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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
I would wait 6 months. There is bound to be a new ereader for the same price with more capability in 6 months.
And I wouldn't buy an ereader in 6 months from now either, there is bound to be a new ereader for the same price with more capability in 6 months after that.
And I wouldn't buy an ereader a year from now, there is bound to be a new ereader for the same price with more capability in 6 months after that.
And I wouldn't buy an ereader 18 months from now, there is bound to be a new ereader for the same price with more capability in 6 months after that.
etc.
Really, if you wait long enough the absolutely perfect ereader will come, that will not be improved upon ever!
Oh, and I bet in 6 months there will be a much better Eee PC. You should have waited.
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Actually in terms of netbooks that's not true. I bought my netbook about 10 months ago and the technology really hasn't advanced much at all since then. In fact, netbooks are stagnating in my opinion. The difference between my my Asus Eee 1000H and the whatever the heck latest Eee PC or Acer Aspire One is practically negligible. However the difference between the Asus Eee PC 4G Surf and the Eee 1000 is Grand Canyonesque (7" vs 10" screen, 4GB vs 80GB HD, tiny keyboard vs decent sized keyboard, Celeron 700Mhz vs 1.6Ghz Atom).
As you can see there is a big divide there. And if I had bought the original Eee PC I would have been very upset when the new netbooks came out.
I'm just curious as to what stage e-readers are in right now. Are they in the same stage with the netbooks where tons of companys come out with essentially the exact same product with very minor variations, or are we at the stage that netbooks were in 10 months ago where they basically jumped from 1st gen to 2nd gen? If the first situation is true then I don't mind jumping in and buying a reader. However if the second situation is true then I would be perfectly happy to read on my iTouch for another 6 months and see what happens.
What do you guys think?