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Originally Posted by Zefiro
Here in Italy the basic version of the iPad(9.7") is sold at 599€.
On the other hand I can buy the T101MT (10.1") at 511€ with a warranty extension of three years already included. Moreover it is already configured with 2GB of RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium.
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This was sort of the reasoning I came to in the end when I decided to get the asus, although my decision was helped that my main use for wanting a tablet was reading comics and I can use both cbr/cbz files and the legal option from Marvel on my netbook, whereas on an ipad apple have banned the best comicbook reader app and their marvel offering is drastically worse than the flash-based option at marvel.com.
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Interesting point. While I would certainly prefer reading in portrait mode, landscape is also acceptable. The important thing is that the PDFs are rendered correctly and the reading 'experience' is not unpleasant.
What reassures me about the T101MT is that I can install Adobe on it and this should certainly avoid any problem with document rendering.
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I have found pdfs of magazines that I have are fine to read in portrait mode, but full use is not made of the screen due to it's ratio, so for some people they may prefer the larger view of landscape and scrolling.
For all the talk of appstores being such a plus, the freedom to install what software you want that you get with a windows-based machine is actually a real plus for anyone who has been using computers long enough to know the stuff they like.
One of my friends was raving over this very nice air video app that transcodes videos on the fly for his ipad and it does seem very nice if you go with an ipad, but for a windows machine you just open the shared folder on the other machine and happily stream the original with no need for additional apps or transcoding.
