“Apple’s latest iPad is a largely evolutionary device with an amazing, revolutionary new screen that puts it leagues above the competition,” Paul Thurrott writes for Supersite for Windows. “Already the best of the tablets, the new iPad extends Apple’s lead and puts Android and Windows 8 on notice: The bar has been raised yet again.”
“It is beautiful to look at, a joy to use, blessed with the best screen on any mobile (or desktop) device, and backed by the strongest ecosystem of software and content on earth. The iPad line has risen from its paltry beginnings as a giant iPod touch to become the backbone of a new computing revolution,” Thurrott writes. “For many people, this is all the computing power and capability that will ever be needed.”
Thurrott writes, “The new iPad raises the bar yet again, extending Apple’s lead in this important new market that promises to redefine how we think of “personal computers.” I think it’s time for some name changes, frankly. The iPad, today, is the only truly personal “personal computer”, if you will… Yes, I wish it was cheaper, and I won’t stop beating that drum, sorry. And yes, I wish Apple would unshackle some of the closed box features that make this device less accessible and extensible. But the company is going to sell these things by the truckload. And they deserve it. The new iPad is just new enough, and just revolutionary enough, to keep the party rolling. This is the best tablet on the market by far. Heck, it’s the only tablet currently worth considering.”
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Giant iPod touch is exactly right, and at the same time tragically wrong.
A doll house is just a very small miniature house, but that doesn’t mean it can be used the same way as the full size version.
The new iPad is still just a big iPod touch, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
And the iPod Touch is just a mini-iPad… All depends on your sense of scale.
“iPad nano”
I use a micro iPad- the iPhone 4. The only difference is cellular tech. The Retina screen is excellent though.
So many superlatives from a notoriously misguided pro-Microsoft commentator toady. HELL HATH FROZEN OVER!!
Paul Thurrott is not a “misguided pro-Microsoft” anything. He is guided by what he believes will make him the most money. So, now he thinks that Apple is ahead. At one time he thought that Microsoft was ahead. There is no ethics involved. There are no technical considerations involved. Only thoughts of money for Paul Thurrott are involved.
““It is beautiful to look at, a joy to use, blessed with the best screen on any mobile (or desktop) device, and backed by the strongest ecosystem of software and content on earth. ”
Of course, we will have to wait and see what he says when the windows 8 tablets start to come out. Bread is buttered, after all. LOL
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No wonder we have snow and freezing rain in Seattle!
no, that’s a normal day.
When I hit Reply, it was still freezing rain. Now it’s sunny and warm.
Yep, normal day.
To Monkey Boy & Eric T. Mole. Hear that ?
Apple have Just Sent u and ur Cronies back to the Drawing Board.
(The Chicken’s are Finally coming home to Roost) Yeaaaaaaa
Still an idiot for calling a giant iPod. Other than that, it is the best on the planet and the only one worth buying. 🙂
Even the idiots are going CYA.
I am amazed to see a glowing review from a usually apple hating writer. Perhaps Paul is more interested in undercutting android, in preparation for Windows tablets down the road. Otherwise, this is unfathomable.
A few years ago, MS-lover Dvorak declared something like, “As everyone knows, OS X is the best operating system.”
I think what it was for him, and now for Thurrott, is that things have swung so far, they EVENTUALLY realize they just look stupid, coming out with the same incessant less-believable-by-the-day drivel.
Nah Paul is just another windows user who woke up to the garbage coming out of Redmond thanks to apple and their great products.
We should celebrate his review cause even MS’s strongest allies are seeing the light!
Scroll up and see what Abraham said about Thurrott. Same applies to Dvorak. They’re both nothing but hit-whores.
Wait until you try the dictation feature…. My sister even after seeing the new screen , how fast it was etc was still saying no, I don’t need one…. Showed her dictation a few minutes ago… She left to go get her new iPad immediately!!!!
Thurrott may be a blind nut, but he’s found refuge where the left nut now lives.
From his previous article.
When the iPad was first announced in early 2010, I derided it as a giant iPod touch, a statement that’s absolutely true but, in hindsight, misses the point completely .
If this had been the first iPad that Apple had just released these “technology writers” would still have been asking where is the REMOVABLE BATTERY, where is the SD card slot, where is the HDMI ports and USB ports, where is the slid away KEYBOARD, where is the bicycle like pop out STAND, where is the….well you get the idea. The only reason they praise the iPad NOW is because……….well I am not quite sure if they have at last seen the error of their ways or are they just saying this to “set up” future reviews of their future W8 tablets. E.g. ” I said several months ago that the iPad was the best tablet in the world, but hold the presses, this w8 beats it……blah blah blah”.
Am I just a little suspicious? Or CAN a leopard change its spots?
yes, where IS the USB port ? Still a huge shortcoming. Many times have I wanted to get files on friends USB’s but could not. Pain in the F-ing ass my iPad can’t get files from a USB key.
I think the fud masters are. Indeed setting up the debut of windows 8. There is no accounting for what is going on. They are indeed Apple haters and its impossible to explain their current views.
Paul Thurrot?! Who gives a shit what Paul Thurrot thinks? He’s been beating the same drum for years as a self-appointed expert – now suddenly he’s credible because he posts one decent review?
Shame on MDN.
AMEN
There has been so little good to write about in the Windows world for someone like Thurrot that I’m sure his paychecks have been getting extremely small lately. It’s no fricken wonder why he can’t afford $499.00 for an iPad There is absolutely no way Android or Windows can build a comparable computer even if they cloned it for anywhere near $499. There is so much technology in this thing that the competition needs to seriously just give up.
> Yes, I wish it was cheaper, and I won’t stop beating that drum, sorry.
Sorry, Paul… “The new iPad” doesn’t need to be (nor can it be) any cheaper, if Apple wants to maintain its lead and lead the way into the future of “personal computing.” Apple is the ONLY tech company that can (afford to) do what it does, precisely because its products warrant a healthy profit margin. After all, it was the profit from iPhone that helped pay for iPad’s development. What will the profit from iPad pay for…?
Also, we need to remember the original purpose of iPad. iPad was released as Apple’s answer to “netbooks,” NOT as a “giant iPod touch.” The industry “experts” said Apple needed to release a $500 MacBook, or it would miss out on the popularity of netbooks (AKA cheap-ass laptop). Instead, Apple released the $500 iPad, and created a new category of mobile computing device. Who’s talking about netbooks now?
So NO, “The new iPad” does NOT need to be cheaper. If you want cheaper, buy last year’s (still better than any non-iPad) iPad 2 for $100 less.
Gee Paul, what will you be saying when and if MS finally gets a real tablet OS out? You are really just trying to put buyers off Android junk until some one builds a Windows 8 tablet like device thingy.
MDN posters sure like to complain. Even when a PC lover praises an Apple product you complain.
Anyone have anything positive to say on this site?
Feel free to complain about my post now.
Have a nice weekend.
We know a Trojan Horse when we see one. That’s why we are all negative on this SOB.
We know him too well to believe he has suddenly found his brain.
i positively think that Paul is setting up the iPad for the big fall when his beloved Windows 8 tablets hit the consumer space in 6 to 9 months. With a straight face he will praise these first generation Win 8 tablets until they go on sale for half price or less.
It’s a sign of the apocalypse, everybody run for your lives!
“This is the best tablet on the market by far. Heck, it’s the only tablet currently worth considering.”
What’s so hilarious about this statement is that… in Paul’s hollow mind, this is actually considered a strong statement, and a bold finish.
Wake up you monkey. ‘Personal Computers’? It’s 2012 you twat. No one, ever, thought that black Dell boxes were personal, or even remotely functional.
Congratulations Paul. Everytime you sell out your PC-loyalist fans, your brand as a … what… PC shill? Enthusiast of all things second rate?… diminishes even further.
Oh yeah, I know, I know.. you have to buy Apple products, because as a Windows guy you have to ‘check out the competition’…
Hate-monger. Tool. Hypocrite. Shill. Buffoon. Luddite.
Congratulations Paul on a life filled with blue screens an DOS command prompts.
Thurrott is an idiot, but his evaluation of the new iPad is spot on.
Paul still has some details wrong. It can take a USB keyboard and download from a SD card with an adapter. Extra storage is with your computer or iCloud. A laptop can’t do augmented reality; and trying to show people photos on a laptop, especially a $400.00 one, is a joke compared to a iPad. I am tried of the can’t take pictures, or video, with the iPad BS; we do it all the time. Yea the camera’s not the best, but it is better than cheep phones and a hell of a lot easer to use. The large screen does help on very brite days, and with people with bad eyesight. Do wish it had a flash though.
The iPad is not the best for writers and they won’t look beyond their field. It is very practal in a lot of jobs; some that you can’t do with a laptop at all. They will never see it as more then a toy, and unfortantly a lot of people will believe them.
Thurrot: Senile and still able to notice that OtherPads are little more than paving stones.