| twesterm said: 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. |
For what I want, the iPad is a much better device then a Netbook. If a Netbook did all the things I wanted to do, I would get a netbook. Here is a list for why I chose an iPad over a netbook (I don't have mine yet as I ordered the 3G)
- Work blocks everything on there network. If I want to use MS Messanger, I can't from work. I can with the iPad with 3G.
- I have to think a lot at what I do. This requires me to write small amounts of stuff down quickly. From stored, to on, to writing, to stored again on the iPad is MUCH faster then on a Netbook.
- The iPad does things "best in class", where the Netbook is a cheep laptop. For example, if I want to watch Netflix on my iPad, There is not a portable device at any price that does it better.
- I have paid for dozens of apps I use everyday on my iPhone, that I can use on this. I can not use those apps on a Netbook
- If I lose it, I can wipe it remotely, and when I buy a replacement, I can restore it to the old one in a mouse click.
- It charges over USB, so when I travel with my wife, I can just charge it off her laptop with a simple cable.
- The screen is second to none. No netbook comes close, and no laptop in it's price range does either.
Really the only thing I would like it to be able to do that it does not, is allow me to have my IM client open and do other things. If I have IM open and I am chatting, I am stuck just chatting. But, OS 4.0 will be revealed in 3 days. We will see what it has in it :)
EDIT: Why the 3G? I can stream things over it. I can remote back to my desktop PC from anywhere. I can use DropBox, and always have my files with me. I can take a photo with my iPhone, upload it to DropBox, and Download it to my iPad. I will be connecting it to my work Exchange email system, so I will get (and can send) emails from anywhere. There are a lot of reasons.
