iPad Versus Windows 7 Slate

[Ganges]

The "magic" of the Ipad that apple talks about really comes down to 2 things.

1. A thin, lite, and cool running form factor.

2. A interface that is fast, streamlined, and slick.

The tablet seems to miss both?

I see thick plastic, that I bet runs warm, and drains the batterys with a somewhat clunky interface. same old same old.......

 

[iThinman]

Laplet. Surprised it does have a pop out keyboard and mouse.

 

[Blakjack]

1. Ratio Sucks
2. Responsiveness Sucks
3. Keyboard takes up too much room.
4. Way too thick which means it's too heavy.

I don't think I. Would wanna hold anything that wide. Might as well get a netbook.

 

[blackNBUK]

Ooo I like the keyboard. I miss caps lock and tab keys...I wonder if it has arrow keys too?

A little off-topic but the iPad does support Caps Lock, you need to go into Settings->General->Keyboard and enable it there. Once it is enabled you can turn Caps Lock on by double-tapping the shift key.

So far I haven't missed the Tab key; partly this is because some of the shortcuts it enables have been replaced by other things such as the Previous and Next field buttons in Safari. Partly it is also because I haven't needed to do lots of text entry.

Back on topic, I was a little surprised that the Windows slate didn't look completely awful. The simple applications such as the browser and YouTube did seem to work acceptably well. I was also surprised that the keyboard popped up in a fixed place; is this standard as in other demos the keyboard has always appeared over the window.

On the other hand the more complicated applications such as Outlook did look a real mess with almost everything too small to easily use. Plus the widescreen form-factor really didn't work.

 

[Les Kern]

I stopped watching after the zooming showed the Hanvon annoyingly choppy. No way I'll buy one JUST based on that.
And that keyboard... hey, I have HUMAN sized fingers.
Crap-plastica.

 

[lilo777]

Yep, also the aspect ratio of the iPad is superb, and clearly the competition hasn't figured that out. We don't all watch movies on our iPads 24:7!

Competition will offer pads in all shapes and sizes. There is nothing preventing them from this.

I stopped watching after the zooming showed the Hanvon annoyingly choppy. No way I'll buy one JUST based on that.
And that keyboard... hey, I have HUMAN sized fingers.
Crap-plastica.

Zooming is soo phony. You buy 10" device to avoid zooming not to enjoy it.

 

[crackmyback]

Will someone please explain to the nasty iPad-wannabe-slate-makers that having a mousepad on a friggin tablet is equivalent to them running around naked in the streets singing "I'm an Over-Engineer...Like me please"!!!

WHAT THE HELL IS A MOUSEPAD DOING ON A TOUCHSCREEN SLATE DEVICE?!! ITS NOT HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE THE ALREADY SLUGGISH IPAD-WANNABE!!

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Ooo I like the keyboard. I miss caps lock and tab keys...I wonder if it has arrow keys too?

You do know on the iPad you can turn Caps Lock on in the Settings and double tapping the Shift Key will turn on Caps?!

 

[Lesser Evets]

1. Ratio Sucks
2. Responsiveness Sucks
3. Keyboard takes up too much room.
4. Way too thick which means it's too heavy.

Might as well get a netbook.

Totally agree.

I thought the iPad's aspect ratio was weird, but now that I see it against a widescreen, it makes sense. That chunky ass Windows machine might be something some people want, but it seems clumsy in all ways when compared to the iPad next to it.

 

[nixiemaiden]

You do know on the iPad you can turn Caps Lock on in the Settings and double tapping the Shift Key will turn on Caps?!

yea I do because it has already been pointed out a few posts up. Thanks. I just didn't realize that there would be so much stuff I would have to set up on my iPad! Can I turn arrow keys on in the settings as well?

 

[Bytor65]

1. Ratio Sucks

Totally agree.

I can't believe the number of people who don't get this one. It was immediately obvious to me that 16:9 is just so wrong for a tablet.

I have even seen people claim that Apple "got stuck" with a 4:3 screen because that was the only IPS screen available.

Apple gets LG to build exactly the screens they want Apple would have done a lot of usability testing it both portrait/landscape before deciding on exactly the size/aspect/resolution for the iPad. It was no accident.

OTOH. The competition is using left over 16:9 (crappy TN) netbook screens.

 

[w00t951]

All of these iPad competitors will not be able to compare to the real iPad. Why? Because these competitors have better hardware to run a crappy OS that sucks at multitouch. Imagine what you can do while Windows is sucking up 95% of your system resources. EPIC LAG and EPIC FRUSTRATION while trying to pick at the little buttons and boxes on screen.

 

[mklnk]

Ooo I like the keyboard. I miss caps lock and tab keys...I wonder if it has arrow keys too?

It does. It's the exact same on-screan keyboard as the desktop version of windows 7, including the keys that continue to glow way to long after you've clicked them.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Cool, but no thanks... unless...

"The problem's on the software, not the hardware".

Looks more like a laptop without a display than a slim-profile Tablet.
It also looks like it generates a lot of heat.

If the price is right, is Intel x86 based and I'm given the option to install Ubuntu instead, I may actually consider investigating it further.

 

[alaskahill]

now that comparison was boooogus...
Looked like the iPad was using 3G as others have pointed out. Most of the things that they showed I do in the horizontal mode on the iPad with something I was born with... two hands....
Looked to me that if the slate was rotated to the horizontal position it would be unusable.