AstroManLuca
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- Jun 24, 2004
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you are not making sense... you run 1024x600 on your 26 inch monitor?
i use vs on 1024x600 ONLY in emergency, not at work nor at home...
as a developer, it is a must to have emergency access to development tool at all times (even on vacation).
No, he's saying that because he got used to his big monitor at work, he wasn't able to use the tiny screen on the Dell Mini.
I had a similar thing happen to me several years back. Going from a 19" CRT (normally running at 1280x960) down to a tiny 12" 1024x768 laptop was unbearable.
Anyway, speaking to the subject at hand, I don't think you'll find an iPad competitor that is quite as good as the iPad anytime soon, if ever. The problem is, what does the iPad do? I finally got to use one today and while it was very slick and fast, it really is just like using a large smartphone. Web pages are more comfortable thanks to the big screen, but speed is pretty much equivalent to any premium 1 GHz phone and it can't really do anything that a phone can't.
I believe that while the iPad is a very cool and interesting product, it isn't useful at all. It is popular because it is a toy and because Apple makes it. iPad competitors will be thinking too much about how to make a device that is useful, and they'll fail because smartphone-based tablets aren't useful. And they'll be at an inherent disadvantage because they aren't Apple so people won't have this irrational desire for every product they release.
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