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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Exactly...and that's why for me, it would work. I still also submit that if one was really pressed for more storage, SD cards are an easy and affordable answer...I mean on this device you aren't trying to pop Photoshop CS on here!
For instance, since I don't want to cramp my laptop with tons of movies, I have a 16GB card that I pop in the slot and voila! More music, movies and yep...photos.
Remember how much the iPod touch was a few years ago upon release...
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SD cards are a pretty bad solution (short version: since the technology is similar to solid-state drives, the price will scale accordingly, so by the time large-scale SD storage becomes reality, it'll be outmoded by better internal drives, and so on), but yeah - here's the thing: anybody with enough "Power User" in them to be OK with swapping a few SD cards likely requires more than this rig can provide.
And it's not just that you can't load and run CS4 or crank out Matlab data - it's that you can't type on the word processor (which will be iWork, no Office, or even OpenOffice, equivalent) and send an instant message at the same time. You can't listen to Pandora while using the GPS to find a restaurant. You can't upgrade at all - it's completely closed-box - and you're limited to mOS4 instead of an OSX shell. It's not scalable. It's a throw-away device. And HD screens are TERRIBLE for eReading - that's why the Kindle went to eInk, HD leads to eye fatigue way too rapidly for everyday use.
It's cute, but I expected a LOT more functionality than it provides. And not "Power User" functionality - every f-ing day functionality. It's not there, and it isn't eminently clear that Apple has plans to even get it there.
Sure, I'll look like a bad ass when I walk into a client meeting and plug this into the projector and run the presentation off of it. That is, until the iWork presentation software starts to puke on something as simple as vector graphics.
That's the fatal flaw in Apple's "There's An App For That" marketing machine: your hands are tied by the very apps they're propping.