Comments on: Linked: On The iPad, Why computers should be more like toasters http://www.novelr.com/2010/01/29/linked-on-the-ipad-why-computers-should-be-more-like-toasters Hacking Publishing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Bulmash http://www.novelr.com/2010/01/29/linked-on-the-ipad-why-computers-should-be-more-like-toasters/comment-page-1#comment-4587 Greg Bulmash Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:05:27 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=1613#comment-4587 Kindle is screwed... unless you want to read at the beach, where the iPad will suffer from glare issues. I'd rather get a netbook with a swiveling touchscreen like the Mirus Schoolmate... $479 at Sears with an Intel n270 netbook processor, ruggedized, kidproofed, ports for connecting stuff, and moddable (bigger RAM, HDD, Linux, Hackintosh...). Maybe not as elegant as the iPad, but actually more useful and $20 less than the starter iPad with only 16 gigs of storage. If I spent $220 modding it, I wonder how it and the $700 ipad would compare. Kindle is screwed… unless you want to read at the beach, where the iPad will suffer from glare issues.

I’d rather get a netbook with a swiveling touchscreen like the Mirus Schoolmate… $479 at Sears with an Intel n270 netbook processor, ruggedized, kidproofed, ports for connecting stuff, and moddable (bigger RAM, HDD, Linux, Hackintosh…).

Maybe not as elegant as the iPad, but actually more useful and $20 less than the starter iPad with only 16 gigs of storage. If I spent $220 modding it, I wonder how it and the $700 ipad would compare.

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