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No, THIS is the way iPad 3 kills the PC
Cnet News ^ | March 6, 2012 | Chris Matyszczyk

Posted on 03/06/2012 1:48:40 PM PST by Hojczyk

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To: Greysard

And anyhow... maybe you’d want to pull a complex graphics file onto the tablet in spite of not being able to view or edit it on the tablet, so you could then pull it off onto another PC elsewhere.


41 posted on 03/06/2012 2:55:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: MrShoop

How much of that is because desktops are easily upgradable and last longer. Finally talked the wife into ditching her machine for a new one after 8 years, and I’d owned that one for 3 years before that. It had been upgraded a few times. My current machine is 5 years old, 2 waves of upgrades, not planning on replacing any time soon.


42 posted on 03/06/2012 3:03:06 PM PST by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
maybe you’d want to pull a complex graphics file onto the tablet in spite of not being able to view or edit it on the tablet, so you could then pull it off onto another PC elsewhere.

All tablets and smartphones do that already. Android devices appear as USB mass storage devices, and iThings require a sync application (iTunes.) There is nothing new that you'd need to do to achieve what you want. It was this way even before tablets.

43 posted on 03/06/2012 3:05:40 PM PST by Greysard
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To: discostu

Part of the decline is definitely that the PC is a mature market, so fewer new people to sell to, and the tablet is a new market. But I wouldn’t discount a shift in the way people are using computers - much more time on mobile phones and tablet, and less on desktops. Also, lighter cheaper notebooks are much better daily use alternatives to desktops than they used to be. I’d love to see how much traffic here at free republic is now from mobile or tablet devices.


44 posted on 03/06/2012 3:12:45 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Greysard

You might want the look-and-feel as seen on the PC to mimic the tablet’s own.


45 posted on 03/06/2012 3:13:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: mamelukesabre

That capability already exists. You can use your I phone as a mouse to operate a computer feeding Boxee into your TV

Actually there several aps that will do it.

I find a wireless clicker better however.


46 posted on 03/06/2012 3:13:53 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Hojczyk; Swordmaker; Red Badger; linear
ROFLOL!!! All these knee-jerk, ADS-afflicted Apple bashers are so dead-set on slamming anything Apple that they missed the whole point of the article!

Only Red Badger and Linear caught on that the author is poking fun at a knock-off Chingrish-language website that is almost as funny as "Somebody set us up the bomb!" And is hyping a circular virtual keyboard abortion of an idea called, "Magic Slide Wheel"...

Hojczyk, thanks for a good laugh at all the oh-so-serious, humorless ADS drones! LOL!!!

To Paraphrase Red Badger:

"All you PC are berong to us!!!"


47 posted on 03/06/2012 3:22:23 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

“Wow, that’s much more magical and ground-breaking than when Asus did it last year. A true game changer.”

Saw a couple of days ago an Asus concept, of a smartphone sized device also serving as the PC, and with optional larger keyboard and monitor devices.

Seems like PCs of sufficient power can fit in a smartphone size, and handle most of the processing people need. Storage in the cloud.

Somebody will need to invent an inflatable (or foldout) mouse for me, in order to miniturize everything. Gotta have my mouse.


48 posted on 03/06/2012 3:25:38 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: Hojczyk

Fer later


49 posted on 03/06/2012 3:29:45 PM PST by tje
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To: MrShoop

I think that may be because desktops work pretty well and last a long time. Tablets are new, and are mostly first time buyers.


50 posted on 03/06/2012 3:33:53 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: mc5cents; Tea Party Terrorist

Spreadsheets work perfectly fine on an iPad. You can get browser apps for flash if you have to have it. I don’t miss flash one bit on mine though. iPad hasn’t completed replaced my laptop, but it makes it much easier to do most things in places I couldn’t before.


51 posted on 03/06/2012 3:34:48 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Hojczyk
Wow, Amazing...

The iPad finally does what a laptop has done all along...

Truly innovative...

(Color me underwhelmed...)

52 posted on 03/06/2012 3:35:10 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: GeronL
Does IPAD 3 have a 14-15 inch screen??

14-15 inches? What is that, your wrist watch?

Dual 27" widescreen monitors for me. :)

53 posted on 03/06/2012 3:42:52 PM PST by whd23 (Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Hojczyk
I have an adapter that plugs into the 30-pin socket of my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. It provides a USB host adaptor that recognizes a keyboard, mouse and USB thumb drives. Set the device up on a table top easel and it works much like a PC. What it lacks is the kind of tools I really use. Compilers and sophisticated editors. Databases. It's a fine device for reading, editing simple files, e-mail and browsing the web. Not bad for music either. The adaptor set me back $20 at the Verizon Wireless store. I used the PC keyboard/mouse devices already in the room.
54 posted on 03/06/2012 3:48:55 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: mc5cents
No spreadsheets and no Adobe flash player either.

While my current build of Android on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a good working Adobe flash player, it may be the end of the road. The Adobe support is going away. They have conceded that HTML5 is good enough. The player that services Firefox on the PC is at end of life. I don't have a good flash player on my 64-bit Chrome or Firefox browser in Fedora 16. About time to put that technology away.

55 posted on 03/06/2012 3:54:40 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Hojczyk

Having used an iPad with a keyboard, I can tell you it’s not all it’s cracked-up to be.


56 posted on 03/06/2012 4:04:16 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; perfect_rovian_storm

Me and Mrs. FD have ASUS Netbooks (Eee) we use as appliances — watch movies and surf while we fly, check the internet when watching TV from the bed, do some basic computer stuff, documents, email, etc. etc. etc. We bought them 3 years ago when netbooks were popular and had gotten cheap — a few hundred bucks and keeps on giving (I think the SH SD is the biggest feature — 6 movies or so per card).

I can’t see how it can be beaten (even by my RAZR MAXX). It does a great job, does everything I want, doesn’t need a case to stand up and was pretty inexpensive. It is about the same size as a tablet so I don’t see what a tablet offers except maybe the affectation of using it with one hand.

iPad 3 or 4 or 5 — meh.


57 posted on 03/06/2012 4:04:27 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: Hojczyk
What would be *really* cool is to make that notepad screen just a *little* larger and then - and here's the kicker - attach the keyboard to the notepad with a couple of *HINGES* so that the screen folds down over the keyboard for easy carrying!

Now *THIS* is an idea who's time has come!

58 posted on 03/06/2012 4:16:21 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Hojczyk
What? You gotta have blue teeth to use it?


59 posted on 03/06/2012 4:21:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Hojczyk

I always laugh when I see posts like this. Very few companies are going to convert their enterprise systems to a slower, less sophisticated IPAD 3 based “system”. It’ silly.

I have an IPAD 2, I have a desktop. For productivity and tools there is no comparison—PC wins.


60 posted on 03/06/2012 4:57:44 PM PST by The Toad
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