<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:35 -0500, Casey DuBois wrote:<br>
> Will it do everything your netbook will?<br>
<br>
It doesn't multitask! All I can say is "Seriously? .... Seriously?".<br>
Who the *@^&* wants to use this thing?<br>
<br>
> What will it do better?<br>
<br>
Act as a portal to iTunes.<br>
<br>
> What won't it do?<br>
<br>
Real work of any kind. I see some interesting uses for tablets [real<br>
tablets] but I really can't imagine them. even good ones, competing<br>
against real laptops or high-end netbooks [whatever that means],<br>
<br>
My biggest gripe [aside from the backbreaker of no multitasking] would<br>
be on-screen-keyboard. Once you bring up the on-screen-keyboard you've<br>
lost a huge amount of real-estate on the smallish screen. And sitting<br>
and using the thing in any normal position would be really awkward.<br>
</blockquote><div> Wow. Going for that substance thing</div><div>again when a iPad has such nice glitter.</div><div><br></div><div>As for size, fear not! I've heard rumors</div><div>already about the MaxiPad. </div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div></div>