"Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music" - hmmm. I suspect that means it will need a power source if running hours vids or wireless web surfing for more than 5 or 6 hours. (I base my guess on 10 years of having Apple products with batteries going back to the clamshell and the 1stGen iPod. Haven't seen any specs on using just as a reader. For me, color is worth at least some of the trade-off on battery time.
The various Mac specialist writers who were at the event and had a chance to handle the actual machine all praised the look and feel. I'll go to an apple store and check it out once it's released. Lots of different formats for mail attachments: "Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)" available, don't know enough about Kindle or ebooks in general to compare. The publishing companies already signed up covers most of the mass-market genre publishers.
The sensible thing to do is wait until iPad Gen 2. I'll have to repeat that 100 times each day and stay away from the Apple store down in ABQ when it's first released. New Tech has more allure for me than a shoe store, even Zappos....
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The various Mac specialist writers who were at the event and had a chance to handle the actual machine all praised the look and feel. I'll go to an apple store and check it out once it's released.
Lots of different formats for mail attachments: "Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)" available, don't know enough about Kindle or ebooks in general to compare. The publishing companies already signed up covers most of the mass-market genre publishers.
The sensible thing to do is wait until iPad Gen 2. I'll have to repeat that 100 times each day and stay away from the Apple store down in ABQ when it's first released. New Tech has more allure for me than a shoe store, even Zappos....