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shmokes:
I have a Nintendo Wii.  The graphics are pretty limited compared to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.  It's pretty similarly powerful to a Gamecube.  I like the IR pointer, but the motion controls are pretty rudimentary and unreliable.  There are some really good games for it, but most of them are 1st party games.  The 3rd party games are generally not great quality, but strangely even the really good 3rd party games don't often sell very well on the platform.  Perhaps this is partially the reason that 3rd party publishers don't put in the time/expense to deliver really polished games for the platform.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Level42 on April 07, 2010, 04:48:43 pm ---The iPad:
I want it for surfing the internet on the couch, reading e-mails etc.
I want if for reading and scrolling through PDF's when I'm working on a cab
I want it for showing my (family) pics to friends and family
I want it for small-party (2/3 people) instructions (presentations) that I give (where a beamer is just a joke)

--- End quote ---
A netbook is much more suitable to those needs and at half the price of an iPad. For the same money as an iPad you can buy one with a swiveling touchscreen that you can even turn into a tablet if you must.

shmokes:
I don't know about that.  I played with a friend's iPad for a few minutes and it felt very speedy.  Also the PDF support was awesome.  He had a program that gave him like 8 different colored highlighters and you could highlight and annotate PDFs super quickly and intuitively -- great for school work, which is what I would want it for (if I wasn't about to graduate).  In terms of surfing the internet on the couch, I don't know.  A netbook would have Flash, which would make the experience better, but again, the iPad is very speedy, and the form factor is pretty great.  As far as showing family pics to family and friends, I can't really imagine a netbook is better than the iPad.  It's such a simple task, and one that is done extremely well on the iPad, that I think at best a netbook could match it.

If you were making arguments about legit productivity (Word, Excel) then I think your argument would be pretty opened and closed.  The iPad lacks a hardware keyboard.  The end.  But to suggest that the iPad does nothing better than a Netbook is just pointless Apple hating.

patrickl:
I didn't suggest that.

danny_galaga:

I'm thinking that things the Ipad doesn't have, Apple anticipate being obsolete fairly soon (in regards to what the Ipad is for- browsing etc). And that even if that weren't the case, the mere fact of the Ipad becoming a huge seller will make it so...

They've got their ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- together nowadays, whether you like their products or not...

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