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[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by rcuadro

Hell, the more I think about it... it would have just been better to take the MacBook, give it a rotating touch screen and be done with it

Then you lose the form factor for it being comfortable to hold to read etc., and you're still lugging around a laptop rather than having a thinner and lighter portable option.

Now they could have done like that new Lenovo laptop and made the screen a detachable tablet I suppose. Then you could take the whole thing if you needed a full laptop, or just the screen if you just wanted to goof around on the train etc.

[dioib]

The data plan is totally absurd..

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

So 10 hours seems very damn good for the type of device it is and what it can do.

I agree, and this is going to be the new standard run time for non-Intel (i.e. ARM processor) slates, which is a very good thing. I don't think a slate running Windows 7 can get close to this with a reasonable battery size, but vendors are going to be under pressure to try.

[rcuadro]

Originally Posted by dioib

999?! come on!

Where did you see that? All I have seen is the price for the iWorks programs at $9.99

[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by kjk

the hell, it does have 3G...well, some of them.

Glad they made that optional, vs. forcing a 3G contract (or even paying more for a device with 3G built in when you don't need it).

[kjk]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

Glad they made that optional, vs. forcing a 3G contract (or even paying more for a device with 3G built in when you don't need it).

No contract, and unlocked SIM.

[rcuadro]

Bah! They have deal with ATT!!! A data deal! LOL They can barely keep up with the freaking iPhone

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

Because I believe Jobs must have decided that "nobody writes anymore".

Originally Posted by SCION

hehehehe....just trying to keep it lightened up...it's a nice device, but not nothing that blows one's skirt up, so to speak. And like someone mentioned, there "might" be an app for HWR depending on the processing power though ya will need one of those finger replacing "capacitive touch pens" which are pretty inexpensive at like $15/ea as I recall someone pointing out around here during CES.

I can see, however why Apple chose not to release this at CES, I don't think it would have made much of a splash, then again only a couple ereader devices were anything truly interesting either.

My take is Apple is evolving this platform slowly right now because, well, it has never worked well in previous other designs (existing slate PC's) though they are far more capable with things like Wacom, etc...but the real unfortunate part is I can already see the myriad of "...take your iPad to the Maxi..." and such similar lines...

As it seems, I would sit back and wait as there is nothing special and again Apple is going to control each and every app allowed to run on the device. That slows or even stifles innovation. But in a couple generations it might actually be a solid computing platform. but for my needs in this form factor, nothing I would find useful...then again what the iPad seems to do well, I don't do at all...I never have gotten into gaming because I have long earned my living on a computer so my recreation has always been as far away from the computer screen as possible , I have a nice 17" laptop of I want to watch movies/streaming content from Hulu or Netflix or other sources...if I spend $400ish on new I can restore this 4yr old laptop back to 10-16hrs of runtime including video and wifi. Yeah, i don't get a touch screen and it's heavier, but it works well for everything already and then some...and oh yeah, 1TB of local HDD storage that cost me about $200 for the two 500gb drives...the iPad just is not the device I have a need for...but for those who do these things, it gives the Archos 9 some competition...oh and the Archos 9 runs Win7 which, for me is important since the iPad does not run OSX (meaning it would not run Lightroom or Photoshop).

I might have missed it, but what is the ability to view the device in sunlight?

[kjk]

Originally Posted by dioib

The data plan is totally absurd..

Really? Our data plan for laptops is $30/month with a 2 year contract. So is the iPhone 3G data plan.

[stustaff]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

Glad they made that optional, vs. forcing a 3G contract (or even paying more for a device with 3G built in when you don't need it).

And they are unlocked too so can choose your own carrier.

[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

I agree, and this is going to be the new standard run time for non-Intel (i.e. ARM processor) slates, which is a very good thing. I don't think a slate running Windows 7 can get close to this with a reasonable battery size, but vendors are going to be under pressure to try.

Yep. That's what I like most, is the battery life is a nice step forward, as is the form factor etc.

There will be a lot of pressures on competing companies to put out something better, so hopefully we'll see a real revolution in tablet/slate devices in the next couple of years.

Like I said, I need something with stylus annotation, so this probably isn't for me. But that's something a competitor can add to make their tablet have a different appeal.

[Alisa]

Originally Posted by stustaff

Be pretty hard for them to remove an existing app after stating ALL iPhone apps will work on it.

Jobs just said "almost all".

[dioib]

Originally Posted by rcuadro

Where did you see that? All I have seen is the price for the iWorks programs at $9.99

Sorry.. missed the decimal point, iPad price starting from 499!

[kjk]

Ok, suddenly I'm pretty interested.

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