TiPb har publicerat en lång och ingående recension av iPad. Det har såklart dykt upp många på nätet under dessa dagar. Jag tyckte dock att detta var en av de bättre.

TiPb – Apple iPad Review

iPad is Apple’s attempt to define something between the smartphone and laptop, to give the masses silky-smooth software and multitouch glass all wrapped up in unibody aluminum and complete ecosystem control — to make mainstream the computing appliance starting at just $499. To do this, to justify the iPad’s existence, to make us buy a device too big for our pocket and too small for our server room, Steve Jobs said it had to do several things better than either of the categories so well established before: browsing, email, photos, video, music, games, and eBooks.

Given the companies and products that have tried and failed before it, that’s audacious even for Apple. Especially for a first generation attempt. How close did they get? Did they get close at all?

I recension går de igenom hårdvara, mjukvara samt hur bra det är på följande uppgifter: Surfning, Email, Bilder, Böcker, Musik, Video, Spel, Appar och Övrigt. Orkar du inte läsa hela långa recensionen så ser du delar av slutsatsen nedan.

The iPad is neither absolute failure nor second-coming. It is nothing more or less than Apple’s attempt to once again make the computer more personal. What began with the original Apple and Mac and became the Apple II and iMac, takes another step forward into the future with the introduction of the iPad. That the iPad can deservedly be mentioned alongside those previous paradigm shifts, that it does for multitouch computer appliances what was done before for command-lines and graphical user interfaces — and smartphones with the iPhone — is a tremendous accomplishment. But it’s the first generation of this shift, the Apple or Mac, not the Apple II or iMac, and that means it’s certainly not for everyone, not yet and perhaps not ever.