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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Yep, that's exactly what's unique about the iPad.
They've created something that's missing a lot of features a full tablet PC has, but is much thinner, lighter and has much better battery life.
And it may well catch on as there may be a lot of people like me who just want a media consumption tablet and don't need or want full computing ability in it--especially not at the trade off of size, weight and battery life.
The other unique thing is just how fast and intuitive it is. Lack of multitasking didn't bug me much (aside from not having IM prorgrams in the back ground, pandora radio playing in the back ground etc.) as it's so damn fast in opening and closing programs.
And many things are just more intuitive with the interface. Scrolling around a PDF is much better than with a mouse, keyboard our touchpad on a laptop. Zooming in and out with the pinch method is the best zoom feature I've ever used.
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Actually according to leaked specs, the HP Slate has comparable dimensions, is lighter, has GPS, and runs a nice version of Win7. I'd much rather have chrome than safari for mobile surfing. Granted battery life will be worse.
The good thing is you dont have to pay for every single thing like you will on the ipad. Want a decent pdf viewer? Pay for it. Want to view word documents or spreadsheets? pay for it. Multitasking to me is big. If I am wanting to stream slacker radio and surf, forget about it on ipad. This will probably be changing when os 4.0 comes out however.
I guess I am holding out for the slate, although I played with an ipad today and was enthralled by it.