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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

That's kind of where I see it. Wife and I were discussing this earlier... So you carry a Laptop, a smartphone, a mp3 player and a netbook/tablet...? the categories are really spilling over into one another...

Yeah as soon as netbooks come with a hd screen that are touch screens and are sold at a comparable price why the hell would you want this? And why the hell would you want this in the first place. Its just a big ipod touch, without the ability to carry it around easily. Plus youll want to get a case for it, so wouldnt you rather just have a netbook that flips open. Plus no real key board makes it useless for typing anything.

I volunteer/mentor a finance club at VCU and was talking to a few of the kids about it. Apparently the big market is going to be text books (which are already being heavily sold in data form). But all of them said they wouldn’t want to have to read text off a monitor for a 4+ hour crash session. Plus you cant really take it to class to take notes, because no key board. And it has a crappy os compared to netbooks or laptops, which means no multi tasking. So if you want to have your text book open, your notes from class, the internet for searching terms and chatting with other students no can do with the ipad. Maybe the heavy flow version that comes out will fix it, but this thing seems worthless in the day of netbooks.

Apple just needs to come out with a tablet netbook that innovates, not this piece of crap. Oh yeah no flash support and no USB drive (a usb adapter is available, but is just a scam for more money and adds to the bulk), what the hell is that? This thing is a joke.