科技动态:解读iPad

Netbooks aren't better than anything, they are slow, they have low quality displays and they run clunky PC software. So they are not better than a laptop at anything, they are just cheaper. They are just cheap laptops. And we don't think they are a third category device. But we think we got something that is and we'd like to show it to you today for the first time, and we call it the iPad.

上网本什么都不如。上网本速度缓慢，屏幕显示差，运行的是笨拙的PC程序。所以上网本哪都不如笔记本电脑，除了价格便宜。上网本就是廉价的笔记本电脑。我们不认为上网本是第三类电子产品。但我们今天将向你们展示第三类产品，我们称它iPad。

It's so much more intimate than a laptop and it's so much more capable than a Smartphone with this gorgeous large display. So this is the lock screen and I unlock it the icons² fly in. Let's go right to the web. So here we are at apple.com. And I am just gonna go to safari³. I just touch the book marks icon¹ and touch the New York Times let's say. And here we are, right at the New York Times. You can see how fast it is. And I can just scroll⁴ around here, and look at the whole front page of New York Times. Now if I want to reply to a message or go ahead send a message, I just hit a composed button here, and up pops its gorgeous keyboard, and let's say Scott F and F.S and.. Now there we go. It's that simple to do email on the iPad. Let's go to YouTube and I am gonna pick a clip but called "Wet and Woofy" that I know is in the High-Def on YouTube, here it is. And again, I can even go a full screen here, going to landscape, that's all from YouTube. Is that incredible? All right, so that's YouTube, but again here is related clips and more from that person, and again whether it's portrait or landscape. It just all works.

它有一些类似笔记本电脑，比智能手机的屏幕更大。这是锁键屏保，我解锁，应用软件的图标飞入。我们来试试上网功能。这是苹果公司的网站。这是苹果浏览器，举个例子，我点击书签图标，纽约时报。这就是纽约时报。你看到它有多快了。只要滑动滚轴，就能看到纽约时报首页的整个页面。现在我想回复短信或者发送短信，我只需点击主按钮，时尚的键盘就会弹出。比如我输入Scott F and F.S和……发送。用iPad发送邮件就是这么简单。让我们去优酷看看，我会看一个名为“Wet and Woofy”的视频短片，这个短片在优酷上的点击量还挺高。我甚至可以全屏，横过来，这就是看优酷的效果。这是不是令人难以置信？没错，这就是看视频的效果，这边是相关的其他视频，这边是上传者的其他视频，不管是横着竖着都可以观看。

I have to say though, watching it is nothing like getting one in your hands and feeling all of that just right in your hands, right underneath⁵ your finger tips. So let's go back to the hardware a little bit. The iPad is really thin. It's half an inch thin. And it weighs just one and half pounds. That is thinner and lighter⁶ than any netbook. And it's got a gorgeous 9.7 inch IPS display, super high quality display using IPS technology, say you get great angle view as well, very high quality display. And as you know Apple builds the best capacitive multi-touch sensors⁷ in the world, marry to our great display, it's terrific, super responsive, super precise. IPad is powered by our own custom silicon⁸. We have an incredible group that does custom silicon at Apple. We have a chip called A4 which almost the most advanced chip we've ever done. That powers the iPad, it's got the processor, the graphics⁹, the IO, the memory controller, everything in this one chip and its screens. And you can have 16, 32 or 64 Gigabytes, a flash sorts storage inside the iPad. It's got the latest wireless¹⁰ networking, Wi-Fi, 802.11n and the latest blue tooth 2.1. And the usual suspects: accelerometer, compass, speaker microphone, it's got a 30 pin collector so plugs into whole equal system of iPod accessories. And it's got battery. What is the battery life of this remarkable¹¹ device? We've been able to achieve 10 hours of battery life. It's one and half pound device. 10 hours battery betweens I can take a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo and watch video the whole way on one charge. It's pretty nice. And in addition to 10 hours battery life, it has over a month of standby life. So we can just set the iPad down and we go to sleep automatically, and we come back in a month we still have charge.

我必须说的是，看着并没有把iPad拿在手里舒服，真正地拿在掌下会有趣得多。让我们再回头看看硬件方面。iPad真的很薄，只有半英寸厚，重1.5英镑。比任何上网本都更轻薄。它采用9.7英寸的IPS显示器，应用得是IPS技术，视觉角度更好，画面质量更高。如你所知，苹果研发全世界最先进的多点触摸传感器，与先进的屏幕技术相结合，就研发出了最棒的，最珍贵的产品。iPad用得是定制的高端芯片。在苹果公司，我们有优秀的团队研发芯片。我们有A4芯片，这基本上是我们研制的最先进的芯片。这使得iPad功能更加强大，此外还装配有强大的处理器，图像处理功能，IO和存储控制器，芯片和屏幕包含了所有一切先进的技术。你可以选择16，32或64位字节，iPad中有一个flash存储库。iPad可以连接最新的无线网络，包括Wi-Fi 802 11n，和最新的蓝牙2.1。加速计，指南针，喇叭麦克风，iPad整体系统中加入了30个小应用。还有电池，这款神奇电子产品的电池怎么样呢？它有10小时的待机时间。iPad的电池重不到1.5英磅，10小时待机时间够我搭班机从旧金山到东京一路看视频。这真的很棒。另外，10小时的待机时间最长可以用一个月。也就是说我们可以关上iPad去睡觉，一个月后我们回来还可以接着使。

1 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

2 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

3 safari   

n.远征旅行(探险、考察)；探险队，狩猎队

参考例句：

• When we go on safari we like to cook on an open fire.我们远行狩猎时，喜欢露天生火做饭。
• They went on safari searching for the rare black rhinoceros.他们进行探险旅行，搜寻那稀有的黑犀牛。

4 scroll   

n.卷轴，纸卷；(石刻上的)漩涡

参考例句：

• As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
• He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。

5 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

6 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

7 sensors   

n.传感器，灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时，有很大变化。 来自辞典例句

8 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

9 graphics   

n.制图法，制图学；图形显示

参考例句：

• You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
• Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。

10 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

11 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。