Members RoboPimp Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 hmmm we all agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hivedestruction Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 Cool beans.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 I love my MacBook and my iPod Touch. Both are great products, and have withstood a lot of abuse. I agree that the iPad is not the leap forward that everyone was hoping for. It seems more like a response to the Kindle. I can see it being more useful for educational institutions as the virtualizing of instructional content seems to be on the not-so-distant horizon. It sure beats carrying around a backpack full of $200 textbooks that get thrown out every few years. What an f'in waste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnderMocs Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 If there is wide spread support for textbooks while I'm still in school I'll buy one is a second. It's only a tiny bit more expensive than my books for one semester. I was dumb and bought all new my last semester, 500 bucks, got a 100 back selling them to the bookstore. {censored}ing racket. I didn't do a hell of a lot better buying used off amazon. And I can do other stuff with the iPad, and it'll be useful once I'm done with school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 I love my MacBook and my iPod Touch. Both are great products, and have withstood a lot of abuse. I agree that the iPad is not the leap forward that everyone was hoping for. It seems more like a response to the Kindle. I can see it being more useful for educational institutions as the virtualizing of instructional content seems to be on the not-so-distant horizon. It sure beats carrying around a backpack full of $200 textbooks that get thrown out every few years. What an f'in waste Fwiw, I've never thrown a textbook away. I've only sold back a few reallly lame subjects but I still have all of my books from school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 wait...the iPad comes with textbooks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members olgluefoot Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 im sure they will find a way to make you have a purchased license for your e-reader/Ipad that will cost just as much as the texts books were. AS for the Ipad. It seems like a cool gadget. Obviously not a laptop replacement. But tablet notebooks have been around for a decade. They will be popular again and this thing will be a distant dream. I expect a tablet macbook pro in the next two years. The people at Mac arnt dummies. They know most of their customer base are dummies though, and will buy whatever has an apple logo on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnderMocs Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 wait...the iPad comes with textbooks? no, but it has an e-book reader in it. the kindle can't do textbooks because its only black and white, but a lot of people are hoping textbook companies will offer cheaper digital versions of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted January 29, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 yeah, it's not hard to find a use for something, but that doesn't mean it's useful... HEY I CAN HOLD MY DRINKS WITH THIS BMW!!! IT IS USEFUL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drifter182 Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 no, but it has an e-book reader in it. the kindle can't do textbooks because its only black and white, but a lot of people are hoping textbook companies will offer cheaper digital versions of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 no, but it has an e-book reader in it. the kindle can't do textbooks because its only black and white, but a lot of people are hoping textbook companies will offer cheaper digital versions of books. I really doubt you're going to save much money on textbooks by buying the iPad. After all, X textbook doesn't cost $100 just because of printing costs. I can't see the motivation for a textbook publisher to sell it as an e-book at a huge discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted January 29, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 they've already stated that apple relinquished pricing on books to the publishers. No fixed $9.99 price for books I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ambientnoize Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 it's normally the case of buying the physical copy to get a code or something for the digital copy, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnderMocs Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 it's normally the case of buying the physical copy to get a code or something for the digital copy, isn't it? hell no. at least not in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members olgluefoot Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 ill hold out for the HP Slate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the_bleeding Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 ebook readers are cheaper and easier to read than those lame screens though. like, WAY easier to read. Usin those little black and white magnet balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 I really doubt you're going to save much money on textbooks by buying the iPad. After all, X textbook doesn't cost $100 just because of printing costs. I can't see the motivation for a textbook publisher to sell it as an e-book at a huge discount. My prediction is that they will have to, much like what has happened to the music industry. Will they fight it? Damn straight they will, but competitors will find a way to undercut their efforts. Check it out!http://www.cblohm.com/news/DiscEd/DE_100114/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sabriel9v Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 "It was a bigger iPod Touch," Satoru Iwata said of the much anticipated device shown Wednesday by Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs. LOL! Too bad Nintendo was never the true innovator in the video game hardware area, that was SEGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 wii is pretty innovative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 I'm only in my second semester. All my books from last semester were useless to me. Basic gen ed stuff. I'm probably gonna keep my intro to music book, some great info in there. Maybe keep my art book, not sure. My math book is of no use, and i'm not gonna be a history major after this semester, so I really don't need to keep those books. But your university has book buy-backs doesn't it? Every semester, a representative from a 2nd hand book distro would come to my university and purchase textbooks that were being used for the upcoming semester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tsunamijesus Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 But your university has book buy-backs doesn't it? Every semester, a representative from a 2nd hand book distro would come to my university and purchase textbooks that were being used for the upcoming semester. yeah and here we get upwards of TEN dollars for a 130$ book. chegg ftw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sabriel9v Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 wii is pretty innovative. The Wii is. But thats when Nintendo decided to make a more family-oriented entertainment device. Sega was the first to use cd drives, memory cards, hard drives, Sega did a lot. Pretty much Sega would release a system and the other companies would wait for it to fail and then just copy their designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluehuricane Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 sega didn't make the 64. suck it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stratmaster458 Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 I really don't care, my Macbook Pro is brutal fast and my iPod 160GB kicks ass. apple will find a way to make money off this thing. amd its not a total loss , the technology they developed for the iPad can be used elsewhere in other products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cosmonautsix Posted January 29, 2010 Members Share Posted January 29, 2010 You will have a whole generation who read textbooks on LED screens and will be blind by the time they are 18. You ever read an entire book on a monitor? Its murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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