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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5617564" data-attributes="member: 7883">I think this is referred to by a statement you made in an earlier post.  It depends on what you're used to.Personally, I prefer to start typing the T's, to have the auto complete show me the options that start with a T.  Personally, I find it easier and faster than the scroll-o-dex.  Again, that's personal opinion.Different people have different preferences for how interfaces work.  Apple *is* a master at making things simple....particularly for non-techies.  Of course, if I want to refer to the older generation, many of the older generation *still* find something like iTunes difficult to use.  It's taken multiple tries to get my mother to figure out how to use iTunes to populate her iPod Touch, and to download apps etc.  And she's not nontechnical.  She can program in Basic, COBOL, Turbo Pascal, and several other languages.....and she's what....61?Personally, I think with Windows 7, Microsoft largely "got it right".  There are a few annoying flaws.....I've had a few things go wrong, resulting in neeting to restore the system from backup, and an upgrade of iTunes corrupted my Windows Installer Utility, necessitating that Windows be reinstalled from scratch, and I don't think any program should be able to mess up such a central part of the OS so severely.  But from security to interface, to help tools, I find this the best version of Windows I've seen.  I never thought I'd move off Windows XP, and avoided Vista like the plague, but this version really doesn't bother me.On the tablet front, I'm thinking of taking a closer look at the EEE Pad Transformer from ASUS.  Seems like a pretty good value for the money.  It has pretty much everything the Toshiba Thrive has, but a better screen, but lacking a replaceable battery.  The one thing I hate about the prevalence of non-user replaceable batteries in the majority of these tablets is that the manufacturers are effectively building an enforced retirement schedule into these devices.  I tend to keep my iPhone plugged in 100% of the time, to maximize the amount of time it's kept charged, and lengthen the amount of time I have to worry about battery life reduction.......but the EEE Pad Transformer has a 3' long power cable.  I'd say that's the main flaw I can see.It now being July, I'm not sure whether it's better to just go ahead and get the device now, or wait until these Kal-El Tegra 3 chips, that are supposed to be 5x as powerful come out.......but their availability is entirely conjecture at this point.  Devices are "rumored" to be coming out in October/November....but it could be March 2012 before they do, for all we know.Of course, there's this rumoured iPad 2 HD they're talking about possibly coming out in September with the equivalent of a retina display.Banshee</blockquote>

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