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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Sometimes I really wonder what you people talk about. I went to see a friend this weekend whose desktop PC is actually less responsive than my 770... It's a Pentium MMX with 120MB RAM and a hard drive that makes you jump to the next room when in spins up. My fathers PC is not much faster - a bit faster than my 770, but it might not beat an N800.

You should accept the fact that people don't always upgrade their hardware to the latest model available. Some just keep it as long as it works. The average PC, the average laptop in use today might be faster than an internet tablet, but maybe not a lot faster.
So if you say that a 770/N800 is too slow for site A or application B, then the truth is that site A and application B, in fact, cannot be used by a large number of "normal" PC users, either. So blame the site and the application for being too heavy, not the device.
Agreed. Too many app and website designers adopt the philosophy of "wow I have all this storage, processing power and bandwidth-- LET'S USE IT ALL!!!" Fire up ebay on your N800 and count the number of objects loaded-- it's insane.

I'll grant Garage's point that the Internet isn't generally designed around the tablet form factor, but that begs the question: why couldn't it be? What's wrong with minimizing per-page content and size? Is all that flash and graphics necessary?

I think not... and my policy has been for some time now that I will aim my sites at the tablets by default. That's the future, folks.
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Last edited by Texrat; 2007-10-02 at 23:44.