Member Reviews: Apple iPAD

Intro So here I go - I'm writing a review for the iPad. Why? I've been thinking a lot about mobile development recently for a passion project of mine as well as some new features for NBF. Got a friend with a pad and the owner of Mach 3 composites has offered to ship out some of his carbon fiber cases for review. So hey! why not? I will start by saying that I've never been much of an Apple guy. Most of my background lies within PC-based platforms, namely Windows. However given my experiences as a dev/sysadmin for NBF and other projects, I've obtained knowlege of linux systems. I see most of Apple's products as proprietary Linux distributions with pre-packaged hardware. In fact,...

As a test, I will attempt to write this entire review only on the iPad. When the iPad was announced, i was not impressed. As a self noted computer enthusiast, I knew the industry has already given tablet PC's a try and were not very successful. However, the market has changed, and the iPad does have a standing chance as competition in the netbook market. Unfortunately, I no longer own a netbook, I replaced its functionality with the Dell XPS 1340, a 13" notebook with a decent GPU. I miss the netbook; having a computer always on (standby at worst) just lying around the house was very beneficial. I picked up the iPad with this exact purpose in mind, I wanted something lying...