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Old 10-17-2012, 08:17 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by markbot View Post
Ipad has superior hardware (battery life probably, screen,
Don't assume that a smaller battery means noticeably less battery life; a lot of the extra capacity of the New iPad monster battery goes to feeding the display. Let's wait on the reviews there, okay?

As for the OSes, do remember that RT is still Windows. NT micro-kernel core, true pre-emptive multi-tasking, multi-threading, etc. More OSX than iOS. The 2GB RAM isn't there to run fart emulators. The thing is a full PC (not a scaled up cellphone); just one that runs on an ARM-based CPU.
It'll take a while to see its full potential bloom, as it'll take 3rd party developers time to update their Windows apps to Win8 apis but when they do all Win8 apps will run on RT.
I'm thinking it'll be a while before Mac Apps run on iPad or Linux Apps on Android.

We're looking at a something really new under the sun, guys. That's why assessing value is going to be hard.
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