It's amusing the author attacks the price point while ignoring the extra expense and significant value of including a digitizer and stylus. Compare it to an equivalent sized Wacom pad or even the more parallel Wacom Cintiq. Or just compare to Windows digitizer tablets like the $750+ Fujitsu q55x series.
Also, the author sounds ignorant referring to inclusion of Desktop in Win 8 as multitasking enabling. Metro has native multitasking via docking apps side by side or swiping through open ones (similar to WebOS). Similar multitasking is migrating into Android, just look at the card stack system in Chrome for Android.
I do appreciate the author's frankness regarding the flimsiness of the case and instability of S Note, but the rest of the review reads like a search for more demerits than actually exist.
This isn't even a device aimed at the iPad consumption crowd, it is aimed at business users and creative types who prefer stylus interaction and have had to endure much higher priced Windows XP/7 devices. As such, the comparisons made are relatively invalid. This is a content creation platform, as such, it would be better if someone like Aurich or someone else who understands stylus tablets where writing the review. What magical powers allow the author to know the device lacks 1k levels of pressure sensitivity? Heck, the typical 256 is more than sufficient for nearly any use.
TheVelourFog":1eadwsah said:
Why can't I use my toy for everyday business or school? I don't get it.
Also, I think we should just go by Best Buy's review scores going forward.
The fact that the Android fans get all irritated at the mention of the iPad, while the iPad users are happy and ignore the Android stuff should tell you something.
I've commented on my observations at an engineering and generally STEM centric university before, and the reality is the iPads as school work devices disappear the second week into the semester. Even with the best capacitive stylii, people give up in frustration. I just see them (iPads) used for facebook and e-mail during class on the occasions where someone pulls one out.
I could show firewall logs demonstrating most iPad traffic is to consumption / non-work oriented websites where corporate offices have Wifi, but I value my customers more than that.
The only industry getting work use out of the iPad is medicine where it's a convenient interface to show images and diagrams to patients.
(This comment inked on an HP Slate... waiting for Surface Pro)
