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  1. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    People would also want to view their photos at Retina-res. Video too, although you might be hard-pressed to tell the difference. But certainly for 3D games, rendering them at the old res and doubling on display makes sense.
  2. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    You can no longer buy drinks on Southwest with cash. Only cards or coupons.
  3. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    The Apple case does what I need: protect the glass so I can rest stuff on top, and prop up the case for typing or viewing (both landscape, not portrait). It's grippy, but does collect dust. The edges do making plugging stuff in more difficult, especially the dock connector (I couldn't try an...
  4. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    I have heard that they can activate it at the store for you. Obviously you can't get your own content on there, but you can use it, buy apps, buy more content, etc. The specs page says it requires 10.5.8 (eight, not six) and iTunes 9.1
  5. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    WiFi works fine through an original Airport Express, using G only. It is true. You still get location services through WiFi (a database of hotspots from guys driving around and sniffing). It is scarily accurate in my case. It's Assisted GPS, which relies on info through the cell network to make...
  6. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    After a quarter-century of "consumer" computing, apparently the answer is actually No. More preferences are a bad idea, and lazy design. Better to be upfront about what it can't do, but do the things it can do well; than to try and be everything to everyone, as long as you can find the right...
  7. Ken Chan

    Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread

    Like the iPhone, you can listen to music with iTunes in the background. Just not with a third-party music app, which would be foreground only.
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