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Originally Posted by ChrisC333
Would it be impolite to ask why you still bought one then?
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No, i'll be glad to clarify my opinion.
When I bought my T91, the ipad was still not announced. And I went for the specs only.
Touchscreen, 1024x600, rotatable, 2xSD-cardslots, videochip with H264-decode built in, SSD, 8 hours of usage. Sounds great doesn't it?
I thought so too. So I just bought it on impulse. But the negative points showed up real quickly. Sluggishness, drivers which aren't fully supported, and clunky touch interface.
The standard 1GB ram was not enough for windows 7, so I had to upgrade to 2GB. No biggie, because ram is cheap nowadays.
But even with 2GB ram, the machine just feels sluggish. Every two or three tabs in firefox or chrome, and the machine hangs for a minute or longer.
This is due to the slow SSD. An upgrade would cost me another 100 dollar.
OK, so I can watch high-res MKV-movies with it, thanks to the internal decoder. But to LOAD up such a file takes quite awhile thanks to the slow SSD. And the decoder don't do anything with flashvideo. Youtube in highres would stutter. If you close everything, then it's bearable. But that's it.
The screen is just too small to do anything in landscape mode. But rotating is really slow...
Anyway... morale is, the specs can be great, but it's the overall experience that really counts.
To conclude: the T91 was an impulse buy. The ipad certainly is not. I've waited 3 months for it. And literally EVERY DAY, I've thought up more usecases for it.