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hey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with the tablet wars now I'm sure if you guys have been following the news you'll see that tablets are huge right now recently that Apple iPad was announced on there's been the juju Dell has the mini five and even HP has their own slate there's tons of tablets going on now so I'm going to go ahead compare that all of them what we know what we don't know and what we think they're really going to be all about so it should be pretty interesting anyway let's get this one started so obviously the newest is definitely the Apple iPad which was just announced a couple days ago so let's go over that now the first thing obviously is that this has been the Apple tablets as everyone's been going crazy over for a long time but there's a lot of well not everyone's exactly happy with it and it's easy to see why there's a bunch of big downsides no multi tasking that's that's a pretty big deal it runs basically iPhone OS and it really does it's 3.2 and there's a few new features in the iPads version but not likely we brought it over to the iPhone and iPod touch so it's really not a whole lot new there either but that said we're comparing it against other tablets not the iPhone so that's not a such big deal some of the big big pluses have got to be that it's access to the app store all of the over 140,000 iPhone and iPod Touch apps are available on the iPad so that's a big big plus the nine point seven inch screen looks fantastic and it's got a really nice resolution of 1024 by 768 now if you don't know what that roughly means it's basically about the size most monitors are a good amount of monitors so you figure that that's about the same resolution is monitor that's that's pretty good for just a small 9 inch tablet there are also some more cons as well that a lot of the others have such as USB ports all it pretty much has is a 30 pin connector just like on any iPod and really there's no camera and there's no SD card storage so there's a lot of bad things but there's a lot of good things the iPad will be launched in March sometime in March probably late March or between 499 and 829 dollars depending on what size we want 16 32 or 64 gigabytes of storage and if you want 3G or not so the iPad looks pretty solid okay so the next and our tablet war has got to be the Jew tube if you guys remember correctly the juju was really talked about a lot and people were right kind of excited it was one of the first tablets and it definitely was the first to be announced well it's kind of gotten a little older now still we're still waiting on it to come out and in the meantime a lot of other tablets that come out that said the juju still has its perks probably the best thing about it is just the look of the device it really really looks solid it has a 12.1 inch full capacitive multi-touch screen which and well the whole thing together actually is personally I think is better-looking than the iPad it's got a larger screen less bezel looks like about the same thickness and so it's a really nice looking device unfortunately it's a different kind of device rather its tablet obviously but it really doesn't have anything besides web browsing if you guys know Chrome OS which should be coming out by the end of the year the juju runs something very similar there's nothing else to it besides the Internet we turn on it opens up the browser and all you have instead of apps you just have Web Apps which basically just websites so really it doesn't have a whole lot beyond just the web browser that said all these tablets are going to be mainly focused on the web entirely bad thing unfortunately there are a lot of legal problems with the juju as well as the fact that it's the same price as the iPad or at least the same price base iPad a $500 so really unless you really really really don't like the iPad and you just think that all you're ever gonna do is web browsing I really don't think that you geez probably be the right one but it's still not a bad device and if you are only doing web browsing it looks like one of the best okay so the next tablet has got to be the HP Slate the HP Slate actually looks pretty impressive I got I got to be honest it's going to be a 10 inch full multi-touch capacitive screen just like the rest but it's going to be a bit different it's going to instead of running like the iPhone OS or something specifically for a tablet face you're going to run for Windows 7 and that's got a lot of benefits and a lot of downsides the benefits obviously are that it runs anything that our compute with so it's a lot closer than to a normal computer then you know something like the iPad obviously you can pick any browser you want obviously it's got flash support and it's got support for one of the thousands of thousands of Windows programs and apps are out there so you know that you're going to be covered there but some of the downsides are that Windows 7 while it's taking strides to be a better Apple I'm sorry that better tablet device it's still not made specifically from tablets you know it's got a new on-screen keyboard a lot of icons are now bigger and easier to touch but it's still an OS that's made for a keyboard and for a mouse so you know you're going to run into a lot of like smaller dialogues and different things obviously it's not going to be made to be a tablet but the HP Slate does have a lot going for it well we don't know all the specs right now so I can't you know I don't know we don't know battery life and some other things like that but it does have some cool features it has a camera which is something the iPad doesn't it we don't know for sure what processor is going to run but most likely it's going to be an Intel Atom which just purely author the clock speed is going to be quite a faster than iPad but considering that they're running different things and and a lot of other things like Windows 7 is probably going to be a lot bulkier than iPhone OS it's going to kind of come down to once we actually see them and actually use them but I kind of got to give the edge the atoms a pretty decent little chip so it probably do pretty well anyway so the HP Slate we don't know the price yet but it's rumored to be five or six hundred dollars once it comes out sometime later in the year now if seeing the slight for the sec same price as the ipad on a lot of the HP slate looks pretty impressive I like the fact that I can run full Windows 7 on it but you know it might have some downside so we'll have to just wait and see ok so the last tablet we'll be covering is a bit different than the others and it is the dell mini 5 if you know the dominie 5 it's almost less of a full size tablet than it is maybe like something along the lines of the very large iPod touch it's also got some different features like it actually works as a phone although it still it's 5 inches so if you know it would be pretty large but it does still function as a phone but the dell mini 5 is should be pretty cool the pre cool little device it runs a custom dell version of android 1.6 but they put their own custom scan which looks quite nice it uses a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor which is a pretty powerful processor it should you get the job done very nicely um there's a lot of cool things like I said it has a phone built-in and but the main purpose of having 3g is to actually use it as for web access so it's going to be a smaller device it's not going to be still not going to be pocketable but it's going to be decent enough where you know me it's not going to be large where you need a bag whatever you know you can have it you know plus it in a large pocket maybe or like a linear bag or something he says but one of the really cool things I like about the domine 5 is that it runs Android and I think Android has a lot of potential on tablets it you know it has a lot of love apps putting it to only second to the iPhone OS and all these apps are going to run really nice on the nice 5 inch screen um now is good it's not going to be quite as good compared with the screen obviously you know if like the iPad you've got full nice 10-inch screen if the djinns you've got a 12 inch screen so going down to a 5 inch screen it's not going to be quite as good of an Internet experience that said though it's still going to be pretty nice 5 inches is quite a bit bigger than you know what you would think of in like an iPhone or something like that or a droid so the dell mini 5 has a lot of good things now one thing we do not know is the price now people personally I don't know why people have been saying stuff like it's going to be $1000 now if it was $1000 I wouldn't look twice at it but I really don't see whether they're coming from the mini 5 it's going to be a very small device it's not like it's using anything revolutionary it's using pretty much standard parts so I don't see why I should be needing more than three maybe $400 but we'll see anyway guys that those are my four tablets that I think you definitely look for it's really hard to pick a winner of considering that not one of them are out yet so we're gonna have to wait and see some hands on time and actually start to use them a bunch but looking at them now the iPad looks pretty strong then shoot you could have its niche but I don't really see it really catching on the HP Slate looks really really pretty good to me I mean I like the idea of running full Windows 7 on a tablet and the Dell v5 could be a bit of a different kind of animal but really has a lot of potential I really think it can be a good device and I guys what do you think are you interested in tablet computing are you are you planning on maybe buying one of these tablets this year or are you going to white maybe wait until next year see how all this plays out see what the markets headed definitely let me know in the comments anyway thanks for watching