[gui-talk] Fwd: IPad amazing

[Steve Pattison]

From: Cheree Heppe cheree at dogsc4me.com

Cheree Heppe here:

I actually did it!!  I took the light rail to the Apple store and saw one 
of those IPads this morning.

That whole local up-scale inner city mall was jumping with people, so it 
was no problem finding directions down a flight to the Apple store.

When I got off the escalator, there was this incredible doubled line 
nearly to the escalator.  There were Apple staff outside the store 
directing traffic.

One of the guys working in the store escorted me in and arranged for me to 
see the demo model that wasn't tethered to the display tables.

It was busier in that apple store than at a Vegas casino!!

Well, I got to the display table because the demo required charging.

There is a physical volume toggle switch near the end of the long end.  No 
fiddling with screen settings for volume, just bump the toggle up for loud 
or down for soft.

The earphone jack is on one short side edge near a corner and seems out of 
the way.  The sound is good.

There is a physical switch to lock the IPad into whichever position you 
have oriented the screen, portrait or landscape.

There is a recessed connector on the opposite short side from the earphone 
jack to charge it or interface it with a computer.

The IPad feels about like a MacBook Air in thickness.  The glass is flat 
with a Home button embedded flush into the face of the glass very near the 
bottom middle of the short side.

The on/off switch is a switch on the edge of the IPad.  I can't recall 
exactly where.

The back and sides are metal and the sides are curved inward from the 
widest point where they interface with the glass to where they taper in a 
rounded way to the back side.  The back side felt flat with no features, 
but I didn't look really carefully.

Even with not being facile with Voiceover or anything, I got the IPad to 
do stuff for me.

To go on to a website

To read a book.

By then, I wanted one real bad.

The IPad is freakin' amazing.

It can interface with a Windows based or Apple based computer.

The cover that it now comes with is just the first cover before everyone 
else makes something.  It looks like the outside of a thin notebook 
without the binder rings.  It opens from the long end.  The flat tucks 
behind the IPad and the bottom edge of the cover tucks into a built-in 
slot in the back of the case to allow the IPad to sit at a comfortable 
slant for poking at.

They plan to have a dock for a keyboard, but the Apple guy suggested just 
getting a wireless keyboard and using Bluetooth to pair it.

The Apple rep explained how the items are arranged on the screen.  This is 
standard and once you get the feel for the gaps and positions, it all 
stays the same.  That's what he told me.

What a gadget!!  Accessible right out of the box.

Regards,
Cheree Heppe

Regards Steve
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