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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
It's not that bad. They got the form factor, battery life and price right. And I like having all the features.
Give it at least an 8.5 x 11 inch screen and built in stylus support for taking notes and marking up documents and I'd buy one day one.
I'm not that interested in something that I can only use to read and mark up documents--I'd much prefer something like the iPad that does all the multimedia stuff but has the larger screen and mark up abilities built in.
I get tired of having a bunch of gadgets only good for one task that I end up not using all that often. So I'm really interested in a tablet that I can use for my work reading and document mark up, magazine and newspaper reading, maybe some novel reading etc. [...]
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Oh, I get where you're coming from, and I do think that Apple was on the right track, but here are my problems with the iPad:
- 1GHz Processor -- this is very low-end, I have to imagine they could have gone higher without a significant impact. (Might've been a battery life thing, but still.)
- No builtin USB ports -- seriously Apple? Seriously?
- No multitasking, period -- This is the killer here. You literally
cannot do two things at once. To open a second application you MUST close whatever other application you're in first; it's one program at a time.
- Apple approved app-store apps only -- As opposed to a netbook where you can install whatever you like.
Like I said though, the real killer is no multitasking. You literally cannot open two things at the same time on the iPad.
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[...] But also do internet, e-mail, PDA for my contacts and calendar, play some games, watch some videos, listen to music while doing the reading/markup work etc.
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Not on the iPad you don't. You can listen to music OR do your work... not both at the same time.