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Here are my top 10 resons why iPad is rubbish (this is why i didn’t buy one).

1. It isn’t called the iSlate, which would have been a far better name
2. I can carry an iPhone in my pocket, and use it to make calls without looking like a pretentious idiot
3. In the demo Steve Jobs gave, it didn’t have flash playback
4. Looks like multitasking didn’t make the cut. So no good for women
5. There’s no camera
6. It runs the iPhone OS, not OSX
7. The iPad doesn’t have even a single USB port
8. The battery is built-in, so can’t be replaced easily
9. It will force the Kindle to be cheaper, which is bad because that’s a terrible gadget that nobody should buy
10. Did I say the name iPap is terrible?

If you love the iphone then at first glimpse the iPad is a prayer answered. It’s a bigger version of the iPhone, it has all the multitouch capabilities, and looks so user friendly.

It also has a convenient screen size which would replace netbooks. Is it a threat to the Netbook Market?

Comparing netbooks to the Apple iPad, notebook seems to work for me as it has the Open Source capabilities. At least if you don’t the standard operating system of Windows 7, you can install what ever operating system you want  including Google Croms OS.

Amasingly Apple are allowing flash to work on the iPad. I want to run Linux. I’ll just have to wait.  A few more Tablets may be rising from the horizon if you put on display at the CES Convention, but apple has released its first. Is the iPad just an ipod touch on steroids? (more…)

When we thought you could not get  thinner than an Apple MacBook Air, think again…

Dell has combined the avant garde Adamo line with the XPS brand  to take the title as the slimmest laptop around.

It may not be the lightest but it is taking the title as the thinnest with the bulge being only 10.3 mm. This is even thinner than the iPhone 3G which stands at 12.3 mm or to get this into perspective get a CD jewel case you’ve probably got floating around the office or your house and the imagine a laptop being thinner.

Launched in the US, Dell have not cut all corners, they have moved the keyboard about 100mm from the hinge but they have packed it with a 1.4GHz Core2 Duo ULV CPU, 4GB of 800MHz DDR3 memory and a 128GB SSD. Unfortunately the 13.4in LED display is powered by an Intel integrated graphics chip.

It does come with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit making full use of the 4GB of memory and the dell multi-touch touchpad.

I can’t wait to get my hands on the XPS Adamo, keep visiting us to find out when it is coming out in the UK.  It’s already added to my 2010 wish list and lets hope you can buy it without an operating system. I’m liking the Ubuntu 9.10, this could be a real alternative to Windows.

Vital Stats: Apple MacBook Air vs. The Dell XPS Adamo

Apple MacBook Air
Height: 4 -19.4 mm
Width: 325 mm
Depth: 227 cm
Weight: 1.36 kg

Dell XPS Adamo
Height: 9.7 – 10.3 mm
Width: 340 mm
Depth: 273.9 mm
Weight: 1.44 kg