Thread: iPAD vs Tablet PC: Forget the iPAD

Originally Posted by slackula

Jet Moron tries to bring something new from time to time (she can't because she is a fucking idiot, but still) you are a one trick pony right now. Up your game mon brave.

He pretends to be French -- so aside from ad nauseam repetition, I think the only other thing in his arsenal is:



... and he's thrown that into the ring a lot time ago...

Originally Posted by slackula

Jet Moron tries to bring something new from time to time (she can't because she is a fucking idiot, but still) you are a one trick pony right now. Up your game mon brave.

can you stop spoiling the fun just because you are not getting enough attention ? I am quite puzzled as why you are so offended about Mac gayness, I think it's the best argument ever for owning a mac, and yes I am fucking serious

A Toshiba Android Netbook...

The AC100 is a "smartbook", a netbook built with hardware and software more usually found in smartphones. Forget Windows on Intel x86: it runs Android 2.1 on an Nvidia Tegra 250 processor with a 1GHz Arm core, and weighs around 870 grams. It has a 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen, 512MB of RAM, two USB ports, an HDMI video output, an SD Card reader and an SSD up to 32GB in capacity.
Some models will have a built-in wireless modem to connect to 3G (third generation) mobile networks, and there's also 802.11n Wi-Fi.
Toshiba has enhanced the Android software so that the AC100 displays different pages of widgets and applications depending on the Wi-Fi network it connects to. Users can customize up to five pages for business applications, home entertainment, or airport information, for example. Because the AC100 isn't a phone, those applications can't come from the Android Market, but Toshiba is looking at other ways to offer app downloads, Teckentrup said.
He wouldn't commit to a price for the AC100, but hinted it would be toward the lower end of the range for existing netbooks.

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by Butterfly

interesting, apparently according to some study, macs users have a bigger proportion of homosexuals than other platform but Linux users are apparently the most social dysfunctional

I'm calling fake. If it isn't fake it is a horrible piece of journalism, the things inferred are utterly tenuous, and I find it hard to belive that MIT would link homosexuality to mental health problems.

Also BF, the whole 'gay' schtick is getting really fucking old, it makes you sound like you are 14 years old or something. Try to get it into your tête that it simply isn't an insult to anybody except all those insecure twats who think they will catch teh ghey if they get called it.

LOL catch teh ghey.

Overall I can believe that more gay people have Macs because from all my gay friends they're generally better educated and more style conscious than the unwashed masses. They also have more money. It's a bit of a positive discrimination but there are things that gay people are better at than us heteros. And more money - well if you have kids then you know why they have more money. Let's say disposable income.

As for the OP... I have an iPad. It's totally different from any netbook I have ever seen. Same price and form factor, it makes way more sense to me than a netbook ever has too. I don't think those two should be compared. Netbooks will go in the dustbins of history, that's all. Those who like what netbooks can do will go for iPads or cloney Android tablets once the various PC manufacturers are done cloning.

Originally Posted by Rascal

Heard about the HP ISlate and it looks very good, but rumors say it is dead in the water. At least for now!

The iSlate and similar devices were scheduled for release a few months after the iPad. They saw the iPad and went back to the drawing board.

HP is in an interesting position with its WebOS - it doesn't even need Android. I am sure they'll come up with something. But the iPad is hard to beat... there's so many things that Apple built upon with this device - iPhone, iTunes, OS X, App Store... so many things work together to make it great, it will be hard to copy.

The Toshiba Libretto is where is at.

7" screen, costs over a grand and has poor battery life.

Naaah you're better off with a netbook.

I like, is nice. Make sex explosion.



The tablet features a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and both Intel GMA 3150 graphics and NVIDIA ION graphics for handling HD video and 3D graphics acceleration, among other tasks.
The Pioneer DreamBook ePad L11 has 2GB of memory and is available with a 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB solid state disk. The 11.6 inch capacitive touchscreen display has a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution and support multitouch input. It also features 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and optional 3G and GPS modules.
You also get 2 USB ports, an SDHC card slot, SIM card slot, and mini-HDMI port. The tablet has a 2 cell, 4800mAh battery, which Pioneer says should be good for up to 6 hours of run time. It measures 11.6″ x 7.7″ x 0.6″ and weighs about 2.1 pounds.
The tablet ships with Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate. Pricing starts at $699 Australian, which is about $589 US.

And the ExoPC which should be out in September at around $600:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/30/e...late-hands-on/

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You also get 2 USB ports, an SDHC card slot, SIM card slot, and mini-HDMI port.

What for? Apple have told us that we don't need ports any more.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You also get 2 USB ports, an SDHC card slot, SIM card slot, and mini-HDMI port.

What for? Apple have told us that we don't need ports any more.

And you believed them?

even with USB, you will still have to go through a lot of non-sense to connect anywhere, in particular with iTunes

Ah, quite funny - spec whores comparing penile sizes... you go, guys.

Originally Posted by nikster

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

7" screen, costs over a grand and has poor battery life.

Naaah you're better off with a netbook.

What on earth are you talking about?

I paid $500 for my 9.7" iPad. The battery lasts 10 hours.

[at]Mr Fred - the iPad has a USB camera connection kit. Besides reading SD cards and connecting to cameras via USB directly, it can also do a bunch of other tricks. The camera connection kit is actually a USB port.

Of course you did, Nikster, which is fine if you don't want to do all the things you want to do on a $300 Netbook. You stick with your style, I prefer substance.

^ What are all those things you would be doing on a $300 netbook? Please enlighten us?

Sure, you can do skype videochats; and you can play Flash (woohoo, play those adverts!); What else can you do on them?

It bears pointing out that throughout all of these arguments, harrybarracuda has never so much as held an iPad in his hands, while those of us arguing the iPad not only own them, but are getting stuff done with them.

^

Your suggestion that all Flash content on the internet is just for advertisements is absolutely ridiculous.

^ yeah, what about porn !!!

no flash, no porn on the iPAD, so what is it good for ?

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

^ What are all those things you would be doing on a $300 netbook? Please enlighten us?

Sure, you can do skype videochats; and you can play Flash (woohoo, play those adverts!); What else can you do on them?

It bears pointing out that throughout all of these arguments, harrybarracuda has never so much as held an iPad in his hands, while those of us arguing the iPad not only own them, but are getting stuff done with them.

Sync my Symbian/Android/WM phones?

Aren't we going round in circles here? Do we have to AGAIN go through the list of things the iPad CAN'T do, just because you're ham fisted enough to keep asking the same question?

Change the record, Daffy, you're starting to sound like you're reading off Steve Jobs fanboi retort list.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ yeah, what about porn !!!

no flash, no porn on the iPAD, so what is it good for ?

Wow, if you feel porn still uses Flash, you really are behind the times.

Originally Posted by Dug

I just had a quick look at Mr Freds review and if it's true that is doesn't have USB connectivity that would kill it for me.
My video and still camera would require a USB for me to lphotos to send by email.
Does it have a built in camera? if not how is one expected to load Photographs onto it except from a phone camera by blue tooth. And only an Iphone at that as I believe inter connectivity (devices other than apple) is an issue.
It's a couple of years since I bought my camera so maybe cameras now come equipped with bluetooth.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

You can buy an expensive add-on to plug in a USB device, but it sort of needs to be recognised to be of any use. Those expensive Apple ones will, of course, much like their $30 plastic "bumper" fixes the iPhone 4 problem.

Bluetooth for pictures? Not really practical if they're high res and it's not Bluetooth 3.0.

No, the iPad's not for you.

That ASUS I linked to earlier in the thread might be more up your street, but no indication of price yet.