Apple iPad

i don't think i'll have any use for this. if it ran snow leopard then i may consider but it's just running on the iPhone OS.
 
so let me get this straight, Apple have gone and done the one thing that technology manufacturers generally never do. That is take one of their pieces of hardware and then make it bigger.....

a supersized iphone basically, errr great......
 
look its gozillaphone!

does anyone remember the Microsoft Surface, that enormous table computer. Its the new trend, retro-gigantosaur-incompatable-wallet busting computers!!!!

Remember:
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^ I remember seeing those several years ago, way to big though. I don't see what's so special about the iPad, it's just a giant iPod Touch.
 
The HP slate looks really promising. It's got...OMG...AN ACTUAL FULL OS!!!1!!1!1ONE

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voyagerfan99 said:
Check out the DRM Apple is imposing on the iPad though.

Another reason not to buy Apple.

http://www.fsf.org/news/ibad_launch
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that is, of course, until it is jailbroken. if only this thing ran mac(or windows:D) and dual booted with the iphone os. so if u wanted it fast, use iphone os, but if you actually wanted to do something, boot from other os. and if they only put a hard drive in these.... man, they really effed this up.
 
Not a good move by Apple in my opinion, not much of market, to expensive, you can get a dual core for 500 with 7/vista, 80+ HDD, i see it failing.
 
ganzey said:
that is, of course, until it is jailbroken. if only this thing ran mac(or windows:D) and dual booted with the iphone os. so if u wanted it fast, use iphone os, but if you actually wanted to do something, boot from other os. and if they only put a hard drive in these.... man, they really effed this up.
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iPhone OS = OSX cut down.

I'm not a hardline fan at the moment, if I want a device that's bigger than an iPhone, has the ability to do websurfing and costs in the region of 300 sterling I'll have a netbook ta, I know the iPad is meant to be != to a netbook but the ability to have whatever I want on there, plus I hate typing on touchscreens for too long, makes my fingers hurt! IF they released a limited version of OSX (somewhere between iPhone and full OSX) then it's be perfect but sadly most binaries wouldn't work anyone on that custom CPU :( Of course despite what we think the people that seem to be the image-conscious traditional "fanboy" (ugh) will love this as they always do and buy eleventy trillion of them! The HP Slate looks good but my experience with HP mobile devices can be best described with a word that is a synonym for human faeces.

(BTW I'm not being anti-Apple before anyone jumps on, this was typed on my Mac which I like very much)
 
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