I know the last post I wrote was “Whats the iPoint?”, but the more I see this device and the possibilities it opens, the more I want one.
I currently have a netbook, Dell Mini 1010, that lives in the living room. Its a nice little machine, 1.6ghz 1gig ram 1366×768 resolution, but all it does is browse the web, and poorly. Its just bloody slow. I had originally purchased it to replace another netbook, HP Mini 2133, because of its “speed.” It is faster than that poor via C7, but its still horrible, not to mention this one has the Poulsbo chipset.
I started thinking, what do I want in a device here at the house?
- Great Web Browsing
- eBooks, including my collection of PDF’s
- Watching Videos
- Playing Games, nothing major
- Write and edit some documents
- Great Battery Life
Going through this list, the iPad is actually the device I need. Say What? Why not just get a laptop? Answer, too much, don’t need all that, besides, they are horrible for reading books. But what about the cons?
- No Camera
- No Multitasking
- No Open Development
- Can’t play my divx/xvid video collection
Well, the camera on my netbook I have used once, just to see if it worked. Never again. As for Multitasking, I have the capability to do it on my Mini, just no processor to, so I end up in single task anyway. Multitasking may come in iPhoneOS 4.0 too. As for development, I don’t write native apps, everything I do is in web languages. Im open to do whatever I want there, especially with HTML5 and webgl support in there. As for my existing video collection, took me about 10 minutes to create an html5 application that would transcode those files into mpeg4 and have them playing. Got to love the open source community there.
Android?
I have a Motorola Droid, rooted, running 2.1. While it is a nice device, the android operating system just does not scale up to this form. There are Android based tablets coming to the market, but just lack the polish for something I just want to work. Sorry Android Dev Team, your doing GREAT!, just keep going.
As much as it pains me to say, this is actually the device I need for what I want. Dang you Apple!
