The only time I fire up the old laptop is when I'm d/l images from an event or editing the photographs. I tend to use my iPhone for email web surfing.
John On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Ed Wiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100908/forget-netbooks-ipad-cannibalizing-entire-pc-industry/?mod=ATD_rss > > > > I have always thought that the AVERAGE computer user has no need for a > computer. An iPhone or iPad is all they every really wanted. > > In all my years working with computers when people ask me questions or I > fix their computer an ask them how they use their computer. > > They never actually even tax their computer at all. Now me I grab the > computer by the throat and say look hear I have work to do. > > As an example yesterday I was downloading the iPhone 4.1 update, > transferring and re-encoding and stripping out commercials on a TV show off > > My TiVo and encoding a Video all at the same time. Average user would be > browsing Facebook. My poor old MacBook Pro chugged along in helpless > service. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -- U-2 & SR-71 web page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -Benjamin Franklin Read the Constitution - It's Interesting! http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html Blog: http://johnsstone.tumblr.com/
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