My buddy works in a factory that makes furniture. Guess what? They prefer iPads to the old notepads. It has reduced duplication of effort and sped up the entire workflow process by automating it. No need to wait until your floor check run (two or more hours) is over before heading back into the offices to get the data entered. It's all done from the floor.

Keep on trying to live out the old style. If it's not broke, fix it anyway because there's a much better way.

YMMV.

AP used to mean associated press, you didn't need to think about it at all. 'wireless access point' or WAP is where the psudo-knowledge of some slashdotters failed this poll. a cable modem is not an 'access point' it is a modem. dsl isn't an access point if they offer wireless they are WAPs if they only support ethernet they are either a bridge or a router (which opens another can of worms, as to what is a bridge and what is a router).

if we are mincing words here an 'access point' can be anything. from a thin client, to any kind of computer that pushes data, including offline devices, since they offer offline 'access' to a point. eg: my mp3 player offers an 'access point' to my mp3 library.

I don't know where you work but I haven't printed more than a handful of pages in the last 5 years which were actually necessary to do my job.

In the two places I speak of, there's a culture of sharing information via e-mail/PDF or, in my current role, via Google Docs.

I can't imagine going to a job which didn't act that way.

why not grab a kindle fire show her how to use it and realize it uses less TEI (total environmental impact) for way less than said $500 system (though i3s sell at walmart for roughly $375) if she can handle a bw eink the DX has unsurpased screen size and lifetime 3g for whispernet, though it costs you as much as a wal mart pc, and unlike the fire is not in color (yet, color eink has been POCed) i've heard that rooted kindle last 8 hours a charge, and if left unrooted last 1-2 months with wifi/3g disabled reading from the onboard memory

I bought my 13" MacbookPro for $1100 (and that includes 8GB of RAM purchased externally, Windows 7, Office 2007, and Parallels). Yes, I exercised educational discounts for all, but for you to say that you need to spend $2000 to get a good computer.

I have a Lenovo laptop and this MacbookPro (as our main machines, we also have a desktop server machine). The Lenovo laptop outlasted its usefulness over a year ago. The keyboard has broken keys and trying to get Lenovo to tell me what I need to buy to replace it is like pulling teeth (no, I should not be transferred around to 6 different people and finally be told that I need to remove the keyboard itself and find the part number to get a replacement).

The Lenovo was an ok machine and I liked their warranty replacement service when I needed it. However the machine feels and looks cheap--because it was. It's woefully underpowered for Win7 even though that's what it came with. It had a TON of bullshit installed on it that I had to spend time removing when I first turned on the machine.

Counter to this is my MBP (13" which I upgraded to 8GB of RAM myself) which I took out of the box and haven't had a single complaint about yet. The machine is rock solid, its fast, even with only 8GB of RAM, and I didn't have a bunch of bullshit software on there.

Yeah, I admit to thinking (and still thinking) $1100 is a lot for a machine. But I use it all day, every day. Just like the bike I bought to commute to work, I need something durable, reliable, and easy to utilize. I particularly love going into a coffee shop or sitting in the airport and looking at the number of PCs plugged in somewhere and the number of Mac users happily chugging along on battery only. The MBP fits that comfortably. I am impressed and as long as Apple keeps this sort of quality up, I will be coming back time and time again.

That said, I figure I can get 5 years or more out of the MBP after an upgrade to 16GB (when it's reasonable) and SSD. I am worried OS X will stop supporting older chips (as they did with PowerPC) and I'll be left with unsupported hardware in the future but I have hope.

However, the Lenovo is underpowered, miserable to use, and has the battery life of a hooker on speed's dildo (even with a brand new battery--less than a month old).

I don't recommend Macs to everyone but it's serving its purpose well for me and I'm glad I made the switch. It does absolutely everything I need it to do and I'm quite happy with it.

YMMV.

On the red plate in this http://www.jamejamonline.ir/Media/images/1389/02/11/X00873991516.jpg picture is that writing in English?

My Lumia 900 was built in South Korea. My RAM in the US My Processor in the US. It is possible.

I think you might be a bit paranoid.

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Blcamp, what you've just said ... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.