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11'' MBA just made me accept selling my Ipad.
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I sold my iPad a few weeks before the Air announcement (it's use as a reader was replaced by the more convenient Kindle) and I never missed it.
Just bought the new 11" Air and it is so much more of a capable device than the iPad, which for me is a bit of a toy.
The ideal setup is an iMac at home, Air for on the couch or on the road, Kindle for actual reading.
I won't be going back.
Just bought the new 11" Air and it is so much more of a capable device than the iPad, which for me is a bit of a toy.
The ideal setup is an iMac at home, Air for on the couch or on the road, Kindle for actual reading.
I won't be going back.
You don't think throughout the course of time however long that may be, whether it be years or decades, that the iPad will NEVER have an increased resolution and they'll keep the same poor low resolution forever and that fools will keep buying them in droves even after competitors release tablets with higher resolutions?
NO WAY and whenever that day comes, and the resolution doesn't have to be the same as the iPhone 4 for Apple to call it a retina display, this will be the time that you may have to eat some crow. In the mean time, you might as well keep on fooling yourself into believing the current iPad resolution is the best that will ever be released.
NO WAY and whenever that day comes, and the resolution doesn't have to be the same as the iPhone 4 for Apple to call it a retina display, this will be the time that you may have to eat some crow. In the mean time, you might as well keep on fooling yourself into believing the current iPad resolution is the best that will ever be released.
I am sitting right now in a movie theater, typing on my ipad.
I have 2 MBA including the new 13". To me there is no way I am going to bring a laptop, even a 11" MBA to a theater, waiting for the Met Opera Live HD broadcast in 10 min.
BTW, when I was in the Met opera house last Friday night, sitting in the balcony front row and looking down, the whole theater was full of cell phone, and iPad!
I have 2 MBA including the new 13". To me there is no way I am going to bring a laptop, even a 11" MBA to a theater, waiting for the Met Opera Live HD broadcast in 10 min.
BTW, when I was in the Met opera house last Friday night, sitting in the balcony front row and looking down, the whole theater was full of cell phone, and iPad!
Well, except the damm Yankee Stadium, which is still banning iPad! No wonder they lost this year!
Not sure if they ban laptops, but never saw one there, either......
Not sure if they ban laptops, but never saw one there, either......
I used to read on the iPad until I got my Kindle 3. That is Ana amazing reading device. It really looks like paper. Needless to say I can't read books on the iPad anymore!
Hey, guess you never been to one, and never heard of intermission?
20 min break just started.
BTW, Anna Netrebko is fabulous and ever sexy in Act I!
20 min break just started.
BTW, Anna Netrebko is fabulous and ever sexy in Act I!
I guess the opera might have been a really boring one then
I'm feeling a little crazy.
I want the 11" MBA, but I can't get a good sale price on my iPad... so I am actually considering keeping the iPad and the (2007) 15"MBP I have (aperture laptop basically) and getting the MBA for some portable computing as it's so small and convenient to take places.
If it was just 13" I probably wouldn't be thinking about this, but I the arrival of the 11" is so damn sexy. I could probably get away with 11" and a 24" display for all my computing needs.. (the office has computers in it for work, so mine are just for me).
I want the 11" MBA, but I can't get a good sale price on my iPad... so I am actually considering keeping the iPad and the (2007) 15"MBP I have (aperture laptop basically) and getting the MBA for some portable computing as it's so small and convenient to take places.
If it was just 13" I probably wouldn't be thinking about this, but I the arrival of the 11" is so damn sexy. I could probably get away with 11" and a 24" display for all my computing needs.. (the office has computers in it for work, so mine are just for me).
I sold my 32gb ipad for $500 (I included a case, dock, etc, so the buyer got a good deal) and I haven't missed it at all. I have a Kindle 3 for reading, and my 11.6" air is so much more convenient for surfing the web and writing. I rarely surf without wanting to write something, and I found the ipad very inconvenient for writing.
The ipad was just sitting in its charger stand gathering dust. In the beginning I played games on it and tried different apps, but I found doing anything productive with it to be a chore.
If I really find I miss it, I will get a small (16gb) gen2 one and come out even price wise, but with way more features ipad wise.
The ipad was just sitting in its charger stand gathering dust. In the beginning I played games on it and tried different apps, but I found doing anything productive with it to be a chore.
If I really find I miss it, I will get a small (16gb) gen2 one and come out even price wise, but with way more features ipad wise.
No such thing as perfection. I love the 3G capabilities of my Ipad. Internet just about anywhere. No such thing with the MBA unless you connect an external device and pay a pretty hefty data fee. I am quite happy with the ATT data plan. So it looks like I will have two portable devices as soon as I can purchase a 11.6" MBA.
I wouldn't bring an iPad there either, but that's just me. iPhone is the best form factor for that kind of outing. And really, unless you went on your own, it's kind of impolite to start surfing on your iPad. Talk with your date instead, or she just might just leave with someone else.
I already pay that fee for my iPhone anyhow and never use up all my data allocation. So basically, 3G on my Air is free. And since I already carry my iPhone everywhere and it connects to my Air via bluetooth, the external device is moot, it does not require me to carry anything extra.
Get a better carrier.
Not true at all, I loved my iPad but I will never use both and for me thats a waste of cash, I saved 250.00 on my 11.6 so the cost is in line with the high end MBA.
I will buy another pad, but might be a android.
I'm actually very close to selling my 3G iPad.
I love it for reading and presenting sales materials to my clients, but I just don't know if it's being used enough to offset 1) the initial cost plus monthly fee and 2) carrying yet another electronic device on my person.
I've got a MacPro, an 11" Ultimate Air, and the iPhone 4... I'm almost thinking that's enough. Anything more than that and it just seems like I'm helping pay for Steve's fancy Mercedes
I love it for reading and presenting sales materials to my clients, but I just don't know if it's being used enough to offset 1) the initial cost plus monthly fee and 2) carrying yet another electronic device on my person.
I've got a MacPro, an 11" Ultimate Air, and the iPhone 4... I'm almost thinking that's enough. Anything more than that and it just seems like I'm helping pay for Steve's fancy Mercedes
which per my original post meant you probably shouldn't have bought the ipad in the first place...
which per my original post meant you probably shouldn't have bought the ipad in the first place...
thats not necessarily true. I hate when people say that. it's a dumb statement. I probably used my ipad waayyyy more than alot of people. I used with Airvideo + traveling. I read more books than I have ever have because of the ipad. I bought a keyboard the carry for serious work. I have dropbox, google and cloud computing setup. I had xvid videos on there. To maximized the usage of my ipad. Not to mention, i used it as a journal. I went to an all digital system when it comes to notes where all my notes are scanned and pdfed. I download mangas for reading every week and store them on my ipad.
Just owning an ipad has changed the way i want to do computing and made me see a different like into computer where people don't need core i5s and this bulky system. I changed my lifestyle to fit technology into it. Not make technology my lifestyle.
The choice of selling an ipad is two ways. First off, im going to probably get 95% of my retail value back. 95%!!! also, a new ipad is coming out in the coming months so i'll wait. For everything I had on the ipad, i had to find a viable replacement (where do i get a new journal app, how will i watch movies (thats simple). During the course of the year as the ipad has changed me, i have also been slowly evolving towards high computational data. I use to manage this data or even videos through remote connection to my base server either by transferring data/doing computations or doing transcoding to run on ipad. But there still were limitations that I started to see later on when i got a macbook air.
I loved my ipad but there is only one me. for what its worth, it made no sense at this juncture to own both. Especially when i can use that 500 dollars to pay off some debt and be better. It was logical.
but its dumb to say something like I shouldn't have bought the ipad in the first place. There are people here who sell their computers every year and change their computational lifestyle year in and year out.
I'm actually very close to selling my 3G iPad.
I love it for reading and presenting sales materials to my clients, but I just don't know if it's being used enough to offset 1) the initial cost plus monthly fee and 2) carrying yet another electronic device on my person.
I've got a MacPro, an 11" Ultimate Air, and the iPhone 4... I'm almost thinking that's enough. Anything more than that and it just seems like I'm helping pay for Steve's fancy Mercedes
In fact, you already helped paying for his fancy Mercedes
I sold my 64GB + 3G iPad and got a maxed out 13in Air and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. I can do EVERYTHING on my Air, almost all more effective than I ever could on the iPad. I have the Tab for reading magazines, watching videos, browsing the web around the house or in coffee shops.
I sold the iPad, got the Tab on contract, pocketed a little cash, and I have a data plan that is slightly more than the iPad's 3G plan but allows for me to tether the Air if I need to get real work done.
Tab wins for being approximately same size as a regular Kindle (little bit thicker). I thought about keeping the iPad but the Tab's size is a nicer compliment to the Air. Its half the weight and can easily be held in one hand. I load up magazines and comics on it as PDFs and its played back every video I've thrown at it. And its a lot easier to transfer videos and music since you just plug it in and it mounts as a drive, no iTunes conversion to deal with. Apps are a little limited but it has everything I want built in, and I think developers will catch up just like the iPad. Still, regular Android apps scale up (for the most part) really well since it renders the text proper, unlike the iPad's ridiculous iphone app zoom.
I sold the iPad, got the Tab on contract, pocketed a little cash, and I have a data plan that is slightly more than the iPad's 3G plan but allows for me to tether the Air if I need to get real work done.
Tab wins for being approximately same size as a regular Kindle (little bit thicker). I thought about keeping the iPad but the Tab's size is a nicer compliment to the Air. Its half the weight and can easily be held in one hand. I load up magazines and comics on it as PDFs and its played back every video I've thrown at it. And its a lot easier to transfer videos and music since you just plug it in and it mounts as a drive, no iTunes conversion to deal with. Apps are a little limited but it has everything I want built in, and I think developers will catch up just like the iPad. Still, regular Android apps scale up (for the most part) really well since it renders the text proper, unlike the iPad's ridiculous iphone app zoom.
You did what I want to do. Sell my IPAD, my XPS 16 laptop, and my EVO 4G which is a bit big. I had access to a Palm Pre which I will use till the iphone decides to hit Verizon. But how do you tether with the TAB? I am really curious how that is and how much it costs you? I bought a Vigin MIFI to help with stuff like that. I also want to get a MPA 13" loaded.