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Originally Posted by volwrath
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.
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Yeah, the slate looks promising if you want a full tablet PC. The battery life is touted at around 5 hours from what I've seen, there's no way windows 7 on it will be as slick and super fast to open stuff as the iPad OS is etc.
The slate and other tablet PC's will be a nice device for those wanting Tablet PCs, I'm just not one of them. I just want a fast, slick, easy to use media consumption tablet.
Buying apps doesn't bother me much as if I took the iPad app all I'd probably pay for is Goodreader (99 cents), iAnnotate ($7) and Pages ($10). Maybe some games or other random apps, but I buy games and programs for PCs and would on the slate as well, so no difference.
Multitasking is something I wish the iPad had (and part of the reason I want to see what Android based tablets offer). But it didn't bother me as much as I expected as the iPad is so damn fast in opening programs, closing programs etc. Still a bummer to not be able to have Pandora radio playing while doing something else, or to have an instant message app running in the background etc.
But it's not the huge deal breaker I thought it would be. Same with lack of flash, the Netflix and ABC player took care of a lot of my video needs, Hulu app will solve most of the rest when it's out. And I was surprised that sites like ESPN would start with the "install flash player" icon in the video spots--but then it loaded and played the video. So I guess they've switched to also support HTML 5 or something. So lack of Flash isn't the detriment for my web surfing experience that I thought it would be.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
How well does it work for reading on the beach?
Any overheating problems, oh and that pesky wi-fi thing....
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Everyone has their own needs. I hate the beach, haven't been in ages and never, ever sit outside and read in the sun period.
The iPad doesn't get hot from what I've seen. Wifi problem would be annoying though.
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Originally Posted by akira28
All the fonts were horrible: blurry, unclear, parts of them disappeared like the horizontal part in the letter e. Then I began to change the font size. Remarkably the fonts did not get better as the size increased.
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I didn't notice any problems with readability in iBooks, the Kindle App or the Free Books App.
But I also don't give a crap about fonts or what books look like as long as the text is easy to read, and I found it was for sure. But to each their own.
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Originally Posted by Ervserver
iPad will definitely replace ebook readers, quite an amazing device
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I don't see that happening. It's a great device and I'm likely to ditch my Kindle 1 for an iPad or Android (or other tablet) in the next year or so. But there's plenty of room in the e-book market for dedicated readers, e-ink screens, pdas, smartphones, tablets, PC/Mac apps etc. It's not some zero sum end game where only one method of reading e-books will survive.