Well last week was a very exciting week, so much so apple released the new iPad in the UK. Like many people I was one of the fortunate ones who managed to get their hands on one exactly on the hour of release, and wow this thing is awesome! I managed to be lucky enough to grab a White 16gb 3G version which isn’t the top spec, but its not the bottom either. Im very much impressed with its overall build, and in Apple style its in no way shabby!
I had access to a iPad 1 at work but this newer version is actually quite a bit quicker! The A5 Dual Core really does shine and it improves the iPad and really compliments its usage. So new CPU, GPU, Ram and the new iPhone4 Gyro technology has made the iPad 2 very apealing over the first gen iPad.
What I will say though is, I wasnt a fan of the first iPad, and reason for this is because I didnt see the need for one, but actually using one for quite sometime at work, it slowly appealed to me more and more, and now actually owning one I can see why its got so much hype. Before I would sit down watching TV, or in cafe and just use the iPhone4 to check my mail, but that can always turn out to be a pain especially with the large amount of design work that I actually do. The bigger screen is a massive upside to this and having a device that allows me to tweet, blog, email and read news on without worrying about it being as bulky as my laptop is well, just plain awesome!
The next step!
I don’t think too many people have thought about this but the fact that this little tablet (iPad) is really powerfull is more than besides the point, but the bit I can’t wait for is to Jailbrake the thing and use it to its full potential! Its basically limitless! If you can get things to compile correctly, you can basically install what ever you like (Linux wise). I cn only see it as a matter of time till homebrew linux installs for iPads are available, and with the idea’s I have the future looks really positive for such a small device!
So you’ll probably see another blog post spur off this one when I jailbrake my iPad.
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