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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Yeah I did read it. Don't need to be so snarky. Just pointing it out.
It has a similar price point and is based on hardware thats common in netbooks today with a "full" OS.
Not sure about how well "engineered" this chinese tablet is, but if this 90 minute battery life is the best an Intel Atom chipset can do, then kudos to Apple for designing their own chip to allow the iPad to have its battery life and performance. Other comapnies will be behind the ball if they are relying on Intel to compete.
Again interesting to see what other manufactuers will do.
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I wasn't being snarky, it was a legitimate question. I figured there was no way you would have tried to offer that as a comparison, if you knew it only had a 90 minute battery life. Also, since companies always exaggerate their battery life rating, and the one they do list is always based off of operating parameters that are one step above just being in Standby Mode... it's pretty safe to say that you would be lucky to even make it through a single 45 minute episode of House on one battery charge. This thing is nothing more than a toy.
As for the "full OS," it runs Windows XP Starter Edition, which is even less of an OS than the iPhone OS is. Sure, it has a start menu and looks like regular old Windows, but it's not. The only thing I will give you is that it isn't bound by the Apple Store TOS, but I honestly couldn't care less about that. I'll take a pool of 140,000 virus-free, malware-free apps that I know aren't going to blue-screen my device every time I install or uninstall them any day. I'm fairly confident that there isn't much someone can do on a Windows netbook that I also can't do on my iPhone - even without jailbreaking it.
Anyway, I wasn't trying to be a dick and I apologize if I came off that way. I just honestly assumed that if you had read all that in the review, you wouldn't have posted it in the first place... and so I ask you if did.