Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I travel I need to keep up with literature and typically I end up reading a dozen papers or more a day; I prefer the un-backlit Kindle screen for reading. But I am sure I'll spring for an iPad as soon as it has a camera in it for video conferencing. Like Nathan I travel with a Macbook or a Macbook Pro, but one rarely discussed advantage of the iPad is that the LCD screen in the iPad is vastly more useful for looking at or editing photos than a conventional laptop screen because the gamma changes much less with viewing angle. It's a lot lighter than a laptop or even a netbook, which is important to me. Marty On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > A question for Ipad owners - how easy is it to read a book on the > Ipad, say, vis-a-vis the Kindle? The only reason I would buy these pad > gizmos is to take my reading matter with me in a compact way. > Otherwise, I have a Sony Z series laptop, which is both full featured > and weighs less than a netbook, plays the latest games and does > everything you want with it, so an Ipad for anything other than > reducing weight in carrying books does not make sense to me. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at > concentric.net> wrote: >> ==On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Frank Dernie >> <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote (in pertinent part): >>> >>> I find the iPad the most useful computer-style item I have owned, and >>> use it rather than my main computer for most things round the house. >>> >>> >> >> Me too. >> >> --Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >