I admit that I may from times to time be the Luddite among the technologically elite, still hawking my Garnet hardware, but I am not as enamored of Apple products as many are. They are slick, they are very pretty. But our most recent decision to replace a computer included a thorough review of available hardware and we stayed with the PC platform.
Yeah, I have an ipod, principally because it has essentially all of my music and fits in my briefcase, but I usually listen to a Sansa or Zune player. They have radios (an HD radio in the case of the Zune), and they're smaller with better screens. I don't understand the fuss about the slate. There have been tablet computers for years. The interface is the same as carrying around a pad and paper. There have been brilliant software products like MS OneNote for years. The interface is the same as carrying around a pad and paper. (The repetition is not an accident). Keyboarding is still the fastest way for data entry, until voice recognition comes of age, and it hasn't. Voice recognition, even with a 95% accuracy means that one in twenty words is wrong, and a spell checker doesn't pick that up because the wrong words are usually spelled correctly. When you can talk to your computer, and your computer can understand you with reasonable consistency, then slates, and even smaller handhelds and smartphones can be keyboardless and enhance productivity at the same time. For now, I don't see what the fuss is other than the 'cool' factor. Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
