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It was Easter Today, apparently. Nothing in my day was connected to this however, as having left school my annual Easter experience of trudging down to the church to hear Rev. Watt instructing us to be Christian and singing dull hymns has sadly passed.

/sarcasm

Work went fine today; I was only doing 12-5 so it passed quickly and it was fairly busy. I've forefitted my day off tomorrow so Jonathan can visit relatives which works for me as being a bank holiday it should be really busy and I'll be paid time and a half. Win win.

I spent the evening fixing iTunes; it took me a system restore and a couple of hours to reinstate my library. I hate how iTunes takes pretty in-depth computer know-how to fix when it has a tantrum; I have no idea how a basic user manages to keep an iPod running, because I have had countless problems with iTunes that have lead to me spending a couple of hours fixing.

On the subject of Apple, there has been more buzz over the iPad today as it was released in the USA. I personally find it both hilarious and heart-breaking that people flock over something purely because it has that little Apple logo on the back. I say this because the spec of it is horrendous; on the good side, I am guessing the touch screen will be very responsive as the iphone's screen is very good and the battery life is more than acceptable with up to 10 hours video. However, on to the downsides; it has a pitiful hard drive, with the "top of the range" model having 64GB: a figure I would expect on an entry level model; it runs on a 1GHZ processor which is fine on my XP netbook, but for a cutting edge gadget it is a let-down and I guarantee it will cause hang-ups on the multi-touch screen; it doesn't have support for 1080p high definition, as the screen is a disappointing 720: also there is no dedicated graphics card, instead relying on the inbuilt capabilities of the Apple A4 processor, meaning even video at this resolution will probably be unstable if something is happening in the background; there is no camera, meaning there can be no skype video calls, and no augmented reality; something that is becoming a great tool and would have been excellent on the 9.7" screen. They have chosen to omit a USB port on it as well, meaning no external devices can be connected to it, negating any possibilities of USB drives to transfer files; a feature which should be expected on a "tablet PC". Also the current release has wi-fi but no mobile internet such as 3G or HSDPA: this is a feature that will be available on the model coming out in a few months. This brings me on to my next point; Apple are seemingly going to do their old trick of releasing a saught-after product, then after 6 months or so, re-releasing a higher-spec version of it, meaning the die-hard fans are forced to buy it again.

Suffice to say that if we get the iPad at work I shall not be buying one, even with my staff discount.