The iPad

So it has been a while updating and the iPad is old news but I thought that I would update a little bit and go over some of the big headlines in the tech world.

The iPad

At the end of January at Apple’s media event they unveiled the iPad, the newest piece of the Apple computer line, that is to fit somewhere between the Apple iPhone and the Macbook Air. There were so many rumors circulating around that it became quickly the most anticipated event in Apple history. The TWIT network was hitting 100,000 people + streaming their live coverage of the event, making a network record. So what is it about the iPad that is getting so much fuss? There were several “Slate” Computers already on the market, most of them running proprietary OSs or a version of Google’s Android. It seems all the hype is about presentation. Apple has not been too notorious for failing at the unveiling of new technologies, but the question is still up in the air on the iPad. Will it be as successful as all the Apple fanboys hope? It does have competition. There is Amazon’s Kindle, which is everything right for an E-book reader, and there is the Archos 7 running android. My opinion? The iPad is Apple’s answer to the netbook movement. We’ll see how it goes.

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