Thread: Who here would consider buying a apple ipad clone?
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Old 04-04-2010, 02:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
I need a larger screen for reading regular-sized PDFs, I need a real browser which supports Flash,
I was worried about both of these, but found neither to be a big deal after playing around with my g/f's.

I tried a double column, letter sized PDF in the good reader program and it was very readable. In portrait the text was pretty small, but readable. In landscape it was fine and the scrolling wasn't as bad as I expected since it's much quicker than scrolling around on a laptop or desktop etc.

Not having flash does still suck, but sights like ESPN worked, even the video so maybe they've adapted already? Just ran into some videos on news sites, facebook games etc. that didn't work etc. So I think it would be fine for a "surf the net on the couch" machine for me, with my laptop always nearby when needed.

I'm still not buying one right now as I want to see what else comes out, maybe wait for the 2nd gen iPad if nothing better comes out etc.

But I'm MUCH more impressed with the iPad than I expected to be.
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