Hey,
About a year ago I was using my laptop in the living room and was getting annoyed with a heavy, hot and cumbersome device on my lap while surfing the web and thought it would be nice to be able to just have the screen part of the laptop to hold with one hand while sipping a cup of coffee to make things more comfortable. Then in the past year I started reading about kindle and tablet device etc. Now I look at the ipad I just saw an advert for and see it as having everything I want, except one thing, its an apple device.
I don’t like safari and would want firefox for my web browser, I have all my addons for it how I like and all my bookmarks setup how I like them with my addons, safari don’t come close to providing the type of functionality firefox does. I don’t like the idea of paying for things from the apple app store to provide extra functionality or useful programs etc, nor do I like the idea of having to go through the app store in the first place, I want freedom the net provides to download programs of my choosing.
So this leads me to my question which is:
Does anyone know of a ipad like device (mostly in terms of size) that would let me put windows on it like from installing it from a usb stick or such or failing that at least Firefox in all its glory?
I basically want to view webpages in firefox from an ipad like device without being restricted to an apple OS. Is anything like this around yet?
I guess what I am thinking of is like a netbook but with out a lid that opens up, the computer is part of the screen, that’s the most cumbersome part of the netbook/laptop for me. Has no one made a lightweight, small, netbook sized pc with the screen incorporated into the computer, kinda like the ipad but is OS neutral (just the hardware) or at least based around a windows OS yet?
About a year ago I was using my laptop in the living room and was getting annoyed with a heavy, hot and cumbersome device on my lap while surfing the web and thought it would be nice to be able to just have the screen part of the laptop to hold with one hand while sipping a cup of coffee to make things more comfortable. Then in the past year I started reading about kindle and tablet device etc. Now I look at the ipad I just saw an advert for and see it as having everything I want, except one thing, its an apple device.
I don’t like safari and would want firefox for my web browser, I have all my addons for it how I like and all my bookmarks setup how I like them with my addons, safari don’t come close to providing the type of functionality firefox does. I don’t like the idea of paying for things from the apple app store to provide extra functionality or useful programs etc, nor do I like the idea of having to go through the app store in the first place, I want freedom the net provides to download programs of my choosing.
So this leads me to my question which is:
Does anyone know of a ipad like device (mostly in terms of size) that would let me put windows on it like from installing it from a usb stick or such or failing that at least Firefox in all its glory?
I basically want to view webpages in firefox from an ipad like device without being restricted to an apple OS. Is anything like this around yet?
I guess what I am thinking of is like a netbook but with out a lid that opens up, the computer is part of the screen, that’s the most cumbersome part of the netbook/laptop for me. Has no one made a lightweight, small, netbook sized pc with the screen incorporated into the computer, kinda like the ipad but is OS neutral (just the hardware) or at least based around a windows OS yet?
