I guess I was looking at it from the perspective of it being nice to have in the living room when I wanted to use a browser/look things up w/o the whole having to boot up a laptop and all that.
I do have a 3GS but the screen is just too small to really easily do stuff on it and the increased screen size on the iPad is useful. I also do like the multitouch interface; one reason I'm leaning towards it. But at the same time it seems so limited that I'm thinking that there will be better alternatives that will do more for OS...can anyone imagine the Google Android equivalent?! That would be awesome! BINO -----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:12 PM To: hardware Subject: Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition? If I didn't already have an iPhone 3GS I would definitely be interested. But as it stands, my iPhone does everything the iPad does (just, smaller, which isn't a big deal. The killer app for me would be the ability to subscribe to all of my dead tree magazines in ebook form on the iPad, and make notes, annotations, and lookup references. When that arrives, I'm there. --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, DSinc <dx7...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Bino, > With this share you seem to be the Uber-Early-Adopter-Candidate. > I checked today and it seems that NO further info about access to an iPad > will be available until March or April. > But, I suppose the "Speculation-Masters" are now in full gear. > To me, it is just another Apple appliance........ :) > Best, > Duncan > > > > On 01/27/2010 16:25, Bino Gopal wrote: > >> So I'll bring it up: what do people think of the iPad? I can already >> guess >> at the level of disinterest and disdain on this list (so no need to vent >> it >> here in response), so what I'm more looking for is more factual >> evaluations >> of the features and how it compares to equivalent solutions out there now, >> or that people expect to come out in the next few months. >> >> >> >> I have a T61 but it's getting old and would like to get a tablet PC-type >> of >> device, and am expecting that the upcoming Win7 tablets should blow the >> iPad >> out of the water in price and features right? Anyone got their eye on a >> particular one coming out soon? >> >> >> >> >> BINO >> >> >> >> >>