Who is getting an iPad Saturday?

[beats me]

lol. I'm thinking more along the lines of something based on the existing HP tablets.



Only much thinner for both parts and the touch screen is fully detachable. Here. Check this out:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/leno ... pressions/

I'm sure a manufacturer will come up with something like the second picture (if they haven't already) but where the iPad fails regardless is no multitasking and to use the most common applications you'd use on a laptop the developer is going to have to make some kind of version wrapped in an app shell. I doubt most will even bother.

[LoopStationZebra]

as long as the laptop paradigm is popular, there will be a market for diminutive laptops aka netbooks. The netbook category is not a filler, it's just taking off because it's commercially viable to do it now. If they could have sold laptops at this size for this price 5 yrs ago and turned the same profit they would have. The market for these devices was always there waiting to manifest, that's why I don't see it as a fad that will pass.

In fact, 5 yrs ago you would be charged a premium for the small size..

That article was kinda meh and as it turns out through the passing of time (article is nearly a year old) - full of fail, with flimsy subjective logic... reads like a forum post actually.
Anyway he's fixated on price point, which is I guess why he thinks Sony don't make netbooks...
they do - just they cost more, much more in some cases. At the time of publishing that article, sony had been selling high-price netbooks for about 6 months only they called them 'life style pcs'
and oddly enough about a week after the article was published sony OFFICIALLY started selling netbooks. still more expensive but 'only' by about ~$150, however they were also better spec than the cheaper netbooks available. 'netbooks rip' indeed - hoho!

Also, there was no mention of samsung in his article: mega-super-extreme-power fail.
Manufacturing arguably the finer netbooks on the market for some time.

Yes, yes I know. There were weak points in the article. But no matter how much you want to defend netbooks, you can't argue the fact that nobody has fucking bought them. Christ, sales are so bad that they even had to start giving them away to poor children around the world. lol.

[nebulae]

A history of gouging. Bend over, suckers.

[LoopStationZebra]

So that ad basically says that Apple has been gouging consumers but the iPad is wonderfully and competitively priced?

wtf?

[nebulae]

I just looked at the Lisa and have hated myself for owning two Apple products over the past 20 years. My first computer back in college was a Mac, and now I have an iPhone. I have friends who work at Apple, and I'm very happy for all their success. But the pricing of that company has bugged the shit outta me for decades.