Oh Hive Mind, help me, I've lost mine.
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blamebramptonIt'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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Date: 2012-11-30 10:06 am (UTC)I have to say that I enjoyed using the Mother-in-law's iPad and I'm not an apple fan in general. I have a PC and hate my iPhone (soulless irritating beast of a thing. I wish my old symbian Nokia still worked I'd switch back).
But the iPhone was fun and useful when I was laptopless and didn't have to deal with iTunes. Obviously the iTunes thing is not going to make a difference to you if you're an apple person anyway.(oh to just be able to plug in an external drive)
ahem.
There are a lot of iPad only magazines that are doing quite interesting things with inbuilt media content. And some interesting e-books that use music and video too.
I guess the question is, if you have access to iPads at work then do you need one at home as well? How much were you intending to work on tablet content at home? You do freelance stuff don't you? so it's different than just using it at the office.
Do they have the equivalent of gorilla glass yet? I don't think I could manage not to break one in the first month. I'm too clumsy.