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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Good points. It's funny to watch the dialog entangle over semantics. The cost/performance ratio isn't absolute, but varies from person to person. Still, there ARE demarcation points, and $400 appears to be one of them for US consumers. Wait... make that $399
And FYI, I only brought the OLPC up because it was alleged that Nokia may not have expected a $200 "laptop". My point had nothing to do with technical ability (I did make the disclaimer) but was regarding awareness.
I only belabored that particular point myself because I feel that a lot of people have their minds all mixed up looking only at price points. To me the fact that the Kohjinsha SA1 or the Asus eee may be more or less expensive than the Nokia ITs is totally irrelevant.

I don't think the tablets are actually that cheap -- and they don't have to be, because right now they don't compare to anything else available. Maybe some day.

A Kohjinsha SA1 or Asus eee, on the contrary, can be deemed cheap or not, because they directly compare in form factor and use cases to UMPCs and ultra-light laptops.

But comparing the two camps on price factor is IMHO pointless, because they're just totally not the same thing. No one says, "if the price of 5.1 movie theaters comes down to that of an iPod Nano, I'll buy that instead", do they ?

I myself own both a 770 and a SA1, and find very little overlap in usage between the two, if any. None of them has relegated the other to the bottom drawer(*)...


(*) only Nokia themselves could do that to my beloved 770, wink wink :-)