Category Archives: Hardware
20 million iPads in 2011? How about 28 million? Do I hear 36 million!?!
By now you’ve probably read the reports that Apple is expanding (or trying to expand) iPad production up to as many as 3 million units per month. Gulp. Here’s a link to a piece summarizing the more aggressive recent analyst … Continue reading
iPads being counted as portables? Well of course!
By now you’ve probably seen the statistics wherein Apple has vaulted from #7 to #3 in portable computer sales. The reason? iPad sales were counted even though ‘portables’ has traditionally consisted only of laptops and tablets. There is a certain … Continue reading
The Big Day to-do list…
My 64GB 3G iPad is on the truck for delivery, or so says fedex. With that…what’s left to prep to transition to the iPad full time? Apps purchased: check. I made some amendments to the list in my prior post, … Continue reading
The iPad, for ages 2 – 99, and genius pianists too
If you’ve not already seen them, take a few minutes out of your day to smile as you watch a 2-year-old, then a 99-year-old, use the iPad. Finally, take a look as Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Flight of the … Continue reading
“Late” April indeed!
Well now we know – the 3G’s are due to arrive and hit retail on April 30th. The very last day in April. Couldn’t cut it much closer, could they? My pre-iPad to-do list is getting shorter. Bag is in … Continue reading
Resorting to a jailbreak?
A few things have become apparent recently: 1) There almost certainly will be a JB for the iPad. 2) The iPad – even with OS4 – will be a challenge to use as a primary computer as long as it … Continue reading
iPhone OS4: Ugh. So where’s iPad OS4?
Well…that was…underwhelming on the whole. Of my four big needs/wants, only one – multi-tasking – was delivered. And it was the lowest on my list: -File system -Email searching within email body, and subfolders -Printing -Multi-tasking Don’t get me wrong, I’m … Continue reading