Gonna pass on the maxipad this round.
Just like the iphones and ipods, version 3.0 are gonna be something to talk about.
I too thought that this was a fail.
no flash -- so what it sucks up my cpu and makes my fans go into hype drive, good bye
no usb ... interesting, however, this is not a first for apple. iMacs did away with stone age floppies.
no camera -- bummer, would have liked to have real voip features.
no storage ... this is gonna suck worse than it does on the iphone.
Apple 4 chip -- expecting it to be better than qualcomms snapdragon and possibly an atom
hand holds -- hmmm, tough to roll up with like a good book maybe.
no desktop OS -- 50/50 on this one. If you build it, they will come. So, bummer Adobe is not on board this round.
no stylus and recognition -- looks like the Newton and Palm have made this a reality. Handwritting recognition would have got my $500 for this. I want to talk notes like I normally do. I don't want to type everything!
I do see this being a carpc type of thing
Just gotta figure out how I'm going to mount a 10" screen though
So when is this apple (intel chip) vs all other intel chip pc war gonna end?
I never hear or read people beothching about the Vaio being expensive?
Get over it folks!
Some people don't want to try to figure out how to setup a bios,
nor figure out if the psu is gonna match, nor if my ram is gonna match,
nor read a manual to figure out where this plug fits onto the mobo,
nor have to google why there isn't a straight answer for "black screen of death with cursor" (re-install does not count!),
nor do people want to worry where they put their product key so they don't have to worry about if the dam hive is gonna load so that you can pull the key through some software called keyfinder that is not even made by Microsoft,
nor want to worry if their spybot, adbot, virus, phishing blockers were updated 5 minutes ago,
nor want to think about how much cpu is being sucked up by those programs that make you feel like you are wearing 3 condoms,
nor many other things ....
However, there are people that do like to tinker and have fun going through catalogs looking for the right part. Many Apple folks do at times wish they could swap out their cpu for a faster one, but we do know that you eventually have to upgrade the mobo and ram to get the same responsiveness as a new setup would provide.
So, let's face it, there are 2 kinds of folks.
1.) those who want to drive it like there is no tomorrow
2.) those who want to fix it like there is no end
Both of who, get just as much fun out of what they are doing!
And just couldn't help.
Driving my SC is like using XP. I always have to keep my eye on the oil gauge and in SP my eyes on those nasties.