HOW ABOUT AN iPDA?
April 10th 2010 00:00
Sorry guys, but I can’t get excited over that latest Apple toy - the Ipad. As far as I am concerned, the biggest turn-off for the Ipad is its size.
See, I have a desktop computer at home and I have this laptop that I lug around wherever I go.
The Ipad is small and my laptop is certainly beginning to feel like a ton every time I look at those netbooks that now have bigger hard drive capacities and longer operating hours in between charges and well, for my purposes, they can practically do almost everything that I require on a mobile computer.
The Ipad, physically, is just half of a netbook – it’s like, just the screen. Therefore, it should be lighter by almost half compared to an ordinary netbook. That’s a plus factor if you don’t like carrying heavy stuffs. But that’s also the problem. It, physically, is just half of a netbook.
Meaning, it lacks the other half that enables it to securely cover itself from harm. You know, whatever it is made of, a screen is a screen. And if you put a vulnerable screen that big in your hand carry bag, it could get damaged rather easily.
Oh well, I have not handled an Ipad yet. It’s probably made of some sturdy materials that don’t easily break. But then, man, I don’t think I’d like to be carrying a fragile thing like that.” Naked”. So many things can go wrong.
And that’s what brought me back to the days of the PDAs. I have one of those Palm PDAs. You know, that one which body was made of metal. It was solid as hell, not easily bent. It was touch screen. You can operate it using a stylus or your bare fingers (unlike some gadgets). Nope, it doesn’t have a touch pad and it doesn’t have the fancy programs that enable you to pinch a picture or flip a page like a book.
Palm PDA (Tungsten E)
But then, again, it doesn’t pretend to be able to do everything that a laptop or a desktop can do. And would you really be comfortable doing in an Ipad everything that you do with a laptop or a desktop computer?
Maybe you would, and maybe you will not have any problem with that. But me thinks, an Ipad, or a PDA for that matter, is only supposed to do certain things that are not tantamount to replacing the functions of the usual machines that already do their jobs rather well.
So, an Ipad is out. That is, as far as I am concerned. I’ll probably consider it if it wasn’t that BIG. And if I will not be worrying constantly that it could break inside my bag anytime. Some argue that an Iphone will seem rather puny once you’ve handled an Ipad – I’ll let them argue all they want.
To me, an Ipad is neither here nor there. The only practical use I can think of for an Ipad is as an emergency internet browser. You know like, when you are on the go and you don’t have time or a space to boot up your netbook/laptop confortably and you have to access the web to check or close a trade or sell some stocks quickly or, for whatever very urgent reasons.
Admittedly, the Iphone is a bit small for that job – but it can do that job – and in the absence of a better and affordable alternative I’ll give the Iphone the task. At least, that tiny little wonder can be tucked away easily without the danger of crushing it or breaking its screen into several pieces. By contrast, the Ipad is kinda too big to be carried around safely.
Maybe, I can be swayed to get an Ipad if it were just a bit bigger than the old PDAs.
Say, an inch longer and an inch wider than a Tungsten E?
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