My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet

Found on PC World on Monday, 21 March 2011
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They carefully pull out their Apple device. I admire it and then say: "So where do you insert the DVD?".

Most iPad users readily admit typing data-intensive text on their tablet's touch keyboard is difficult.

The iPad 2's maximum 64GB of storage falls short. Even the 250GB of storage on a decent laptop fills up faster than you might expect.

Being able to insert a USB device or a thumbdrive into my laptop is essential to me.

The iPad doesn't support multitasking. Its battery isn't replacable.

Yet people happily throw away hundreds of dollars for iPads. As long as they have money to burn for useless pieces of hardware eyecandy, recession has not arrived.