Amazon Kindle Fire

[jinnantonnixx]

If it came in at £130, I'd get one. But, as pointed out earlier, I'd be surprised to see it much under £200.

[Norphy]

Put it this way - the new normal kindle is $79, but is £89 in the UK. Using the same figures, it means it'll end up around £225.

Still, its a good price, and I'm interested in it too.

Gonna get my mom one of the new kindles though I think!

Actually, what costs $79 in the USA is the advert supported version of the basic Kindle. What we're getting here is the version without ads which costs $109 over there. That works out at roughly £70 and we're paying £74 before the VAT so I'd say that's pretty fair. If this holds for the Fire once it arrives, I'd expect to pay about £160-£170 for it.

[mac_shinobi]

I would much rather use the £200 or so and use it towards a mac laptop, as I can do all the stuff on the tablet that I can on the laptop and probably faster, music, videos, web browse, check email, use skype or the likes to mac calls, install windows on the mac laptop or use a VM for windows / linux etc etc.

Amazon do a kindle app so can do that

[sted]

I would much rather use the £200 or so and use it towards a mac laptop, as I can do all the stuff on the tablet that I can on the laptop and probably faster, music, videos, web browse, check email, use skype or the likes to mac calls, install windows on the mac laptop or use a VM for windows / linux etc etc.

Amazon do a kindle app so can do that

Kind of agaist the point.

Tablet instant on do quick stuff put down real computer(or even a mac) more complex stuff

[flyinghaggis]

I would much rather use the £200 or so and use it towards a mac laptop, as I can do all the stuff on the tablet that I can on the laptop and probably faster, music, videos, web browse, check email, use skype or the likes to mac calls, install windows on the mac laptop or use a VM for windows / linux etc etc.

Amazon do a kindle app so can do that

Lol, only a Mac fan would have the brass neck to complain that a £200 tablet doesn have the same functionality as a £1000 laptop What Apple should be worried about is that on the face of it Amazon can, for less than half the price, produce a tablet that does 90% of what an ipad does. Plus with the tie-in to amazon online services and Android OS it'll likely do quite a few things that the ipad can't! I get what you mean about the limited functionality of most current tablets though. In fact that's the main reason I bought an 11" netbook earlier this yaer as I didn't feel that the tablet's out at the moment could replace a proper laptop with Windows/OSX.

Having said that there'll always be folks out there willing to pay a premium to get Apple's tablet so there's a big enough market for both! As I said I'd be unwilling to pay £500 for a tablet at the moment but I would quite happily pay £150-200 for one if it contained the functionality I wanted.

[Arthur]

I can do all the stuff on the tablet that I can on the laptop and probably faster

41.8% faster apparently...

Miratech has conducted a study to determine how web browsing differs between an iPad and a computer.

Conclusion: It's hard to browse the web with an iPad. (Source)

[ZeroHour]

41.8% faster apparently...



http://i.imgur.com/M7ZAJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xjXkB.jpg

Thats awesome to try and beat down the silly people that pleep about how they MUST have a iPad because they will become more efficient.

[mac_shinobi]

Lol, only a Mac fan would have the brass neck to complain that a £200 tablet doesn have the same functionality as a £1000 laptop What Apple should be worried about is that on the face of it Amazon can, for less than half the price, produce a tablet that does 90% of what an ipad does. Plus with the tie-in to amazon online services and Android OS it'll likely do quite a few things that the ipad can't! I get what you mean about the limited functionality of most current tablets though. In fact that's the main reason I bought an 11" netbook earlier this yaer as I didn't feel that the tablet's out at the moment could replace a proper laptop with Windows/OSX.

Having said that there'll always be folks out there willing to pay a premium to get Apple's tablet so there's a big enough market for both! As I said I'd be unwilling to pay £500 for a tablet at the moment but I would quite happily pay £150-200 for one if it contained the functionality I wanted.

like with everything you get what you pay for ( or not as the case may be ), I prefer OS X but still use windows, too much faffing with linux

Don't have to mess around with drivers or much of ought else

733343]Kind of agaist the point.

Tablet instant on do quick stuff put down real computer(or even a mac) more complex stuff

SSD ??

[Arthur]

Has anyone watched Amazon's Kindle Press Conference on YouTube? Going by the sound of the audience somebody should have called 911!