I am thinking about buying a Mac ipad, but because I have never yet actually seen one, I would like to know a little bit more about it before I travel to the nearest city in which it is sold.
If anyone has one, could you tell me about it?
From what I know, it seems that it is a lot like a computer. It has a hard drive, it can be used to browse the internet, it has a lot of applications on it. However, I expect it doesn't have any CD or DVD drive. But on the other hand, it has lots of ports like USB and LAN so you can use a wire connection to the internet or connect it to an external drive or whatever.
Also, I saw on TV that you can use it by touching the screen, thereby eliminating the need for a mouse. Also, you can divide the screen in half, using half the screen as a keyboard and typing on it, and seeing what you type on the other half. I wonder if the user would not feel cramped because the typing area would have to be small.
I just want to use it to get some work done, you know, typing documents and saving files on flash memory.
Also, because I write
java programs, I wonder if there is a java compiler, as there is with other Mac computers.
Are there other programming tools included, like Cocoa or something?
Thanks for your time.