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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
All I need it to add for me to buy is:
Built in handwriting support that makes writing accurate and precise and allows me to mark up--at the least--PDFs and word documents--if not any content on the device.
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From what I've read, the software for handwriting support is in the Pad.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/20...g-keyboard.ars
There's a kind of keyboard area that comes up for using it. Some apps on the iphone already provide for it. I think it's just a matter of time before the capability is cross-app, like the keyboard.
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Multitasking. I want a tablet for academic research, need to be able to go online and search for articles cited in the one I'm reading without closing the reading program, be able to check and send e-mail while doing other things etc..
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The absence of multitasking in the situation you describe is an illusion. You are not doing two things at once - you are merely switching back & forth between two things very fast. So long as the reading app and the browsing app open & close (1) fast and (2) at the page you left, you can multitask in that sense just by moving back & forth between the apps. So it's mainly a psychological thing.
Real multitasking - doing two things at once - involves using different senses. Like reading a book & listening to Pandora while you read. That kind, apparently, you can't do, except with iTunes.
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Flash--for hulu and other video sites etc. Though this one's not a deal breaker..
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I'm certainly no techie, but from what I've been reading, flash is going to die out. Apparently, lots of people already disable flash in their browsers.