Ah the irony. Before dispensing any more pearls of wisdom maybe you should use your dictionary to differentiate between the words Manor and Manner.
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iPad's 'Cannibalization' of Notebook Computers Disputed
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Ah the irony. Before dispensing any more pearls of wisdom maybe you should use your dictionary to differentiate between the words Manor and Manner.
Until you consider the fact that most peoples' network connections are slower than their computers' capabilities, so their performance is bottlenecked because they're bandwidth-limited. As such, neither is faster (or slower) than the next.
...except for that pesky reality of the bottleneck being bandwidth.
A claim that depends a lot of specific hardware and ISP contracts. As such, this generalization hits the FAIL banner.
Perhaps (let's see rendering data other than CNet's which found it to be a tie), but at what price on other metrics of interest to a consumer, such as battery life?
Golly, gee: according to Engaget, they only got 5:42 hours out of your Asus 1215n...oh, wait: with the GPU on, they only got 2:45 hours.
The lesson here is that not all capabilities that a consumer cares about are the ones overtly advertised, like CPU clockspeed, or USB ports. Ultimately, it is about what capabilities are afforded by how well the overall system works together.
The use case reality is that because technology has gotten good, most of the time delay is going to be because humans can only read text at no more than roughly 9600 baud ... as such, the human is often the bottleneck, so an extra hour of battery life trumps a 1/2 second faster page render.
Both display photos just fine ... assuming that this capability must include Photoshop is scope creep. And FYI, the Asus's abilities in Photoshop utterly pale in comparison with a Mac Pro with 12GB RAM, a RAID 0 scratch and dual 24" LCDs (see how invoking scope creep bites back?).
Both can play games...and again, the element of scope creep applies.
Except that at the quoted price, it doesn't come with 1TB storage...YA instance of scope creep biasing your claims, even before we consider asking how realistic it is to need even more than 8GB for music data files. Since both play music just fine, this is again a non-advantage, until one considers the iPad's longer battery life's advantage.
FWIW, for giggles, try looking at standard iTunes encode rates and how many hours worth of music 4GB represents ... and then figure out how many times you'll need to recharge the Asus just to hear that 'small' catalog just one time through.
While the iPad does have lower HD rez (720), the upside benefit is that its battery life will actually last through a movie...or three. Advantage goes to the iPad, hands-down.
BTW, also let us know if you can multi-touch and zoom in/out on your videos. Similarly, in the land of scope creep (let alone the legality of ripping), if it can't rip a BR disk on a single battery charge, then why not skip it and use your home desktop system instead?
Both do books, and even 16GB worth of storage holds tons of their text files. Once again, no clear advantage to either platform...except again for the iPad's battery life, since it does take time to sit and read a book.
Except that this misses a key point: the consumer has no particular reason to care what OS his product is running on, so long as it provides the relevant capability that the consumer is seeking.
For example, one metric that a consumer may care about is how long it takes the system to wake up and boot up.
The iPad boots up from a cold start in around 15 seconds...and wakes from sleep in <3sec. Per tweaktown, the Asus takes 46 seconds.
YMMV, but for simple convenience, the iPad being 3x faster at this high level of the UI counts for a lot out in the real world of real people.
"Better"? Perhaps we should go review where the goal posts started?
I'll leave the exact counting to someone else, but it appears that the iPad is at least competitive with the netbook that you selected, if for no other reason than there's legitimate metrics of consumer interest other than the ones you cherry-picked.
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