Thread: Why I bought an iPad
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2010-07-14 , 22:48
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Lets see... The iPad doesn't last a day, so even by your own standards it's not in the running?
10 hours is for continuous WIFI use yeah? Not what it wouldn't last for longer without it.

But even with that there are several tablet PCs that can do what you're asking.
No there aren't. No glorified laptop can do what the ipad can do... because it is its own class of product. Paper thin, always connected. Read stipulations from previous post.

My Toshiba Point 510, running windows 98, with a solid-state drive in it (which is the only "hardware mod" I've done). It runs IE6 and Opera fine, plays MP3s, has no fans, runs 20 hours on its battery pack, and has a 7x9 display screen. It does weight a little more than the iPad (about twice as much) and is a little slower, but it's not bad for something made 10+ years ago.
Great but it is not a mass market competitor of the ipad.

There are plenty of other devices on the market, all of which have far better specs than the iPad. Does the iPad have a hot-swappable battery pack for continuous operation? No. Does the iPad have full Obex-style bluetooth functionality? No. Does the iPad have a shock-mount case? No. Does the iPad have a physical or virtual attachment system to allow it to dock and be used with a real keyboard/mouse and other hardware? No. Does it have USB or wireless USB/PNP support? No. Does it have speech recognition and transcription built in? No. All features of the tablets I've linked to here, all made in the past year.
lol, this is missing the point of the ipad. Its a highly mobile surfer and reader and games machine. Most of these features listed would preclude myself from getting the ipad either (if I was to carry it in my bag) but thats not to say Apple haven't created their own arena for a product. The technology might have been there but the product certainly hasn't.

Only something like the Archos 9 is comparable from yesteryear and that has only a few hours battery life.
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