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Originally Posted by travelbug
I'm still gravitating towards MSI Winds, but they're not available anywhere at the moment here.
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The only issue with the MSI Winds is that they haven't updated their lineup in a while. The Wind U130 and U135 aim to change that though. The U130 is able to achieve a little over 5 hours of real world performance so it isn't the efficiency warrior that it should be. You may want to look towards the Asus Eee PC line as they have always offered good battery lives. Even their 3-cell netbooks get about 5 hours on a single charge. They have a new netbook out now that gets an advertised 12 hours on a single charge, this means that it will get about 9-10 hours of real world usage. I would also stay away from the MSI Wind U100 if battery life is important. It has an advertised 7 hours but that is reduced to 5 with real world usage.
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Originally Posted by ericinboston
- Inability to save documents (like MS Office stuff) on the iPad
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I know this isn't an iPad discussion thread but it actually has the ability to save documents to the iPad's internal memory, e-mail the documents as attachments, and even download them from the web or through the e-mail client (I am not sure which one). The iPad can open, e-mail, and save the following 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) files. Of course, this requires the purchase of the $9.99 (each) iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.