Netbooks?

[edgray]

"The best internet browsing experience on the planet"????

Go ahead, quantify that. Prove it isn't the delusional statement of yet another Mac-obsessed fanboy. Perhaps you should qualify it with "unless you use Flash or like to type on a keyboard".

Why would I need another drive or keyboard? Because my desktop stays on my desk top. If I'm travelling, I want that same functionality to travel with me, hence the creation of the laptop. Maybe I want to type up homework between classes, or respond to a work email at the airport. No way I'm doing that efficiently without a keyboard. When I'm done with the homework ot making a presentation for work, maybe I need to save it to a thumbdrive. Not doing that with an Ipad.

I've used as many different machines as there are available and the iPad does the internet better than any I've used. scrolling through pages, reading online newspapers, sending emails, social media etc is all in a different league on the iPad. You'll have to point out where you can get the same experience or one that is even close.

Flash is a bore. Like most internet users, I navigate away from a page the second I see a Flash loader. As for the keyboard, it's a joy to use, no worse than a physical one and in the sense that when you're browsing, most of the time you don't even need a keyboard, it's nice to have a bigger screen at your command.

So then you buy a laptop. Though you can type up homework on an iPad, and you'd be surprised at how easy too.

If you like to use thumb drives then fine, get a laptop. It would be far easier to send the files digitally.

 

[Minor Axis]

I would never trade in my MacBookPro for an iPad, but that does not mean the iPad is inadequate. It just depends on what you want to do with it. It sells for 2.5 times that of a Kindle, but it does 10x more stuff.

 

[Peter Parka]

NERD FIGHT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKaeWkYbqk

:24::surrender

 

[Francis]

I've used as many different machines as there are available and the iPad does the internet better than any I've used. scrolling through pages, reading online newspapers, sending emails, social media etc is all in a different league on the iPad. You'll have to point out where you can get the same experience or one that is even close.

Flash is a bore. Like most internet users, I navigate away from a page the second I see a Flash loader. As for the keyboard, it's a joy to use, no worse than a physical one and in the sense that when you're browsing, most of the time you don't even need a keyboard, it's nice to have a bigger screen at your command.

So then you buy a laptop. Though you can type up homework on an iPad, and you'd be surprised at how easy too.

If you like to use thumb drives then fine, get a laptop. It would be far easier to send the files digitally.

BUSTED...

You are so full of it...

Go watch this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs

On my wall is a YouTube Video that you want me to view.. You have been pushing this video on all who want to see it.. What is YouTube ???? FLASH ... :24::24:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Oh I am sure you will all tell us how the whole site is now HTML.5 .. Yah.. Experimental stage means they have all done the page now and fully transitioned..

 

[Natasha]

So...have you boys figured out whose is bigger yet???

 

[Francis]

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[edgray]

BUSTED...

You are so full of it...

Go watch this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs

On my wall is a YouTube Video that you want me to view.. You have been pushing this video on all who want to see it.. What is YouTube ???? FLASH ... :24::24:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Oh I am sure you will all tell us how the whole site is now HTML.5 .. Yah.. Experimental stage means they have all done the page now and fully transitioned..

I tend to watch videos on my iPhone actually.

When I do watch them on my Mac I don't mind flash as a video player, though it won't be around much longer.

That argument was about iPad not having Flash. And any page that has flash I navigate away from, like most of the world. Video you choose to wait to load, webpages you don't. Oh, and an embedded video player is quite different than a Flash page. YouTube is HTML, with a flash player.