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iPad!
jhocking:
Last night I realized one flaw with using this thing for media browsing. As I often do, in bed I had my laptop open to Hulu to watch the Daily Show. That's when it dawned on me, to watch anything on the iPad you have to hold it up. You can't just flip the screen up and sit it on your lap, you have to hold it. That would be annoying (although not a huge deal, it would be like reading a newspaper.)
sean:
--- Quote from: Reed on 28 Jan 2010, 14:47 ---See, my problem with using this as a netbook replacement is the keyboard. I have an iPhone and I love the keyboard for it, but I guess I really can't see it scaling up well and being suitable for typing up documents/taking notes in class or meetings/etc.
--- End quote ---
dont you know reed you can buy a keyboard attachment!
you see!?!?!
so portable
also i watched the video for this thing last night and it seems like the target audience is every single human being on the planet
torontoguy2k8:
--- Quote from: sean on 28 Jan 2010, 19:57 ---
--- Quote from: Reed on 28 Jan 2010, 14:47 ---See, my problem with using this as a netbook replacement is the keyboard. I have an iPhone and I love the keyboard for it, but I guess I really can't see it scaling up well and being suitable for typing up documents/taking notes in class or meetings/etc.
--- End quote ---
dont you know reed you can buy a keyboard attachment!
you see!?!?!
so portable
also i watched the video for this thing last night and it seems like the target audience is every single human being on the planet
--- End quote ---
link is broken, so I do NOT see :(
sean:
fix'd
also no need to quote the post right above you dogg.
est:
I was waiting for this, I really wanted to like it. I was disappointed. I still think it is a decent piece of kit for particular purposes. For example, in addition to the various personal apps of it, so long as it supports bluetooth mice or plugging a usb mouse into the keyboard dock it could work as a fancy reception pc or even a cheap replacement for a Wyse/Citrix terminal by using RDP or a specially-made ICA or VMware View client app.
The most interesting/exciting thing about this for my mind is that Apple has put an ARM Cortex A9 and probably some kind of PowerVR graphics chipset together into an SoC and they are making it themselves. This means they have a 1ghz Cortex A9 + next-gen PowerVR chip they can make in-house (ie: cheaper than getting someone else to make for them) that they can potentially use in the 4th-gen iPhone (and also sell to external parties if they want). Recently there was a demo of a Cortex A9 running at 500mhz mostly keeping pace with a 1.6ghz Atom, so a 1ghz A9 should be quite impressive. Paired with the next-gen PowerVR gfx chip it would probably be more powerful than most of the Atom netbooks kicking around at the moment.
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