<p>Frickin awesome</p>
<p>…
10:26 a.m.: He shows how you can watch downloaded movies and TV shows too. With movies (he picked Star Trek) you can jump ahead to particular chapters you want to watch from a menu that appears on the left.
10:27 a.m.: He’s showing his favorite sequence from “Up,” now. A Pixar movie of course.
10:27 a.m.: “And that gives you an overview of what the iPad can do,” he says.
10:28 a.m.: He’s going to talk specs now. The iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs 1.5 pounds. A 9.7-inch IPS display, the same display used in the latest-generation iMac.
10:29 a.m.: It has full capacitive multi-touch screen, 1Ghz custom Apple chip. It’s called A4, the most advanced chip they’ve done: processor, graphics, i/o memory controller on one chip. Can have 16, 32, or 64 GB of SSD storage.
10:29 a.m.: 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, accelerometer, compass, and a 10-hour battery life.
10:30 a.m.: The battery life elicits some enthusiastic applause from the audience.
10:30 a.m.: There’s also one month of standby battery life. You can leave it asleep and not use it for 30 days.
10:31 a.m.: Back to software. Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone software is going to talk to us about the App Store now.
10:32 a.m.: The iPad can run virtually every app unmodified from the App Store. They do that by run them centered and small in the middle of the screen, or they can double the pixels to make them fill the screen of the iPad.
10:32 a.m.: With Facebook for example, you can play with the standard iPhone app version of it or click the 2x button on the bottom right and the app window blows up to fit the screen.
10:34 a.m.: Forstall demos a game for us. Just like with Facebook, he starts with the app window small and centered on the screen and later selects full screen.
10:35 a.m.: All the apps you already have will work on the iPad. But developers can also modify the apps themselves to fit the screen.
“That’s what we did for our apps,” Forstall says.
The iPhone SDK now supports development for the iPad as well. The new SDK will come out today.
10:36 a.m.: There’s an iPad simulator included.
10:37 a.m.: Apple will feature apps built specifically for the iPad “front and center,” on the App Store, he says.</p>
<p>can not contain my drooling … need to download that sdk.</p>
<p>…Too bad I’m so broke.</p>
<p>I’m ready to lend sissy</p>
<p>Ditto . :(</p>
<p>YOU ARE, ans?</p>
<p>Damn, that’s exactly what blood brothers are for. GIMME.</p>
<p>(I’ll consider sharing.)</p>
<p>How much sis??</p>
<p>Er. How about you just buy me the thing?</p>
<p>glad we didn’t buy kindle. </p>
<p>The new app is called iBooks.
10:54 a.m.: You can choose books from what looks like an actual bookshelf. On the upper left is a button that leads to the iBook Store. Can download books right to the iPad. All five major publishers (Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, MacMillan and Hachette) are on the bookstore starting this afternoon.
Now a demo of the books app.</p>
<p><em>Waiting for sticker shock</em></p>
<p>I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I want.</p>
<p>watch… [Live</a> from the Apple ‘latest creation’ event – Engadget](<a href=“http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/our-live-coverage-of-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event-starts-wednesday/www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/?sort=newest&refresh=30]Live”>http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/our-live-coverage-of-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event-starts-wednesday/www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/?sort=newest&refresh=30)</p>
<p>$499!! That"s brilliant for something this epic!!</p>
<p>If this thing takes off then Amazon will be in trouble.
$500 is not bad. Not much more than many of us paid for iPhone.</p>
<p>It is painful to remain loyal to local company (M$FT). Wonder what wisecrack we will here from Balmer on this.</p>
<p>whz up guys ???</p>
<p>hahahah seriously? $500 is freaking expensive!</p>
<p>^Yes $500 is not a small sum. Is it a fair introductory price for a new breed of product? I think so, considering that it is made by Apple. </p>
<p>People can argue all day long about Mac vs. PC and I don’t want to start another one of those threads. I happen to like Mac and other products made by apple. They are generally easier to use and made to last longer. Their warranty is very good and I am generally pleased with how they treat their customers. </p>
<p>You can always buy $200 Windows netbook from Costco or Walmart and that may be good enough for a lot of people but not me.</p>
<p>costco is the bomb. sorry didnt read the last pages, what is 500 dollars?</p>
<p>@fp Apple introduced a new product called [url=<a href=“http://www.apple.com/]iPad[/url”>http://www.apple.com/]iPad[/url</a>]. Starting price for this is $499.99.</p>
<p>Does anyone wanna lend me $500? :p</p>