By Herman Lai, posted May 24, 2010 at 11:06 PM, 1,711 views,

4 Factors that you should consider to buy a Touchpad rather than an iPad

On the 18th of May, Hanvon Touchpad B10 launched. Hanvon had utilized a gimmick of smashing an Apple Sculpture to emphasis their products. Yup, this apparently is indicating a declaration of War from Hanvon to Apple. Anyway, we had found four compelling factors that Touchpad is better than iPad.

Hard drive

As for the structure of TouchPad, it is a tablet with 10.1-inch LED backlit touchscreen (1024×600) which runs Windows 7 with a 1.3GHz Intel ULV743 processor, 2GB of Ram, Intel GS45 chipset, 250GB SATA hard drive of 5400 rpm. It supports IEEE802.11b/g and bluetooth V2.1 +EDR, acquired 2 USB ports, 2 mini HDMI, audio Jack and 3-in-1 card reader.

And iPad, it runs iPhone OS with 1GHz of Apple A4 processor, provided with 16GB/32GB/64GB of hard drive. It constructed with a 9.7-inch LED backlit IPS touch screen(1024×768), backed with IEEE802.11b/g, bluetooth V2.1 +EDR and headphone Jack.

As a result, the configuration is incomparable, they both are featuring at different things. However Touchpad renders a 250GB hard disk in compare to iPad only has the maximum of 64GB, iPad seems to be shabby.

Display

How about the comparison of display? Visually, the display of iPad is a little bit smaller than TouchPad. However touchpad’s display is in 1024×600 resolution which means it is a 16:9. No matter presents Business slide presentation, or to see a large entertainment, 16:9 had already become the mainstream of the resolution of display. This is something that iPad is not capable of.

Ports

I think the majority of us would have heard that iPad only has a very limit of ports on it. Perhaps, I should say just one and it is the headphone Jack. The purpose of having a tablet PC is for portability, TouchPad apparently is more beneficial than iPad. It has 2 USB ports, 2 mini HDMI, audio Jack and 3-in-1 card reader. Possibly, Jobs feel annoyed to install USB port on his products, such as Macbook Air.

Price

Considering their price that available in the market, the value of iPad is much more expensive than TouchPad. For example, If you are seeking to buy a 32GB iPad with only WiFi, it is pretty much the same price of buying TouchPad B10. From this, we can deduce the most expensive of iPad could be its flash memory. Moreover, if you are buying a TouchPad, basically there are nothing extension that would be necessary to buy. On the contrast, there are 10 more accessories that you might intend to purchase, and the total price of all those gadgets add up to $3428 RMB – $3778 RMB (about $489.73~539.73). If you are seeking to have all of them, perhaps is not a good idea. Those money is almost enough to invest for a new 16GB iPad.

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