CNet’s Dan Ackerman compared the Apple iPad with a netbook. All of these are ancedotal and based on the human pushing the stopwatch. Still – this a good start.
[table “3” not found /]With those admonitions in mind, we ran a boot-up time test, a Web page rendering test, and a browser-based JavaScript test on both devices. The tests were repeated several times to ensure consistency, and the boot-up and Web page rendering tests were hand-timed with a stopwatch.