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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Apple managed to make a reasonably quick and smooth device that has pretty nice touchscreen integration, pretty good software and support, and a very reasonable form factor with very acceptable battery life. I've not seen all or even most of those features come together in any other tablet device.
I have decided to not bother with an iPad for now because it still has too many little quirks that accumulate and add up to a no-go for me, but despite just being a bigger iPod Touch, it's also the best basic tablet computer I've ever seen. I've seen cooler concepts (like Courier) and even promising prototypes (like Adam), but I haven't seen any better real products. I look forward to Tegra 2 stuff, and I hope there are some awesome products that flesh out this usage paradigm, which netbooks and smartphones are not completely adequate for in my opinion. They aren't here yet though, and there's no promise of them being good when they do arrive.
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I have to say that the idea of the ipad has grown on me as more details have shown up, I still doubt I will get one due to the things it lacks hardware-wise, but it certainly seems worth considering due to the alternatives still being vaporware at this point and/or also having their own disadvantages.
At the end of the day I'll choose the device that's the best for me and won't be paying the slightest bit of attention to what bloggers think beyond factual information they can provide.