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Old 01-27-2010, 10:00 PM   #407
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post

To me, this is similar to the Macbook Air: An underpowered, me-too product.
I don't understand what is underpowered about it. It seems exactly powered enough for what it promises to do. From the hands-on reports, it is quite snappy. If they tried to show Photoshop running on it, I'd be skeptical. But for what they claimed, I don't see the complaint.

Is the Kindle "underpowered"? It seems to do exactly the job it is supposed to do.


Now the MacBook Air...that to me was underpowered-because it wasn't up to the task of running MacOSX and its programs adequately for many. I just don't buy the automatic dismissal of the iPad for the same reason.
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