[Leica] OT: Yawn

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I've been a Mac user since spring of 1984 (yes, one of the Mac 128's 
with all the signatures inside) but I too will pass on this.

I was hoping for netbook functionality with a Mac OS. This has 
neither. In Canada wireless data plans are ridiculous, so an enhanced 
iphone holds no appeal. The Macbook Air has/had too little 
connectivity to appeal to me, and this is worse.

I have had an Asus netbook for a year and a half with their flavour 
of Linux, but I would really like something that can handle 
Lightroom, so I might set up Windows on the netbook; I've been 
holding off pending what Apple brought out. My favourite laptop to 
date was the 12" Powerbook, but that's getting too old now but it 
still suits me better than the ipad.




>Such animosity. :) Thinking it is an overgrown iPhone would be to 
>seriously underestimate Jobs/Apple. The bigger screen allows for 
>much more interesting user interfaces to be designed. The base price 
>($500) brings it really close to the price of a netbook. I bet a 
>large number of potential netbook buyers will switch to buy one of 
>these overgrown iPhones.
>
>Apple's support, when they have a store in your city, is way better 
>than any Windows machine manufacturer I've come across in recent 
>years. No other company can give me <3 hour repair turnaround with 
>OEM parts when I go to their store. Otherwise, it is uneven.
>
>I am interested in the potential of the iPad as a very light weight 
>photo editor for traveling. We travel on our tandem (or hike) on our 
>vacations. Carrying a full sized laptop can get kind of heavy when 
>climbing big hills (or even not so big hills :). An iPad kit with 
>everything probably could weigh in at about 1Kg which is about 2 Kg 
>less than my MacBook Pro + power supply. Its cheaper too which means 
>if I break it, I won't feel so bad.
>
>Apple announced a camera connector kit (SD card reader & USB 
>interface) for the iPad which allows it to import photos. Now I just 
>have to wait for the S/W (Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, whatever) to 
>become available. Checkout the bottom of this page 
><http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/> for the connector kit.
>
>Regards,
>Spencer
>


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