@rmbrown09 You have 3 different tablets being presented. No singularity here. And yes, you will see these devices and OS' do things the iPad can't. Like WebOS' notification system and multitasking/RAM capabilities, e-Reader functionality [(and legibility) not to mention Android and the forthcoming Gingerbread], and 7's versatility.
@rmbrown09 it would be way better than the ipad if palm didn't just stop after the pre. They need a new update and more applications. And a windows 7 tablet would be way more useful than an ipad.
@rmbrown09 Why cant people wrap their heads around the fact that devices like this and the iPad are not meant to be a computer. They are a new breed of device. With the kind of connectivity we have today and the massive amounts of cloud services available a full computer is not necessarily always better. It is true that I wish the iPad could multitask but from what I have seen of IOS 4 on my iPhone 4 multitasking on the iPad is gonna be awesome come the 4.0 update this fall. Personally I wouldn't want a Windows 7 slate. Windows 7 is not designed to run on such a device and is far to complicated and generic to run with any sort of reliability. I have to fix my wife's Windows PC at least once a week. I have yet to fix her iPad. Lets keep windows on the desktop and use more streamlined OS' like WebOS, IOS and Android on our portables. Putting something like Windows 7 on a slate would be just as silly as running Android or IOS on my Macbook Pro. Personally I think this is just the beginning of an OS revolution.
@fourthletter You're assuming that by the time this is released iPad v2 won't have a camera. Judging by all the 'Facetime using email leaks', it most definitely will have a front facing camera.
@Johnny Tremaine Yeah, iPad 2 will 100% guarantee have a camera or 2, and just because of a camera and USB doesn't mean iPad is licked, everything else about the device would have to be better too, and why do people have to get to excited about something being better than the iPad? Your all so competitive "ha, the iPad sucks, this will be better than it, the iPhone sucks, this will be better than it"
@engadget fanboy Agreed on the observation that people need to understand these devices are different than laptops. But your nits on Windows 7 are misplaced, and basically wrong. Windows 7 runs fine on a huge range of hardware, including netbooks with Atom processors. It's not 'too generic' or 'too complicated' to run reliably either, I have 5 separate Windows 7 machines between myself, my wife and my parents that are all rock solid stable. Do a clean install, put Microsoft's free antivirus (Security Essentials) on it, Office and Firefox and you are good to go.
And that's to me what's so frustrating about the PC manufacturers here. Literally all they have to do is take one of their Win7 netbooks, flip the screen over, make it a touchscreen, and ship it. Win7 has a fine soft keyboard, but they could improve it if they like. Sure it would be harder to use than an iPad, but it would also instantly be far more versatile and powerful-- MS Office, Flash, USB device connectivity, the list of things it could do that the iPad can't is a mile long and would easily outweigh (to me) the things it doesn't do as well as the iPad.
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is this going to do anything the iPad can't? If not I expect everyone that raged at the iPad, to do the same with this device.
@rmbrown09
if a Windows 7 tablet is really released, then yes, it will do alot the iPad doesn't do.. like, you know.. be useful...
@Madcat but this is a WebOS tablet.... we are not talking about Win7
@Madcat How is the iPad not useful? I've written full term papers, coded, and even browsed porn on the iPad.
@rmbrown09 You have 3 different tablets being presented. No singularity here. And yes, you will see these devices and OS' do things the iPad can't. Like WebOS' notification system and multitasking/RAM capabilities, e-Reader functionality [(and legibility) not to mention Android and the forthcoming Gingerbread], and 7's versatility.
@rmbrown09 it would be way better than the ipad if palm didn't just stop after the pre. They need a new update and more applications. And a windows 7 tablet would be way more useful than an ipad.
@rmbrown09 Why cant people wrap their heads around the fact that devices like this and the iPad are not meant to be a computer. They are a new breed of device. With the kind of connectivity we have today and the massive amounts of cloud services available a full computer is not necessarily always better. It is true that I wish the iPad could multitask but from what I have seen of IOS 4 on my iPhone 4 multitasking on the iPad is gonna be awesome come the 4.0 update this fall. Personally I wouldn't want a Windows 7 slate. Windows 7 is not designed to run on such a device and is far to complicated and generic to run with any sort of reliability. I have to fix my wife's Windows PC at least once a week. I have yet to fix her iPad. Lets keep windows on the desktop and use more streamlined OS' like WebOS, IOS and Android on our portables. Putting something like Windows 7 on a slate would be just as silly as running Android or IOS on my Macbook Pro. Personally I think this is just the beginning of an OS revolution.
@engadget fanboy
please stop making so much sense. The heads of many readers are exploding right now.
@Madcat
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@rmbrown09
All it needs is a built in webcam and a USB port and iPad is licked. LOL
@fourthletter
You're assuming that by the time this is released iPad v2 won't have a camera. Judging by all the 'Facetime using email leaks', it most definitely will have a front facing camera.
@Johnny Tremaine Yeah, iPad 2 will 100% guarantee have a camera or 2, and just because of a camera and USB doesn't mean iPad is licked, everything else about the device would have to be better too, and why do people have to get to excited about something being better than the iPad? Your all so competitive "ha, the iPad sucks, this will be better than it, the iPhone sucks, this will be better than it"
@engadget fanboy Agreed on the observation that people need to understand these devices are different than laptops. But your nits on Windows 7 are misplaced, and basically wrong. Windows 7 runs fine on a huge range of hardware, including netbooks with Atom processors. It's not 'too generic' or 'too complicated' to run reliably either, I have 5 separate Windows 7 machines between myself, my wife and my parents that are all rock solid stable. Do a clean install, put Microsoft's free antivirus (Security Essentials) on it, Office and Firefox and you are good to go.
And that's to me what's so frustrating about the PC manufacturers here. Literally all they have to do is take one of their Win7 netbooks, flip the screen over, make it a touchscreen, and ship it. Win7 has a fine soft keyboard, but they could improve it if they like. Sure it would be harder to use than an iPad, but it would also instantly be far more versatile and powerful-- MS Office, Flash, USB device connectivity, the list of things it could do that the iPad can't is a mile long and would easily outweigh (to me) the things it doesn't do as well as the iPad.