Christian Wacker wrote:
Disclaimer:
1) I am not planning to buy an iPad any time in the near future.
2) I am feeding the troll, please pray for my eternal soul!
Just a few additions to this.
You Announcers appeared to have left out the fact that the AWK needs
to be toted around seperately,
Really, no it doesn't. There is an on screen keyboard. The external
keyboard is more for the user who wants to use the machine to write
reams of text. Having said that, I've written a few hundred words on an
iPhone in portrait mode and survived. I'm pretty sure I could do better
on an iPad.
whereas any decent machine would have
it attached (or, even slide out maybe, you think apple or some other
company would make it possible to attach to the back of the maxiPad
and stay there reasonably, but it shouldn't be that hard.)
No. This is not true. Sliding keyboards add complexity. They break. They
are unreliable. Honestly. I can't recount the number of Nokia sliders
that I've fixed for people because the sliding mechanism doesn't hold up
to any kind of knock or excessive force at all.
Defining what is "good" and "bad" on such an arbitrary feature is not
giving much credibility to the argument, especially as many iPhone users
said the same thing and have come to realise that the OSK is actually
usable. Where as plenty of Palm Pre owners have commented that the
keyboard is actually a minus point in use.
And for the snipe against the JooJoo and the WePad, JooJoo shipped
April 1st. 2 days ahead of the iPad, and it's widescreen, which,
according to the announcers means that it's bulkier, but would also
allow for more applications orientated towards the extra screen space.
(things such as: photo editing, video watching, book reading, oh...
wait... all the same things an iPad can do, for less..)
The JooJoo.. ah yes. Crippled OS, half baked - can't even open an empty
Web Browser???. Battery like is pitiful - poor power management. Based
on a board that is fairly unimpressive spec - little more than a
Netbook. Underpowered, fails to play any Flash HD content. Heavy and
with a fairly so-so digitizer. Yes. Good device? No, just extremely
underwhelming and ever so unimpressive. Nothing based on the Atom is
going to be able to touch an ARM powered device for battery life. ARM
was specifically engineered to have low power consumption, whereas the
Atom was hacked to have lower than the current "consumer" level Intel
processor power consumption (mainly by crippling it.)
I still think the biggest insult would be when the port of windows,
utilizing the leaked sources from Microsoft themselves.
Because that is going to happen?
Besides, the Win32 codebase already runs on ARM. WindowsCE is based on
the Win32 platform after all. I predict that id would be fairly trivial
for Micrrosoft to get the rest of the OS up and running. But, for what
reason? There are no apps for ARM. Nothing will run. Even if some of the
CE apps can be ported, you aren't going to really have any benefit.
Pointless waste of time and resources.
Imagine the tears and heartattacks from those people who would see not the
stupid
Apple on the screen, but a windows boot logo, and a Real OS on
there...
Why is Windows a "real" OS? I don't follow your logic. iPhone OS is a
real OS, as in, it is an OS in the field that runs on every iPhone, and
now iPad. I didn't realise that an OS was required to be "manly" to
qualify as a "real" OS. This all smacks of sour grapes and bad analogy
to me. Baring in mind, the iPhone OS is based on MacOS X and Mac OS X is
a UNIX, I would much prefer NOT to have Windows anywhere near the iPad ;-)
(If you didn't know, you used to be able to run Windows NT on
PPC systems (Granted, you had to re-compile some code to use the
crippled processors apple put in their systems)
Ah, so the PowerPC is crippled? This is the implication. Why are you a
Powerbook user then? Why are you on this mailing list? Why are you
claiming your 12" Powerbook is better than an iPad in one breath and
telling me the PowerPC is a bad processor architecture in another? All
PowerPC processors are compatible - code from a PPC601 will run on a G5,
so you can't claim that Apple used "crippled" ones, but other vendors
did not.
Windows NT briefly ran on PowerPC. It was NT 3 though. Have you ever
used NT 3? I have. NT 3 has no direct relation to what Microfoft did
with NT4 onwards. The Kernel level graphics did not exist in NT 3, they
were handled by another process. The user interface was on a par with
Windows 3.1. Windows NT 4 was the first "modern" iteration of NT and it
is the NT4 codebase that forms the basis of Win2K and XP.
The scary part about the iPad is that even Steve admits that the iPad
would wither and die if it had flash,
Please provide proof of this.
whereas, any decent laptop for
the same price could do 10 hours and flash,
Given that most consumer laptops generally do 4 hours these days... I
doubt this greatly. You'd need a high capacity battery (say, 9 cell) to
get more than 4 hours out of any Intel based laptop. Plus, define "do
flash". My old N800 "did flash. It "did flash 9" too, so it would
happily play back youtube videos at 2-3 frames every 5 seconds. My Atom
based netbook (which has a 6 cell battery, by the way, and does around 4
hours), chokes on a lot of youtube videos too. Dropped frames are
dropped frames. The fact that as soon as I use Flash the processor gets
super hot and the fan kicks in full tilt should also be a good
indication of why Flash sucks. You will NOT ever get longevity from use
of any device that plays back Flash video directly. It simply isn't
possible. Flash sucks batteries dry.
or more if you spend the
money you would spend on those $10-per-app apps that you'll use a few
times before you get bored of it, and pick up a 2nd battery... can't
do that with your iPad (or any Mac-top right now either, external
batteries don't count)
Why would you need a second battery? 10 hours* is more that enough in a
general work day. Oh, and while we are at it, an external battery is
actually no different to having multiple batteries in my book. If it
takes multiple batteries to get a mythical "18 hours" of use, you fail
- as in, it doesn't count as contiguous use. If you are changing your
battery, the theoretical "use" clock goes back to zero in my book. iPad
will give up to 10 hours* of contiguous use - depending on usage
patterns, I could see this being extended.
* bare in mind, 10 hours _ON_ WiFi. If you turned off WiFi, I would
predict a longer life - more like 12 hours.
And I feel the biggest loss to the iPad is that my iBook G3 12" can
still out-live it, and I only paid $0 for it
That you paid $0 for it is fortuous for you. But how dare you use that
as a point in your little vendetta!! That is insulting. Not many of us
get given free 12" Powerbooks. Think of yourself as lucky. You are an
exception to the rule, not the norm.
, including an entire box of removable batteries.
All of which are doubtless used. All of which are Lithium based and have
a finite life. I predict, you will have under half the number of usable
batteries way before the next iPad iteration is released.
By the time I'd ever be able to get an iPad
for that same price,
If you want a free ride, life might not be on your side. You sound like
an ungrateful kid. If (and that is "if", not when - I'm still undecided)
I buy an iPad, I will have to save my own money and the purchase will
feel good. I will not be using a hand me down. I will have a full 1 year
European warranty. I will use the device for the intended purpose -
exactly what I use my Netbook for. Browsing the web, checking email,
watching video on trains. I will have half as much to carry about and
will be happy of the lighter bag. I do real work on my MacBook and
Powerbooks.
Anyways, You've given me motivation to keep working on that port of
Android, on my iPad simulator. Gotta love Apple
Android? Ah, yes - replace one OS for another, one that is on the exact
same level, except it has cruddier performance due to all apps being run
in a virtual machine. Yeah, good luck with that ;-)
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