Damn, Moto Xoom gonna be $800?!?

[guizai]

I think I'm leaning towards a Android tablet for the kid but damn, $800 is pretty steep.

[DoubleD!]

I'm sure the subsidized price will be a lot lower and I'd bet it's gunna be right on the iPod pricing.

I might pick one up - either an ipad or a xoom - for use w/ drawings in the shop. Depends on the screen of the xoom. Ipad is smallish for what I'd want to do.

[bamnetwork]

Steve Jobs said so

[DoubleD!]

Need to figure out what kind of ap availability there is for powerpoint stuff. Could use it for presentations, especially w/ the video out.

Could use it in the shop for annotating pdf versions of drawings bu the screen will have to be large enough. You can always zoom, but doing so makes annotating really hard.

[bamnetwork]

seems pretty big in the demos

[guizai]

I'm excited about all the 3.0 stuff that's in the pipeline. I prefer it against the locked down feeling in the Ipad.

[RoadRat]

i havent found one yet

[hayaku]

only dumbschits believe misspelled leaked ads. that ad was passed around bestbuy/vzw for marketing approval and yes, they caught the same misspellings and schit.

if you have a corp vzw rep, give 'em a call. they are all laughing hysterically at this. mine called me for another reason and brought this up as he knew i would find it funny.

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Hayaku - Orange County, California

[orooj]

It does a decent job for viewing things. Gets formatting about 90-95% right when converting from ppt's created in Windows. For the stuff I do its okay but would print to a pdf from Powerpoint if I was going to use it to present to clients.

It would be nice to have another inch (or two) of screen real estate but overall I like the size. Not sure how you go bigger without significantly increasing the weight which wouldn't be good.

[hayaku]

when translating from one platform to another, something always gets screwed up and comes up weird. even epub books do that too. pdf on the same platform it was created on helps fix that issue.

but real annotation is still not quite up to snuff yet on any tablet platform (except for full windows os in laptop tablet) but thats a pita to use.

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Hayaku - Orange County, California

[DoubleD!]

really want to be able to highight and put in brief notes to myself

printing autocad drawings to pdf. would be nice to be able to push them from my PC to a cloud -eg dropbox (this should make roadrash happy- then pull them to the tablet, annotate, and then pull back on PC to revise drawings. Would be especially nice in the field for new system starts.

Plus I get a big discount when you add in that I'm paying for this sh1t with pretax $. Screw verizon - you taxpayers can subsidize my tablet!

[DoubleD!]

not really worried about lots of text

[rocketsredglare]

[RoadRat]

really possible... but looks like the solution is in hand...

http://www.cerience.com/products/reader/android

http://www.cerience.com/products/reader/android

[DoubleD!]

[DoubleD!]

[RoadRat]

yep....iannotate. works pretty well.

too bad the ipad aint the solution.

[DoubleD!]

for what i'm thinking of using it for, the ipad would do ok I think.

I'm really just looking for an excuse to have a larger screen for angry birds

[rocketsredglare]

[orooj]