<snicker> I was going to do an Owen Fanboi comment last night, but bit my tongue instead.
Here's a good article about the iPad (and why does that name evoke an image of some kind of feminine hygiene product?) http://blogs.computerworld.com/15487/anything_the_ipad_can_do_linux_can_do_better --Doug On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]>wrote: > Owen - don't get too excited by the hype. You could end up in the same > position as this Apple fanboy > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4 > > -- R > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Owen >> >> I had hoped mightily for a full OSX notebook... so am disappointed by >>>> that. >>>> >>> >>> Well, that's sorta what the Air is all about, right? Irene has brought >>> hers to the complex in the past, and it looks pretty good. No DVD in that >>> either, however .. but you can plug one into it. >>> >> Flip the screen over and add multi-touch and yes... then the Air would be >> perfect. There is a third-party that makes notebooks out of MacBook Pros >> (or did a few years ago) but the plus-up is $1000 or more on an already >> (acceptable but) expensive platform. >> >> The bigger picture is that we've all got an ecology, that just got one >>> more member: >>> - Laptop/Desktop >>> - Phone >>> - TV/TiVo/DVD >>> - Web Hosting/Media >>> - iPad & other 'tweeners like netbooks. >>> Keeping them all in synch is non-trivial, and figuring out how they all >>> fit into your life style ditto. The best example of this for me was >>> watching the NFL playoffs in Italy using my MacBook via SlingBox. >>> >> My ecosystem is getting crowded. >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >
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