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Dryden;1635292; said:
Regardless, without eInk it's not going to spell doom for eReaders as a whole.
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I agree with you on the price point seming inflated.

On the quoted part - why do you think the eInk is essential? Readability (which I'd think you could emulate), refresh (which I know is generally slower for eInk displays), other?
 
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sandgk;1635308; said:
I agree with you on the price point seming inflated.

On the quoted part - why do you think the eInk is essential? Readability (which I'd think you could emulate), refresh (which I know is generally slower for eInk displays), other?
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Contrast. Glare. Battery life.

The big advantage as far as reading is concerned is that eInk displays aren't backlit, have a matte finish, and don't consume power after the text is rendered, which is how they run for days and days on end without needing recharged, and how people can read them for days and days on end without getting migraine headaches.

That noted, Apple's tablet is obviously more of a swiss army knife than any eReaders, and full color, so will be better suited for e-delivery of a magazine you can flip through while you're on the can, as opposed to something you'll want to read War and Peace on.

I'm really curious to see how the market reacts to this. It can do a lot of things, but people already have all the devices that do everything this does. In terms of content delivery, whether it's music playing or movie watching or book reading, it just seems this further fragments the market and locks people into Apple.

Not trying to harp on the book reading aspect of it, but clearly Apple isn't pumping out a 10" tablet by coincidence. Does it have app support like the iPhone on it? Can I get a Kindle app for an iSlate?

Lots and lots of questions to be answered here.
 
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Dryden;1635292; said:
$800-1000 speculation seems way too high to me. This is essentially a 10" touchscreen netbook, or an iPod Touch XL.

If it's all solid state they've got to shoot for $400-500 maximum. At that price, they could really cut into Kindle. Any higher and it's too niche.

Regardless, without eInk it's not going to spell doom for eReaders as a whole.
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I agree, I'd pay $650-$700 at MOST
 
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Having been one of the relatively few purchasers of NEC's outstanding early tablet PC (the VersaLite 2.2 pound model), only to have it disappear from the market, I can say that an effective, lightweight, touchscreen PC that I could use for note-taking, checking emails, and light surfing would be attractive to me as a business user. Microsoft's OneNote is an excellent app for a tablet PC; you can take notes just like on a notepad, and the software converts it to word processing or whatever.

Frankly, the idea that this thing will run Mac OS is not appealing, even though my laptop is a MacBook Pro.
 
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Heh, haven't read up on the CES insanity, been outside enjoying the snow and wasting all of those endorphins on the Rose Bowl.

There is a wave of tablets coming, android tablets, os x tablets, etc.

• We got our paws on Nvidia's tablet, an as-of-yet unnamed, 7" Android-running affair.
• Steve Ballmer's keynote! The moment everyone was waiting for! There was a Windows 7 HP "slate," but no Courier.
• We tried out the $199 Freescale tablet and thought the UI was decidedly last-gen. One insulting example: you have to flick the browser's scroll bar to move down a web site.



Personally, this is my favorite so far:

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IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Hands-On: Meet Voltron. He Could Be Amazing. - Lenovoideapadu1hybrid - Gizmodo

• Lenovo dumped the first true banner products of the show, with the IdeaCenter 300a ultrathin AIO, the first Snapdragon smartbook, and a capacitive multitouch netbook tablet.
 
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Meh, I remember a few years back at Comdex some company was really pushing xp tablets, I find it hard to believe that people are going to be any more excited now than they were, but since it sounds like they are partnering up with wireless companies, who knows, maybe a keyboard and mouse is just too difficult.
 
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OCBucksFan;1638528; said:
Meh, I remember a few years back at Comdex some company was really pushing xp tablets, I find it hard to believe that people are going to be any more excited now than they were, but since it sounds like they are partnering up with wireless companies, who knows, maybe a keyboard and mouse is just too difficult.
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From my perspective, the attractiveness of the Tablet PC was the combination of a notebook with an infinite supply of paper, the ability to convert my scribblings to a Word document quite flawlessly, and the ability to do other computing tasks, including surfing and emailing - all with the same 2-lb appliance.

The problem with the NEC was its battery life (about 10 minutes, after I used it for a year or so). I'm eagerly awaiting the new crop of tablets. You just don't want to have to carry around a keyboard all the time if you don't have to. And some of us still find handwriting to be the easiest way to take notes during a meeting, etc.
 
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MaxBuck;1638868; said:
From my perspective, the attractiveness of the Tablet PC was the combination of a notebook with an infinite supply of paper, the ability to convert my scribblings to a Word document quite flawlessly, and the ability to do other computing tasks, including surfing and emailing - all with the same 2-lb appliance.

The problem with the NEC was its battery life (about 10 minutes, after I used it for a year or so). I'm eagerly awaiting the new crop of tablets. You just don't want to have to carry around a keyboard all the time if you don't have to. And some of us still find handwriting to be the easiest way to take notes during a meeting, etc.
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After some thought, I can see that. I was talking about my phone a few days ago and told someone if they made a limited version of my phone that used wifi with sip it would be a decent product. I never really thought of the whole Apple and Android portable operating systems as full blown computer OS's, but it looks to be the trend.
 
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