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Originally Posted by NatCh
I see them as two separate lines also, pilotbob.
I think it's really easy to fall into the logical trap of viewing every device in terms of the purpose for which I want it. I.e. if I'm looking for a reading device, I tend to evaluate everything in terms of how suited it is for that purpose. Another example is the way Gizmodo sometimes seems to think everything should be a cell phone or a laptop, and deride devices for not matching those parameters.
It seems to be difficult for folks (and I firmly include myself here) to look at a device in terms of its actual features and consider what that feature set is aimed at.
In my view, the DR line is not at all aimed at casual reading. It's too big, it's too expensive, it's battery life is (maybe?) too short for that pursuit, and it has a lot of features (note taking, web browsing?, ppt support for crying out loud!) that are just so much bragware when I sit down to read a book. Sure it can read books, but so can my desktop PC. That doesn't make it a book reader any more than a quad-core pentium with a 30" monitor is a book reader.
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The price is pretty much the same as the iLiad, and it is an (active) reading device.
Textbooks and anything else annotable is what I use my iLiad for, but when I bought it 6 months ago there was a fairly clear expectation of "future updates" on my behalf.
If I would've had the choice then between waiting 6 months and getting a device that was bigger (and had a chance of being updated) or not waiting and buying something that was pretty much EOL even then, both for exactly the same price..
Well, i'm sure you can guess where i'm going (I don't care about WiFi, only about the Wacom)
It feels rather like being duped, only there is no other company selling comparable products to turn to if you want to be pissed off about it, which is somewhat frustrating..
Sure, one can argue that it's meant for "business" only, but why would iRex want to artificially limit your market.. Academia is a fairly rich market too, considering their spending habits on other things.