Since Apple introduced the iPad, the tablet craze as really taken off the media loves em, people want em their a runaway hit. Now everyone and their mother is jumping on the craze and making tablet computers.
The problem with these devices is that they cost more than a moderately decent laptop staked with features and have half of the power, they guzzle energy and their outdated within 12 months of release. Another issue is with the company’s taking simple features like copying and pasting and withholding them for a big firmware update so everyone gets excited about a feature even the Nokia N-Gage could do.
They’re not computers they’re over indulgent expensive gimmicks. Simple things like SD/Memory card slot, USB ports or cd drives are not on these things (most anyways) which means you have to be connected to the internet to do virtually anything or connect with an actual computer and transfer data (if allowed). Your expensive tablet becomes even pricier when you realize getting some basic pc apps cost $$$ in some app store/market. Simplicity, I think not.
Most Tablets cost roughly 500-1000$ now factor in that without internet they are almost entirely useless, doing things like word wording on a tablet would be the most ridiculous experience one could ever go through. The internet costs, since some places offer you convenient 3G/4G internet that will also stack into the value of this product you really don’t need and serves no real purpose other than being technological eye candy for the first 6-12 months of its release. If it isn’t running a real operating system i.e Windows 7, then its not worth having because it will never be as useful.
Buy a Netbook, everyone says the iPad killed the netbook, true it hit the market hard but you will be far more satisfied with a computing device that can actually compute, in the long run.
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