7-Inch iPad Rumored

Stoobalou writes "Rumours of a cut-down Apple iPad are ramping up as Taiwanese news outlet Economic Daily News names names. The often-reliable Chinese language newspaper — which correctly predicted the first coming of the iPad when everyone else on the planet was carping on about a sub-$500 netbook from the Cupertino company — has been digging about in the skips behind a number of Chinese factories and reckons it knows who will be making which bit of the much-predicted iPad 2."

If by unimpressed you mean terrified...

[spun]

Too bad she will still be unimpressed by the hamster-sized organ between your legs.

The common hamster [wikipedia.org] can grow to a size of fourteen inches in length, three inches across, and can weigh up to a pound.

Re:If by unimpressed you mean terrified...

[bannable]

Too bad the common hamster isn't the one that we make a pet of. [wikipedia.org]

Re:iPad

[elrous0]

God, I hope your post is being sarcastic. You talk about all the Apple products you buy, even ones that you haven't figured out a use for or that you only buy as status symbols, and then turn around and call MS people stupid sheep? Surely you can't be for real.

Re:bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey retard. SKU means "Stock Keeping Unit". It doesn't mean product, it's the name of a fucking serial number!

Re:"Often reliable"

[erroneus]

A sub-$200 PC is comparable to a sub-$500 Apple iGadget. iGadgets are nice, but they don't really offer competitive value for the dollar. (tell me more about the superior grade and choice parts selected... I have heard it all, but the failure rate of Apple hardware is no different than other gear and certainly no different than less expensive gear...) But just the same, these sub-$200 netbooks are known to run Mac OS X quite nicely.

Re:iPad

[jedidiah]

A 7" ipod will still have all of the disadvantages of an ipod.

Re:Kindle has more strian

[RapmasterT]

The Kindle has other benefits, like battery life - but eyestrain is NOT one of them. I can't read more than a page or two on that grayish low contrast screen without starting to hate it.

People who complain abut eyestrain have not looked at a good LCD with appropriate brightness controls, or are looking at the LCD in conditions they would not have even been able to read a Kindle. Background light is important for LCD use too...

I'm sick to death of hearing people parrot "eyestrain" as a benefit of e-ink over LCD. It's total bullshit. Reading with the low contrast grey on lighter grey e-ink is a MUCH more fatiguing experience in almost every scenario except for bright sunlight. It's almost like the two technologies are good for remarkably different things, with little overlap.

I may be alone, but I actually own BOTH an ipad and a kindle, and use whichever one is best suited to the situation at hand. This works well for me because I'm not some kind of juvenile freak who insists that every device I buy be the wonder tool that does everything, or it's junk. Also, I'm not broke, so I can afford it.