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Raspberry Pi is not really much of a media device tbh tried that.. No digital audio out.
... apart from the HDMI port?
true, depends on what your system is. It's most likely not a prob for most....
There were other issues too but I forget.
Actually I do quite a bit through Google from my iPad. Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Maps, Picasa, Search, Google+ etc
And what if apple or Google were to take that away ala Google maps before the climb down?
There is a good reason that a toaster-coffeemaker-radio will be outsold by normal toasters, coffeemakers and radios.
Add in 'alarm clock' and I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
[quote=daveh ]Actually I do quite a bit through Google from my iPad. Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Maps, Picasa, Search, Google+ etc
And what if apple or Google were to take that away ala Google maps before the climb down?
Then they'd be very unwise. Can't see it happening...
They did it with maps! Google could pull the plug whenever they like, perhaps at a target android market share. I didn't foresee apple pulling them out of choice though!
What old netbook has GPS?
What iPad has GPS? Certainly not the one we have (unlike the netbook sized computer I'm typing on - which was incidentally also cheaper than any iPad).
What netbook has a (video) camera?
The one I owned for a short period certainly had a built in camera which could record video. Personally I'm less than convinced how useful a video camera is on something that sized - maybe it's the killer app for you?
Surfing the internet was a chore before tablets came along
Really? I still find it less awkward on this than the iPad, and can't say I'm really convinced by the advantages of a tablet for browsing.
[quote=daveh ]They did it with maps! Google could pull the plug whenever they like, perhaps at a target android market share. I didn't foresee apple pulling them out of choice though!
You can still access it all via the browser anyway can't you?
all the 3G ones.What iPad has GPS?
They did it with maps! Google could pull the plug whenever they like
On a point of note, Google didn't pull Google Maps out of iOS, Apple did.
As an aside, I'm writing this from my latest toy - a Samsung Series 3 chromebook.
Its fast, small, light, good battery life but *everything* is done via the browser. Bit of a mind-flip. There is some local storage and you can edit docs offline but everything else is streamed or online. Great for emails, a bit of browsing or replying into forums like this one.
Still going to update my iPad 1 to an iPad 4 this weekend, mind.... 😀
I didn't foresee apple pulling them out of choice though!
[quote=AdamW ]As an aside, I'm writing this from my latest toy - a Samsung Series 3 chromebook.
I want one so badly! Get that and scrap my laptop. Then just ssh into my server all the time. Be ace!
What iPad has GPS?
Mine 🙂
all the 3G ones.
So the non-3G ones sacrifice performance for...erm....what exactly? Price 😈
I'm sorry, but you really can't accuse something of being inferior to an iPad because of lack of GPS!
@piemonster - it's a Lenovo x100e - only netbook form factor (well almost, it's 11" rather than 10"), the internals are a lot more powerful.
Irrational purchasing decisions are the norm. Look at white jeans, softroader vehicles and superdry clothing for example.
I think she's just opposed to the whole Apple 'evangelist' thing, which can be quite irritating at times. Some owners of Apple devices can't half drone on about how wonderful and amazing their Apple products are (to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot), and I suppose she just doesn't want to be associated with such pretentiousness. Trouble is, Apple do make some bloody good gadgets. It's hard to resist when their stuff looks, feels and even tastes better than the competition.
High fives AdamW!
Mine was delivered on Saturday, £220 worth of bargain.
I want one so badly! Get that and scrap my laptop. Then just ssh into my server all the time. Be ace!
There is an ssh chrome client, strangely enough - remember that *everything* goes through the web, so if you want ssh, it has to be written in javascript/NaCl and be available from the Chrome Web Store.
... just tested it. Can ssh into me mac using it. Very strange!
the only company that seems to have got close to Apple on build quality is Samsung
Who ironically manufacture quite a few Apple parts.
I read this today, and was quite astonished just how many Samsung parts Apple actually buy - $8bn worth last ! Which is amazing considering they're at each others throats most of the time when it comes to suing each other for patent violation.
Interesting article here - http://gu.com/p/3dy63
Been looking at chrome books too but they don't run iTunes do they?....as much of an Android fans as I am I quite like buying music through iTunes, there is some really obscure stuff on there that other MP3 sites don't have.
Wonderful. A week after collecting the replacement it's also packed up in almost exactly the same way.
No wonder Apple's shares are diving for rock bottom. Presumably they're not beating the children on the assembly line hard enough when they have such poor quality control.
* I appreciate that in this case it might be me. But I can't see how. The blasted thing has a dead stripe on the touchscreen about half an inch wide down the whole of the screen. Helpfully just where you drag the unlock slider across. Have now resorted to using it upside down.
The first one had two symmetrical dead zones symmetrically opposite each other.
