Apple Tablet Unboxing
Welcome to the future, folks! I got my first taste of the future in 2000, when I bought a secondhand Newton MessagePad 110 (introduced in 1995), after the Newton product line was discontinued. As I used it to take notes at university, jot down apronyms while on-the-go, read eBooks on a long bus trip, I had a feeling that this would be the way of the future. In 2002 I upgraded to a MessagePad 130 (introduced in 1997.) That's the 130 that you can see being put into the iPad box at the end of the video. In 2003, I got a Newton eMate (introduced in 1997) and enrolled in a postgraduate mathematics course. My classmates were amazed at this fancy 'new' gadget, as I wrote mathematics with the stylus and typed explanations with the keyboard. I never had a MessagePad 2000, though my brother-in-law had one on loan from a colleague. It was faster than my Mac at the time, and could even run a webserver. Now Apple is making handheld and tablet computers again, and I'm going back to the future. The difference is, when I use an Apple handheld now, everybody knows what it is. They're not futuristic any more, because this is the future. My iPhone replaces my MessagePad, and this time I have enough memory to put multiple dictionaries on it, while the memory cards I had for my MessagePad 130 didn't quite have enough room for one. That was one thing I really wanted on my MessagePad. When I went to visit my family in New Zealand in May 2010, I found a Newton MessagePad 2000 box at my mother's place. I have no idea how it got there; perhaps it had once belonged to the colleague of my brother-in-law. But my mother claimed it was mine, and I was happy to have such a great empty box to fill my too-large suitcase. It gave me an idea, and an excuse to buy an iPad. I kid myself that the iPad is to replace my eMate, since I think it really fits in the same niche, but in reality I bought it to make this video. RIP Newton OS Long Live iOS The music is the end of 'The Future Soon' by Jonathan Coulton, and you can get the full song from http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/The%20Future%20Soon I have several out-of-date websites which you can find if you look for them, but also this blog, which is updated whenever I create something interesting: http://angelabrett.wordpress.com/ The blog post about this video is at http://wp.me/pcDRQ-cq You can also read a very old page about all about my Newtons at http://apronyms.com/angela/mac/iZac.html For the record, I made the video with my Canon PowerShot G9 and iMovie '09. Also, I know that my use of three different fonts in the credits will probably irritate real graphic designers, but I'm not a real graphic designer and I wanted to use the fonts used by the two operating systems. Sosumi.
Welcome to the future, folks! I got my first taste of the future in 2000, when I bought a secondhand Newton MessagePad 110 (introduced in 1995), after the Newton product line was discontinued. As I used it to take notes at university, jot down apronyms while on-the-go, read eBooks on a long bus trip, I had a feeling that this would be the way of the future. In 2002 I upgraded to a MessagePad 130 (introduced in 1997.) That's the 130 that you can see being put into the iPad box at the end of the video. In 2003, I got a Newton eMate (introduced in 1997) and enrolled in a postgraduate mathematics course. My classmates were amazed at this fancy 'new' gadget, as I wrote mathematics with the stylus and typed explanations with the keyboard. I never had a MessagePad 2000, though my brother-in-law had one on loan from a colleague. It was faster than my Mac at the time, and could even run a webserver. Now Apple is making handheld and tablet computers again, and I'm going back to the future. The difference is, when I use an Apple handheld now, everybody knows what it is. They're not futuristic any more, because this is the future. My iPhone replaces my MessagePad, and this time I have enough memory to put multiple dictionaries on it, while the memory cards I had for my MessagePad 130 didn't quite have enough room for one. That was one thing I really wanted on my MessagePad. When I went to visit my family in New Zealand in May 2010, I found a Newton MessagePad 2000 box at my mother's place. I have no idea how it got there; perhaps it had once belonged to the colleague of my brother-in-law. But my mother claimed it was mine, and I was happy to have such a great empty box to fill my too-large suitcase. It gave me an idea, and an excuse to buy an iPad. I kid myself that the iPad is to replace my eMate, since I think it really fits in the same niche, but in reality I bought it to make this video. RIP Newton OS Long Live iOS The music is the end of 'The Future Soon' by Jonathan Coulton, and you can get the full song from http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/The%20Future%20Soon I have several out-of-date websites which you can find if you look for them, but also this blog, which is updated whenever I create something interesting: http://angelabrett.wordpress.com/ The blog post about this video is at http://wp.me/pcDRQ-cq You can also read a very old page about all about my Newtons at http://apronyms.com/angela/mac/iZac.html For the record, I made the video with my Canon PowerShot G9 and iMovie '09. Also, I know that my use of three different fonts in the credits will probably irritate real graphic designers, but I'm not a real graphic designer and I wanted to use the fonts used by the two operating systems. Sosumi.