@Bourbon_Warrior said:
@Goldanas said:
I'm pretty much an Anti-Apple Advocate (or Triple A), and unfortunately I have to play Devil's Advocate here. When the bomb crew posts news about the iPad, people lose their shit:
WHERE ARE THE GAMES!!?
They say. But just doing a casual look through these comments, I don't see any of that for this device. There was pretty much nothing about games at that conference apart from a light mention of "it'll play games", and that was it. They didn't even show any of the games that are already available on the Windows 8 Store.
I have no problem with this or the iPad being on the news section, but I'm just saying at some point being a fanboy crosses the line into being a hypocrite.
Thats cause this is a actual PC under it all, id love to play Diablo 3 and Sim City on this thing.
Why in the world would you want to play SimCity on this? And any action game would be pretty silly unless it was touch-enabled extremely well. Why not just have a laptop at this point? It's probably going to be more capable, have a better screen, and all that. I understand the cover keyboard being good, since writing word documents on the iPad is no good. And the only content creation that can be done on that thing is music creation (FL Studio, Beat Maker 2, Garage Band, iMaschine, etc.) and some more basic drawing with Adobe Ideas and those things.
I'm just failing to see how this is anything but Microsoft iPad with a real keyboard that Apple will probably rip-off in a year or two and a weird custom version of Windows for it.
Oh man I'm going to the park, gonna break out my Surface, the tactile keyboard, and my mouse, plug that all in and work. I mean just get an ultrabook. I mean is this thing REALLY gonna run photoshop that well for the portability? And all the nice web browsing, reading, occasional video watching, and few paragraphs worth of text now and then can be done now already very well on the iPad 3. I guess one of those with an SD card slot and USB makes it thaaat much better to some people, but doing crazy custom stuff for it, which ultimately means mostly just rooting it and getting it to play emulators and plugging in a 360 controller is a cool thing, but eh, I have played those same SNES and GBA and whatever easily emulate-able games too many times on everything from their original platforms to the PSP and Wii. The other obvious custom stuff that comes out is also barely a thing to me too.
Though I find this more appealing than an iPad, but only by a little bit, and that is if all of the apps and UI are up to par. Like 10 apps worth having and kind of sluggish but pretty UI won't cut it. Though Windows Phone 7 is great, and the UI IS good, the apps still are not there so much. Hopefully they get it right, like with Windows 7 and the Xbox slim (and not like the Kinect and the current Xbox dashboard).
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