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Kindle DX "latest generation"
15 years ago
General
What are all you whipper snappers doing here...?
Pro:
Worked instantly out of the box. As soon as the 3G linked up it registered itself and downloaded the free ebooks I'd bought.
The ePaper display is beautiful and as easy to read as a paper book
Super simple drag-and-drop file transfers
Free 3G wireless is nice
Every book I've read looks great, even complex PDFs
Controls are simple and easy to use. The tiny keyboard is very easy to type on.
Cons:
The display is very slow, which is a problem with ePaper.
No color, see above, but not a huge deal.
Wireless is slow, but that might be fault of the CPU and display
GURPS PDFs have a problem that it will trim the white edges of their e23-only releases, but the way their printed books are laid out it doesn't due to some decoration at the top and bottom. No fault of the device, though.
It only does ebook well, the web browser is mediocre and text-to-speech has pacing problems.
Overall - If your only reason for wanting an iPad is to read ebooks then this is certainly a better option. The iPad has trouble in heat and sunlight, whereas the Kindle doesn't and even the highest end version is $100 less than then the lowest-end iPad.
I give it 8 out of 10 huge titted vixens
As a side note, blending technologies in the Kindle and iPad would make for an amazing device, though some technology has to advance before it would be possible. Basically the tablet form-factor is a very sound concept, but having a (tiny) keyboard, non-touch pointing device and just other buttons make the form factor perfect.
To me an ideal tablet would run a highly optimized variant of x86 Windows* with a super-compact (roughly 1" by 6") non-touchscreen keyboard, non-touchscreen pointing device (maybe a thumb-sized patch of touchpad material, but programmed to behave more like a tiny joystick), a fast, color ePaper display (which is only on the drawing board right now) with a multi-level, multi-touch display that can do fingers and a stylus AND is backlit.
Specific system specs are pointless since we'd be talking 5-10 years in the future, but using current-day parts I'd say a Core-based ULV 64-bit CPU, 2GB expandable to 4GB, a large (32-64GB) Micro-PCIe SSD with an open slot, SDHC slot, two USB-A ports and headphone and compact (Mini-Port-style) audio/video-out.
* Basically look at Ubuntu Netbook Remix and imagine it running on top of Windows, which would allow the use of standard Windows applications for cases where they're needed, as well as one designed specifically for the form-factor.
Worked instantly out of the box. As soon as the 3G linked up it registered itself and downloaded the free ebooks I'd bought.
The ePaper display is beautiful and as easy to read as a paper book
Super simple drag-and-drop file transfers
Free 3G wireless is nice
Every book I've read looks great, even complex PDFs
Controls are simple and easy to use. The tiny keyboard is very easy to type on.
Cons:
The display is very slow, which is a problem with ePaper.
No color, see above, but not a huge deal.
Wireless is slow, but that might be fault of the CPU and display
GURPS PDFs have a problem that it will trim the white edges of their e23-only releases, but the way their printed books are laid out it doesn't due to some decoration at the top and bottom. No fault of the device, though.
It only does ebook well, the web browser is mediocre and text-to-speech has pacing problems.
Overall - If your only reason for wanting an iPad is to read ebooks then this is certainly a better option. The iPad has trouble in heat and sunlight, whereas the Kindle doesn't and even the highest end version is $100 less than then the lowest-end iPad.
I give it 8 out of 10 huge titted vixens
As a side note, blending technologies in the Kindle and iPad would make for an amazing device, though some technology has to advance before it would be possible. Basically the tablet form-factor is a very sound concept, but having a (tiny) keyboard, non-touch pointing device and just other buttons make the form factor perfect.
To me an ideal tablet would run a highly optimized variant of x86 Windows* with a super-compact (roughly 1" by 6") non-touchscreen keyboard, non-touchscreen pointing device (maybe a thumb-sized patch of touchpad material, but programmed to behave more like a tiny joystick), a fast, color ePaper display (which is only on the drawing board right now) with a multi-level, multi-touch display that can do fingers and a stylus AND is backlit.
Specific system specs are pointless since we'd be talking 5-10 years in the future, but using current-day parts I'd say a Core-based ULV 64-bit CPU, 2GB expandable to 4GB, a large (32-64GB) Micro-PCIe SSD with an open slot, SDHC slot, two USB-A ports and headphone and compact (Mini-Port-style) audio/video-out.
* Basically look at Ubuntu Netbook Remix and imagine it running on top of Windows, which would allow the use of standard Windows applications for cases where they're needed, as well as one designed specifically for the form-factor.
