We don't seem to have a thread for the 'new' iPad 2 so I thought I would start one. And what better way to start things off than with a Charlie Brooker rant.. Must say on the whole I agree with him, just another waste of time for people with too much money. Edited it as I didn't realise you had enabled video tags.
The iPad is just like Steve Jobs; getting thinner. I always will maintain the iPad is a useless device but clearly created a niche market for itself in "couch computing"..ungh i can't believe i said that. Jesse Schell talked about it at a conference I went to. I wasnt at that one though, I was at one a month before in the UK; same speech. But a very interesting point.
I can see the appeal of one; for what my wife uses the laptop for it would be a big improvement. But I'm not keen in paying around £670 for the best specced version. Too much for what you get. Still, if I've got money to burn when it's released then I could be tempted.
Motorola Xoom http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Tablets/ci.MOTOROLA-XOOM-US-EN.overview It has some improvements over the ipad 2, such as the cameras and upgradeable to LTE (free).
It's a fairly ignorant point. iPad is only useful on the couch? Why? Pretty sure it still works when you're at a meeting, travelling, or commuting. Why wouldn't the oversized Swiss Army Knife comparison apply to a laptop as well? Laptops don't fit in your pocket, therefore they must be awkward and useless as portable computers according to this guy's logic. At any rate, I think you guys should really just copy/paste the entire iPad thread from PVCF1 and call it a day.
http://video.teamcoco.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=245467&eref=sharethisUrl Conan taking his shot muhahaha