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Originally Posted by Agustin
Finally, if you have the time give this article at Daring Fireball a read: The iPad Big Picture. It's extremely insightful and mentions something that everybody is failing to point out: the hardware capabilities of the iPad and Apple's potential strategy for the market. |
All this guy talks about is how fast it is, based on 20 minutes he spent with it, without offering actual comparisons with other existing tablets. He assumes that it's the best CPU out there, and that only Apple could have pulled this off. "Web pages render so fast it was hard to believe" - he is comparing the iPad with the iPhone; of course it's gonna be faster, it's huge in comparison and offers more room for better hardware. The fact alone that he is comparing it to iPod touch/iPhone shows that the iPad offers nothing else but a bigger screen and a faster core.
ArsTechnica has a much better article on the iPad, if anyone's interested.
Oh, and iWork without multitasking is rather useless, I for one constantly switch between the browser, a PDF reader and Pages/Word when writing a paper, or creating a presentation. The 4:3 screen is ridiculous for watching movies, and as for eBooks - you can get a Kindle for 1/3 of the price of the iPad.
