Haha. Good one.
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Haha. Good one.
LOL what exactly
It's an upside down laptop! What is microsoft doing...
Show me a better way of integrating a tactile keyboard to a tablet. Personally i think its looking quite good so far.
Very compelling argument. The operating system on the iPad is vastly limited in scope and capability to even the most mundane Android-based tablet systems. Honeycomb was doing much more for far longer than iOS5 had been out. The iPhone 4S still can't quite match the breadth and depth of what can be done on ICS. I could go on.
iOS so far has basically been a wall of icons with little reiteration between releases. That's it.
What, a touch screen netbook? They said they are gonna be the price of an ultra book... (for the 'high' end ones)
This really
Yes it's a funny joke, but an iPad is just a keyboardless laptop if you want to look at it in that fashion.
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Unfortunately it's true. Apple always deliver the bare minimum on the software front. It won't take long until people realise how much more advanced W8 and WP8 is than a crummy little mobile lightweight OS like iOS.
The so-called "Facebook integration" in iOS6 is a perfect illustration of Apple's ineptitude at doing software "right". They should have exposed a Contracts API and other OS hook/integration points like what WP has. Then Facebook could have updated their app to take advantage. But no. Apple went down the stupid route of baking Facebook right into their OS. Dumb dumb dumb. Modular componentisation > monolithic legacy design.
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No, the tactile keyboard on the bottom of it, its not really that suprising it got a good reaction when it was shown as typing for any period of time on a glass surface is annoying to put it mildly.
Price is still really up in the air, a lot could change between now and launch.
I hate flat keyboards any way.
Yeah if you like pressing squishy keys i suppose thats an option...somehow i think most would opt for something that feels like an actual keyboard though. Theres still not even a date for when that is meant to appear, whereas surface will be there for windows 8 launch.
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He said *better* way. That looks annoying as hell.
Well thats only showing one of them, theres a second one that has actual key travel so should suit better
Well thats only showing one of them, theres a second one that has actual key travel so should suit better
Key travel? Like proper physical push?
Yup.
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If the processor is x86/64-based, then it means that it'll run normal Windows apps such as Photoshop, MS Office and PC games, then it'll have the advantage of bridging existing Windows users. iOS is a different OS to Mac OS X, so Mac users won't be able to run their programs cross-platform. Unless Wine is available to iOS?
