(24/05/2010 11:24 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Not really.  The logical choice is a price/features/quality or value tradeoff.  If you're all about mitigating risk, you buy insurance.  Too expensive?  Then that means you're willing to take on some degree of risk to save money (even insurance doesn't eliminate risk).
(okay, perhaps it might be difficult to find insurance for this case, but that's the idea anyway)

So I take it that you believe the premium paid in price and lack of features is worth the risk trade off for you?
Then you have your decision :)

Yep, that basically sums it up; keep in mind that the "lack of" features are things that i already do not consider to be of worth to me.

(24/05/2010 11:24 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  You don't know, that's the thing.  You're not using it now, so you ultimately won't know whether you'll love it or hate it - applies to many things really.  Only buying it will solve the mystery - the most you can do is research to try to align your expectations with what you really get.
Unfortunately a risk you take.  Personally I try to make the best of what I have as I am somewhat risk averse in this regard so I rarely buy new stuff.

Don't get me wrong, i do the same thing as well; my pentium 4 computer (2.0 ghz processor + 128 MB ram + 1.5 gigs of DDR ram; oh yeeeaaa!) built 10 years back is still serving me as strongly as it always has. It's just that I'm looking for something -different- and i feel the ipad is such a thing; the whole magical and revolutionary stuff is lame, but you have to give them points for introducing what they've got already.

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(24/05/2010 11:59 PM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Don't get me wrong, i do the same thing as well; my pentium 4 computer (2.0 ghz processor + 128 MB ram + 1.5 gigs of DDR ram; oh yeeeaaa!) built 10 years back is still serving me as strongly as it always has. It's just that I'm looking for something -different- and i feel the ipad is such a thing; the whole magical and revolutionary stuff is lame, but you have to give them points for introducing what they've got already.

That wouldn't be 10 years ago as the original P4A chip was released in 2002.  Dunno if there was a 2GHz P4A, or whether that was the P4B (which would be later).
But Pentium 4s are fine - more powerful than my Intel Atom N270, and I think it's fast enough for most tasks.

And do you really have 128MB + 1.5GB of RAM?

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(25/05/2010 12:13 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  But Pentium 4s are fine - more powerful than my Intel Atom N270, and I think it's fast enough for most tasks.

It's not just the processor, you'll be using slow ram, slow HDD, slow everything else.  In the end, it'll be very likely much slower than your Atom netbook.

Also, don't know why, but all the library's P4s are retardedly slow (like REALLY retardedly slow), even though they should theoretically be much much faster, judging by the specs (I'm comparing to my old 1.6GHz Sempron and my brother's Atom, both of which feel like i7s vs their P4s).

(25/05/2010 12:13 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  And do you really have 128MB + 1.5GB of RAM?

10yrs old... Isn't that like before DDR?  You'll probably be using old SDRAM.  And you need 4 slots for that setup, no motherboard back then gave 4 slots.

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(25/05/2010 12:13 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(24/05/2010 11:59 PM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Don't get me wrong, i do the same thing as well; my pentium 4 computer (2.0 ghz processor + 128 MB ram + 1.5 gigs of DDR ram; oh yeeeaaa!) built 10 years back is still serving me as strongly as it always has. It's just that I'm looking for something -different- and i feel the ipad is such a thing; the whole magical and revolutionary stuff is lame, but you have to give them points for introducing what they've got already.

That wouldn't be 10 years ago as the original P4A chip was released in 2002.  Dunno if there was a 2GHz P4A, or whether that was the P4B (which would be later).
But Pentium 4s are fine - more powerful than my Intel Atom N270, and I think it's fast enough for most tasks.

And do you really have 128MB + 1.5GB of RAM?

I'm very sorry, i made a booboo; kinda tired here.

I meant to say 128MB of video ram + 1.5 DDR RAM. About the pentium 4 processor, i guess i was exaggerating the 10 years part; but it is very old by technologies standards, which was the point i was trying to get across.

Forgive me, I'll look into my examples more thoroughly next time. (Give me more time to edit my posts! D=)

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4

The first pentium 4 codenamed williamette; was released in 2000, but since I'm not an donkey, i verified my CPU to be the northwood chipset with the 130 nanometer build; so i guess this computer is 8 years old, which is still a pretty old machine anyway...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM#History

Also, according to this information (I'm not sure with that history reading) DDR was introduced in 2000 as well; but I'm assuming i have "release 2" based ram, which is also 8 years old...

This is besides the point, this computer is still pretty old

(25/05/2010 12:09 AM)Silvertie Wrote:  I tried to listen to steve jobbs talk up his iPad and discuss it's specs and what was good with it, but I couldn't hear him around the massive pocky of arrogance that he was choking on.

People are supposed to be arrogant when they are selling stuff, if you doubt your own product and not support it; then...i can't describe how dumb that is.

(25/05/2010 12:23 AM)1-R Wrote:  ~then again an iPad might be useful in some ways...since i liek my OS to be pretty♥..but since it won't be jailbroken(hackd) anytime soon...i think I'll just wait till the price drops cause i really do take fancy in having big ecchi wallpaper and pretty icons in the palms of my hand.

It's been jailbroken already lunar; check out the "spirit" jailbreak :)

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(25/05/2010 01:15 AM)S7* Wrote:  

>_>

Apple jokes are hilarious, but this one i don't get.

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You sound like you really, really want an iPad.



You probably won't regret buying it, like I said before, so long as you have EVERYTHING ELSE YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED then get an iPad as an extra - why not if you have the spare cash?

(25/05/2010 01:33 AM)S7* Wrote:  You sound like you really, really want an iPad.

You sounded like you really, really wanted something else too

Wat.

(25/05/2010 01:33 AM)S7* Wrote:  You probably won't regret buying it, like I said before, so long as you have EVERYTHING ELSE YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED then get an iPad as an extra - why not if you have the spare cash?

No, I wouldn't, I'd probably get parts for a computer or a SIM-free Nexus One, heh

Believe me, i'd be able to live with my pencils, papers, and textbooks; but there are reasons to why i buy more monitors or better computers; it makes life easier and i think the ipad would be a worthy addition is all.

I don't need to upgrade anything in my setup, rather, i need to bring some new stuff in.

You just sound like you really REALLY hate apple; i just get whatever i see that is useful and promising.

I love tech, not microsoft or apple.

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