Hey, y'all noticed you can play darts with an iPad and an iPhone.
Posted on 08/06/2010 1:27:38 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Who the hell would want to spend too much to Apple, and have to spend too much monthly for something that is not necessary?
I’ll take my Kindle and laptop and home build Windows 7 PC. I can access whatever I need for free with it, and I don’t need to answer to what Apple deems I need to see and not see.
iPad ping!
Portability: the 27" monitor will probably fit through your car door with minimal difficulty. It will, however, reduce windshield visibility and limit the maximum number of passengers in your vehicle.
The last time we tried to carry a 27" monitor and 2 terabyte hard drive box into a ballpark, we were forced to purchase two extra tickets. The big beautiful monitor just sat there, precariously hanging off the seat, dark and forlorn. The hard drive was a better fit, but it wouldn't boot up properly. Eeesh, we forgot to bring the 40 pound backup energy supply.
Next time, we plan to buy a bigger vehicle, and bring along another friend to haul the power supply. Then we can use the system as it was originally designed. "Live and learn" is our motto.
Like I already pointed out to people, since that was a recent purchase and almost the exact same price it made an easy comparison of just how much computer one COULD buy with that money vs how much the writer of this article actually did buy.
If portability was my A#1 then I’d probably get an Asus Netbook. Real (small) keyboard, non-touch screen (I don’t know what the world’s current fascination is with touch screens, they really aren’t that great, come down to Tucson and get some August sweat going and play with the touch screen), 250GB of storage, more I/O ports, and it runs full operating systems so you can run all the same software your desktop does for easy work sharing. And you can almost buy 3 of them for the price this guy bought an iPad for.
Now stick your petty sarcasm where the sun don’t shine.
So how do you like your Zune?
Nice ... I could make use of that ... what about ATT or Verizon fees, what do they get you a month with those?
In Florida, we just mix the humidity with sweat and then it rains, and we start all over again. It's a whole lot easier to wipe off a touch screen than to clean each individual key on a qwerty during road trips and airline flights.
Never touched one. My MP3 player is a Samsung P3 intended for the Korean market but you can get it from Amazon. One of my non-negotiable features for an MP3 is that I be able to access it like a thumbdrive, I don’t want to be forced to use some annoying sync software, I want to just put the files on there my way. Which pretty much ruled out iPod and Zune from the start.
But you don’t have to clean each individual key, you can just accept that there’s dirt on there and move on. With a touch screen you have to look through the dirt because that’s where your content is, on the wrong side of the finger prints. Then there’s how the finger prints interfere with touch detection. I consider touchscreens to be one of the 5 most generally overrated pieces of technology ever. Hopefully the tech world will fall out of love with them soon.
ROTFLOL! ;-D
Hey, y'all noticed you can play darts with an iPad and an iPhone.
E.g., I know it can surf the web. Presumably, it can look up stock quotes. But would you use it to log onto your broker and trade?
The iPad struck me as too big to be a phone, too underpowered to function as a personal computer, and thus not warranting a slot in my luggage (since I need to bring the phone, and I need to bring a computer, if I'm to get any serious work done). Serious work, in my case, means software development, not just stock trading. It's clear I'd need the computer for the former if not the latter.
Maybe I'm just getting senile, but my preferred environment is not mobile, but static, with my MacBook Pro plugged into a 2560x1600 external monitor (the bigger the screen, the more immersive the experience) with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (I never use the MBP's keyboard and trackpad if I can avoid it).
Should be great for trading stocks. That one time you realize you should buy or sell RIGHT NOW will pay for the iPad alone.
It hits the wall with heavy-duty anything.
It shines with light-weight RIGHT NOW anything.
I’m writing this while on the patio enjoying a nice afternoon. Dragging the desktop out here is impossible, and dragging the laptop out is easy yet still requires deliberate fiddling. Having this iPod handy is as easy as having a magazine.
Any time I don’t have it I find a reason to miss it.
It is not a desktop replacement.
It is not really a laptop replacement.
It is not replaced by a phone.
It fills the gap of anywhere, anytime, realistic screen size.
No it’s not for everyone.
But for those for whom it is for, it is awesome.
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