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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I was hoping I could use the 'apple doesn't work with skype' to dissuade her from having an iPlod/iBroke but she likes the shiny aspect of them.
Skype didn't have an iPad optimized app, but they do now (it went up and down, but I think it's up now). They've been on iPods/iPhones for a while.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on
And your friends they sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
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Nah. This looks like a quite nice one though:
Transformer [^]
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Hi - can you comment on the HD video playback - I've hear of (and seen) very choppy playback, and this is holding me off buying one...
Cheers
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I read that as Anus Transformer.
I shall make no further observation.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Marc Clifton wrote: I won't buy Apple products on principle
I feel exactly the same way...
Here's one recommendation, don't buy anything with Win7 on it... MS has a long way to go to make something useful with touch devices. One of my coworkers has one and I hate it... you miss what you're trying to touch half the time. I think that's exactly what MS is trying to target with Win8, but so far, not there.
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I heard good things about the Galaxy, but I have no personal experience with it.
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I have one, it is easy to use, fully functional and convenient.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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I had the same problem few months ago. I choose Archos 70IT and I'm very happy with it.
One problem - no access to Android Market out of box. But this can be easily fixed...
There is new generation announced to be launched in month or two, with Honeycomb and other stuff. Price should be under USD 300.
Not the mainstream one, but one to consider.
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i have to say the asus transformer is really rather good too
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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I played with a couple tablets and didn't really care for the small screen size and trying to type with the touch screen, so I ended up getting an HP netbook instead. It's not much bigger, runs about 10 hours on a full charge and I can run pretty much everything on it, although the screen real estate is still a minor limitation.
If you find a good tablet that can be used like the netbook, please let us know. I'd love to have another compu-gadget-thingie.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: If you find a good tablet that can be used like the netbook
Like I said above, the Transformer
When you plug it into the dock, it basically IS a netbook. 16 hours in that configuration (The tablet and dock each have a battery).
It does run Android though, not Windows or Linux, so I don't know if that's a deal-breaker for you.
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Yeah, it probably is a deal breaker, since I need to be able to run some Windows apps to do engineering analyses, etc.
But, it might still be fun to play with and maybe to develop some engineering apps for. I'll check it out. Besides, I need a reasonable excuse to get another toy to play with. 
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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What kind of engineering analysis can you do on a tablet/netbook?
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Well, I can run my full suite of .NET software. I've done well log interpretation, pressure transient analysis, production data analysis, geostatistics, etc. That's besides the calculations I can do in Excel, report writing in Word, etc. I've actually done some simplistic flow simulations, but I usually use my big box for that.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I've never been able to do anything useful in those small machines... I guess it depends what you're doing... I work with very large software/firmware projects, and do simulations in matlab, which I doubt anything like that would be very good at running.
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Here you go.
All the best,
Dan
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Yeah, I played with one of those at the UT Campus Computer Store. Pretty neat, but it looks and feels sort of fragile. I'm not sure it would stand up to being tossed in a backpack and slung around. My HP netbook feels much more solid and cost about half the price.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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About solid it's pretty solid. BackPacked one a lot.
About the price, well ... you speak truth.
All the best,
Dan
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I wanted a tablet but wanted to be able to run my existing software and RDP into servers, etc. I purchase the Acer Iconia W500[^] with Windows 7. As mentioned before, the Windows 7 is not the "best" tablet interface but is not limited to using applications written in the iOs or Droid languages. Also, the virtual keyboard is easy to use. With the docking station, I can use it as a 10" netbook with 4.5 hour battery life.
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I've had a good expereince with my XOOM now that they have the SD Card issue worked out. WiFi only, no 4G LTE necessary for me.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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I really like the Dell Inspiron Duo. I've played with it.
It is a 10.1" device. A little bigger then an iThingy.
But you can Print form it 
All the best,
Dan
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I looked around and settled on an Acer Iconia A500 32GB. Very happy with this choice. Solid, easy to use, responsive.
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I have both and IPAD2 and a Lenovo S10-3t(and a big butt kicker(Dell) laptop for work stuff). I like you would never have purchased the IPAD2 on my own. Just dislike apple for a variety of reasons. So anyhoo. I carry the IPAD2 around since work requires it for checking email and so forth and testing some apps and yada yadda. Oh well.
Lenovo runs win 7. I agree with all the posters Win 7 was not made for a touch device. But still it does work fairly well. Not awesome like the ipad but fairly well. (read I cannot wait for Win8)
Here is what I use the devices for.
ipad - Checking email, quick checks of weather, Small surfing of interwebs when I need something quick, quick checks to reference books in my kindle app, Google Earth surfing(the ipad app is amazing), GPS for car drives
Leneovo - Responding to emails, Watching movies(I hate holding the Ipad), Reading long books, Coding, Writing any extensive response to anything. or writing of any kind. Extended surfing. Coding, Web design, Photography editing(not fast but works well), Anything that isn't normal work stuff (budget, trip planning, etc...)
It all depends upon what you want it for. I have seen the Dell netvertible. It looks cool and has the same form factor as my lenovo. Get anything but if your going to do any writing at all get something with a keyboard.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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For the first time last night... I'm experiencing the problems from the Sony PSN hacking... someone tried to use my credit card in another state... 
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Too bad... Are you sure this was because PSN hacking?
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner.
Take a look at Silverlight Menu4U here in The Code Project.
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