lets go that is data from one website,
do proper research, not what you want to read.
Then why are you comparing sales to netbooks?
What is it designed to be?
Media consumption, like online video, which is all flash based and cant be viewed.
Storying photos, without a firewire or usb plug, using a usb cord to transfer is tedious at best, not to mention 64gig isnt going to do a great deal. I have had my camera for under a year and have over that.
Music playing? not really the greatest thing, im not going to carry around something 10 inches in size to play music. Not to mention you cant even use it to play music while you are doing something else on it.
Watching videos? everything has to be synced from itunes, and the video must be purchased from apple, you cant merely convert using handbrake and sync on, all the video you will be watching WILL be purchased. Which for me would throw over 1tb of move and tv down the toilet.
The very nice screen you refer to is not even 16:9 resolution (it is 4:3) which will either cut down what your watching, or shrink it down and lose quality.
You say the quality of the screen is better than most netbooks, most netbooks cost half as much as an iPad, the netbooks that cost the same have 16:9 and 1080p, neither of which the iPad has.
Why would you want to be able to read through documents and emails and sit there and view power points without being able to readily make changes.
When I do uni assignments, I type at over 80wpm, frequently run excel word, one note, power point and adobe pdf reader all side by side. The ipad would have to close each program
and open up another just to quickly check something on the criteria sheet or the likes. Not to mention cant play music in the background while doing so, and even if it could I have over 30gig of music on my netbook. Leaves 30gig free for other jive which is sweet dick all.
You can buy a dickload of books for 900 dollars. The kindle is available for under 200, so you can buy a kindle and a decent netbook for under half the price of a ipad.
Oh and you can also go buy an ipod touch and still have change.
bullshit statement of the year, you used it for 5 mins in a shop while it was laying flat down on a table and you were standing looking down over the top of it, if you were sitting on a chair it would scoot all over your lap and shit, if you held it you would only have one hand. If you sat down at a table and put it down it would hurt your hands and feel stupid. I can type over 80wpm on my netbook. You keep saying its not a replacement for laptops yet you keep making direct comparisons. The purchaseable keyboard costs 90 dollars, and completely ruins any advantage a iPad MIGHT have over a netbook in portability. Which is zero, as it takes up the same amount of room in a bag as a netbook.
You call it a decent compromise, to what? a phone? why should a tablet keyboard be compared to a phone keyboard? if its inferior to what your comparing it to, a note book, then its inferior.
My netbook cost 300 dollars, and it has a great keyboard. The top of the line netbooks that are cheaper than the ipad have even better keyboards. Not to mention the other features that leave them for dead.
this here is 440 dollars
It is the same size, weighs LESS, is slightly thicker and will outdo the iPad in every respect, my nb has gone over the 10 hour battery point many times, I wouldn't be surprised if it did 11 hours. Thats multitasking with music playing and the screen relatively bright.
Did i mention its half the price?
All things that netbooks come with standard, so much so they wouldn't even bother to list them as abilities in a spec sheet.
How is a netbook a pain to do any form of internet stuff?
the iPad doesnt have flash, so every one of the social net working sites will have to be an app that will need to be opened and closed to operate in.
My netbook I can open up firefox and go bang bang bang and have 5 tabs open with each site I want to visit and be done with each within 10 seconds.
The ipad will take ALOT longer.
I know where my money would (and has) go, and the people im going to continue laughing at.