So I got my new iPad...what now?

BTW I hate you guys for telling me to try Angry Birds. I've lost quite a few useful hours this past week.

are there any good accelerometer/0-60/ est whp apps out there? Preferably free?

back from the dead - In reference to the factory five contest, anyone have any experience with soldiworks/3D sketching on iPad that wont require a 4 year degree to master? I havent got a desktop at home yet, and Id love to be able to toss some ideas into the pad and get a design or 3 going. Ive downloaded a few 2d graphic drawing apps, but theyre leaving me less than impressed. Honestly, thus far, MS Paint is more intuitive and user friendly than the apple apps ive tried so far.

Oh, if you have an iPad- it's time to buy a new one!

In reply to alfadriver:

So it would seem. But really, im just starting to understand the base usefulness of this thing. Without the right apps, functionality as well as File transferability are severely compromised, hence my desire for the "right" cad/solidworks/3D drawing app. Truth be told, Id rather have had the netbook I had been eyeing lately, but the wife won the iPad as an award and gave it to me...so now Im stuck lol.

In reply to 4cylndrfury:

So you really need to win a new iPad2....

On a serious note, the iPad series is another piece of technology that I find very, very cool. But can't seem to find enough reasons to get one for myself. I really want to need one. To bad I can't find enough need.

Yeah, its kind of an answer to a question no one has asked yet. Im thinking the Dell Inspiron Duo is really where its at. Touchscreen tech with a keyboard and full pc connectivity and pc os... you really cant beat it in tablet tech available today. Ooohhh, maybe one day...

My brain hurts seeing the limitless plethora of opportunities to waste time.

I think my personal favorite thing ever done with an iPad was when Daniel Tosh hit one with a golf club.

We got our kids Dell netbooks for Christmas. I got my wife an iPad for her birthday. In hindsight, I should have got everyone an iPad. For sitting on the couch screwing around, the iPad is much better for us.

For some reason, iPads just seem to be something people love to hate for no particular reason. It isn't meant to replace your desk top or your big assed laptop. It is for entertainment.

Otto Maddox wrote: We got our kids Dell netbooks for Christmas. I got my wife an iPad for her birthday. In hindsight, I should have got everyone an iPad. For sitting on the couch screwing around, the iPad is much better for us. For some reason, iPads just seem to be something people love to hate for no particular reason. It isn't meant to replace your desk top or your big assed laptop. It is for entertainment.

But it doesn't do anything that much better then an iTouch or iPhone. It is too big to shove in your pocket. So I might as well just carry my laptop which has better games and is generally more useful.

I am posting this from a sexy new Droid X. It does all that cool stuff, plays flash and it fits in a pocket.

For everyone who bought an Ipad within the last 3 months, I post this again:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple

So, after page 1, what I hear is, this thing is just like a laptop, but not as easy to use, so now that you've spent a few hundred on it, spend some more on applications (not changing to app) and you can use it for a glorified time waster. I'll stick with my cheapo Dell lappy.

In reply to tuna55:

It is really just a big iPhone, which is good, I think.

In reply to slefain:

That does seem to be the way. My wife got an iPhone 4 a few months ago just because I needed a new phone. I got her iPhone 3. Funny how that works. We won't be rushing out to buy a new iPad or anything else until there is a better reason other than because it is new and cool.

Otto Maddox wrote: In reply to tuna55: It is really just a big iPhone, which is good, I think.

It really is just a big iPhone (without the phone) that looks really stupid when you hold it up to your ear.

I'd like an iPad... assuming i could get it to transmit lossless music files to a Squeezebox, and mount it flush in the wall. Bonus points for being able to use it to display youtube videos in HD on my TV. (Something my PS3 fails at miserably. Time for a new thread!)

Could also be cool for car stereo if i had a vehicle baller enough for it.

tuna55 wrote: So, after page 1, what I hear is, this thing is just like a laptop, but not as easy to use, so now that you've spent a few hundred on it, spend some more on applications (not changing to app) and you can use it for a glorified time waster. I'll stick with my cheapo Dell lappy.

HA HA HA..

I tried to talk my father in law into a kindle rather than one of these, but he's so hot on it.. HA.

Angry birds ftw!! Oregon Trail, oh lord, my sister and I played that for hours when we were little, also with Sims

Also Earthworm Jim and TOCA that I played constantly, along with THPS:2

Cute graphic, but wrong in a bunch of ways. The original iPad did have a headphone jack and video output. More importantly, it's got an OS that people want to use!

93EXCivic wrote: But it doesn't do anything that much better then an iTouch or iPhone. It is too big to shove in your pocket. So I might as well just carry my laptop which has better games and is generally more useful.

It is really just an oversize Touch. But if you feel the biggest limitation of the Touch is the screen size, then it's better.

I picked up the latest generation Touch to play with and see how useful I'd find one of these. I've always wondered how useful an internet tablet would be, and this sort of exploration of future possibilities is what I used to do for a living. And I'm glad I did.

I've got a laptop. I've got a Sony Reader eBook that gets used an hour a day, minimum. Where the Touch fit into my life was twofold: instant access to information, and Pandora. I use it like an iPod to play music in the garage, but with the ability to stream Pandora radio. Even if it does nothing else, that's awesome. I'd also use it to quickly check up on my email to see if there was anything that needed to be taken care of. But usually, I'd go to the laptop if that was necessary because of the screen size. The iPad would still work in the garage as a my music source, but I'd be more likely to use it for answering email or posting to the GRM forum because the larger form factor is better for reading and typing.

The long battery life and instant-on are what separate it from the laptop. I'm more likely to pick up the Touch, check a couple of things and put it down again instead of getting sucked into the world of my computer. So it's got a place in the world. Not just as a time-waster, but as a way to make the things I already do easier to do.

I haven't found many of the other apps to be much use at all. I use the Delta Airlines app to keep track of Janel's travel (she's out of town four days a week), Facebook to keep up with the FM Facebook page and I've used Netflix to watch movies in the airport while traveling. If I didn't have my ebook reader, I'd probably be interested in an iPod for reading books. But games, toys, other timesucks? Not so much. But that's because I'm generally not interested in video games.

alfadriver wrote: On a serious note, the iPad series is another piece of technology that I find very, very cool. But can't seem to find enough reasons to get one for myself. I really want to need one. To bad I can't find enough need.

Same here.

Once there is a way to have my "desktop" HTPC screen show up on a tablet and use that as a "remote" to surf the web, pull up netflix, etc on the big screen I will go out and buy one.

z31maniac wrote:

alfadriver wrote: On a serious note, the iPad series is another piece of technology that I find very, very cool. But can't seem to find enough reasons to get one for myself. I really want to need one. To bad I can't find enough need.

Same here. Once there is a way to have my "desktop" HTPC screen show up on a tablet and use that as a "remote" to surf the web, pull up netflix, etc on the big screen I will go out and buy one.

shhh- I don't even have a smart phone. can't even justify that. the pda I have is more a mini-reader than something truely useful. Hope to change that this summer with a data logger, but.

Even the phone is an expense- I did some analysis on the phone, and found out that I could get a pay-min phone at the highest rate, and still come out way ahead, since I only use my phone on vacation. Which is also the only time I use a smart phone (if available).

My surfing? I'm basically down to 2-3 e-mails, GRM/CM, Miata Forum, College Hockey Online, a UM Hockey board, and and Idaho football board. General searches are pretty rare, since I don't surf that much for the sake of surfing (the most I do that for is the picture thread HERE).

Again, I really find the new gadgets super cool... All of them. I just can't find the personal need to get one for me. Well, I have a Nook. I think I spend more time reading that than "surfing" anymore. Funny that I have technology to do a book's work, isn't it?

alfadriver wrote: shhh- I don't even have a smart phone. can't even justify that.

Funny - had a string of 3-4 Blackberry's provided by work. hated them all. Changed jobs, and was having lunch with the new coworkers.

Me: "I really didn't like the Blackberry, not a good phone, not a great E-mail device, awful battery life and very fragile with slow expensive internet"

24 year old hipster girl: "So what did you get, a Razor, an Iphone?"

Me: Whips out freebie from AT&T, maybe Nokia makes it? I dunno. "It has an alarm, was free, has a battery that lasts for more then four hours and has great reception"

24 year old hipster girl: ::frowns and turns to talk to more hip people instead::

well ok but, was she good looking?