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Give Apple and the iPad a break.

by Darice de Cuba
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Give Apple and the iPad a break.

Yesterday for 45 minutes the internet went silent while “everyone” watched Steve Jobs present the iPad. I must say I was awed by it but then I didn’t spend months mulling over what Apple will be coming up with and setting my expectations higher and higher with each rumor. I did know what I don’t like about current products such as netbooks, the Kindle, the Nook and the also soon to be released HP Slate. A few highlights of the iPad: iPhone apps work on it. Full screen mode 10 hours of battery life Apple’s own processor; 1GHz Apple A4 When the presentation was done my Twitter stream sprang back Read more »

Touch Book: the magnetic touchscreen tablet netbook

by andy
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Touch Book: the magnetic touchscreen tablet netbook

Here’s an interesting soon-to-be-manufactured device from Always Innovating. It’s a netbook that features a rotatable and detachable touchscreen, making it a pretty versatile unit both on the move and at home. Featuring an ARM OMAP3 processor from Texas Instruments, it uses a lot less energy than a standard system and, coupled with its two batteries (one in each section) it could offer up to 15 hours of use from a single charge. Read more »