My iPad workstation, your iPad workstation

I like that set up...

Hi there! Let's win this :)

I am working on putting one together too. I just got the BookArc stand too. I have the Apple case but I took out the silicone padding and it fits in nicely. I was just going to use an extra Apple Bluetooth keyboard but I like the keyboard you are using much better. Does the navigation pad work or do you still have to touch the screen? I was thinking about using the Macally Macally TUNEFAN 2.1 Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer and Cooling Fan instead of the BookArc though for a minimalist look.

Apart from the fact, that there were concepts from Apple of a highly mobile netbook style core that could slide out of an iMacish base station: This is the one setup where you have got full wireless comms aboard. no USB dongles, no tethering hassles.

So: I'd prefer Apple to come up with an MacBook Air 3G that can be slipped into a 27" monitor base station with dedicated graphics hardware, one or two spare hd's and a DVD-drive.

Make the keyboard of the Air detachable and I am willing to trade off that it will most likely not feature an i7 (could that one idle in the base station?)

Apple...
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Honestly...10" Desktop Workspace.....any more questions?

Nice 14' CGA can't wait for EGA, I've heard hercules is great, not color but excellent resolution.

What I find surprising is that many people are still trying to wrap their minds around the unique form factor and user interface of the iPad. With setups like this we are trying to make it into something it is not (laptop or netbook).

What would truly be interesting to see would be some thoughts on how the UI and form factor allow us to get different kinds of work done better. I am talking about things beside typing. We are so stuck in a keyboard mouse paradigm that we cannot realize that we are one step closer to a Minority Report user interface. The informational density of visual communication is powerful. Hopefully in the next few months we will see iPad specific software that emphasizes this. Roambi (for example) is a step in the right direction.

Speed and convenience are also issues. There are things I primarily do on my iPhone simply because it is better/faster than my laptop. Checking the weather, my stock portfolio, twitter stream, and getting directions are all easier to do from my iPhone.

I don't fault the author for coming up with a "workstation." It's your device use it however you want. I simply feel that he is missing out on some of the devices power by simply making it a desktop computer.

Well, as for me, I enjoyed seeing this setup very much. I think it's more about potential and ideas for the future than necessarily building the most functional workstation in existence. Believe it or not, I've wished that laptops would move in the direction of separating the screen from the keyboard for... decades. At least one decade. ;) For ergonomic reasons. Using a notebook, hunching over to type and see the screen down low on the desk, is pretty terrible for my neck and back. The iMac does okay with this, but it's still not as portable as I'd like, and I'm not sure how easy it is to adjust height and angle with it. But if the iPad screen were bigger (and probably mouse-capable, which might be a problem) and someone developed one of those tall articulating arm stands for it, like the Pixar lamp -- I'd be very interested in trying that out.

OMG, look at all those buttons and cables…Jobs will send you a takedown notice if he sees this. ;-)

Actually…these kind of "my setup", and "My 1st, 2nd, 3d week with iPad" and "sharing an iPad with your wife" stuff starts getting boring after a while.

I am just wondering how you got the keyboard to work. I tried and it seems to only work when it wants to. It will connect but then lose connection. This has happened so much i have not found using the keyboard to be an optimal solution.