QuakindudeMod

February 15, 2010 at 7:38am

Jeeez people. The author was jacked up to even put that iPad killer note in there. The only reason he did it is to get more hits on the article and to incite commentary. 

If you take the keyboard off that thing, all you have is a damned NETBOOK without a keyboard. The iPad and this thing are in two entirely different classes of computing equipment. 

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sp991

February 15, 2010 at 5:56am

If we have android running well on a netbook, where does chrome OS fit?

thematejka

February 15, 2010 at 1:01am

Has anyone seen the new netbooks? Ion powered, dual atom core. They are quite peppy. My brother owns one and it's is awesome. I am a power user so I don't want something slow, but if you do your research, you'll find these new netbooks to be great, and NOT overpriced unlike the ipad.. 

 

I hate when apple fans miss the point. The only reason why the ipad, itouch is fast, is because of what's running on it. Netbooks can be slow, only because of multitasking windows. Put mac OSX or whatever on a pc containing hardware that is equal to price in whatever apple product you compare, and you have a super fast apple rig. $1000 for macbook...$1000 for pc laptop, put on osx and you have a superfast rig. Microsoft and others have done leaps and bounds with the pc. Sure it is a bit slow on some products (netbooks), but a mac at the same price would not hold up. $500 itouch, or $500 netbook, what do you choose? better be netbook. bottom line, apple overcharges, or should find ways to lower costs, everyone else has done it with great success.  

CentiZen

February 14, 2010 at 7:55pm

Any idea for pricing? That will be a big factor in my purchase decision, because I need a lightweight machine to supplement my desktop when I go off to college. 

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Baer

February 14, 2010 at 7:24pm

From what I see of the iPad it will self destruct and needs no killer. As for this unit, it looks to be a very wimpy unit in a feild of wimpy units. I tried to use an Atom powered netbook over the holidays and it drove me nuts with it's delays and slooooow response to most things. This unit is even less capabile.

So, can a wimpy netbook kill off an oversized IPod touch? that is a question that is not worthy of much thought.

athlon11

February 14, 2010 at 4:04pm

It looks cool and I like the fact that it is Android so it will be much more open that the iPad, however it is still just about as useless as the iPad for most applications. A regular netbook will still kill it for actual functionality.