[Swordmaker]

iPad competition from Windows tablets??? PING!

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Apple iPad competition from Windows? Ping!

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[Red Badger]

Too expensive.....

[6SJ7]

Just checked out the pricing for the Motion CL900 on PCMall. What are they thinking?

The base model w/o a digitizer pen (needed to compensate for using Win 7 with a touch interface unless one has needle like fingers) is $999. If you want one with Mobile connectivity (WWAN), it's $1,225... and still no digitizer pen!! You want everything, they've got one for $1,349.

How on earth does this compete with the iPad2 where the fully loaded model is $700 and the WiFi base model is $500?

[ReignOfError]

So it's a tablet, like an iPad. Except heavier, more expensive, and running Windows. In other words, more or less the same tablets that have been available since Windows XP Tablet Edition came out in 2004, and which prior to the iPad, no one wanted.

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[zeugma]

“There’s a security story that plays well in corporate. IT managers will be much friendlier to a Windows tablet than to an iOS one,” said Roger Kay, president at Endpoint Technologies Associates.

Wow. How can someone mention windows and security in the same breath with a straight face?

I realise it's somewhat better than the virus sponge it's been for years past, but from a security standpoint, it can't hold a candle to Unix. (Mac and Linux)

Sadly, many businesses will want to use these things because they are too set in their ways to try anything else that could work better in the long run. I see it where I work. The blind, slavish obedience to microsoft is frightening sometimes.