Good points... but consider if you had a very reasonably priced iMac or MacMini at home and your on the go solution with the iPad.
True, you will not be photoshopping today on the iPad (or maybe...) but that is your iMac's job... The iPad could certainly accommodate a touch version of Photoshop...
I can see for many people who don't fall into a photoshop road warrior category, the .iPad could be the solution.
The wiki look-only thing drives me nuts but I predict it is really only temporary. I foresee the Apple wiki becoming the uber-complement system to the iPad. What a potential marriage it has... The ultimate wiki editing machine in 10.7 Lion?
Sent from my iPad On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:35 PM, "Zimmerman, Lee CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC" < email@hidden> wrote:
Craig, et al,
I know the question may have been facetious, but since I just had this conversation with a co-worker after he got done playing with my iPad I thought I’d address it. I love the iPad and will use it most of the time in place of either my work or personal laptop (or both), but there are some limits that need to be recognized:
- you have to have a computer, at a minimum, for the initial sync (and if you want your system backed up after that)
- assuming your media library is bigger than the size of the iPad storage, you’re going to need someplace to hold those files and transfer a subset to your iPad
- mobile Safari is not equal to desktop Safari – for example if I connect to my Snow Leopard Server at home from my laptop I can edit blog and wiki entries but on the iPhone and iPad I can only view them
- I shoot high def video on vacation and edit everyday, so I guess I’ll still need my laptop for that
- lack of CAC access and file encryption makes it borderline legal for any DoD work use (but that won’t be an issue for most folks)
Lee
On 4/6/10 12:48 PM, "Luigart, Craig B. (SES)" <email@hidden> wrote:
Or "if you have an iPad do you need a workstation or a laptop?". That's the question my 22 and 27 year old daughters and our Residents are asking already!
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R/Craig
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> All of their comments in my opinion were BS...
You always get this reactionary behavior from the old guard when there is truly a sea change coming. If you go back 3 years ago you will read similar things about the iPhone and its design (What, no physical keyboard? No way!), and now not only does the iPhone dominate the smart phone market but every competitor has copied the basic iPhone design.
Right now, a fairly legitimate question people ask is, "If you already have a workstation and a laptop, do you really need an iPad?"
I think in 3 years the question will be, "If you already have a workstation and an iPad, do you really need a laptop?"
If you want a good chuckle, check out the picture of the AT&T EO 4400 Personal Communicator. And yes, that is a telephone handset on the top of it.
http://www.smartcomputing.com/images/smartcomputing/fullsize/393n0918.jpg
Todd
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