Most tablets these days are expensive toys that serve no useful purpose. So if you want to flash around a useless piece of shit in public to show how cool you think you are, you should probably buy a tablet.
I was given an iPad 2 from my current employer. I wouldn't have ever bought one though.
It's a nice media gadget....good for casual gaming, internet surfing, and watching Netflix. It is by no means a laptop replacement or substitute IMO. I'm really impressed with the battery life from an iPad, however if that battery goes bad there is no way to replace it, or no easy way to open it up yourself. I'm also impressed with the brightness and clarity of the screen, and the multi-touch gestures once you get the hang of it is really intuitive.
I'm not an Apple guy by any means, and although the iPad is fun to goof off with sometimes, the Appstore sucks IMO and if I ever have any problems with the iPad that would render it unworkable, I can't justify ever getting it repaired. I just don't use it that often.
> > If you read a lot of books > > Er, gotta' disagree with you there. Kindle or Nook for books, not a tablet. Gotta' > preserve what eyesight is left...
Depends greatly on the tablet I guess. My cheapy viewsonic has a special read mode. very easy on the eyes.
You should say that it's not for YOU because it doesn't serve any of YOUR purposes. There are many applications of a tablet that are useful to others. I could never replace my laptop with a tablet but a tablet is even more portable and has better battery life. I have spent almost 7.5 years of my life on the water. It's nice to be able to lay in my rack and watch movies or play a game, and then tuck my tablet neatly away and fall asleep. My laptop is too power hungry to accomodate me (I don't have an electrical outlet in my rack) and too bulky to leave in my rack when I sleep.
Instead of writing a book on the subject, I'll leave it at this: It all depends upon your needs and lifestyle. To say otherwise is just irresponsible and borders on just plain WRONG.
Just broke my personal record for number of consecutive days without dying!
> I have spent almost 7.5 years of my life on the water. It's nice to be able to lay in > my rack and watch movies or play a game, and then tuck my tablet neatly away and fall > asleep.
That would appear to fit my characterisation of tablets as expensive toys :P
I'm getting a 9.7 inch Android 4.0 tablet because I've been commuting via public transportation the last couple months and I have dozens of PDFs I could be reading instead of staring at some of Boston's hottest women watching the sun rise.
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> > I have spent almost 7.5 years of my life on the water. It's nice to be able to lay > in > > my rack and watch movies or play a game, and then tuck my tablet neatly away and > fall > > asleep. > > That would appear to fit my characterisation of tablets as expensive toys :P
I think expensive toys pretty much characterizes what brought us all to mameworld in the first place. Except maybe gregf
> > If you read a lot of books > > Er, gotta' disagree with you there. Kindle or Nook for books, not a tablet. Gotta' > preserve what eyesight is left...
If you want to read sheet music, as I do professionally, the iPad and HP TouchPad make more sense than other tablets (especially Kindle et al) because their size and 3:4 aspect ratio match typical sheet music better.
I haven't met anybody working in music who sees what I do and then dismisses the 'Pad as an expensive toy.
I'll stick with my Acer netbook and my Nook. A tablet seems geeky cool but I'm more for finding ways to exploit it...and to make it run an IBM PC 5150 emulator. ;-)
Speaking of which, I've noticed that the separate video hardware is also emulated as well. For the good of computing history I'm tempted to give up my 8-bit Paradise VGA card along with its driver diskette (the utilities are saved) so that its parts can be emulatued in MESS or other projects.
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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