tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post1838708120895421164..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: iPad (shoulda been iSlice)kushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-83235701257972269772010-01-28T10:54:54.645+09:002010-01-28T10:54:54.645+09:00MBA = MacBook Air.
D'oh! I should have known...<b>MBA = MacBook Air.</b> <br /><br />D'oh! I should have known that. Five hours of sleep is my excuse for missing that one. <br /><br />I was thinking of the Air connection as well. Since I have an iMac computer at home (er, in the dorm) to be the "parent," a scaled-down computer (only 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB) like the Air or the iPad is perfect for me. <br /><br />The Air's price, however, was a budget buster compared with the MacBook Pro, so I opted for the less cool but considerably cheaper Pro when the Grapefruit Juice Incident occurred. Now, however, I would first consider getting an iPad, as long as it could function as a note-taking device and allow me to do presentations, two things I'm wont to do in grad school and in my work back in Korea. <br /><br />The iPad versus the Air, of course, means that you have a touch-screen computer with the former, though you still have a high-powered computer with the latter, so I don't think this will adversely affect Air's sales too much.<br /><br />It would be so cool to pull out an iPad and show people stuff when I'm back in Korea.<br /><br />One thing I'll be looking to see is whether or not an iPad/iPhone combo will allow you to do "tethering" so that I can use my iPhone's 3G connection through Cingular/AT&T on an iPad. I cannot do that now with the MacBook Pro (I think AT&T won't let them, because it means more demand for bandwidth), but they might with the iPad (I'm thinking Apple may have done some arm-twisting on that).kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-17309266619948414382010-01-28T10:40:50.409+09:002010-01-28T10:40:50.409+09:00MBA = MacBook Air.
The iPad looks rather like the...MBA = MacBook Air.<br /><br />The iPad looks rather like the cover/screen of an MBA, and the portability develops that of the MBA.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11133749237056952019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-8788696503053640292010-01-28T10:15:30.059+09:002010-01-28T10:15:30.059+09:00It's pretty cheap, enough for me to justify ge...It's pretty cheap, enough for me to justify getting one despite my new MacBook Pro (well, new since August), but I may wait until the second generation comes out just to see what more they add, like the videoconferencing and what-not. <br /><br />But basically, if I can feel comfortable using the keyboard and typing out papers and stuff in Word (assuming it will run things like Word), I may never buy another laptop again.<br /><br />Oh, and what's the MBA?kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-21318037277330298772010-01-28T10:11:41.088+09:002010-01-28T10:11:41.088+09:00Physical form shows some debt to the MBA, in my op...Physical form shows some debt to the MBA, in my opinion. Ought to be a winner, especially when it starts to get used en masse in the classroom, unis give one to each student on enrollment, e-textbooks included, with the odd desktop or laptop in class to handle complementary tasks...<br /><br />Should later integrate videoconferencing, and the world's your i-oyster...Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11133749237056952019noreply@blogger.com