Apple's 'iPad' a student's dream companion?
Posted by Sean Joudry | | Posted on 3:56 PM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced the much speculated 'iPad'. Apple's new tech product is essentially a 9.7inch iPhone, sporting Wifi, a speaker, Bluetooth, and 16, 32 or 64GB starting at $499 USD.
Upon seeing it, I immediately thought of how perfect this unit will be for students on the go. While lacking the ability to multitask between windows, due to the unit's use of the 'iPhone Operating System', the iPad allows one to check email and browse the web with a full screen QWERTY keyboard, and act as a media player weighing in at 1.9 pounds. Not only that, but the 'Pad' will feature support a mobile version of Apple's 'iWork' suite, allowing students to type notes in class, or prepare Keynote presentations.
Instead of lugging around a heavy laptop to school, students can slip this little device into their bag, check the web and email between classes, and then go about their day without the burden of a bulky computer weighing down their bag. While on the bus, students can catch up on their reading through the Apple 'Book Store', downloading full novels onto the device for a slim price, comparable to Amazon's Kindle. Best of all would be the ability to load PDF's onto the unit. Research papers and articles can be read on the go on a .5 inch thin display.
Apple will need to have a good advertising campaign behind the iPad in order for it to find its market, but the possibilities are magnificent. We'll have to see how successful Apple is when it launches the iPad in late March.
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So you can check e-mails with it?
You can develop presentations?
Take notes?
Read books?
Browse online?
Full qwerty keyboard?
And what exactly makes it different than the iphone? The only difference I see is that it's pretty big. My Blackberry Storm has all of these benefits and it fits conveniently into my pocket. As does an Iphone/Ipod touch.
The fact that you can get laptops that are the same size as it, and have a touch screen, a REAL keyboard and that fold down to a a palet or fold up to a laptop for around the same price (Referring to the HP Pavillion). But people like Apple products so it will be purchased