I haven’t been following the iPad threads. What’s your take Star? Did you get one? Need one? Or maybe just want one?
Oh man! You can't believe how much I could get into that thing right now... LOL ...
But, I did decide to get another laptop first and so that's going to get done before I get this thing.
However, I've got a cousin who really doesn't like "computers" (yeah, they're all computers actually, the iPhone, the iPad the laptop, etc...) -- but I can see from the way my cousin "works" and thinks -- that this would be the absolutely perfect device.
I think that one is coming for my cousin... :-)
As far as your specific question... do I "need" one... well, I actually don't need a whole lot of stuff that I have... I mean how much does someone really "need" as compared to what they "have to have" in order to survive as a living being.
That question of "need" is a complex one, though, if you get into societal "needs" and how your quality of life is ("needs") and so on. So, I don't really find that question or its answer too useful really.
Because if I am going to answer it, I'm going to answer the question of "need" according to what it takes for a living body to keep living biologically speaking -- and in that sense, I need hardly anything in this life, you see.... LOL ...
And with "want one" -- well that's about everything else that we do in life beyond, eating, sleeping, shelter, clothing... everything else and I mean "everything else" is simply "want"... but once again... I don't know how useful that is... in the question or the answer.
I think basically, if someone is thinking in those terms and wanting to know how their "life" should go "beyond the issue of absolute need" -- then where a person has to get answers for that is in the Bible... past that -- get whatever you want, whenever you want... if that's what you think is useful to you (and I'm talking about within normal societal and human parameters).
You see..., you just can't answer these types of questions without analyzing enough other details about "existence" -- which would encompass enough to write about ten books in the process of doing that.
That's why these types of questions are never useful in this type of context... how many people are going to read about ten books-worth of answer to those questions... LOL ...
I'll boil it down to -- a simple "Yeah, I'm getting it because it's going to do things that I want to do." And there you have it in its most simplistic form -- the good ole "American consumer way of thinking"... ain't it great! LOL ...
“I’ll boil it down to — a simple ‘Yeah, I’m getting it because it’s going to do things that I want to do.’”
Sorry I brought on such a conundrum. :-D I wanted, as did many Mac users, a full Mac OS tablet with iPhone apps. I’m not sure I’ll ever need an iPad and think the Kindle, though overpriced right now, is a better choice for book reading.
I have neither but I’m still keeping an open mind. When you get your iPad, take it to Starbucks and get a Latte on me. Then let me know if you can read the screen sitting by the window. And also how heavy it is to sit and read a long book. :-)