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To: Done, gone. who wrote (85580)	9/29/2009 12:40:48 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>Is anyone here going to buy it? If so, why please? Me? No. If the rumor is correct, the tablet offers me far less functionality than I already have in my netbook hackintosh, for likely double the price. Thanks in advance for your reasoned answers.<< Michal - I think I'll wait until I see it before making a decision about buying it. How's that for reasoned? ;-) I do know that my decision would be based on what things I could do with the device, and what it might do better than a netbook. For example, I would prefer to watch movies on a device with a better screen. Same with reading books. But the fact is that I don't find my MacBook Pro to be a terribly burdensome thing to carry around, and it allows me to watch movies in HD. And I read on it all the time, too. Yeah, I'd have to see the thing first. I will say that I found the idea of an Apple designed smartphone compelling even before the details of what it would do were known, and I don't feel that way about this tablet thingy. Who knows? - Allen

To: Done, gone. who wrote (85580)	9/29/2009 2:41:26 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Is anyone here going to buy it? If so, why please? That was my reaction to the Kindle. WTF? Why would anyone buy an overpriced Kindle when you could get a Laptop for the same amount. And then they sold the sheet out of 'em. I'm still a little unclear on the paradigm, except I can see professionals who would normally carry a lot of books around desiring one. I think the apple tablet cannot have a 10" screen, except it occurred to me that a 10" x 5" screen might work. People hate to scroll horizontally, but they are used to vertical scrolling. A form factor this size would still fit in pockets. Maybe 8" x 4" ??? Anyway I think it has to differentiate itself from a netbook or laptop. It has to have incredible connectivity. I think it has to have a phone. I see it as a business tool. Perhaps part of a strategy to put one more wedge into the business world. What is has or doesn't have is going to be a big surprise I think. It's so fun to speculate and it's going to be fun to see it and then debate it. I also think it's part of Jobs' lingering obsessive wish for personal vindication for introducing the Newton.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (85580)	9/29/2009 10:10:58 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Is anyone here going to buy it? If so, why please? Assuming it is what I'm expecting it to be, sign me up. Would prefer a slightly smaller screen but it's close enough. Portable browsing, document reading, document creation, skteching (can't wait to see the UI for the obvious photo editing app!) - there are all kinds of everyday, relatively non-glamorous uses for this where it would absolutely trump a netbook. At $200/netbook I really don't see this as an either/or decision - all these devices are now cheap enough and powerful enough that IMO they should be thought of as point tools - so choose the right tool for the job (which of course varies from user to user). I know a guy who has set up an elderly family member with an older netbook, running Ubuntu, that does nothing but sit in the kitchen, start up Firefox on booting, and load Recipes.com. That's it. That's it's sole purpose in life - to surf Recipes.com. And that's A Good Thing. IMO, etc.