpowered', when actually, because they are running on a closed system under mac OS X, they behave just as well- if not better in certain situations (like rendering). I know I'm about to get flamed for that last remark, but so far i've found that to be true (I'm a user of both XP and Mac OS X).

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                                          • soloS Offline
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                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            I'm a user of both XP and Mac OS X).

                                            Time to upgrade to Windows 7.

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