Tablet Computers, which one and why?

[Chairman Mao]

We've a good desktop in the house.

I've also a netbook.

Missus gave her netbook away.

I'm a student by distance, she's about to return to FT study.

Might as well pick up a tablet for us to share. My main use would be for videos and reading material, her main use will probably be popping balloons and baking cakes, probably have all her K-Crap music vids etc on it too.

I know virtually nothing of tablet computers, I can't imagine what we need is more than the basic ones out there.

Which one should we get?

And why does it say iPad's only have 32 or 64GB? That surely isn't storage space.

[Kwang]

The ipad bud, for the speakers and build quality and apps and support and ease of use

Get the ipad 2 its a lot cheaper here than the Uk and for the extra u will pay for an ipad 3 for not a lot aint worth it.

The cheapest ipad 2 is the 16gb wifi only model, 14500 in Swampy, maybe cheaper now

And why does it say iPad's only have 32 or 64GB? That surely isn't storage space.

Yes it is

Theyre not as functional as Notebooks buddy but good fun with the apps.


Thats a 10 inch the iPad,

The Galaxy Tabs are worth a look, but will cost u more than the iPad 2. Go in the shops and see what you like, they have a 7 inch 8.9 and 10 inch Galaxy, and all take sim cards, but u look a right sausage when someone calls

[Bettyboo]

The cheapest ipad 2 is the 16gb wifi only model, 14500 in Swampy, maybe cheaper now

13,500 now; probably the best buy for a tablet at the moment.

[Kwang]

Some will come on here soon and mention iTard for sure, but show me any

ipad vs...... whoever comparison

And the ipad is still top of the tree

[Bettyboo]

^ for the money it seems hard to beat. The Samsungs are expensive, starting at 15,900 for the 7" and going up to well over 20,000.

The Sony is about 16,000, as are the Lennova and a few others that are standard stock at Powerbuy/Big C/Lotus, etc.

I spoke to somebody who has loads of tablets including at least 2 diffent iTards, and she said the iPad 2 was as functional as any of them, smooth and easy to use. I wouldn't buy an Apple product meself, but it's not a bad price when compared to the others.

[dirtydog]

So, what does an ipad do that a netbook doesn't do? Why all the interest in ipads?

[Kwang]

Apps,

sad I know. oh and if you have kids, they dont get virused up like your PC will.
Portability , they start up a lot quicker than a Notebook too. great for just browsing and media

[Gerbil]

16GB iPad Wifi only model (if you're in Bangkok). Sorted.

[dirtydog]

When you say Apps, do you mean like all the stuff on my phone that I don't use?
All seems a waste of time to me.

[Chairman Mao]

So, what does an ipad do that a netbook doesn't do? Why all the interest in ipads?

For me it would mainly be as an E-reader or E-book or whatever they're called, for reading material.

If I'm gonna buy a Kindle I might as well just buy a tablet. Ease of reading and videos, plus the missus can take it to uni during the day and take lots of pics of her uni friends doing stupid poses in their tight little uniforms.


I presume you can just connect your Ext. HDD to those iPad 2's?

[Chairman Mao]

Actually I read somewhere that there's a motorbike dyno application available. If it's got one of those I'm sold.

[hazz]

From what you are saying the key thing you need is a 10" screen. This will allow you to read technical books in their original paper based book format. Important if you are reading anything from a journal or a book with illustrations, tables and graphs.

If you are considering the iPad, something you should take into consideration is that the screen resolution on the iPad3 is very high and provides a significant improvement to the pages you are reading; though not enough to make me to replace my ipad, but enough for me to want to pay the premium over an ipad2.
The downside of this higher resolution is that the black borders round the pixels haven't got any smaller, so the screen on the iPad3 blocks far more of the backlight than the ipad1/2. You don't notice this because they have made the backlight brighter, and the battery bigger to provide the juice, The iPad 3 takes about 8 hrs to charge!

For storage. I routinely use more than 16G, occasionally go over 32G and have never maxed out the 64G. And having G3 is nice, personally I find mobile wifi a pain in comparison.


As for films, the iPad is designed with buying the films from apple in mind. you have to either by a conversion package for you pc and convert any vids you want to watch into a iPad video play for format, or run an increasingly out of date version of vlc which isdnt being updated for licensing reasons. You might be much better off using a samsung with android where I believe you can get a variety of decent free play anything apps without the licensing issues that apple have manufactured.

[Kwang]

When you say Apps, do you mean like all the stuff on my phone that I don't use?

^ erm, to be honest yes, but what they are great for is lolling about on the sofa, get your Missus one you will see what i mean, especially if she's like mine and loves playing bejewelled or those mind numbing bubble popping games, Facebook, MSN,and watching Thai Tv or listening to music while in the prone position.
The only other advantage over a netbook is you can conceal the tab easier to sneak in the loo, while she's cooking

[Gerbil]

For storage. I routinely use more than 16G

I never go over 10GB on mine. I have a shit load of apps, music & videos, but I set up selective syncing in iTunes rather than syncing the whole lot.

[Kwang]

If you are considering the iPad, something you should take into consideration is that the screen resolution on the iPad3 is very high and provides a significant improvement to the pages you are reading; though not enough to make me to replace my ipad, but enough for me to want to pay the premium over an ipad2.

Lookin for the advantages of iPad over Laptop one of them is screen, but here is what they say

Another advantage of the iPad is its screen can be seen from almost any angle, while the laptop screen cannot

I don't want anyone in the airport seeing me uploading pictures of Chickens to put on here, thats why the iPad2 beats the iPad 3 for me.
The iPad 3 will get stuffed on battery life by the iPad 2 because of that screen

[hazz]

^The iPad3 battery life is about the same. the difference is that by volume the iPad3 is a battery (have a look at some the heard down websites)and its weight has gone backup to the weight of the original iPad. Its the recharge times which have gone though the roof.

As for viewing angles... I cannot say I have noticed it being better or worse than a laptop.

^^Some of my books are 500-1000 page scans (: I have a 2.5G cooking book on it at the mo

[harrybarracuda]

iPad if you want to pay for most of your apps, don't want expandable storage, and want to look like a stupid fucking schoolgirl.

Otherwise you want Android, preferably with v4.0 (ICS).

[hazz]

^you could also add with android you can use your bluetooth for more than connecting just to headphones and keyboards. A pet annoyance, which probably wouldn't bother anyone else.

[Chairman Mao]

Otherwise you want Android, preferably with v4.0 (ICS).

Go on then, why?

[Kwang]

^ Butterfly will give you the proper reason why

[harrybarracuda]

Otherwise you want Android, preferably with v4.0 (ICS).

Go on then, why?

Perhaps you should have read the other line in that post.

[nigelandjan]

iPad if you want to pay for most of your apps, don't want expandable storage, and want to look like a stupid fucking schoolgirl.

I think you will find now external memory is awailable ,, looks like the little gadget that puts the pics in .

I got my better half one for last xmas , she's never off it so mabe its not a good idea ,, we got some brill videos on it and picture shows put on via my Macbook what a dysfunctional itard couple we are

[jizzybloke]

does iPad support flash yet?

[dirtydog]

Not sure if you lot know about this, but both my PC's and netbook have videos on and can play them, don't you do that with your non tablet computers?

[Mr Earl]

The 7.7" galaxy tab is a powerful little device. Easy to hold with one hand, the software is much improved over 7" Tab which is itself a pretty good unit.

My daughter tells me the ipad3 is the best. I think that size is too big, I like being able to hold the device with one hand like a book.