The IPad Review

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Sounds about right! I'm with the techies, but it does sound like a fun toy for noodling around on.
 
Tablets have always been underpowered. They have, IMO, great potential but have been cubby-holed into a "vertical market" niche, like the electric meter readers and the Texlon on the HD inventory cart.

I worked for a Walpole MA AAC company that had a great PC tablet. In 2000, maybe spring of 2001 I was sitting in Prescott Park in Portsmouth NH with a co-worker. We both had a machine in front of us, with a Verizon Aircard in them, and we were working on the user's manual for it. I remember watching one guy just walking along staring at the machines, they were quite pretty, and he walked right into a tree :) After he got up off his butt he came over and just watched us using the machine.

If that company had not hired me (for sales) and had kept on the engineer that did the design work I really think the laptop world would be very different today. And I know I wouldn't be framing :) Because they would have hired me, and then I could have had a machine worth selling.
 
So the point of my previous post Paul was in my experience in 2 years they won't beef up this machine. They should, the market is there, but the historical market for this type of computer has been a utilitarian market that doesn't do well with changing hardware. Typically they run proprietary software that is custom built and slow to improve, as well as extremely specialized.

Should it take off, as Mac could do, but a PC based system can't (no vision in our PC world quite frankly) then it will be hampered by the software hardware constraints of the Mac. PCs have tons of software, Macs don't. PCs have tons of user doable upgrades, ram hdd's etc, Macs limit what the user can do to the hardware.

Makes the Mac less buggy, but less geek-friendly.
 
Well, if one can read books, fetch email, read online news, watch movies (great for air travel!!) and use some IPhone apps on it (imagine it running the GPS app in your car.....wow!!), and has a 12 hour battery life... then it's more than enough for 90% of the users.
 
Paul N said:
Well, if one can read books, fetch email, read online news, watch movies (great for air travel!!) and use some IPhone apps on it (imagine it running the GPS app in your car.....wow!!), and has a 12 hour battery life... then it's more than enough for 90% of the users.
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Don't forget Grumbling...:p

I think some people are trying to make it out for more than it was really intended for. I see it as a media and social networking device...nothing more.
 
Bob Doyle said:
I heard it has no flash, so web pages won't load or play correctly.
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Thank GOD!!!

I HATE FLASH. The cretin who invented FLASH should be castrated (slowly........and with a rusty knife).

That carp takes forever to load, is buggy, needs frequent updates and is taking over the web.

How did we live before FLASH?? Very nicely, thank you!!!
 
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