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Originally Posted by dorino
Alright, alright, excuse my OS comment, thank you. Unfortunately, I'm still not comfortable calling it a full-fledged OS being how closed off it is. Having to hack it in order to use it to it's actual capabilities is a bit depressing. I didn't say it's not real. But it is just an upscaled iPhone OS. To me, I feel like that would be like if Asus had had the eee-pc come with Windows Mobile.
And yes, that (thinner, modern, usable) is better. In terms of battery life, and form factor.
In terms of processor speed, RAM, etc, etc... Not as much.
The iPad has its own advantages. I prefer other things... But I'm not going to say (and I haven't) that the iPad is bad. I did that immediately upon release, but after trying it out, recanted. I like it. Just not as much as I like my netbook and my dedicated e-reader. :P
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you do realize that the ipad has a processor on-par with previous netbooks and even on-par with some offerings these days. offers a display that is larger than available on many netbooks, has full networking capabilities including 3g wireless. up to 64G of internal SSD storage. a touch screen, thousands of applications that can do everything from word processing, to 3d games, video and audio playback, remote control via VNC or RDP, etc. etc.
what capabilities are missing? because you don't have access to the shell prompt out of the box? can you tell me that 90% of the buyers even care about that? how many of them use the command line in windows? remember,
you are technically savvy, but i am betting the majority of people who purchase the ipad don't care anything about running a command line on the ipad or on their windows/mac desktop. you may have higher technical demands from a tablet device, but apple designed a media consumption device to sell to the masses, and it's selling all right. 2,000,000 and going.
estimates have said that maybe 10% of all iphones are jailbroken. that's out of some 56milliion (according to jobs). at best some 10% of ipads might be jailbroken, that's a lot of people who find it meets their needs without hackery.
back in the 70's we said 16k of memory was a lot and who would ever need more than 64k? we did a hell of a lot in that 16k of memory from play entertaining games to word process documents. the ipad doesn't have a quad core, 2.5G processor with 16G of ram and 128G of SSD. but it doesn't need it for people to get quite a bit done with it.