I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable on many forms of public transport with a very 'nickable' device like an iPad. Particularly as I now live in Argentina which is less secure than the UK, but it seemed odd to me visiting NYC last summer, to see people lying down in Central Park using iPads just yards away from a homeless man picking food out of bins.
I've never stolen anything, but I can't imagine being that homeless man and not stealing your iPad, so I always feel nervous. On a decent train in the UK, however, I had no such issue, so it really depends. Once on a lesser UK train there were two junkies trying to steal people's bags and threatening people, but we had to wait 7 stops for their arrest because only the Transport Police would board the train, not the ordinary police. The idiots did get arrested but we all had an hour of fear that less bureaucracy could have prevented. Can't imagine using an iPad on any subway I've ever used, only on virtually empty buses, and only on long-distance trains (harder for the thief to run off). Perhaps for the UK or US I was overly paranoid but it seems to serve me well down here. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Maskell <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:12:07 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [The Java Posse] Portable device Hi, Leading on from the where to you listen thread got me thinking, most common answer was commuting, I am thinking of getting a new commute device but not sure which route to go. There is the ultra portable full blown but light weight laptop option, Macbook Air style. Toshiba and others do alternatives iPad or equivalent? Netbook. I currently have an old 2008 MacBook Pro which is a) heavy b) sluggish so no longer take this on the train commute, I currently listen to podcasts etc... on my iPhone and read articles on Instapaper, I could do all this much more comfortably on an iPad possibly with downloads of Parleys.com (I have noticed not all are available for iPad though). My concern is for this money I could get a netbook that could do this (is Instapaper downloadable on Linux/OSX/Windows?) as well as playing with small code projects. I think I've already talked myself out of the ultra portable laptop as I have a nice i7 16GB desktop at home for proper playing and this is only needed for commuting. I would be interested to know other peoples ideas for commuting toys, I am in the UK so some US toys like the Amazon Fire are not available yet. If I go netbook, which one? Ideas. Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/33OViSKgPuYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
