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10-27-2012, 01:37 PM | #91 |
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10-27-2012, 02:02 PM | #92 | |
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Keep in mind that I'm still playing with this so don't have it 100% figured out, but I will do my best to answer your questions. And for the record, I have been using iPads since the first one came out. Answers will be in red.
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10-27-2012, 02:21 PM | #93 | |
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Having used Consumer Preview for a few months on my regular old desktop, I felt like "WTF is this?" Without a touchscreen, the UI doesn't seem to serve any real, useful purpose. |
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10-27-2012, 02:37 PM | #94 |
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Pictures of the nexus 10 leaked. It looks very samsungy, which isn't a compliment. Boo
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10-27-2012, 04:23 PM | #95 |
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Surface is lame, very unintuitive. iPad Mini is a ripoff. These "tablet wars" suck.
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I see where you might be coming from on Excel, but anything beyond what I would do with a calculator I do using Soulver. If it's too complex for that, I probably want a 10 key anyway so I'll wait until I get to a proper desktop. PowerPoint is a disaster. I'll take Keynote any day of the week and I think that if you do a non-trivial amount of public speaking it's worth getting a Mac just so you can use it. Quote:
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By splitting the difference they're only going to discourage enterprises from upgrading depending on how much training they're obligated to give to their users. Overall it sounds like the most compelling tablet to come out since the iPad that won't just disappear. I'm excited to play with the hardware, but I doubt that the stuff I use all the time will ever come over to that platform. Examples: OmniFocus, TextExpander, Instapaper, OmniOutliner. Each of those come from developers that have been focused on OS X for years. In the case of Omni, they were developers for NeXT. |
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Was doing some more reading on the surface and came across the software update process:
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10-28-2012, 10:15 AM | #98 | |
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10-28-2012, 06:23 PM | #99 | |
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As I stated in the OP, I felt both the iPad mini and Windows RT would be meh. Windows 8 tabs should be a huge deal but not until after the new year... and really only huge for enterprise customers (although I see them quickly making consumer inroads if the prices are manageable) |
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10-28-2012, 07:56 PM | #100 |
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I'd be very surprised if we saw any price drops. From all the leaks, Google is discontinuing the 8 gig model, and making the entry level 16 gigs. And the higher end will be 32.
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10-29-2012, 02:05 AM | #101 | |
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I am holding out hope for Google to try to sell something decent in the $99 - $150 range... but even if they don't and instead only offer a badass Nexus 10 at a sub $350 price... that is a huge price drop from any other "premium" tablet on the market. |
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10-29-2012, 09:33 AM | #102 | |
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10-29-2012, 03:26 PM | #103 |
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10-29-2012, 03:27 PM | #104 | |
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That price point is ridiculous. |
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The cool part about this is that unlike Apple's bullshit, these prices won't be locked in. More and more hardware vendors will come online with this and drive prices down eventually. So even if these start at $2000.. who cares? The prices should drop fairly quickly. |
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