So, a week later and I’m sitting in bed at midnight, while Christina sleeps next to me, typing a review on the glass screen of the future. I suppose that’s a bit of an exaggeration as the future, so to speak, is now.
The long and short of it is that i love the iPad. It’s got some funkiness to it, but overall, it works as advertised, has a battery life that’s borderline ridiculous, and has me happy to ship off my laptop to my parents so that they can talk to my forthcoming daughter via it’s web cam.
The web cam, by the way, is in no way missed on this thing. I think that placing a camera on a device this large, while theoretically useful for video chatting, would be pretty much absurd for any other use. The iPad is just too big to use for snapshots. Hell, even the idea of holding it up while using it for video chat seems ridiculous.
As for 3G vs. Non. My logic is that realistically if I’m in a spot I’m not really going to pay 15 or 30 bucks for internet, the sort of files you actually want to download in a spot when away from home tend to be too large to download via 3G anyways, and, i’m literally never without my iPhone anyways, so why not go for extra memory on the device itself.
To the future of comics question… It’s damn close. The screen is slightly too small to be used with a standard sized comic. I’ve dropped Tumor (which was designed to be the smaller digest size) on here and it’s damn near perfect looking. Some of the text pieces are a bit small, but otherwise, it’s all there. That being said, until Marvel and DC decide to start going day and date with their print and digital releases I think it’s still up in the air. Not being able to have your comics transfer to other devices is sort of a no win for most of these apps, although Comixology’s app does allow you to redownload things purchased on your iPhone.
Probably my highest praise i can give the device is that I’ve been using it for work. With the Bluetooth keyboard and the little stand i bought for the it, i have a truly tiny, truly mobile, and truly functional work station that doesn’t need a power outlet and is far less distracting then my laptop with all of its IM’s and web browsing that seems to only take you away for a second, when in fact it sucks you in for hours on end. That’s right, i like that there’s no multitasking. It means that i have to decide to stop working to check my email or read the internet or, whatever else I do to interrupt my workflow. For someone like me with a little bit of ocd and a whole lot of procrastinators disease, it may be the system I’ve been dreaming of.
At least until they release the 4.0 software.
NOTE: As Tony Fleecs pointed out the WordPress App is greatly lacking in the spellcheck department. Should be all fixed up pretty now.
