This post is 4th in the
MacTalk in New York series, where Pete and I blog about going to New York to obtain iPads on the 3rd of April. If you haven't been keeping up,
check out the other posts in the series.
Hello from New York City! Pete and I have been here since Friday night and haven't done much blogging, because well, I don't want to turn MacTalk into a travel blog, with tourists marvelling at the touristy things they did that day. Besides, that's what Twitter is for! (
my Twitter account -
Pete's Twitter account)
As you probably already know, we're here for iPads and they go on sale at 9PM on the 3rd of April (Saturday). We don't know how early we need to line up or anything, but we'll be keeping an eye on the 5th Avenue Store and monitor any sort of line situation. As fanatic as we are, we don't really want to be out in a line if we don't have to, when there's a big ol' city to explore. A quick chat to the staff at the 5th Avenue and Upper West Side (which is a much nicer store than 5th Avenue, I reckon) store, they said that stock is pretty lean and that if you haven't reserved any iPads (Pete and I have reserved a fair bit), that you won't get one. Best Buy is also supposed to be selling them on launch day, but the two Best Buy stores I've visited had no idea what they were doing regarding the iPad.
There were rumours of the iPad being delayed until the 12th (thanks to the 20 or so people who emailed me about that, hah), which would have put a dent in our plans. It seems people were confused and that if you haven't pre-ordered an iPad and don't get one on launch day, more stock won't be arriving until the 12th of April. We're still pretty confident that we'll bring home a decent haul of iPads on the 6th of April.
Just another note, if you want me to bring you back and iPad - sorry, you're too late. If you want me to buy you iTunes credit - sorry, you're too late.
Other than that, there's not a lot to talk about the iPad journey so far really - unless you want to hear me go on about how cool New York is… (P.S: it's awesome!) So I decided to write a post on the gear we've taken with us, or purchased here, to blog and keep up to date with everything. Please note criminals of New York and Washington DC, could you be so kind as to not mug me?
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In these media-rich days where we’re all storing our music, photos, movies, TV shows and more on our computer there just never seems to be enough hard drive space. Once, having a hard drive at all was an expensive luxury but now it’s a necessity and, often, today’s standard options just aren’t enough. Sooner or later, you reach a point where you don’t want to have to delete some stuff off your computer just to fit the latest album by your favourite band into iTunes.
One of my most favourite iPhone apps, Instapaper, is coming to the iPad. It's developer (and emerging Gruber-san like figure), Marco Arment, has shown off an iPad version and given commentary as to why things are the way they are in his iPad app.
