Apple iPad in Disco

That is very cool, I wish I had a setup like that.

time to get it to interface with the ECU

You should mount it where the cluster goes and wire two speedo's to bounce around in the cab with you.

I got to admit, as unnecessary as I think apple is getting with their products, that's a pretty cool idea.

is that topo Google map or did you jailbrake it and loaded a Topo program?

I'm waitng for an Android based tablet. Not knocking Apple. I have been very impressed with what my Droid phone can do and it's only getting better with the apps. Even has Google Earth on it. I was going to mount my netbook in the Disco then I got this phone and said why bother. I can about run my busniess with my cell phone when I"m out of town. I even put an app on yesterday where I can access my PC at the office from the phone and do stuff on it.

I think these little jewels will soon obsolete things like laptops, GPS, PC's. With cloud computing that makes it all the better. I already keep a lot of things I use for my business online at Google.docs don't even need much of a hard drive with that going.

jhmover said:

I'm waitng for an Android based tablet. Not knocking Apple. I have been very impressed with what my Droid phone can do and it's only getting better with the apps. Even has Google Earth on it. I was going to mount my netbook in the Disco then I got this phone and said why bother. I can about run my busniess with my cell phone when I"m out of town. I even put an app on yesterday where I can access my PC at the office from the phone and do stuff on it.

I think these little jewels will soon obsolete things like laptops, GPS, PC's. With cloud computing that makes it all the better. I already keep a lot of things I use for my business online at Google.docs don't even need much of a hard drive with that going.

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im with you, thee's a world outside of apple lol

You will wreck.

that is nuts. nice job on all the bracket work

Nice job, actually.
I can't help but comparing it to and referencing Netjaws.

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Nice job, actually.
I can't help but comparing it to and referencing Netjaws.

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yeah... but his was well executed. Netjaws was just plain stupid
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Why do you have a gps if you have a computer in your truck?

This is the only scenario I can think of in which the iPad works better than an iPhone or Computer. Very nice machining work on the bracket.

I saw one of those things in Best Buy. All I could get it to do for a while is flip the screen when I rotated it. Then, I stood back and waited for someone else to come along and operate it. When they were done, it was left on a map screen. It worked pretty well for moving the map around, but again, I just couldn't manage to use it all that well.

I've got a Toughbook anyway. It has a touch screen that works most of the time for me.

For some reason, these new glass type touch screens don't respond to me very reliably. Every now and again, the work, but for the most part, I can drag and poke it all I want, and it just doesn't work properly. Then, someone else comes up and it works like a charm.

The iPad was better, but as inventive as it was, I'd rather have my computer to run actual programs.

It's neat to mount it in a car, though. That thought crossed my mind for about a second and a half. Then, I realized I have that Toughbook, and that Apple bugs the hell out of me, and that I'd drop that iPad all the time, because it was made for people with nancy hands, narrow shoulders, and man-purses. It's just too round and slippery, and too damn thin for me. It needs a rubber back with a thick rib around the edges, or something.

Hell, I can't even keep hold of my cell phone half the time. The smallest I was ever willing to go was a Startac. I'd like to have my old Startac back.

Good show on the installation though. It's not where I would have put it, but it's a damn nice job of putting it there.

All in all, I'm just too much of a cro-mag to use it, and glass touch screens don't like my un-evolved DNA. They may get better, though. I'm not a huge fan of this "app" idea, either. I just want to pay my 50 bucks and get a full-on program.

Cheers,

Kennith

Pretty freakin' badass!!!



.....but how do you control your radio....?

and you just use the built in volume buttons?

I'm assuming you must have the 3G version.