He made that reputation for himself by apologizing for *everything* bad Apple has done lately.

Blame Intel and Microsoft for keeping netbooks prices so high for so long (and Intel also keeping performance of Atom low so it doesn't get good enough for low-end laptops). If Asus were smart, they'd put a Tegra 2 or a Tegra 3 chip in it, for less cost, better performance and much better battery life.

Soon? Are you sure about that? I don't think you'll see it until 2012. It was supposed to come late 2011, but MS is already behind schedule with updates.

That's because it doesn't have the V8 JS engine, nor the JIT in 2.2, and it's about 3x as slow overall as a 1Ghz Cortex A8.

Wrong. Those phones don't have LTE chips in them.

I think hardware acceleration performance will be good enough a year from now to run games similar to the ones we have in Flash today. Zynga has already bought a company that makes a HTML5 game engine, so we should start seeing html5 perhaps 6 months from now, and become more popular next year when more people have…

If it had a retina display like everyone wanted, it would've probably benchmarked less than ipad 1.

Yes, it was out for the first time in September in that Toshiba smartbook, but it's the same chip we're seeing now in tablets. I blame Google for being so late with Honeycomb for not hearing more about it. Plus, Nvidia was quite a new entrant in this chip market, so it's been hard for them to win designs with the big…

This is not as dramatic as everyone thinks. Yes, it's a big improvement, but I'd say it's merely competitive with Nvidia, but on a different schedule. Tegra 2 for tablets has actually been out since September - shipping in products. But we didn't see it in some "real" tablets because Honeycomb wasn't ready, and this…

One tests OpenGL ES 2.0 and the other OpenGL ES 1.1 I believe, among other things.

The blog (and writers) itself doesn't hate Apple. They actually love it. It's most of the Engadget readers that do, which makes me wonder if Engadget writers realize they are not catering to the right audience.

They can't think in 6 months releases or 12 month releases. With them it always takes 3 years to release a new version of a software. So this isn't really a surprise. Plus, the very first rumors about Windows 8 since last year, said that it won't come to market till late 2012. It might appear as beta by the end of…

There are already Windows 7 tablets on the market. Nobody wants them.

They could make a Windows CE 7 or WP7 tablet much earlier if they wanted. But that's exactly the problem. They *don't* want to do that. They know that tablets have a very high chance of becoming the future "personal computer" for just about anyone, and that means that even if they maintain their dominance in this new…

Don't worry, flying cars will never take off (pun intended) until they can fly themselves completely, and the "driver" would be more like a passenger. Any other way would be too much trouble and too risky for the average person to use. I mean would you trust anyone who says *Android* is too difficult to use to drive a…

I think it could be done so it runs Honeycomb UI on the netbook shell. I think that UI would work pretty well for a laptop, and they wouldn't even have to run 2 OS's in the same time. It would just switch to the tablet UI. Also more powerful chips are coming by the end of the year, like Tegra 3 which is at least twice…

All the points in the article are probably true, but I also think the Android manufacturers are simply idiots and don't know how to plan a product that competes directly with the iPad.

Remember the Kindle Webapp that Amazon showed at the Chome OS event? Yeah, I bet they're thinking of using that on iPad now. The other 2 options can only be to increase the price of $10 books to $14-$15, or simply leave iOS in protest and hope for consumer backlash.

You must've heard of Microsoft only a year ago.

I would be even less enticed to buy it if it had WP7. Nokia is hoping that different software will mean they have to compete less on hardware. That's not true. I wouldn't buy N8 either way because besides the camera, it has weak hardware. Putting WP7 on it would only make it worse.