iPad vs Others?
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Find one on craigslist that was bought at the applestore and has reciept. That way you would get it mad cheap and if anything is wrong with it or fucks up you can get it replaced instantly. Do it and you would thank me later. CL FTW
Honestly I don't miss the Flash on my iPad. Almost every site that uses Flash that I have been to has re-encoded their video content into MP4/Quicktime, which the iPad views just fine.
Also, I agree that you would not want to be running a full laptop/desktop OS on the tablet. The reason the thing is so cool is because it's on instantly. You press on, and it's on. In less than a second. And it stays on, for about 10 hours, no matter what you are doing on it.
The SSD is sick, streaming Netflix is sick, iBooks are sick, everything about it is awesome (except the lack of flash, but like I said, I don't really miss it, and once HTML5 takes over it will be a moot point).
Bottom line, if you are looking for a laptop, then get a laptop. If you are looking for a tablet, get an iPad.
Also, I agree that you would not want to be running a full laptop/desktop OS on the tablet. The reason the thing is so cool is because it's on instantly. You press on, and it's on. In less than a second. And it stays on, for about 10 hours, no matter what you are doing on it.
The SSD is sick, streaming Netflix is sick, iBooks are sick, everything about it is awesome (except the lack of flash, but like I said, I don't really miss it, and once HTML5 takes over it will be a moot point).
Bottom line, if you are looking for a laptop, then get a laptop. If you are looking for a tablet, get an iPad.
I'm not an Apple fanboi.
I was mocking the iPad when it came out. Sure enough, my Dad got an iPad to test for his employees, so I said, "let's see how shitty this is to read in the sunlight..." and loaded up an e-book yesterday and took it outside to see if it'd be hard to read.
It was perfectly readable! I don't know why people say that e-ink is better.
e-ink is supposed to be easier on the eyes for long periods of reading...I haven't used an iPad or Kindle for a long enough period of time to confirm that statement though.
Having used the Sony PR-505, can honestly say that e-ink is far superior to any LCD, including IPS LCDs, for reading over long periods of time.
iPad vs Others
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As you can see, they have different strengths and weaknesses, some of which will become more clear in the coming months as we learn more about each tablet. (That Dell Mini 5 is especially inscrutable right now.)
The iPad has the most storage, cheap 3G, the time-tested iPhone OS and its mountain of apps, and a serious amount of Apple marketing juice behind it. But it's also famously lacking features common to the other tablets, such as webcam and multitasking (only first party apps like music and email can multitask). The Notion Ink Adam is perhaps the most interesting of the bunch, with its dual-function transflective screen from Pixel Qi: It can be either a normal LCD or, with the flick of a switch, an easy-on-the-eyes reflective LCD that resembles e-ink. Its hardware is also surprisingly impressive—but it remains to be seen if Android is really the right OS for a 10-inch tablet.
The Dell Mini 5 and forthcoming Android edition of the Archos 7 tablet are two of a kind, almost oversized smartphones in their feature sets. Is an extra two or three inches of screen real estate worth the consequent decrease in pocketability? Perhaps not. And finally, there's the maligned JooJoo, formerly the CrunchPad, a bit of an oddball as the only web-only device in the bunch. It doesn't really have apps, can't multitask, and pretty much confines you to an albeit fancy browser, sort of like Chrome OS will. The JooJoo is also the only tablet here to have no demonstrated way to read ebooks.
Update: The two new additions in v.2 of this chart, the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 and Archos 9, are both unusual. The Windows 7-powered Archos 9 has been available since September, is the only slate here that lacks multitouch, and is the only one with a HDD instead of solid state memory of some kind. It's more related to the older tablets, but there's no keyboard, just a 9-inch touchscreen. It doesn't even have specific apps like the HP Slate's TouchSmart, it's just a Windows computer.
Click on the image to view it larger
As you can see, they have different strengths and weaknesses, some of which will become more clear in the coming months as we learn more about each tablet. (That Dell Mini 5 is especially inscrutable right now.)
The iPad has the most storage, cheap 3G, the time-tested iPhone OS and its mountain of apps, and a serious amount of Apple marketing juice behind it. But it's also famously lacking features common to the other tablets, such as webcam and multitasking (only first party apps like music and email can multitask). The Notion Ink Adam is perhaps the most interesting of the bunch, with its dual-function transflective screen from Pixel Qi: It can be either a normal LCD or, with the flick of a switch, an easy-on-the-eyes reflective LCD that resembles e-ink. Its hardware is also surprisingly impressive—but it remains to be seen if Android is really the right OS for a 10-inch tablet.
The Dell Mini 5 and forthcoming Android edition of the Archos 7 tablet are two of a kind, almost oversized smartphones in their feature sets. Is an extra two or three inches of screen real estate worth the consequent decrease in pocketability? Perhaps not. And finally, there's the maligned JooJoo, formerly the CrunchPad, a bit of an oddball as the only web-only device in the bunch. It doesn't really have apps, can't multitask, and pretty much confines you to an albeit fancy browser, sort of like Chrome OS will. The JooJoo is also the only tablet here to have no demonstrated way to read ebooks.
Update: The two new additions in v.2 of this chart, the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 and Archos 9, are both unusual. The Windows 7-powered Archos 9 has been available since September, is the only slate here that lacks multitouch, and is the only one with a HDD instead of solid state memory of some kind. It's more related to the older tablets, but there's no keyboard, just a 9-inch touchscreen. It doesn't even have specific apps like the HP Slate's TouchSmart, it's just a Windows computer.
im also thinking of getting an ipad for myself but i bet i cant do some layout designs on that thing
There are 12+ iPad competitors in the works... most notably the WeTab (formerly WePad) - Specs here. Seems to be a hell of a lot better than iPad
Tablet Wars: The 12 Biggest iPad Competitors - Yahoo! Shopping
Tablet Wars: The 12 Biggest iPad Competitors - Yahoo! Shopping
The MeeGo mobile operating system looks kinda cool, but is still in pre-alpha. Just saw this demo video of it yesterday.
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yeah my bad it was kinda bugging me so i looked on the apple site and of course it does have a headphone jack.
Now that I know it does in fact have headphone jack technology I have no choice but to buy one. I will post a review of the ipad from my ipad shortly.