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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum And it has a separate physical keyboard and touchpad -- so you never lose screen real estate for input. . Yep. The Air seems much better compared to the iPad. It will run real software, for examp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic Will you please point out where, in my post from which you quoted me, I said anything to the effect of "iPad rulz, Slate drools!"?? I'm pretty sure I didn't even mention the iPad anywhere in the post. The on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Hmm... the thing is when you say "fragments", or "wrong fragment", it sounds worse than it is. Fragments implies small pieces. But there are only two halves here. iPhone/touch and iPad. The "wrong" "f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 The bonus is, you could actually test out Oplayer Lite on your iPhone. For the low, low price of.... Free. Then perhaps you could get back to us on any challenges you might have with certain MKV or XVID f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 But the challenge for the HP Slate is, how it directly compares to netbooks because that's the category it's playing in. The iPad may have "poorer specs" but it's in a different category. Why is the A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 By saying "will not run on the vast majority of iOS products that Apple is selling", you just mean they haven't made an iPhone version. That's all. Your phrasing has a clear slant. Agreed. They need t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Fair enough, then the question is do you think a 9" HP Slate at $799 is appropriate for "that sort of stuff"...? Or would one might as well get a $599 11" netbook. I don't know. I've not read many review…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 iOS fragmentation? Are you saying because you have older hardware you expect all the latest apps to run on your hardware? No. I'm saying that because of iOS fragmentation, VLC will run on some iOS produc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic ? But most significantly, as has been pointed out by other posters here, the Slate is essentially a keyboardless netbook?at twice the price. By that logic, the iPad is less than a netbook at up to 3 time…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Ever try create a picture, a CAD diagram, a painting, a page layout, a story-board, a flow chart, take some notes, write a program, enter a signature... on a 16:9 7" display? A computer screen is us…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I'm sure there are other unsaid reasons, but this reason does have some validity too. . Other reasons that have "some validity": We want to protect you! You might do something stupid! We don't trust…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Many would still be 16:10. The last good resolution. Does anybody make that except one company? And hey - Amazon does indeed sell narrow-screen 4:3 monitors! they have 18,921 computer monitors f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by samban Then how useful is generic port like USB where you cannot use the drivers of the desktop OS, which means lot your devices suddenly become useless. The idea of WHQL is to make sure all devices work well with wind…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fila97 In case you still don't know the MacBook Air's battery life is tested against a more stringent test that depicts a more accurate real life usage battery life. Only Apple tells the truth about this stuff. Eve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bsenka if the HP Mini can handle it, why can't the iPad using the same app? Because compared to a netbook, the iPad is very anemic. It has hardly any RAM, and a cellphone-class CPU. For content consumption, man…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cummje Rubbish. I've used other Windows tablets and haven't had problems. Still, they aren't as touch friendly as an iPad. But again, I'd sacrifice a bit of finger friendliness for the added advantage of a stylus in ce…
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Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove Rubish. I have both o player and vlc and they both work great. I don't know if these guys have messed up settings or they are trying to play some 5gb mkv or what? If you think the atom, lol, will play these…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox And yes, I know that Windows 7 has New Special Touch Enhancements, but we all know they're modest and not really all that much of an improvement over the previous iterations-- . How do "we all" know that? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism On tablets, the ?regular? aspect ratio is 4:3 because the iPad has a near 100% of the tablet market. Of course, it?s impossible for an aspect ratio to be obsolete, which is oddly how many described it back wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ispeakinsong Sure, the screen will be nicer for when you do want to want watch videos and whatnot, but is it worth it at twice the price of a netbook? The iPad sells for as much as 3 times the price of a netbook. …