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TC1100 vs Ipad

Posted on February 7, 2010 3 Comments
Filed under Animation

Which one of those:

- supports Adobe Flash out of the box
- allows you to listen to music while doing other tasks
- allows you to run hundeds of professional applications
- has up to 1.2ghz processor
- has more than 50 gb hard drive
- allows you to draw with a real pressure sensitive pen
- doesn’t force you to buy an expensive Apple computer to develop applications
- comes with a free docking bay with keyboard
- costs less than $200 on Ebay
- came out 6 years ago
- is actually a real computer

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3 Responses to “TC1100 vs Ipad”

  1. manfred on February 9th, 2010 03:55

    your last point is right.
    It’s NOT a computer but an appliance. A very different device than a computer. If you want all of the points above – you’re free to buy a computer. I think thats the problem that some people have with ipad. they think its a computer doing the things a computer is supposed to do. but it’s not. you buy a computer, a phone, a tv, a radio and if you want ipad.

  2. Olivier Ladeuix on February 9th, 2010 05:32

    hehe. Why sell a dumb “appliance” when for the same price you can sell a fully fledged computer? If it is not to make loads of money with some crafty marketing brain-washing, I don’t see why…. ;-)

  3. rd7575 on February 21st, 2010 22:37

    Granted, it’s the predecessor, but I picked up a TC1000 at release and kept it until last year. As I understand it, the only difference is that it had a Crusoe chip instead of a Pentium M. The form factor was great but the weight was high and the screen was atrocious. It was effectively a big tease… perfect size and shape for reading but with ridiculously low brightness and a two and a half degree viewing angle. Sit your book-like device on the table and read it? No way… unless you want to stand up and bend over it so your eyes are perfectly perpendicular to the surface. Even then, it’s like viewing a dimmed laptop display through a screen door. (thanks to the worlds crappiest digitizer) Oh, and battery life? Even with the supposedly battery-thrifty (and unbearably slow, even for its time) Crusoe chip, best I ever got was about two hours. (true of the original battery and a replacement a couple of years later) Yeah there are many reasons why you might want to by a laptop / netbook / modern PC-based tablet over the iPad, but as for the TC1×00 comparison, there’s none. The only place it comes close is in a still picture, and even then, only if it’s at an angle where it’s thickness isn’t evident.

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