I’ve wanted an iPad for a long time – did a lot of work before purchasing, trying to figure out best model and all that and now that I have one (iPad1, 32GB WiFi) I’m actually thinking of returning it and buying a RIM PlayBook in 2 weeks!!! I can’t believe I just wrote that, but it’s true!
Here’s why:
-size matters – it turns out that even though the iPad is lighter than my MacBook, it’s still something to lug around and really, not that much smaller dimensions-wise. The PlayBook has a 7″ screen and that’s beginning to be pretty appealing.
-giving up the size won’t matter though because the PlayBook’s screen resolution is supposedly better – and I can believe that because I had one of those first MacSEs back in the mid-80s. Those screens were tiny but I never had any issue reading on them.
The iPad really is not the stand-alone piece of equipment that I was hoping I could turn it in to – I knew that it’s essentially an extension of my MacBook but the functionality is pretty limited. For example, I want to cull down my 10,000 photos and thought that while traveling for work, I could attack this project on the iPad, but it turns out that it’s really much easier to do it on my MacBook (unless someone can tell me differently?).
So I’m really torn – it’s only been a few days so I have another week to decide and I’ll be pretty embarrassed to go back to the store but…. the PlayBook seems pretty enticing at this point.
