01-11-2013, 11:50 AM
sekker, those are good points.
As I reflect on my comments here, it reveals an overwhelming longing for a laptop. A MacBook Air has been on my horizon for too long, and the horizon keeps moving further in the distance.
It's the first time since 1996 I've had no laptop at all. I didn't realize what life without one would be like until I made myself accept using an iPad as a temporary substitute--and temporary turned out to be longer than planned. Part of me really enjoys the iPad, part of me resents it. My fingers want to do things, habits from being a portable computer user, and I am forced to accept the limits. Which colors my opinion in unfairly negative way.
I'd bet that most here who have and don't mind doing word processing and various content-creating tasks on an iPad also DO have a laptop, somewhere in their life, as well. I think those of us who have a desktop computer, and an iPad--but no laptop--are the exception.
Laptops are extremely common, and easy to take for granted.
I like the iPad's on-screen keyboard, by the way, a lot. For quickly answering an email, or typing a paragraph or two, I prefer it. It's more direct and useful than pairing it with a keyboard--which sort of defeats the purpose of a tablet, which is super-thin, portable, convenient.
As I reflect on my comments here, it reveals an overwhelming longing for a laptop. A MacBook Air has been on my horizon for too long, and the horizon keeps moving further in the distance.
It's the first time since 1996 I've had no laptop at all. I didn't realize what life without one would be like until I made myself accept using an iPad as a temporary substitute--and temporary turned out to be longer than planned. Part of me really enjoys the iPad, part of me resents it. My fingers want to do things, habits from being a portable computer user, and I am forced to accept the limits. Which colors my opinion in unfairly negative way.
I'd bet that most here who have and don't mind doing word processing and various content-creating tasks on an iPad also DO have a laptop, somewhere in their life, as well. I think those of us who have a desktop computer, and an iPad--but no laptop--are the exception.
Laptops are extremely common, and easy to take for granted.
I like the iPad's on-screen keyboard, by the way, a lot. For quickly answering an email, or typing a paragraph or two, I prefer it. It's more direct and useful than pairing it with a keyboard--which sort of defeats the purpose of a tablet, which is super-thin, portable, convenient.