Small screen?? A 1024 x 768 pixels, 9.7" diagonal screen that you typically are going to view much nearer to your face than you would a laptop or netbook is small?
A custom-designed, well-tuned 1 GHz mobile processor is slow? Weren't you one of the people singing the praises of the tegra processor (which tops out at less than 1 GHz, I think), because it supposedly was designed to be more efficient per clock cycle with its integrated processor, graphics, I/O, memory controller? Guess what, the A4 has integrated processor, graphics, I/O, memory controller, and these were designed specifically for the iPad's hardware and software. John Gruber says about the A4: "Everyone I spoke to in the press room was raving first and foremost about the speed. None of us could shut up about it." <http://www.benzinga.com/102343/apple’s-screaming-fast-a4-processor-–-the-best-mobile-cpu-in-the-world> As for the keyboard, according to my calculations the dimensions of the actual screen is roughly 7.7" x 5.8". In landscape, the virtual keyboard would then be about 7.7" wide, which is pretty comparable to the width of the corresponding region (i.e., the letters keys, not the side keys) of my full-sized laptop. So no, not a small keyboard. On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:36 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: Chris Dunford <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed? > >> $499 for an iPad. Hooha! That is what my original iPod cost. > > I'm confused. Didn't Jobs say that netbooks are stupid because what you get > is a slow processor, a small screen, and a small keyboard? So he releases a > box with a slow processor, a small screen, and > no keyboard? > > I dunno, I'm having some trouble visualizing what I'd do with this. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
