iPad2: Lighter, slimmer, faster and cheaper

[AtW]

Looks interesting, but at the rate you are going you'll never buy a pad.?

I've already got a pad - all I need is a good sofa

[TimberWolf]

I've already got a pad - all I need is a good sofa

That was my joke

Edit: Except mine was better

[TheFaQQer]

Fail.


In your defence, Apple is a brand, Samsung is a make or something, no one will go for it but the die hard microsoft types.

Why would a die hard microsoft type choose an Android tablet?

If it looks decent (and Honeycomb does) then I might consider one of these, and I'm certainly not into MS by any means.

[doodab]

So I take it you never bought a computer then?

There was an article I read once that calculated if you had a big piece of computation to do, that would take say 4 years with the hardware you could afford now, it would be quicker and cheaper to sit on your ass for a year then buy the hardware, it would finish in under 3 years and cost less.

I read an article in Scientific American about quarks once, the guys involved wanted to do some QCD calculations far more complex than any commercially available supercomputer of the time could manage in a reasonable time, so they designed and built their own supercomputer to do them. By the time they had finished it it turned out they could have got their results quicker by waiting for technology to improve.

The machine was called the GF11, I can't find the original article from sciam.

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/ww...ueball196.html

[d000hg]

I've already got a pad - all I need is a good sofa

With all those servers you have, maybe you should sign them up for use in settee@home project.

[teclo]

Fail.


In your defence, Apple is a brand, Samsung is a make or something, no one will go for it but the die hard microsoft types.

Eh?? Apple is the manufacturer, Samsung is a manufacturer. Apple is a brand, Samsung is a brand.

Also why would die hard Microsoft types go for a Samsung tablet? It doesn't run windows, it runs Android.

[amcdonald]

Eh?? Apple is the manufacturer, Samsung is a manufacturer. Apple is a brand, Samsung is a brand.

Also why would die hard Microsoft types go for a Samsung tablet? It doesn't run windows, it runs Android.

I've got all Microsoft gear except my phone...

As a tablet is just a phone with a bigger screen, I can't see the point in getting one. The only use to me would be for reading techie stuff, even then a Kindle would make more sense

I've got an Android phone, why would I want an Android Tablet, you can't stuff it in your pocket like a phone and you'd look a plonker trying to make calls on it

[doodab]

I've got all Microsoft gear except my phone...

As a tablet is just a phone with a bigger screen, I can't see the point in getting one. The only use to me would be for reading techie stuff, even then a Kindle would make more sense

I've got an Android phone, why would I want an Android Tablet, you can't stuff it in your pocket like a phone and you'd look a plonker trying to make calls on it

I'd guess it depends if your primary use for a smart phone is as a phone, or like me you mostly use it for porn and scrabble, in which case the slightly larger screen makes sense. Essentially it's the old palm pilot / PDA reinvented with always on internet connectivity and the possibility of using it as a phone.