Comment Works for me (Score 1) 750
I like this thing. A lot.
Does it replace my laptop? - no (of course not)
Is it perfect? - no (of course not)
Is it fun? - yes!
I played with the ABC app yesterday and thought it was great. The screen was beautiful and fast. Real HD quality. I watched a couple of episodes of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution that I'd heard good things about while I was fixing a couple reports in one of my applications. I kept watching while I made a sandwich. Then I just closed it only to have it pick up right where I left off later that night when I wanted to finish watching.
I've been using the Mocha VNC app on my iPhone for... hmm a couple of years I'd guess to do emergency fixes and tasks on windows and mac servers and workstations. But the screen real estate made it very very worthwhile to pull out the laptop and power-up if I had the option. But that's no longer true with the iPad. VNC works great and there is just enough screen real estate to really get something done. Of course there are challenges of using a touchscreen in VNC but I'm long since over that after using the iPhone version.
I think of this thing as a toy really. Yes I can use it to get a bit of work done if the need arises. But really, it's an expensive toy. Happy Birthday to me. No need to take it so seriously. Most of the arguments made against this thing and bashing it are saying that it doesn't do things that it never even claimed to do.
So chill out and have fun with one for a couple minutes in the store then walk away if you don't want the thing.
Oh! I almost forgot. The network speed is fast on this thing. I always hated that on my iPhone CNET's Speed Test app reported about 1/3 of the speed I'd get on my laptop. But the iPad get's the full speed of my connection.
Cheers!
Is it perfect? - no (of course not)
Is it fun? - yes!
I played with the ABC app yesterday and thought it was great. The screen was beautiful and fast. Real HD quality. I watched a couple of episodes of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution that I'd heard good things about while I was fixing a couple reports in one of my applications. I kept watching while I made a sandwich. Then I just closed it only to have it pick up right where I left off later that night when I wanted to finish watching.
I've been using the Mocha VNC app on my iPhone for... hmm a couple of years I'd guess to do emergency fixes and tasks on windows and mac servers and workstations. But the screen real estate made it very very worthwhile to pull out the laptop and power-up if I had the option. But that's no longer true with the iPad. VNC works great and there is just enough screen real estate to really get something done. Of course there are challenges of using a touchscreen in VNC but I'm long since over that after using the iPhone version.
I think of this thing as a toy really. Yes I can use it to get a bit of work done if the need arises. But really, it's an expensive toy. Happy Birthday to me. No need to take it so seriously. Most of the arguments made against this thing and bashing it are saying that it doesn't do things that it never even claimed to do.
So chill out and have fun with one for a couple minutes in the store then walk away if you don't want the thing.
Oh! I almost forgot. The network speed is fast on this thing. I always hated that on my iPhone CNET's Speed Test app reported about 1/3 of the speed I'd get on my laptop. But the iPad get's the full speed of my connection.
Cheers!
