Andrew Oulton wrote: > Netbooks offer greater expansion and initial function than iPhone or > iPad. So with regards to the iPad, what functions set it apart from > my cell phone, and from my PC to warrant its existance and cost? Is > $500 USD to START (on a dead-end non-expandable device) worth this > difference? Who gets the most out of a device like it? How long till > those few points are better served by something else? I have owned an "ipad" for a few years now, it is called an Archos. Certainly did not take over the world, and it is more open by leaps and bounds than the ipad. Costs less, has an 80GB disk (smallest size they sell), touch interface, wifi, opera browser, removable battery, records mp4 from inputs, has USB host interface, same size screen, samba file sharing (which with a hack enables ssh access), has many hours battery life, and even has a stand on the back so you can put it on a table and watch it :) The new ones have 3g as well.
It is funny how all the press seems to have never imagined something like this before. Go look at future shop. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
