Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Henning, On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:16, Henning Wulff wrote: > 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. > You are probably not in the target demographics. Neither am I, I suspect. Apple is after a specific market niche/life style. Probably someone like my wife who would like to have an Internet appliance for casual use that doesn't weigh 5.5 pounds *and* look nice. > 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. > Clarify please. I am curious. This iPad has Wifi (802.11n) and, optionally 3G data. How can it be worse than MacBook Air which only has Wifi. Other than an acoustic modem (obsolete) and an Ethernet jack (obsolete for a highly mobile device), what other connectivity options are there for portable computers? 3G data is relatively expensive in Canada but ridiculous is not quite how I would describe it. The most I use in a month is about 1.2GB which is well under the 6GB I pay $30/month for. Unless one watches YouTube all the time on their iPhone, it's actually not that easy to use a few GB per month. > 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. > I've looked at netbooks but most of them have really crappy screens (borrowed from DVD players), cramped keyboards and by the time I load them up, either the cost goes way up or the battery life declines. The original Asus netbook's screen was way too small to surf the web with. One had to do a lot of horizontal scrolling to fit most web pages on there. Not desirable. Linux is great but Linux GUI sucks. I have a friend who does a lot of photography. His comment about the Windows versus Mac versus Linux war was "My operating system is Photoshop". :) Regards, Spencer