Apple has always sold the idea of \u200b\u200bIPAD as an ideal way to consume media in all its shapes and sizes. Books, games, films, magazines - come and see, folks, here they we have everything in one device magic! For the truly revolutionary iPad words of Steve Jobs, will have to do much more to be better than an electronic book reader. The real promise is that you have an opportunity to redefine what we have in mind as a personal computer. And that has implications not only for himself but Apple's Macintosh business for Microsoft, Google and virtually any other.
For business users and others who are in search of a new productivity tool, the iPad of 680 grams offers a marriage of the always-on ultra portability a mobile phone with the power and flexibility of a laptop and even a desktop PC.
Surely no one at Apple, least of all Jobs, is eager to see the death of its line of laptops and desktops with prices starting at $ 999. But there is great potential for business customers seem ready to switch platforms. More than half of those surveyed by Zogby International, a market research firm, said they could use an electronic tablet as the iPad to work outside the office.
At a price of $ 499 for the base model with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the iPad is in the same range as netbooks, laptops fewer features miniature running the Microsoft Windows operating system. True, the iPad has much less storage capacity-from 16 GB to 64 GB solid state memory depending on the model, versus the 160 GB hard drive found on your typical netbook. What he lacks in storage iPad it tries to compensate with connectivity, which for mobile business users, suggests the need for a 3G service. That adds $ 130 to the cost of the unit, plus $ 15 or $ 30 a month for data plans.
While the iPad runs most of the 150,000 applications already available for iPhone and iPod Touch, its greatest long-term potential is visible in three classes of applications that Apple being released in conjunction with the device. These are rewritten versions of the software Mac office suite iWork: Pages, a word processor, Numbers, a spreadsheet, and presentation software Keynote. The Mac version of iWork is sold for $ 79, or $ 49 with a new machine you will be able to acquire each application separately on the iPad for $ 9.99.
The eventual impact device as having the workhorse of business may lie in it if it an "add on" rather than a proposition "instead of"-the device that you take to check email or browse the Web, while reserving the netbook, or MacBook for that matter, for most demanding applications . Perhaps the iPad really prove to be a great way to read The Girl with the dragon tattoo, see Fear Zone and play games like Need for Speed. There is a good chance that it will prove to be much, much more.
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