iPad - Who is going to get one?

[mike31154]

Had a quick look at one at FS a week or so ago and was surprised at how small it is. Didn't play around with it since a youngster was fooling with the only one on display that was functional. Having looked at the specs, I'm not very enthused and don't see the need for one in my household. The hardware I have is dated and I need to upgrade, but it won't be to one of these. The only thing I like about it is the flash hard drive. Hopefully PC & Notebook makers are taking notice of this. I'm wondering why it's taking so long for new, larger hardware to adopt solid state/flash hard drives? I've been holding off upgrading my stuff awaiting something decent and affordable with a solid state drive. I can't believe we're actually still using spinning magnetic discs and blue ray technology when manufacturers of flash memory are able to cram Gigs onto a postage stamp sized footprint!

Same goes for X-Box & Playstation, hard drives! Come on now, I can remember back in the day when video games came on a solid state cartridge that was plugged into the console, no moving parts! As far as I'm concerned X-Box & Play Station are a step backwards with spinning drives, both magnetic & optical.

So, until I see something more to my liking, I'll be plugging away on my Compaq Presario Notebook that's close to 7 years old now and occasionally I'll fire up the PC with 800 Mhz processor & 13 Gig hardrive to keep Windows XP up to date.

However, on the phone side of things, my contract expired in January and the battery in the Nokia isn't holding a charge that well anymore.... so maybe an older version of an iPhone is in the cards. Might be able to get a steal of a deal with a one or two year contract...