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Best advice for those wanting iPad
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:13:51 -0700, nospam wrote:
In article , ray wrote: Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point? it's not a netbook, nor is it half one. You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
In article , ray
wrote: Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point? it's not a netbook, nor is it half one. You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. since it's not a netbook, how can it have half the capabilities of one? |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
In article , John A.
wrote: Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point? it's not a netbook, nor is it half one. You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. since it's not a netbook, how can it have half the capabilities of one? Huh? A pickup isn't a dump truck, but it certainly has a certain fraction of the capabilities of one. bad analogy. they're both trucks. the ipad is not a netbook, it's a tablet. it has a lot more in common with a kindle than it does a netbook. it's in many ways, a kindle on an awful lot of steroids. |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:13:45 -0700, nospam wrote:
In article , ray wrote: Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point? it's not a netbook, nor is it half one. You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. since it's not a netbook, how can it have half the capabilities of one? A laptop is not a netbook either - it has all the capabilities of one and more - but in a larger form factor. |
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On 2010-04-09 19:57:54 -0700, ray said:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:13:45 -0700, nospam wrote: In article , ray wrote: Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point? it's not a netbook, nor is it half one. You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. since it's not a netbook, how can it have half the capabilities of one? A laptop is not a netbook either - it has all the capabilities of one and more - but in a larger form factor. Ah. So something that has neither the form factor nor the purpose of a netbook can still be described as being some portion of a netbook. Why I am I not following your line of reasoning here? -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
In article , John A.
wrote: A pickup isn't a dump truck, but it certainly has a certain fraction of the capabilities of one. bad analogy. they're both trucks. the ipad is not a netbook, it's a tablet. it has a lot more in common with a kindle than it does a netbook. it's in many ways, a kindle on an awful lot of steroids. Not a bad analogy at all. yes it is They're both handheld devices that run applications and communicate. that's where it ends. a cellphone is a handheld device that runs applications and communicates, so by your metric, a cellphone is also a netbook. And one's capabilities are largely a subset of the other's. actually, they're different with some overlap. The book vs tablet difference is just the physical UI. To say they're apples & oranges is like saying it's impossible to compare the capabilities of a pen and a typewriter. a pen is not a 'smaller typewriter' and an ipad is not a 'less capable netbook.' |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
In article , ray
wrote: You're right, of course, it doesn't even have half the capability of a netbook - though it does cost over twice as much. since it's not a netbook, how can it have half the capabilities of one? A laptop is not a netbook either - it has all the capabilities of one and more - but in a larger form factor. and how is that relevant to an ipad? |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
On 4/9/2010 11:24 PM, nospam wrote:
In , John A. wrote: A pickup isn't a dump truck, but it certainly has a certain fraction of the capabilities of one. bad analogy. they're both trucks. the ipad is not a netbook, it's a tablet. it has a lot more in common with a kindle than it does a netbook. it's in many ways, a kindle on an awful lot of steroids. Not a bad analogy at all. yes it is They're both handheld devices that run applications and communicate. that's where it ends. a cellphone is a handheld device that runs applications and communicates, so by your metric, a cellphone is also a netbook. And one's capabilities are largely a subset of the other's. actually, they're different with some overlap. The book vs tablet difference is just the physical UI. To say they're apples& oranges is like saying it's impossible to compare the capabilities of a pen and a typewriter. a pen is not a 'smaller typewriter' and an ipad is not a 'less capable netbook.' He didn't say that it was a netbook, he said that it was less capable than a netbook? Is the problem that (a) you're not a native speaker of English, (b) you failed reading comprehension, (c) you're stupid or (d) you're just a jackass? |
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In article , J. Clarke
wrote: He didn't say that it was a netbook, so why compare it to one? he said that it was less capable than a netbook? it's not less capable. it does *different* things, with some overlap. Is the problem that (a) you're not a native speaker of English, (b) you failed reading comprehension, (c) you're stupid or (d) you're just a jackass? e) none of the above, but it looks like they apply to you. |
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Best advice for those wanting iPad
In article , John A.
wrote: The fact that you work it with your fingers instead of a stylus or a mouse & keyboard doesn't make it fundamentally different. It's just a detail of the UI design. it makes it very different. |
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