Thread: Tablet Computers, which one and why?

23.9% of websites use Flash. The iCrap won't play Flash.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

I presume you can just connect your Ext. HDD to those iPad 2's?

no...

How does one transfer stuff from a Win 7 Desktop/Netbook to an iPad 2?

Music and vids, PDF and MS Office files etc?

you have to go through one of the biggest bloated POS software ever made, iTunes

it takes a QuadCore CPU and 8GB of RAM just to launch the fucking thing, and a simple 10MB transfer is 2 hours job between figuring out how it works properly and transferring the actual files

that alone is the biggest argument against the iPad, nothing else

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

23.9% of websites use Flash. The iCrap won't play Flash.

a good thing actuallly,

only crap websites use Flash,

Originally Posted by Butterfly

only crap websites use Flash,

Loads of sites use Flash for 'flashy' menus. Sites where it's all Flash annoy the fuck out of me.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Loads of sites use Flash for 'flashy' menus. Sites where it's all Flash annoy the fuck out of me.

if you are surfing the web without noscript and flashblock you are just asking for trouble

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Butterfly

only crap websites use Flash,

Loads of sites use Flash for 'flashy' menus. Sites where it's all Flash annoy the fuck out of me.

and loads of sites are crap for that reason,

if you need flash to make your web surfing experience better on a site, then maybe it's not worth visiting at all, hence the needs to attract flies on shit

Do website designers even build sites that are Flash-intensive anymore? I would think that with 60+ million iPads out there that they would have to cater to that market.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Do website designers even build sites that are Flash-intensive anymore?

Yes. The company I work for deals with some of the largest companies in the world, and many of them use Flash, especially if aimed at interactive stuff with kids.

I presume they're all gradually moving to HTML5 though, are they?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I presume they're all gradually moving to HTML5 though, are they?

You would hope so, but unless Adobe Captivate starts using HTML5 instead of Flash, then it's not going to happen for a while.

Shit, I fucking hate Adobe. Do my best to remove it everywhere I see it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Shit, I fucking hate Adobe. Do my best to remove it everywhere I see it.

I like Photoshop, but I'm too stupid to use Illustrator properly. As for the others; nae chance.

I have to admit that I do rich client stuff in flex, which runs on flash, so I am a little biased.

Flash is a pile os shit, that does nothing useful beyond burning your cpu and battery. The sooner the world is rid of this pile of shit the better.

I feel better for that,

^ What he said. But it lived longer than that wanker Steve the Ninja, despite his attempts at bumping it off.

Remember the Ainol Novo 7?

Well I finally got an email saying they are in stock, $145 plus shipping, and they take payment via usual cards or Paypal.

At that price, I've ordered one just to take a look. They have cheaper options as well.

They have loads of shipping options, DHL, EMS, FedEx, TNT, UPS, Singapore Post.

If you're interested, they are at:

Cannovo

quite nice and cheap,

how many of those devices you have now, harryb ? sounds like a good dozen,

Work, butters, work.

Only have the Samsung Tab at home, the office is a bit full though.

If I can wean these fuckers off the wanky ipad it will be a job well done.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Remember the Ainol Novo 7?

yes - I have one in the hire car here as the music player

you want the Ainol 7 advanced , not the advanced 2

I have flashed this one here with factory ICS and it has no issues ( very easy to flash )

I bought the Aurora which comes with ICS.

Apparently dead easy to root as well.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Remember the Ainol Novo 7?

Well I finally got an email saying they are in stock, $145 plus shipping, and they take payment via usual cards or Paypal.

At that price, I've ordered one just to take a look. They have cheaper options as well.

They have loads of shipping options, DHL, EMS, FedEx, TNT, UPS, Singapore Post.

If you're interested, they are at:

Cannovo

It looks excellent. I was going to buy one, but then I stopped when I wondered why on Earth I would need one. Prolly buy a PSP instead.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

If I'm gonna buy a Kindle I might as well just buy a tablet

not really

the screen on the Kindle is totally different

The Kindle B&W seems better for reading, not sure about the purpose of the Kindle Fire

Originally Posted by baldrick

you want the Ainol 7 advanced

and cheaper it seems, like 89

I might order one and ship it to France, not Thailand

Check the specs....