MSI to Release Its Own Tablet, Does Multitasking

[exfileme]

MISI's Android-based touchscreen tablet will definitely have one advantage over iPad: multitasking.

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[tenor77]

multi-tasking?
Real OS?
1080?

Win

 

[captaincharisma]

i hopw asus or acer allows you to put a version of windows or linux on there tablets. these mobile OS are going to be too restrictive

 

[aspireonelover]

good job MSI, this is an iPad done right!

 

[NapoleonDK]

Now this is what I've been waiting for... All of the comments on the iPad and its lack of this-feature-or-that-feature-or-whatever will be directed at a platform that actually has potential; ANDROID + TEGRA.

 

[mousey]

"Apple's lower-priced iPad models" ... What? The cheapest iPad is $499, the most expensive is over $800. They just said that the MSI thing would be around $500 so what are they talking about?

 

[groveborn]

[citation][nom]mousey[/nom]"Apple's lower-priced iPad models" ... What? The cheapest iPad is $499, the most expensive is over $800. They just said that the MSI thing would be around $500 so what are they talking about?[/citation]

I hope you realize that competing means that you are effectively trying to target the same market. $500 and $499 target the same market. Also, they're likely to be about the same price, not exactly $1 different.

 

[doc70]

Sounds so good, almost did wet my pants. Guess will need an iPad for that.

/joke (for the trolls out there)

 

[philologos]

But Ars also has its doubts about MSI's ability to rival the "refinement of Apple's user interface."

iGag

 

[eklipz330]

iBreastpump?

 

[Pyroflea]

Yay, a not-shitty version of the iPad!

 

[Honis]

which we expect Apple to solve before the iPad goes on sale in 2 months.

Yep, just like everyone expected for the iPhone, for the last 3 hardware revisions. Keep up the awesome opinion based articles Kevin. Maybe someday Steve will fly from the heavens and grant you all your iPhone dreams.

 

[igot1forya]

iFarted

 

[4ILY45]

Add a webcam & i'm sold..

 

[phantomtrooper]

Android + Tegra 2! This is definitely a win.


I'd like to see what Asus could do with a tablet. I have one of their laptops and it is really nice.

 

[matt2k]

is that a snow leopard on the tablets home screen? cos its white and looks like a leopard...
just saying 😉
i'd love to have one of these tablets, but will definitely wait till a coupla generations on (or until my student loan comes through...)

 

[matt87_50]

cool, looks like the competition will be coming thick and fast this year, which is good to see.

also, Apple's user interface isn't all that. OSX can go **** it's self, I hate it. honestly, I struggle to see how anyone with a modicum of common sense could do any worse than apple has.

I do think having built in 3G is a nessesity tho. not for all. but for quite a bit of the market.

 

[zodiacfml]

acer and asus can do much better than this.

 

[Summer Leigh Castle]

Webcam or bust. Web conferencing... Seriously.

 

[gayan]

iSay iLike iT...

 

[fafner]

Looks like a nail to ipad's coffin.

 

[falchard]

The MSI model looks like nVidia's Tegra based Tablet. So its probably an OEM iteration of it and we should be seeing several of these from several companies.

ASUS already has a multi-touch support netbook that does more then the iPad while being loaded with a Windows OS.

 

[mdillenbeck]

Great, another product that has better specs on paper but will probably fall victim to poorly perceived interface and Apple's merciless marketing department. After all, consumers don't want a good product - they want the product that conveys "cool" or "hip" or some other imaging. After all, the media and consumers seem to be infatuated with i-this and i-that despite the many good alternate products available.

If anyone is interested in how corporations (and consumers) have turned away from product-driven companies to brand-driven companies, give Naomi Klein's book No Logo a read (with a grain of salt, as always).

 

[rebturtle]

We can only hope this doesn't turn out like the Creative Nomad players; another higher-quality competitively priced product crushed by the Apple marketing hype machine.

 

[SneakySnake]

1080p is really way to much overkill, it'll just make the screen dimmer or the battery life shorter since it's harder to push light through more pixels