a. That is not logical, most companies had sucky products before getting their good products in place.
b. I've seen netbooks that run quite good with Atom CPU and an SSD drive.
d. The point was that sites started to reload with only 5 sites open.
e. What im saying is that we do not know anything about if the HP will suck or not.
I am really an Apple guy having owned iPhones since they were released and updating my Mac every year, but that doesn't mean that everything Apple produces is good, and that everything for exampel HP produces sucks. We still have to check the actual products.
a. Sorry, David, you have a great name btw of a great king, anyway, sorry, but companies have a tradition of either sucky or good products, and sucky product companies don't usually come up with good ones. Good companies don't just issue sucky products that eventually become good, they issue good products that become great ones.
b. Well I don't know what you mean by quite good, sure there are some out there that are half decent (sony's say) that incorporate 2gbs of ram and a super fast ssd, and can make do with these. These btw cost DOUBLE the suggested price for the ipad and the hp. But this hp product is going to have a slow flash storage and the bare minimum in ram of 1gb, plus it will have to be slimmer than the netbooks and it's unlikely it will manage the thermals of the atom well, seeing as the atom consumes about 10 times as much an arm, and gets hot accordingly.
c. Try looking at some win 7 archos tablets to get an idea of what the problem is going to be like for the hp...these things are barely functional.
d. We do know David, we have seen the specs, we can make an informed guess. There's a chance maybe we might be wrong, but it's a very, very slim one. How wrong can we be when the specs use a passable at best cpu, barebones ram (fow win 7 that is), an os that is not optimized for touch, as os that is not optimized for mobility, hardware and software that (unlike the ipad) are not optimized on a code level to work together, a battery that is half that of the ipad in duration, a screen that is of worse quality and size, and we also have hp's complete lack of available apps or developer interest so far, and their complete inexperience with ui design... I think it's a safe bet, it will take a small miracle for this thing to be any good.
There are good devices out there, the e-ink plastic logic que reader while different in scope to the ipad, is one very promising device for example.
The hp by all evidence we have just isn't. Simple as that.
We do have to check them still, but we can't because we are handed mock ups instead of actual products from hp. How hard is it to assemble a damn atom tablet without the keyboard...
Remember David that Acer has walked out by their own admission from the tablet market, and in their statement they said they couldn't find opportunities to compete. Their ceo said that.
That's saying a lot, it's saying they can't undercut in price (selling cheaper inferior devices - and that was apple's mastery here, they pushed the prices far too low to allow room for people to compete - leveraging their discounts in bulk equipment, their mature os platform, their integration of hardware and software, etc. etc.), they can't offer comparable specs, they can't offer comparable hardware and software integration, they don't have an app store, they don't have a tablet optimized OS. Acer have been wise here. Hp are after the small % of the die hard pc crowd who see red and are on the verge of nervous breakdown when they hear the name apple, and frequent moronic sites such as engadget. They will get their cut for sure, but they won't be making much money out of it, and they won't be offering a decent product.
So you can use both together.
