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Old 01-31-2010, 04:17 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
My question to those thinking about buying this iPad and who don't mind reading on LCD; why pay for a device that is so crippled out of the gate, when you can pay significantly less and get more by getting a netbook or maybe even the HP Slate coming out in the next few weeks?

Answer:
Near-Instant ON and ready to go, because it IS just a Phone OS.

I have never had much luck with SUSPEND/SLEEP in my life, do not know if my expectations were too high or what. A lot of times, when returning from SLEEP with a full-size OS, it seemed like this or that piece of hardware suddenly was not recognized.


The iPad is being ripped in the tech world because a LOT, a LOT of those bloggers are mobile (look at photos of them working) and are already in possession of:
o a smart phone
o a laptop

If I owned the above two devices and were carrying them around on a daily basis I too would be skeptical of carrying around an iPad.


IF the iPad comes with iBooks ONLY - it gets marked here as DO NOT BUY. Currently it is at the top of my 2010 electronics purchase list.
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