In the great “iPad vs Netbook / Ultra-portable” debate, I’m siding with the Lenovo U150 — Intel SU7300 version. I’m not anti-iPad. Well, except for the ridiculous name. I just can’t think of a reason why I should buy one instead of a netbook.
I already have an iPhone. I love it for the things that it does and when I’m on the road it is usually my primary computing device. Aside from offloading photos from my camera, the iPad hasn’t promised to do anything new that I care about. It is just… bigger. Possibly too big. Since I don’t own a man purse the iPad is no more convenient to carry around than an ultra-portable.
I do have a need for another device. Something that doesn’t take up much room on my motorcycle, costs less than my personal Macbook Pro, and can run a few programs that will never exist for the iPhone OS — like the Garmin program for planning routes and downloading them to my GPS. I wish that Apple offered such a device running OS X on an Intel chip, but they don’t, so Lenovo gets my Apple Tablet money and soon I will be using Windows for more than just syncing my Zune HD.
