Best Tablet of 2012

[andyblila]

Really on a "Mac" site?

 

[nStyle]

Not sure if serious?

These thread topics are getting out of control.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

Missing statistics on some other features.... i.e. Battery Life, Weight, App Environment, etc.

With EVERYTHING taken into account, the iPad blows away every other tablet.

No, the iPad does not blow every other tablet.

Look at the original post again.

Asus has the same battery life, and it can be extended with a cool charging keyboard dock. Asus weighs less than the iPad, and it has a bigger screen.

As for app environment, who cares?

iOS has 400,000 apps for the iPad, while Android has 200,000 apps for their Tablets. And most of the apps (on both operating systems) are ****.

Besides, who cares about the number of apps? I for one have over 300 apps for my iPhone, only 1/3 of them are actually on my phone, and I use about 1/2 of them rarely. You get bored with apps, and so it shouldn't really matter.

 

[dukeblue91]

"Best" depends on your desired use for a tablet.

There are all sorts of reasons to get an iPad, or an Asus, or a 7" instead of a 10", and so forth.

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That said, some of us are looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (nice demo here on YouTube).

It has the Wacom pen technology and some cool pen apps to go with it.

It also allows running two apps side by side in some cases(*).

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Imagine surfing the web in one half, while jotting down notes in the other. A student's dream.

Think "Microsoft Courier" with only one screen.

(*) I don't know for sure, but it might only be a choice of an app + the browser or media player... not just two arbitrary apps.

I've seen all I needed to.
It still has horrendous lag even when scrolling.
No Thanks!
My vote goes for the 3rd generation iPad.

 

[UrsaMajor]

To be fair, the year is long from over. The next true competitor to iPad 3 will be more than twice as powerful. I hope it gets apple to step up their game or lower prices.

 

[Carouser]

I just posted some specifications between the devices, and yes, there is plenty of competition.

No there isn't, because nobody is selecting based on those specs alone.

To be fair, the year is long from over. The next true competitor to iPad 3 will be more than twice as powerful. I hope it gets apple to step up their game or lower prices.

I've been reading this since the iPad first showed up. I's always in the future, there's something coming that'll make Apple 'step up' (because Apple's the laggard here somehow). It's pretty telling when the only supposed competition for the iPad is, and has always been, hypothetical products in the future which don't even exist. It's other manufacturers who need to step up, but they keep announcing clunky me-too junk hoping some gimmick features will save the day.

The iPad will be the best tablet of 2012; this has nothing to do with this site being Mac-centric, it has everything to do with other tablets being a total joke.

 

[Apple OC]

OP ... there are 145 votes for the iPad ... your poll worked out as predicted

 

[Dextux]

iPad by far. The android operating system is completely worthless.

 

[DS3]

Galaxy Note 10.1 is the only other one I'd consider because Id love to have the stylus.

That video had lag but that doesn't mean the final version will.

 

[wirelessness]

No, the iPad does not blow every other tablet.

This is the only part you got right....it's the other way around.

 

[irDigital0l]

iPad.

Tried out all of the new tablets in my local Best Buy.

I like the Samsung Galaxy SII and Note but I hate their tablets.

Not a fan of asus.

Go iPad.

 

[Phil A.]

No, the iPad does not blow every other tablet.

Look at the original post again.

Asus has the same battery life, and it can be extended with a cool charging keyboard dock. Asus weighs less than the iPad, and it has a bigger screen.

As for app environment, who cares?

iOS has 400,000 apps for the iPad, while Android has 200,000 apps for their Tablets. And most of the apps (on both operating systems) are ****.

Besides, who cares about the number of apps? I for one have over 300 apps for my iPhone, only 1/3 of them are actually on my phone, and I use about 1/2 of them rarely. You get bored with apps, and so it shouldn't really matter.

It's not about app volume, it's about app quality. When Android has apps of the quality of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie and iPhoto it may be worthy of consideration.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say when Android has an office application for tablets that isn't garbage it would be a big step forward - I had an Asus Transformer for 6 months and the thing that finally made me sell it was the lack of a decent word processor and spreadsheet.

I tried pretty much every one I could find and none of them worked properly with the keyboard (cursor keys not supported, copy and paste didn't work, etc, etc) and they all looked clunky and ugly
The only one that looked anything halfway decent was ThinkFree office and that couldn't even word wrap properly!

I use my tablet for real work every day and to do that I need decent apps. No decent apps = no sale!