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Antonio,

There is no comparison.

1) The iPad mini is actually a shrunken iPad 2 with 16GB of storage. It has a 7" screen. The Dell is a 10.1 inch monitor with the latest technology.
2) The iPad mini can only run limited apps ... great for play and reading ( inside ... can't see the display outside ). The Dell runs full Windows 8 PRO ... so it has far more versatility on the apps and can actually work for business.
3) The iPad mini does not have a dock, the Dell does, which means easy charging and total connectivity !

My point is that a retail price of $ 499 ( and you can bet there will be some discounting ) is very competitive ... and this is only the FIRST tablet in this arena.

Of course, I enjoyed the full iPad ... but I sold mine to my grandson who needed it for school. Now I'm using my Samsung Series 7 Slate ... which is also running Win 8 PRO. It was a gift from Microsoft for attending a FREE developers conference in the area.

Tim

Otto

From what i saw in christmas here in France, teenagers went towards Android tablets....

Android tablets are over 50% of the market now in France and getting higher and higher....

Richard

Richard,

but "coolness" is another category then prices.

Best regards,
Otto

Dear guys the future is linux!
My son is studying physics at the University of Padova.
The official operating system is Linux
No windows, no Mac but Linux Ubuntu.
From what I can hear from the speeches of my children and grandchildren I had this opinion: who work in computer appreciates Linux + Android, those who do not work never appreciates the Apple world.

Marco,
„Coolness“ in the sense I use it here is a term of fashion.
Search the internet for “cool tablets, notebooks” and limit the search on "last 2 weeks".
Surface is the most used term.
Best regards,
Otto

Marco,
I forgot to mention that if you search with "Google.it" you always get an Italian flavor of the search.
You have to use Google.com and this is only possible if you have an IP not located in Italy.
Best regards,
Otto

Otto,
good news for all of us!
Easier for us
marco

... same in France you only see Google .fr, in Spain Google.es in Germany Google.de in the UK google.co.uk.
Therefore we are not up to date what really is going on in the world.
Best regards,
Otto

Marco,
this is not good I think this is bad.
We only get secondary literature (Sekundärliteratur – I hope this is the right translation).
Best regards,
Otto

this is good

"Surface is the most used term."

for us Fivewin developers

I've just tested a fwh program in Ubuntu 12.04 using wine 1.4.1
directly from usb pen a program written by me.
It works fine!

I think that with OSX + WineBottler it should be the same!
Many thanks to this group full of advice

have a good sunday

Marco,

Here we are somewhat joking what is better Apple, Mac, …

But what I wanted to say is that
localized search is a big dangerous for free information.

Imagine if I search on Google.at for “Metro program” I get the playlist of the cinema “Metro” in Innsbruck.
Localized search will become a problem for the European scientific research.

I hope I could explain what I mean.

Best regards,
Otto

In my browsers I always set homepage to http://google.com/ncr, which means no country redirect

http://www.ehow.com/info_12147233_google-ncr.html

Thank you very much for this useful information.
I didn't know about that.
Best regards,
Otto