Best Tablet / iPad?

[J Blox]

kno there is alot of tech guys on here so i figured i'd ask the question. lookin to possibly get a tablet for keeping up with my school stuff etc. which one is best in your opinion and why?

also if its any help i dont have any other smart phone or anything else lol a desktop at the house and thats it so syncing with other gadgets would be a moot point thanks!

[nags]

iPad is sweet, but it's still an Apple product so you'll be tethered to iTunes for forever.

Android tablets are sick, but I don't think it's a good time to buy one.

[J Blox]

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Originally Posted by nags iPad is sweet, but it's still an Apple product so you'll be tethered to iTunes for forever. Android tablets are sick, but I don't think it's a good time to buy one.

itunes pisses me off..

y you say its not a good time? i may hold off til my bday in aug

[Paul]

i wanna get the GSLATE for tmobile when it comes out... i have an ipad that i got for christmas... its cool but i rarely use the thing to be honest.

http://mobile-broadband.t-mobile.com...tablet/g-slate

[J Blox]

that looks cool but i dont want to be tied to a service provider.. i like how its 4g capable though. if i did get locked in on another bill 4g is way to go

[Paul]

i looked into every carrier when it came time to get my first BB and tmobile had the bestplan $35 a month for unlimited data which i use to tether my laptop and ipad to while im at home where i get 4g coverage. i torrented a movie last night and dl'ed 1gig in abot 35-40 mins. i want the gslate cuz that bitch records in 3D and it has andriod 3.0

[Beto]

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Originally Posted by J Blox that looks cool but i dont want to be tied to a service provider.. i like how its 4g capable though. if i did get locked in on another bill 4g is way to go

better check that coverage map first



I'd say ipad if you dont want any software glitches. Android is too buggy for me. I had the xoom, the asus transformer, nook color. They all had their own problems, honeycomb is a nice idea but it still crashes too much. I could be reading a blog and bam, the browser would just shut down for no reason...and then the stupid "force close" messages would always pop up on any thing I ran.

This will sound like a total cliche, but the app market for apple is soooo much better than android when it comes to tablets. If anything you can find a nice ipad 1 for about 300-400, to save some cash.

[J Blox]

hmmm thanks for the heads up now how about the ease of using ipad with windows products like one of the main uses i would have is writing papers and doin spreadsheets. rthey have to be able to go seamlessly between machines..

[kevin09]

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Originally Posted by J Blox hmmm thanks for the heads up now how about the ease of using ipad with windows products like one of the main uses i would have is writing papers and doin spreadsheets. rthey have to be able to go seamlessly between machines..

im thinking about getting one too, and from what iv seen is that writing papers and doing all that school work isn't really a problem...in my classes of like 200-400 i always see a few people with ipads and they have the dock with keyboard and take notes, write papers and all..havent seen anyone do spreadsheets but im sure u can, i think that when u do documents u have a choice to save it a certain way? my buddy sends files from his mac to my pc and they work just fine, guess it depends on exactly what u want to do with it, id probably just use it to pass time in class and maybe a few notes here and there...

[Big Red]

I think they make an app for the iPad where you can use Microsoft word documents on it, like edit and open them. You probably have to pay for it though.

Also remember that you can always jailbreak the iPad-A lot of paid for apps become free, and a bunch of stuff gets unlocked for the user to mess with.

I've only used an iPad but can say, that its really smooth. and I liked using it. Hardly any crashes or anything. One problem is no Flash, but it was once in a while I encountered a website that needed Flash.