Lots of good illustration programs for the iPhone and iPad the iPad typewriter I posted about last week would help those writers. Neal you are use to using the power of a computer most barely use one. My father in law uses an iMac I have for him and he uses Mail and a little Word and every once in a while uses Safari to check out his video queue at Blockbuster.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Hammon Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:29 AM To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers Subject: Re: [MacGroup] An it has begun. Ed- That may be true of some people, but when practicing architecture for a living, I have used my computer to prepare plans and specifications for quite a number of different types of buillding; a computer can make working drawings that are better than those made by hand on a drawing board, and I know, because for over half of my professional career, I was making drawings with a pencil on paper on a drawing board. And when preparing specifications (a little book, usually about 100 pages, describing the material to be used, and how they are to be applied) there is no question that usinig a computer is vastly superior and quicker than using a typewritter. Now that I am retired, I use my G5 to write books, and make illustrations for them. For an example of computer art mixed with history, check out "Virginia's Western War, 1775-1786" by Stackpole publishers. Neal Hammon On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Ed Wiser 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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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