iPad vs Netbook

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psrock said:

TheRealMafoo said:

psrock said:
Netbooks are like $299, right?

Some less, some more. If you want one with 3G and a contract, by the end of your two year contract you will have paid $720 more just on data charges for the netbook.

But for hardware, netbooks run from $250-$800. Most are around $300.

I think that in a year or so, I could see this ending netbooks. For what a netbook can do, this thing blows it away. If you need real computing (like development work, or photoshop), you need a laptop. A netbook is not going to cut it anyway.

For 90% of the people who a netbook will work for, an iPad will do what they want far better. 

That's why I got A laptop. And I think you are confusing them with tablet PC which is more a like the Ipad.

I wouldnt advise any one to get first Gen Apple products anyway, it's always better to wait and get the followup which are always such a better deal and just better period.

 

I wouldn't even advise anyone to get an iPad at all right now.  Someone had one at work today and it was cool but it was still a pretty big pile of fail.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really cool device but it has a lot of problems and while it does a lot, it doesn't really do anything nearly as good as anything else comparable.

Unless you're just looking for a superfluous gadget there's really no reason to get an iPad at the moment.

Also, just like I don't know why you'd want 3G on your iPad, I don't know why you'd want 3G on your netbook.  Even if you did, the experience on the netbook is just so much better because you actually have a competent browser that can actually do things and you can even get 4G if you want.

As a bonus, you can even do that hyper-advanced thing called multitasking on a netbook.

iPad's are cool, but they're much further from a year from ending netbooks.  This isn't even your typical don't buy first gen Apple products thing, it's just not a good device that's incredibly overpriced.