The Giant Noodle
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To spend $500 for a crap iPad you can get a kick-ass laptop / notebook.
This solves it! APPLE BUYERS = IGNORANT BUYERS
To spend $500 for a crap iPad you can get a kick-ass laptop / notebook.
This solves it! APPLE BUYERS = IGNORANT BUYERS
Doesn't sound like an iPad would have any advantages for you. It certainly does for me.The Ipad display is 9.7 inches while a netbook's is usually 10.1.
A netbook has more usb ports, similar battery life, better storage, more memory, more flexibility, similar wifi, a greater variety of software, is about 1 lb heavier, a faster processor, can burn a cd with attachments, has a real keyboard, and costs less.
I don't see the advantage of an ipad.
Also, I have ubuntu installed on my wife's netbook and she loves it. The battery life is 9 hours with a 6cell, she can use it for her facebooking, mahjong, email, and browsing. But its snappier and uses fewer system resources than xp home. I don't think you can do that with an ipad.
Doesn't sound like an iPad would have any advantages for you. It certainly does for me.
Well, for example, I like reading eBooks on it. Other devices 'capable' of doing so seem cumbersome to me, or not big enough, or too heavy (other than the kindle and such, but then I couldn't have browsed the web on a kindle).I am glad that you found a use for it, but when I compare the technical specs for the two, I just cannot find any advantages over a netbook, except size and weight (and its not really much of a difference since they will both be in a bag anyway)
Well, for example, I like reading eBooks on it. Other devices 'capable' of doing so seem cumbersome to me, or not big enough, or too heavy (other than the kindle and such, but then I couldn't have browsed the web on a kindle).
As I said, I have a nice big windows laptop. I didn't want a mini laptop since I would use said laptop for any such needs. I wanted a device that I could use to read books, browse the web, play simple games, do short emails, occasional posts on forums (not right now, my friend insists on hogging the iPad when he visits). I love the touch screen for all these purposes.
Using the Apple designed user interface gives much satisfaction. They design interaction software that is very comfortable for me to use. I have heard others say the opposite. Everyone is different, I would suppose. I don't buy their actual computers for the reason that many other don't: less available software.
All I can say is, try it out, evaluate what it can do for you. If it doesn't seem like you would use it much, don't buy one. But, don't start thinking others are fools for having a different experience. Those who do just show their lack of imagination, among other unattractive faults.
I wanted a device that I could use to read books, browse the web, play simple games, do short emails, occasional posts on forums
All I can say is, try it out, evaluate what it can do for you. If it doesn't seem like you would use it much, don't buy one. But, don't start thinking others are fools for having a different experience. Those who do just show their lack of imagination, among other unattractive faults.
I didn't want a keyboard attached to my "netbook" as you call it.You have money to burn because you just bought a crap-tastic netbook without a keyboard.
Do it better as you define better. You should buy a netbook, then. I bought an iPad, and am not wishing I had a netbook.$500 for what a $200 netbook could do.... and do it better.
OMG, you are incredibly amusing. I have been in IT for 10 years. That friend I mentioned, the one who hogs my iPad because he loves it so much, he's been a computer engineer for nearly 30 years. Are you under the impression that a significant number of iPad enthusiasts would recommend iPads for a significant number of business purposes? Cuz, I wouldn't. I would, however, recommend one for laying back on the couch and consuming web and other electronic content, as well as some light web interaction or game playing. The simplicity of the experience is very satisfying... and again, is satisfying enough that it has absorbed 80% of my laptop usage.Im in the IT industry and everyone that knows technology knows that iPad is a joke.
I really do think that the joke is on you, rather. I have been buying personal electronics for 20 years, and have often been on the bleeding edge. Never have I been embarrassed by a useless purchase. I simply re-sell the item if it turns out bad. Sure, I lose a little bit of money, but I'm not embarrassed by it in the least. I love devices. I am also much better in recent years at selecting them for myself. I took my time with this one. Assessed what I wanted to do with it. Analyzed the value, to me, of being able to do the things I wanted, and compared that to the price of the item. Obviously, I concluded that it was worth it, for me.It makes me mad and sad that people think they have something great when in fact they got scammed and they wasted their money. Its like people that but crap from infomercials at 2am. Im just nodding my head at the TV at what a scam it is. :doh Being can be so ignorant on these types of things when they have such little working knowledge of technology. They get those knives they bought at 2am and take them out to use them and discovered they not just WAY overpaid for the knives, but they dont measure up. But to hide their embarassement they just tell everyone else how great they are.
Are you seriously thinking you're going to bait me? Master baiters have attempted to do so before, but they only occasionally succeed.Do you actually KNOW how to use a laptop? Or what one is? Because they do all of that. In fact they do that MUCH better than a iPad.... and (get this)... they have a keyboard too! :shock: :lol:
I never suggested anyone was a fool. I just tend to look at computing devices from a technical perspective.
I didn't want a keyboard attached to my "netbook" as you call it.Do it better as you define better. You should buy a netbook, then. I bought an iPad, and am not wishing I had a netbook.
OMG, you are incredibly amusing. I have been in IT for 10 years. That friend I mentioned, the one who hogs my iPad because he loves it so much, he's been a computer engineer for nearly 30 years. Are you under the impression that a significant number of iPad enthusiasts would recommend iPads for a significant number of business purposes? Cuz, I wouldn't. .
I would, however, recommend one for laying back on the couch and consuming web and other electronic content, as well as some light web interaction or game playing. The simplicity of the experience is very satisfying... and again, is satisfying enough that it has absorbed 80% of my laptop usage.
I really do think that the joke is on you, rather. I have been buying personal electronics for 20 years, and have often been on the bleeding edge. Never have I been embarrassed by a useless purchase. I simply re-sell the item if it turns out bad. Sure, I lose a little bit of money, but I'm not embarrassed by it in the least. I love devices. I am also much better in recent years at selecting them for myself. I took my time with this one. Assessed what I wanted to do with it. Analyzed the value, to me, of being able to do the things I wanted, and compared that to the price of the item. Obviously, I concluded that it was worth it, for me.
You have money to burn because you just bought a crap-tastic netbook without a keyboard. $500 for what a $200 netbook could do.... and do it better. Im in the IT industry and everyone that knows technology knows that iPad is a joke. It makes me mad and sad that people think they have something great when in fact they got scammed and they wasted their money. Its like people that but crap from infomercials at 2am. Im just nodding my head at the TV at what a scam it is. :doh Being can be so ignorant on these types of things when they have such little working knowledge of technology. They get those knives they bought at 2am and take them out to use them and discovered they not just WAY overpaid for the knives, but they dont measure up. But to hide their embarassement they just tell everyone else how great they are.
Ok. Its a toy. So is my laptop in that case. Did you think someone, any significant number of people, were claiming that they aren't a toy? I am not sure what the marketing was for them because I don't watch TV, nor did I see any print ads for them. I read a lot of articles, both pro and con, though. But, I can't imagine very many people thinking they are anything but a toy. There are some limited business purposes that I think they might be applied to, as well as some limited home productivity things that I have applied mine to, but essentially it is definitely a toy. Did you have a point about it being a toy?OK. You spent $500+ on a toy. So just call it that. Its a whimsical toy! Yeeesh :roll:
As you well know that I have said already, it is performing those functions, for me, in a better manner than the computer I already have. You say you work in IT. Interesting. Here is how I approach the needs of my clients: First, I go to them and listen, analyze, ask questions, listen, ask more questions, listen, analyze, ask more questions and listen. The reason for all the listening is so that they need for me to determine the solution that is best for them. Not the solution I mistakenly believe applies to them because it has worked for other people. This is how I help them obtain the best value for their dollars. You don't seem like the kind of person who listens very much.With ALLLLLL the other things you can use while on the couch like a PS3 for $250. I question why you would spend 2x the amount on something that is duplicating the functionality of a computer you already have.
No, I bought it because it performs its functions well, for me.Ok. You bought it because you thought it was cool.
It is definitely a nifty toy that costs 500+ dollars. So is a netbook, for the most part, when used in a home. If I had bought a netbook, it certainly would have been as a toy, in any case. A nifty toy, but one that fulfilled its purposes, for me, at an inferior level.Its a nifty toy that cost $500+ dollars.
I want people to buy whatever product will best fulfill their toy wants. I really hate it when people get taken in by people who have a hammer and think that every problem to be solved is a nail. As I said in an earlier post - complete lack of imagination.Hey if you have that money to blow on that, all the better I suppose. I just dont want to see people buy the thing because they think it is better in any way than a netbook. I reallllly hate when people get taken in by the marketing of inferior product but then pay a premium price.
With ALLLLLL the other things you can use while on the couch like a PS3 for $250. I question why you would spend 2x the amount on something that is duplicating the functionality of a computer you already have.
Ok. You bought it because you thought it was cool. Its a nifty toy that cost $500+ dollars. Hey if you have that money to blow on that, all the better I suppose. I just dont want to see people buy the thing because they think it is better in any way than a netbook. I reallllly hate when people get taken in by the marketing of inferior product but then pay a premium price.
To spend $500 for a crap iPad you can get a kick-ass laptop / notebook.
This solves it! APPLE BUYERS = IGNORANT BUYERS
I really do find it confounding how some kinds of people get upset, escalating to angry, when other people have things they wouldn't buy themselves. It is perplexing how those people believe that it is their mission in life to somehow 'cure' people of their misguided tastes. I do finally have to laugh, really, when I see it because what else can you do?
Take this whole thread, for a perfect example. The OP is definitely hostile. That hostility finds its excuse in the 'protection of the ignorant folks susceptible to marketing ploys' apparently. I have to ask, what technological device doesn't have a large part of its following coming from such easily led people? No, the real motivation must lie elsewhere.
I wish we had a team of researchers to apply themselves to this fine specimen we see before us.
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