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What you would add to the iPad?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 999634" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>None of those are what I would call in-between devices.</p><p></p><p>LifeBook T4310 - Price $1200-$1300 vs $500 starting price. It's just a mini-notebook. I can't really use another notebook. This type of device wouldn't get any of my money, unless I was purchasing it as my only notebook computer. 4.5 hrs battery life vs. 10 hours. Weight they don't list, my best guess, it's in the same neighborhood as the:</p><p></p><p>ArmorX10 at 5.2 lbs vs 1.5 lbs; 3 1/2 times the weight of the iPad. Don't think there are many people that want to be holding 5+ lbs in one hand for very long periods of time. Once again starting price is at the $1100 vs $500 mark. Still not a device I would buy except as my only notebook.</p><p></p><p>Q1UP-V: as for it being an iPad killer, it's not even being manufactured by Samsung any longer. I sure wouldn't purchase one. Samsung has this nasty habit of not providing any replacement parts for devices once they quit manufacturing them making their warrantees virtually worthless. They do have two new devices that can compete with the iPad. The starting price for their 2 models: $750 & $900 vs $500. 60Gb drives, similar weight at approx 1.5 lbs, 3.5 - 4.5 hr battery vs 10 hr, wireless g instead of n speeds. Neither one of them have any of the extras you seem to be looking for either. And sorry, if it was the best device in the world, Samsung can't have any of my money, period. They have absolutely the worst customer service in the electronics industry. As hard as it is to get support out of them for a broken remote, TV, DVR, etc. under warranty; I can only imagine how bad it would be for a computer. Samsung does make some nice equipment, only because the money that should be going to support their customer base goes instead into more R&D. They need to learn how to do both.</p><p></p><p>You're still wanting Apple to come out with a device which the iPad is not, a netbook with touch screen, full blown OS, built in keyboard and all the ports that go along with it and weighing in at the same 1.5 lbs and at $500. ???? You folks must be living in 2020 instead of 2010. Today's technology is not going to provide such a device at that price point.</p><p></p><p>Maybe some folks just don't have any comprehension of technology and the cost related to R&D to put out a new device. </p><p></p><p>All of you need to be thankful there were enough of us back in '81-'82 that bought into the TI-99. Even more of us bought into the Commodore and Amiga through the 80's. Then we bought into the x86 form factor. I remember when the 100Mhz CPU was considered an amazing technological product. </p><p></p><p>According to many of your thought processes though, we were cheated back then. We should have waited another 27 years for the core i7 before we bought a computer. If all of us in those days had decided to wait, guess what, computers would not be in everyone's home today. They would still be relegated to the server farms and way too expensive for any of us mere peons to afford. Yes, you all should be thankful that us old codgers have been cheated for going on 30 years now so that you are able to enjoy the technology that exists today.</p><p></p><p>edit: While I'm at it; thanks to you folks that invested in Apple in years gone by while I was striding by those aisles in the stores with my nose in the air harumphing at it's inability to play the latest game I wanted. Of course I was heading for the aisle with the new video cards. My old video card (which I'd paid $300-500 only 9 months before and was now only $100) couldn't play that game either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 999634, member: 24160"] None of those are what I would call in-between devices. LifeBook T4310 - Price $1200-$1300 vs $500 starting price. It's just a mini-notebook. I can't really use another notebook. This type of device wouldn't get any of my money, unless I was purchasing it as my only notebook computer. 4.5 hrs battery life vs. 10 hours. Weight they don't list, my best guess, it's in the same neighborhood as the: ArmorX10 at 5.2 lbs vs 1.5 lbs; 3 1/2 times the weight of the iPad. Don't think there are many people that want to be holding 5+ lbs in one hand for very long periods of time. Once again starting price is at the $1100 vs $500 mark. Still not a device I would buy except as my only notebook. Q1UP-V: as for it being an iPad killer, it's not even being manufactured by Samsung any longer. I sure wouldn't purchase one. Samsung has this nasty habit of not providing any replacement parts for devices once they quit manufacturing them making their warrantees virtually worthless. They do have two new devices that can compete with the iPad. The starting price for their 2 models: $750 & $900 vs $500. 60Gb drives, similar weight at approx 1.5 lbs, 3.5 - 4.5 hr battery vs 10 hr, wireless g instead of n speeds. Neither one of them have any of the extras you seem to be looking for either. And sorry, if it was the best device in the world, Samsung can't have any of my money, period. They have absolutely the worst customer service in the electronics industry. As hard as it is to get support out of them for a broken remote, TV, DVR, etc. under warranty; I can only imagine how bad it would be for a computer. Samsung does make some nice equipment, only because the money that should be going to support their customer base goes instead into more R&D. They need to learn how to do both. You're still wanting Apple to come out with a device which the iPad is not, a netbook with touch screen, full blown OS, built in keyboard and all the ports that go along with it and weighing in at the same 1.5 lbs and at $500. ???? You folks must be living in 2020 instead of 2010. Today's technology is not going to provide such a device at that price point. Maybe some folks just don't have any comprehension of technology and the cost related to R&D to put out a new device. All of you need to be thankful there were enough of us back in '81-'82 that bought into the TI-99. Even more of us bought into the Commodore and Amiga through the 80's. Then we bought into the x86 form factor. I remember when the 100Mhz CPU was considered an amazing technological product. According to many of your thought processes though, we were cheated back then. We should have waited another 27 years for the core i7 before we bought a computer. If all of us in those days had decided to wait, guess what, computers would not be in everyone's home today. They would still be relegated to the server farms and way too expensive for any of us mere peons to afford. Yes, you all should be thankful that us old codgers have been cheated for going on 30 years now so that you are able to enjoy the technology that exists today. edit: While I'm at it; thanks to you folks that invested in Apple in years gone by while I was striding by those aisles in the stores with my nose in the air harumphing at it's inability to play the latest game I wanted. Of course I was heading for the aisle with the new video cards. My old video card (which I'd paid $300-500 only 9 months before and was now only $100) couldn't play that game either. [/QUOTE]
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