[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[David Tarrant]

Missed one:

                      iPad     EeePc(OS X)
Battery Life 10Hhs  2Hrs


Dave T

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

> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:32 +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
>> Small, instant on, faster than a netbook, better built than a netbook,  
>> better screen than a netbook. Seems like a winner to me.
> 
>         iPad EeePC
> Full OS    X    ✓
> Camera     X    ✓
> Keyboard   X    ✓
> SD reader  X    ✓
> VGA, USB, etc. without a million stupid costs-extra dongles
>           X    ✓
> 
> 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 don't think this is supposed to compete with netbooks. Hell, a small
> MacBook (or the Air, if weight matters more to you) probably defeats it
> on that count, for the "will only consider non-hackintosh OS X machines"
> crowd, since AIUI the iPad has already made itself too big to fit in
> pockets.
> 
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