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Posted by on May 6, 2010 | 3 Comments

This article cracked me up on a number of levels. Actually suggesting that an iPad is a replacement for a laptop/desktop, is hog wash. While I agree that for those who are able to forgo a tactile keyboard (out of the box), sure, it works well enough.  And more power to you, if that is how you roll.

But speaking as a guy who is about a day away from eBay’ing his iPhone due to growing frustration with the craptastic touch screen keypad usage, I am skeptical as to the iPad replacing ANYTHING for “Joe America”.

Having tried an iPad recently, I found it to be cool…but hardly something that is going to replace anything PC or Mac based (we own both) in my household. I would suggest though, that it would be a neat supplement to my existing tech products.

iPads do indeed provide a compelling experience and are most certainly a game changing device that has yet to be matched by ANYTHING in the PC market. And I can think of 10 different industries that would benefit from using the iPad over a typical notebook.The form factor is fantastic, bundled with apps and battery life. It’s a great product.

But a netbook/notebook replacement? Hardly – I’d need the Apple keyboard edition, which Apple does sell. And to those folks who say this will replace paper products are…needing to step outside and try talking to non-geeks. Most people are not going to buy an iPad, Kindle or anything else in this economy to replace paper books. Sure, once  paper book prices shoot up to $500+ apiece, this will happen immediately I am sure. But until then, not so much.

The iPad is a very neat tool, but not the invention of the light bulb…

Just my honest option based on my experience with the product. Again, good product, but nothing worth changing a lifestyle over. This is not anti-iPad, this is simply a reality check.

  • Ron

    If I was a father with lots of disposable income I would velcro the iPad to the head rests in my car to entertain the kids on long trips.

    I envision apple shall slowly expand the iPad’s functionality on the software level. As always, there will be a very well orchestrated well put together marketing campaign.

  • http://twitter.com/Teddey305 Freddy Mayo

    i’ve found my setup to be fine, 4 monitors. two for my desktop (two 23 inch monitors), a 2nd screen for my laptop which is a 17 inch and my laptop’s screen which is 16.5 inches.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UTZYTXPMBEYVD35YYKJM7N34PQ Karl

    In Certain Circumstance Using two monitors are useful when your monitoring like I did when I was dealing with agents or representative taking calls on the phone in different departments. (Not listening to the call itself. But making sure that there were enough reps to take the calls.) Or when you have several apps that your trying to debug with the complier. and need to see it being active on a second screen while checking the source code with the other monitor. And that is for work related. At home one monitor is more than enough per computer. And even then with with linux as an example you can add or subtract desktops when needed and split it that way on it.