advice requested,,,

pro,cons etc..

thanks,

wheel,

If he just wants to read books, kindle is prolly cheapest? not sure

I've researched my azz off over the last few months.

Best, regardless of price, Ipad Retina ($500)

Best bang for the buck, Asus Transformer Epad seemed very good ($300)

Nexus 7 (or 10) is also a nice product.

I'm not techie at all, but places websites like cnet.com is a nice place to learn more.

Overall, I am pleased with it. But, to be fair I do have a few gripes:

1) No Tab and no Delete keys

2) It doesn't support Flash

3) Max number of open tabs is 8

4) Unable to save files such as mp3, PDF, etc...

HTH

What does number 2 mean? What can you not do, due to the lack of Flash?

Sites that deliver video via Flash. If you got an iPad, fuggitaboutit.

What percentage of video sites deliver video via Flash?

How is Apple addressing this?

No clue in regards to your first question. In terms of the second, nothing that I'm aware of. Last I heard Apple supports HTML 5.0 which has a video delivery process that competes with Flash.

Is Flash significantly better than html 5?

Flash is a totally different animal than HTML.

Flash is an object-oriented programming.

HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language.

Flash development is not as popular as it once was and I believe slowly phasing out.

Can you shed some light on Apple's non-support of Flash?

Don't know the exact history - Jobs hated Adobe and vowed to kill flash or some such stuff. Here's the "diplomatic" rationale I found:

http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/6-reasons-why-steve-jobs-hate-flash.html 

Ipad WILL run flash, however... just not in the Safari browser. Download Photon browser (my favorite) or iCab ... both run flash just fine on an iPad.

Wow... Good stuff DQB!

All of our school newsletters, field trip forms, etc., are sent out as PDFs... I save them just fine on the work iPad? Never tried with MP3s, except what I have in iTunes (all downloaded and transferred from MP3 rocket, because itunes is expensive.) The lack of a delete key is REALLY irritating sometimes. Okay, frequently. I may start a petition to request the addition of a delete key in the next OS update. Well...I probably won't, but I'll think about it real loud and gripe about it a lot lol.

Never knew that about the tabs... now I have to open a bunch of tabs and count them because you've piqued my curiosity LMAO!

Yeah... why support a technology that requires a separate plugin to be installed, and is quickly becoming outdated. Having developed in Flash it is cumbersome and difficult. And a lot of the basic features can be accomplished with more modern languages.

Flash/Silverlight/SVG image files... to name a few. Bye Bye

any thoughts ?