Apple’s New iPad Tablet
WSJ said it best:
Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.
Followed the liveblog from Engadget. It really looks cool, and makes iPhones look like the fun-sized candy bars you get at Halloween.
So far I’ve resisted the Siren’s call of Apple, but most of the people I know have an iPhone, a magical talking box which somehow has access to the sum knowledge, audio, and video of mankind ever made.
Aside: being the Touhou geek that I am, when I heard iPad, I thought about Sakuya first.
– Alex
November 21st, 2010 at 8:01 pm
The ipad is /not/ a ‘tablet.’ It is a ’slate.’ Big difference.
Slate: A computer with no interface devises except it’s screen.
eg. store.apple.com/ca/ipad
Tablet: A computer interface device (not a computer itself) comprised of an array of magnetic sensors and a magnetic ‘pen.’
-A tablet may or may not be built into a computer monitor.
-A tablet is sometimes built into select PC laptop screens, hence the name ‘tablet PC.’
eg. wacom.com