[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Leslie Carr]

On 29 Jan 2010, at 13:27, Philip Boulain wrote:

>         iPad EeePC
> Full OS    X    ✓
You made that category up. What is a "Full OS" when it's at home? And why does it matter?

> Camera     X    ✓
No, you're right there. It's not got a camera.

> Keyboard   X    ✓
It's got a keyboard - and so does the iPhone. If you mean "meatspace keyboard" then they demoed it with one of those too.

> SD reader  X    ✓
Yes, but see below on "irritating dongles"

> VGA, USB, etc. without a million stupid costs-extra dongles
>           X    ✓
I hope they are the same as the ones on my MacBook / iPhone.

> Faster? Feh. Half a GHz is plenty for anything shy of the grossly
> inefficient idiocy of Google Wave (for which a Core 2 Duo still isn't
> enough), but I can do more with it because I can install LaTeX,
> Subversion, et. al.
I have always thought precisely the same of NOT being able to run LaTeX :-)
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Les