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Originally Posted by weateallthepies

This has to be a wind up, or you just don't know what a netbook is.

It's neither; if you think typing on a miniscule keyboard of a netbook is better than the onscreen one (especially for non touch typists) or just an external full bluetooth one on the ipad there's not much I can say. I 've used an asus netbook for some time (it's gathering dust like the piece of junk it is in some unknown place in my house) and the typing experience was awful.

Originally Posted by weateallthepies

I don't know, I've played with a few html5 demos which seem to require 50% cpu usage to do very little. I'm not convinced it performs any better than flash.

You have to be the only person in the world to believe this. I guess you might know better than chrome, firefox and safari developers as well as all the open source community developers who think otherwise.

Originally Posted by Crowl

I think the main decision people need to make are how many devices they want, if you are happy to have multiple devices then it is a lot easier to find the right ones for a particular job e.g. I much prefer books on my ereader to my ipad and comics/magazines are better on the ipad than my netbook.

If I was looking to reduce the amount of devices then I would definitely look at a win 7 tablet since it would cover the ipad and netbook roles pretty well, the question marks for me are performance and battery life as I am used to 10 hours from my netbook, work laptop and my ipad now.

Yeah it would cover these uses except for it getting hot, for it being bulky, for it being heavy, for it running laptop cpus and requiring tons of ram instead of the cool, quiet arm cpus, except for the shoddy battery life, the inferior screen resolution, the inferior responsiveness, the most probably non ips screen, the viruses, trojans and malware, and the desktop paradigm that is not mean to be used by fingers. Yeah it would be a great product because one could run rubbish flash game on the net and legacy software that no one has bothered to port as one of the tens of hundreds of thousands of ipad apps, which even ms is developing for.

Sorry I really do not mean to be sarcastic, and you do make a very valid point, up until of course saying that the win 7 tablet would be that convergence device to fill most needs.

Originally Posted by CyGuy

This thread is about the ExoPC, not the many failings of the ipad. Can you guys go start another thread?

I like how you keep blindly perpetuating your ludicrous perceived failings of the ipad, which is even more laughable in that you 've opened a thread with nothing really to show so far than vaporware. If you do decide to open a thread about a product you will have to accept that people who like competing ones will pinpoint the failings of said product. That's what the forums are for. If you 'd like to write adulatory posts on some win 7 tablet, write them on a blog or something, this really isn't a place for free promo and banishing of opposing views.

And of course like others have said, you can hardly sustain interest with no actual product at hand...