Thanks for the comment Adam. Both of the uses you mention are ones I'll look into. I think an iPad will join our household, it is just a question of when and how many. My wife basically commutes between two homes: our current home in Missouri and our future home in Michigan where she cares for her elderly step-mother 4-5 days a week. She carries her laptop back and forth for email and web browsing, and likes the smaller lighter iPad as an alternative which would also provide her with an e-book reader. She does fine with the iPhone virtual keyboard and would have no problem with that aspect of the iPad.
stan On Jul 17, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stan Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I quite like the look and feel of the iPad. But at this point, and into the >> future as far as I can see, it will not replace my laptop and so it would be >> an extra piece of gear to carry on my travels, not an alternative. >> >> With my laptop on my travels I: >> - download my photos at the end of the day. Primary to the internal >> HD, backup to an external portable HD. >> - Do a quick pass through the day's results in Lightroom, with >> preliminary ratings. Minor editing on particular shots to post on my blog or >> send to friends/relatives. >> - Slide show for me and my wife. >> When I get home, I transfer the files and associated ratings and edits into >> my home system of HDs, my main LR library, etc. All of my preliminary work >> is preserved. >> >> If I had an iPad with current software, I would need to make major >> adjustments to my workflow. And would probably wind up being able to do >> little more than store-and-review while on the road. I would love to hear >> how the capabilities of the iPad could provide a workable alternative >> workflow! But I am skeptical. >> >> stan >> > > From a Photography standpoint the iPad has two real uses. > > 1. Portfolio. It's a slick portable image viewer with a first-class > screen. This makes it a good option for a portfolio to take with you > to show off your work. > > 2. Second monitor/tablet on the road. See Ctein's write-up here: > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/07/why-i-needed-an-ipad.html > > What a lot of people are forgetting in all the Tablet hysteria is that > the iPad is not a Tablet PC. It's a peripheral, an iPod on steroids > with limited general computing capability added. Think media > player/eBook viewer/photo viewer that also can web browse and do email > in a pinch. It's not going to replace even a netbook as a general > computing device. > > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
