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[james sofka]

Hi, all.
For your information.
JimSofka.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
To: "Access L" <access-l at access-l.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:48 AM
Subject: [Access-l] Fwd: IPad amazing


> 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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