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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I think I'm going to just start automatically ignoring posters who use the word fanboy. Same with ###### bag. Never been fond of that either. What exactly is so descriptive about calling someone a bag of water?
Anyway, I digress.
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Fanboy isn't always necessarily used in a negative sense. Fanboy is just easier to type than fan, aficionado, or supporter who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking and enthusiasm for Apple products.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
PS: I don't know which Apple forums you're hanging out in, but as far as I can remember, the only people in this thread who have tried to compare the iPad to a laptop are the ones who were trying to use that as an excuse for why the iPad sucked.
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There's plenty people out there that were saying the iPad was much more than it was. Some online, some people I know in real life and some tech columnists.
Example? Why yes, of course:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56514
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iPad is a Kindle, netbook, tablet PC and (to some degree) low end laptop killer. The iPad is also a viable alternative to laptop use in many situations.
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Usually when something is billed as a xyz-killer, it should at the very minimum be able to do what xyz can. The iPad fails miserably at this test. Like I said, it's not Apple that released these types of statements so I can't really fault them but there were enough of this type of hype around to get me interested in one by thinking it could do something it definitely couldn't and wasn't designed to.