Half-Life Fallout: iPad - Half-Life Fallout

If it had multitasking, I'd be happing with using the on-screen keyboard (at least for the note-taking load and precision of text).

Alas HG's demotive above says it all.

In business meetings someone could peruse the web searching for information that would be highly detailed and sharable just as a real notepad is.

But then again a netbook does this and allows better typing .. and more.

The lack of a USB port is pretty weird, I honestly can't think of anything that doesn't either have a port or connects to one, it's pretty universal as the name implies.

VN1X, on 30 January 2010 - 10:50 AM, said:

But realistically, you don't need to do all those things at once. iPad specific apps will run simultaneously (iPod and mail will run behind other programs). You don't need to multitask for the rest of the stuff. Why you would type a document and be on the internet is beyond me. If you're writing an email or some sort of report, you shouldn't be surfing the web. Unless you're a stupid ****ing artsie.

Dark Knight, on 31 January 2010 - 12:53 AM, said:

On my PC I usally have Winamp, IRC, multiple firefox windows, Photoshop, multiple folders and a game open at the same time.

Now, being able to listen to music while you email can't really be too much to ask, now can it?

Brumisator, on 30 January 2010 - 03:05 PM, said:

But see, you're being stupid. That's completely unnecessary.

If you're gonna use Photoshop, I can guarantee you that you wouldn't use it on a netbook. It would be SO slow that it would frustrate the hell out of you, not to mention that the screen size is hard to work with for image editing. Photoshop belongs on a full size laptop, or ideally on a full sized PC.

The iPad doesn't have an accessible file structure. You wouldn't even be able to open folders. iPhone OS is designed so that you wouldn't ever need to. If you ever needed a file, accessing it would be an integrated part of the app you're using.

If you're playing a game, play the goddamn game. Stop dicking around with other stuff.

The iPod app will run in the background of anything, except calls I'm assuming.

There isn't an IRC app for the iPhone/iPod/iPad as far as I know, so I'll give you that.

Your argument looks like it came from someone who graduated from Arts and couldn't get a real job. Only someone sitting in a Starbucks, trying to impress everyone around him by looking "important" by typing out his next "novel" would ever need so much garbage running at once. And then he'd look like a dumbass when his netbook freezes from Windows going apeshit.

If I need to use CAD, I'd use my work PC. If I wanted to play games, it'll be on my PS3 or 360. I certainly wouldn't do it on a netbook.

Edit: Don't take it the wrong way, I don't like Apple products. I just hate that people aren't thinking through what they're saying. It makes sense that you would have all that stuff running on your PC, but on a netbook, you would NEVER want that much stuff running.

Dark Knight, on 30 January 2010 - 10:53 PM, said:

Um, perhaps you want to look stuff up to do with what you're writing in the document/email? Like if this was an email conversation and not a forum, you might realistically look something up about the iPad to use in your reply. What happens if you don't want to use the iPod app to listen to music in the background, perhaps Pandora, then you're out of luck.

There's plenty more instances where multitasking would be useful. It's not just about the "it can't do it", there's the "i'm paying more so why can't it do it".

Dark Knight, on 30 January 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Probably because not everyone has a book set of Encyclopedia Britannica just lying around, and also it can be a bit pricey. Also not everyone can afford the trip to different universities and libraries around the world just to look through all the research papers, journals, articles, etc. the plane ticket, the hotel stay, etc. you know that adds up and everything. And this becomes even more of a headache if you are running on a tight schedule.

With that, many turn to the power of the internet. Sources like Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia and Wikipedia provide us with easy access to the information. PubMed is really popular among the science and medical students. And just by looking through Google, you will discover that there is so much information on the internet, a lot of which you would normally not have such easy access to.

Haha, sorry, I'll cut the bs here.

Where I am going with this is that when writing a document, many people often have the internet browser open in the background to some website or database. This is so to quickly jump from the document to the site to further gather facts and to quote items and go back to the document and continue where you left off. I am sorry to say, but this falls under the act of "multi-tasking", since you are essentially using two separate applications in order to write a document.

Okay, sure, you can look up the information in the browser and write it all down on a piece of paper and then go back to the document writer and add the information from there, but that honestly sounds a bit more time consuming and gives a lot more room for error.

So to answer your question, yes a lot of people actually do write documents and use the internet at the same time. I hope this does not really come as a huge surprise to you. I mean, pretty much all the computers in the libraries are connected to the internet and internet access is really common in areas such as pharmaceutical companies, research labs and even any sort of offices. I am pretty sure even the New York Times' editors and writers have access to the internet and their jobs pretty much revolve around using a document writer application.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a03edbd7/pee-wee-gets-an-ipad

Dark Knight, on 31 January 2010 - 01:25 AM, said:

Wut? You purposefully misinterpret my argument and then proceed to calling me stupid, what is this, the internet?

I didn't say tablet computers should be able to do all of this at once, but at least being able to run two apps at the same time would be less ridiculous.

Point and laugh.

I'm still laughing at the comment that Steve Jobs made that netbooks aren't the future because "they run PC software", granted he's talking
to a group of mac fanboys... that's still the dumbest logic I've ever heard. They have ereader, USB, keyboard, and video out adapters for it. Granted, for almost $700 it would have been nice to have "something" come with it, but that's just another reason I'll get a nice laptop instead.

I'm surprised how many people keep thinking you can't listen to music while you are in other apps...
Anyway my Dad is really into the iPad, he saw clips of the keynote on BBC news and is thinking about getting one, he's a little put off by the price though since it will probably be around £500. I got him a iPod touch last year and he uses it more and more now but he struggles with safari with such a small screen so maybe this is perfect for him. Laptops confuse him quite a bit but he is always playing games and on the web on his iPod touch, hope he does get one... then I can borrow it

City 17, on 31 January 2010 - 09:16 AM, said:

Well, the people are referring to 3rd party music City, like Pandora, yahoo music, or aol radio.

thefilthelement, on 31 January 2010 - 02:21 PM, said:

anh right, I never use any services like that, the iPod music is fine for me.