[OT] Apple shrinks

[Richmond]

On 10/24/2012 03:10 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
> iPads work very nicely with Bluetooth keyboards. Also, close to 100% of the time you're using an iPad you're not needing to enter text. If you need something that is all about text entry, then either use an external keyboard or use a computer.

Try telling that to loads of people round here; lots of students at the 
University are attempting to
write essays and take lecture notes on iPads and other Tablet computers 
with the onscreen keyboard. Having spent buckets on an iPad they really 
don't have anything left for a laptop.

I, being a crafty type, have solved this problem; I have a tatty-old, 
second-hand Pentium IV in every
place I am likely to spend any length of time, and have just revived my 
Macintosh Powerbook 180
for when I get really desperate and cannot control myself until I get to 
a stationary computer.

Needless to say, I am the leading fashionista here in Bulgaria with my 
20 year old lump of grey
plastic, LOL.

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> On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The only problem is that PDAs tend to have some sort of physical keyboard you can tap with a stylus or pencil, and the iPad mini will have about 2-3 letters under my fat fingers on its virtual keyboard, and
>> it is unlikely that its screen is going to take nicely to being tapped with a sharp pencil.
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