choosing between a HP touchpad and Apple iPad

  I realize the iPad has a lot more apps than Touchpad and price wise for
a 16GB with Wi-Fi both are around 500, but which would be a better
choice for a user in his mid sixties who has glasses(so needs text size
to be 105 dots per inch or higher). The user has always used Windows
machines and applications(MS-Office). The prime use of the tablet
computer is as a note taking device in MS-Word documents, browsing the
Web, and doing some work on Excel and PowerPoint documents.


1. Would a iPad allow you to directly create
MS-Word, Excel documents which can be moved via a USB drive to your
desktop computer(running Windows) later or would you need some Windows
emulators for that?

2. I understand you can increase text size in iPad, but don't know
about HP's touchpad. Does the WebOS of Touchpad allow you to do that?

3. What would a user who has used Windows machines all his life be more
comfortable with? iPad or Touchpad?

4. If we get a iPad would we need to buy any additional apps for the
needs(editing MS-office documents, reading PDF files etc)? Same for
Touchpad. Which one would have a lower maintenance cost?

5. Can we load the MS-office we have for desktop on the iPad(using some
Windows emulator app) or on the Touchpad? Or, would the devices come
installed with their office suite of programs?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:29:59 -0400, g wrote:


Fuck off and kill yourself.

HTH.


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  On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:35:31 +0000, Dan C wrote:


Spot em in a second.   :)



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 g wrote:

Let's move all the profile info, into one list:

    "user in his mid sixties"
    "glasses"
    "always used Windows machines"
    "MS-Office, MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, browsing the Web"

That sounds a lot like a laptop. And preferably, one with a
decent screen on it (ruling out about 2/3rds of available products).

At the very least, a keyboard will be needed, to get any
decent amount of work done.

If you read the advertising text for the Touchpad, it screams "toy"...
This is fine for your own home, but not for much else.

http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/webos/us/en/tablet/touchpad.html

And, what's an "iPad" ? Is that a music player of some sort ? :-)

A user who knows Windows, and is in mid sixties, is going to have
at least some clue, how to use the laptop. And where to get
software. With a basic familiarity with how it works, there
will be fewer support phone calls.

    Paul

 On 8/1/2011 10:05 PM, Paul wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions. He has a laptop and netbook, but wanted
something smaller to take notes in a meeting. Saw one of his meeting
colleagues use an iPad 2 so wants to get it.