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Is anyone actually thinking of getting one of these (the real thing not the one from the picture)?
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i lol'd
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Re: iPad

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  1. It's a 4:3 Fullscreen and not a 16:10 Widescreen. Do not like.
  2. It doesn't have a camera. That knocks video conferencing and iChat AV off the list. do not like.
  3. It doesn't multitask (at least iPhone OS 3.2 doesn't, 4.0 might) so I can't fire up Pandora and write and email and have an IM convo at once. Do not like.
  4. It doesn't have a native Flash Player. Things like YouTube have apps that make them work, but Flash Websites simply won't work. Do not like.
Regardless of price, I'm thinking 3rd or 4th gen iPad will be more to my liking. However, when you throw in their pricing ($500 for the base model) that does actually make it cheap enough that I might not mind having one around just for the hell of it. Had it been the $800-$1000 device I assumed it would be, I never would've thought twice.

Now if they can tackle say, at least 3 out of 4 of the above issues, I'd almost definitely buy one.
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(The irony is that you wouldn't be able watch this video in this post with an iPad :lol: )
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I agree on all your points. The no multi-tasking alone is what killed any incentive for me to buy it. Plus it's $500 for a 16GB version. 16GB??! Seriously? What is this, 10 years ago? Come on now, you can buy a 1TB drive for a fraction of the cost of this thing. It doesn't even have an SD card slot to expand the memory.

Ridiculous. :roll:
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Not for me . . . I get enough of MAC and Apple at work . . . do not need it for home too. Plus, it suits none of my needs. Heck, I don't even have a cell phone as I simply do not need one.

As for the 16Gb size and in all fairness, it is a SSD, and those suckers are expensive. I think it is ridiculous, yeah, but that is most like the only way they could keep the price reasonable (though I think it is overpriced even at 499 to start).
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I'll give you that SSD are expensive, but at least they could add an SD slot or something so you could upgrade it yourself. F'ing Apple. :roll:
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If I was still at university I probably would grab one of these, the main thing I used my laptop for was TV and web browsing.

I like it, but I would never ever buy one without multitasking. That is the biggest nope there, so I can't use MSN and browse the web = fail .
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This made me lol.

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