Great points made by all.
Like Alex there are just some tasks that I'll always use a Mac or
Windows laptop for.
Working with large documents, polishing my resume, spread sheet stuff
are all things I find much faster when using the computer as a pose to
my various mobile devices.
Also, running multiple apps is still painful on iOS. ( They've made
great strides in this area specially with iOS 9 but it still has a ways
to go before catching up with Windows or the mac.)
Sadam Ahmed
On 11/28/2015 12:21 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
No, I love my mac. I'll be hartbroken when it dies. It's just that
between my ipod and my android, there's really nothing short of the
convenience of having done things a certain way for years to justify a
new macbook. Which is pretty slim justification if you think about it.
I've got a cloud storage that I built myself which can support up to
24 tb of files. All of my CD'as are on drive now and packed away in
boxes because I have no room to display them. I can email and browse
on both of my mobiles. I can torrent on my droid. I haven't OCR'ed
on my mac for about two years now because it's so easy on the ipod,
and with knfb now on droid, I've got a good solution there too.
Microsoft is putting most of it's accessibility efforts into office
mobile right now, and it shows. Add in the microsoft unified
codebase, and I'm actually excited about the possibilities for word
processing on mobile devices. Then there are highly robust databasing
apps for mobile. Plus with the array of accessories available such as
scanning stands, bar code readers, and daily living kit. Add in the
intergration of audiobook and music delivery services and I can
honestly say I haven't even missed my mp3 player in a year and a half
though I still carry it with me for some reason.
I'll miss audio editing as right now there's no way to get my edirol
m16DX to interface with either a droid or an I device that I know of.
For that reason, I'm hoping my mac hangs around a couple of ears
until I come up with something I'm happy with for mid range field
recording and studio work. Again, It's been a couple of years since
I've really had my hand in there anyway, I just want the option since
I have all the equipment anyhow.
I'll also miss mess, since mess for droid hasn't really gotten the
attention I'd like to see put into it. I waited for 8 years to have
something like mess for mac and now that I can play my classic apple
IIe games I'll be sad to let that go. I do have an accessible frotz
for android though, so I can still access text adventures.
If my mac dies, I'll want one of two great portable keyboards that are
on the market right now. Or, if I decide to go tablet for some reason
then I wouldn't be without a keyboard foleo case.
If my mbp kicked the bucket tomorrow, it would cost me between $1100
and $1300 outright to replace it. Where-as, my $200 moto g is two
years old now, and my ipod is three and I could limp along in
sprightly manner with that if I had to. But I could spend $700 on the
mightiest android known to man unlocked and carrier ready, and $300 on
the new ipod touch wich is just a thuroughly awsome piece of kit, and
still have $300 left over to spend on accessories. As long as I have
a current back up of all my notes and things in the cloud when my mbp
goes, I won't even skip a beat.
Most of my people these days are fully mobile either via ipad or a
phone of some kind and don't own a computer of any kind. My parents
computer died last year and my mom replaced it with a $100 android
tablet that does absolutely everything she wants to do including run
her small business, print patterns, track recipes, advertize on
facebook and more.
Mobile computing is better in every way. Mobiles are cheaper to
build, cheaper to package, cheaper to store, cheaper to ship, and
cheaper to buy. They're faster and more efficient for day to day
computing than desktops which have more power still but always take
longer to do even the simplest thing such as launch a program.
Mobiles have better battery as you would expect. They generate less
material waste and have more recyclable components, especially when
you ad in the vast reduction in cable clutter.
Even though I'm not really happy with the stability and performance of
the last couple of IOS, I'd still take that over the atrocity of
elcapitan from what I've read and yes, windows 10 is a lot more user
friendly than windows 8, but don't make me laugh.
so again, I'm not holding my breath til my macbook dies, but I'm ready
for when it goes and I won't be replacing it with another macbook.
Enjoy,
Erik Burggraaf
On Nov 27, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<clgillan...@gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Why would you be on your last macbook? Do you not like the mac?
Chris.
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Not I, but I can assure you I am on my last macbook.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
On Nov 27, 2015, at 1:30 PM, mattias <m...@mjw.se <mailto:m...@mjw.se>>
wrote:
anyone here uses a ipad full time?
i meen you dont own a mac or pc
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