05-04-2010, 10:45 AM
Having used my colleagues ipad he brought back from USA for a couple hours today, I will say its a neat toy but in no way shape or form worth the price when I could just buy a laptop.
Kindle blows it away as a specialized device for the purpose of e-reading books (I could see color magazines and such being better on kindle but I dont read them or picture books enough to matter) and is cheaper, I wont be wasting money on it unless apples book store massively eclipses amazon.
Having no usb port for external media kills it as a travel device when it has such a piss poor storage capacity... But they dont want to stop your efforts to funnel all your purchases through them. I suppose if there was something I could use it for while lounging around the house and accessing my nas wirelessly it might be neat, but I watch videos on the TV and the kindles fine for toilet reading - so what else can it do that I need?
Kindle blows it away as a specialized device for the purpose of e-reading books (I could see color magazines and such being better on kindle but I dont read them or picture books enough to matter) and is cheaper, I wont be wasting money on it unless apples book store massively eclipses amazon.
Having no usb port for external media kills it as a travel device when it has such a piss poor storage capacity... But they dont want to stop your efforts to funnel all your purchases through them. I suppose if there was something I could use it for while lounging around the house and accessing my nas wirelessly it might be neat, but I watch videos on the TV and the kindles fine for toilet reading - so what else can it do that I need?