[citation][nom]Bamslang[/nom]Won’t have anything to offer that isn’t on the iPad? Won’t be close in features or price? Are you really that dense to believe all of that? Apple is almost ALWAYS pricing their products 50% higher than comparable products on the market, even if their product has inferior hardware. The iPad is a closed system which means you are limited to what you can do. Sure the W7 laptop won’t have a bunch of stupid apps you can download at the touch of a button, but you will actually be able to use it like a computer. You know… install/uninstall software, change OS, multi-task, the list goes on and on. Now not to bash the iPad, it does fill a niche market. But to pretend that it can do even half of what you could do with a real OS is a joke.And as for the viruses… I always laugh at when Mac users throw this in my face. Macs are just as susceptible (not acceptable) to viruses and hacking as a PC, if not more. There simply isn’t as many viruses for Macs in the wild due to Apple’s low market share. Besides, using Avast Free and NoScript, I haven’t gotten a single virus in over 3 years and that includes me going to any and every website I want to. Just so you know, the more people you lure over to Macs means the higher likely hood that hackers/coders will begin writing viruses for OSx and just wait till the poo hits the fan with no real anti-virus. Also, “A year behind Apple so it’s highly unlikely that they will be close to the iPad”… tell that to Google about their Android platform. If you’re going to be a fanboi, at least get your facts straight and don’t just regurgitate what every other kid in your Graphic Design on a Mac 101 class says.[/citation]
+1 to that bro!
When 10 differant hardware companies all push out Win7 Tablets they will have to compete on price if they all use the same OS, only Sony will have a price premium as they are the Apple of the PC world, but they usually have the sexiest hardware too and i'm sure Sony is cooking up a tablet that will piss all over the iPad in the "looks good" department. Personally I dont worry about the good looks too much as long as it's functional and would happily have a slightly thicker tablet as long as I knew for a fact it was capable of playing back my ridiculously large collection of torrented TV and music, editting photo's, printing them, burning them onto DVDs, transfering to flashdrive or SD card.
PRINTING, OMG??
Can you print from an iPad? Really? How do you get the printer driver on it?