Posted on 12/27/2010 10:24:19 AM PST by greatdefender
Indelible pencis were use to sign of make your mark on government checks. Pens were also acceptable but not as common.
I think that one was a bit before my time?
I was in school in the late 50s/early 60s and remember the ditto smell like it was yesterday, but not the indelible pencil.
So the req is to be able to read large documents. Options:
1. Spend $300 for a net book
2. Spend $500+ for an iPad PLUS another $300 ( or more) for a computer running iTunes so it can dock
Must be great to work for the government and have unlimited money.
No, the iPad only needs a computer to dock to for activation and upgrades or to back it up... everything else can be done on the cloud. Many iPads can be activated from one computer. You don't really understand how the iPad works. Software is downloaded from the cloud as well. Documents can exist on the server and be accessed by the iPad without need to store the documents on the iPad. The iPad can instantly send a viewed document or video to a large screen HD TV for shared viewing by the entire council or audience. It is easy to use and learn to use, not so a netbook.
If this were truly the options then cheap would make sense, but you know well that cost is not the chief determinate factor. Net books in general suck, else they would be out selling the iPad Ten to One, but they don't.
You can buy a bicycle, to go to work, or a car, if you only have a block to travel the bicycle might make sense, across town is another matter.
If you think reading on a net book is comparable to reading on an iPad then either you never compared them, or you are just here to criticize a product you know nothing bout.
Ok hoot, whatever. The iPad is the only solution for every person and problem. Every other piece of technology stinks and there is no need for competition or choice in the technology. Anybody who disagrees with you is a “Luddite”, and your opinion is the only one that counts. Feel better?
As for me, you got your facts wrong. We have 3 net books, a Kindle, Sony eReader, Viewsonic g Tablet android tablet, iPad, laptops and desktops running all versions of Windows, plus a MacBook, and a variety of smart phones. They all run seamlessly on my home network and share peripheral devices when needed. One computer can’t do everything. Tonight, i’m downloading a custom curve for my Nikon and guess what, I’ll have to use a windows device for that. But with the curve, I’ll shoot some great pics for the background on my new iPad.
You couldn’t be more wrong about me. I care less what other people choose to buy or use.
I resent being called a Jobsian Sycophant, just because I prefer his products. I have looked at a lot of net books, they really don’t do it for me.
DOS heads regularly show up on these thread to ridicule the Apple users that gather here for useful information, we suffer through all that to glean whatever is pertinent to our product. Most of the static posted here is a nuisance but occasionally the dialog moves towards insults, some personal others just blanket the entire Apple community.
In my twenty plus years using Apple products, I have always found Apple users to be helpful to anyone that asks. For years that was just through users groups and by phone, where people published their personal phone numbers, so users could post their area of expertise, then members needing help called. All done gratis. No one was ever turned down.
Show me something like that in the MS world.
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