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blamebrampton) wrote2012-11-29 05:20 pm
blamebrampton) wrote2012-11-29 05:20 pm
Oh Hive Mind, help me, I've lost mine.
It's stinking hot, I have a vile head cold, and am writing like a demon whenever I am not at work, asleep, on a bike or icing my aching over-typed hands. (I might start icing my whole body if this weather continues …)
However, I need your help! I have the opportunity to buy an iPad 4 or 2 or iPad mini at a decent price, and I do not know if I want one.
Pros: They are cool. I like the Apple interface and live in Apple-land computer-wise. I like to read magazines and do crafty things and there are lots of good apps that would let me get mags more cheaply and help with things like inventing new knitting patterns with less stress. It's very easy to travel with. I am already doing some work editing and writing for the iPad and imagine this will only increase in future. I can afford it without much stress, and since no one else looks as though they are giving me anything for Christmas due to Mr B still not working, it would be a pressie!
Cons: I don't really need one, as I already have a laptop and a Kindle. When will I use it? I still have a stack of New Yorker magazines and Vogue Knittings to get through, and they're paper so can be read in the bath! If I do start using it, it will mean I fall further behind with something else, like knitting or ukulele practise, or stretching enough to get my hips and knees back to ballet-fitness. I have no money to travel! I could use the money to pay for something more useful, like summer clothes since I have done no sewing with the lightweight linen I bought for that purpose, or a banjolele, because I really really want one.
I realise that the cons list is longer, but on the other hand it would be good to learn more about publishing onto tablets. And before someone says 'Ooh! The Samsung!', the work I am already doing is iPad-based so it's Apple or wait at the moment.
My head is full of snot, Mr B has no opinion, feel free to offer yours! Do you have an iPad? Do you love it? Do you do cool things with it? Is it just another thing to cart around in your bag? Work-wise, the world will not end if I don't have my own as I can use office ones.
The news just reported that on Monday, New York City passed its first day in living memory without a single violent crime. Well done, Big Apple! Keep it up!
However, I need your help! I have the opportunity to buy an iPad 4 or 2 or iPad mini at a decent price, and I do not know if I want one.
Pros: They are cool. I like the Apple interface and live in Apple-land computer-wise. I like to read magazines and do crafty things and there are lots of good apps that would let me get mags more cheaply and help with things like inventing new knitting patterns with less stress. It's very easy to travel with. I am already doing some work editing and writing for the iPad and imagine this will only increase in future. I can afford it without much stress, and since no one else looks as though they are giving me anything for Christmas due to Mr B still not working, it would be a pressie!
Cons: I don't really need one, as I already have a laptop and a Kindle. When will I use it? I still have a stack of New Yorker magazines and Vogue Knittings to get through, and they're paper so can be read in the bath! If I do start using it, it will mean I fall further behind with something else, like knitting or ukulele practise, or stretching enough to get my hips and knees back to ballet-fitness. I have no money to travel! I could use the money to pay for something more useful, like summer clothes since I have done no sewing with the lightweight linen I bought for that purpose, or a banjolele, because I really really want one.
I realise that the cons list is longer, but on the other hand it would be good to learn more about publishing onto tablets. And before someone says 'Ooh! The Samsung!', the work I am already doing is iPad-based so it's Apple or wait at the moment.
My head is full of snot, Mr B has no opinion, feel free to offer yours! Do you have an iPad? Do you love it? Do you do cool things with it? Is it just another thing to cart around in your bag? Work-wise, the world will not end if I don't have my own as I can use office ones.
The news just reported that on Monday, New York City passed its first day in living memory without a single violent crime. Well done, Big Apple! Keep it up!
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BUT!
A colleague has an iPad (I think it's the iPad2, but not sure) and she loves it because of the apps that make her work with music easier. She's got her sheet music on it, can make annotations and scribbles on them, can link songs in her itunes library to them and other nifty stuff.
She was considering to buy the iPad mini, but for her purposes it would have been just a little too small.
And if you'd want to write on it really comfortably, the mini version is probably not the way to go either.
I'm pretty happy with own my mini tablet. It's not Apple and it's actually even smaller than the iPad mini - so all I can tell you is that the virtual keyboard is either rather narrow (in portait mode) or covering a lot of content (in landscape mode).
As for the "when would I use it?" question:
Exactly then when you're working on your projects that are to be published for iPad. ;)
The question just is if you'd start using it for much more things as well... I know how hard it is to find a good balance. But I'm sure that in my case it's just a poor grip on my resolve that makes me lose time when "playing" with my gadgets. :D
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I don't think it is a poor grip on your resolve, though, I think that some gadgets are just time sucks, and the iPad is one, albeit one that can be productive and is also a lot of fun.
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I've found that since I've started using my tablet, the laptop's stayed shut more often and I don't sit in my dark little corner as much anymore. So that's definitely a plus. :D
Hope I'm not making the decision harder. ;)