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http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#2855943

This thing reeks of unprofessionality:

"...anywhere, anytime. Now, the internet is yours to enjoy on the go..."

Notice the extraneous comma after "Now"? A professional would have caught that before they printed their materials.

"joojoo. Our name means magic. Experience it."

Sounds like a 12-year-old saw an Apple ad and and wrote this second-rate copy.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#2855958: Notice the unsightly arc that makes room for the audio jacks? Apple doesn't put ugly lines like that into their physical products (old brushed-metal Quicktime player aside). Betcha that the joojoo bozos thought they were being clever when they came up with this horror.

I should also say that Arrington probably wouldn't have done any better (he's a bozo too - just an "idea guy" with no ability to actually contribute anything substantial).

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I must have pretty low standards -- I think it looks very professionally done. Way beyond my expectations based on all the negative press these guys have gotten.

Your low standards don't matter. The question is: how does this product compare against Apple's iPad?

It doesn't compare very well at all. If they botched the details that I've pointed out, what does that say about the rest of the product?

If they botched the details that I've pointed out, what does that say about the rest of the product?

Nothing at all, actually. Maybe it's just me who doesn't think that the marketing copy for something actually says anything about the value of that thing, though, no matter how many extra commas it might have.

You are under the assumption that it matters.

There are going to be hundreds if not thousands of tablet brands out there that are going to be doing just fine and deliver great products. JooJoo might or might not be one of them but they are at least of to a good start.

Yeah, doesn't look that bad to me either (but I'm getting an iPad, absolutely no question for me since I'm already heavily invested in Apple tech).

What I find a lot more scary is this: http://www.engadget.com/photos/joojoo-unboxing/#2855956

Vents? Seriously? Does it have a fan? Is it going to be noisy? Just imagine all the crap that can fall in there, all the stuff that can get caught on it.

The JooJoo is Atom-based; it's basically a netbook. It's probably a lot higher-power than an ARM tablet.

I don't know about that... The current generation of ARM processors are pretty fast. And you can't beat their performance per watt, so an ARM tablet will get much better battery performance. So long as an ARM tablet can display video well (which will require a dedicated chip for either) does it matter how much faster the processor is? Especially when battery life is taken into consideration?

I suspect wmf meant "uses more power", not "is more computationally powerful".

Ummm... laptops have had vents on them for quite awhile now and we've all survived alright. If this is your subtle way of saying this isn't an iPad, we knew that already :)

If there are vents you need to keep unobstructed, this has implications for using it in bed, say. I once fried a laptop's graphics card by leaving it on a bed. Modern components should have heat-triggered shutdown mechanisms, but your average consumer is completely ignorant of such things and will think it's broken when it suddenly blacks out.

Commas can be used to indicate a pause in speech. Read it that way and the sentence doesn't necessarily sound incorrect (the obvious purpose being to put emphasis on the word "Now")

I don't see anything wrong with the so-called "12-year-old" line.

The arc doesn't look particularly unsightly to me. It's clearly a personal preference and I can see why you wouldn't like it but your mistake is in assuming everything you dislike is automatically in poor taste.

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