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Originally Posted by KSig RC
SD cards are a pretty bad solution (short version: since the technology is similar to solid-state drives, the price will scale accordingly, so by the time large-scale SD storage becomes reality, it'll be outmoded by better internal drives, and so on), but yeah - here's the thing: anybody with enough "Power User" in them to be OK with swapping a few SD cards likely requires more than this rig can provide.
And it's not just that you can't load and run CS4 or crank out Matlab data - it's that you can't type on the word processor (which will be iWork, no Office, or even OpenOffice, equivalent) and send an instant message at the same time. You can't listen to Pandora while using the GPS to find a restaurant. You can't upgrade at all - it's completely closed-box - and you're limited to mOS4 instead of an OSX shell. It's not scalable. It's a throw-away device. And HD screens are TERRIBLE for eReading - that's why the Kindle went to eInk, HD leads to eye fatigue way too rapidly for everyday use.
It's cute, but I expected a LOT more functionality than it provides. And not "Power User" functionality - every f-ing day functionality. It's not there, and it isn't eminently clear that Apple has plans to even get it there.
Sure, I'll look like a bad ass when I walk into a client meeting and plug this into the projector and run the presentation off of it. That is, until the iWork presentation software starts to puke on something as simple as vector graphics.
That's the fatal flaw in Apple's "There's An App For That" marketing machine: your hands are tied by the very apps they're propping.
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All the things that you said makes my argument. So I think we are in agreement. This is not a heavy duty box and it wasn't built to be a heavy duty box. It's only good for portable media. And also yes, while you pointed out some of those very same negatives that the press has been quick to also do, in a generation or 2 Apple will find a way to improve upon it.
As far as SD cards go, it's a short term affordable alternative solution until SSDs become an affordable standard.
Now you made a statement about using Pandora and a GPS simultaneously.
Good point but really who uses a GPS on an iPhone? It IS doable but I don't see too many people who uses it as a dedicated GPS. I know for myself that I wouldn't but understand I have never really been a big advocate for trying to put too many things in one box.
As a sidebar: I did try the AT&T GPS app on my phone along with listening to music with no problem but paying $10 bucks a month for their service as well as reading that small screen ALONG WITH draining my battery wasn't worth it so I bought a dedicated GPS.
Now also who is to say that within a few months when the OS X 4.0 upgrade comes out that won't change.
I will state again, when I first heard rumors about this machine, I already expected that this wasn't designed to be a 'power device' or a business user device.
Let me also add in too...while people bemoan that right now you can't multitask, what does multitasking on a portable device do? Drains batteries and slows down performance.
Just like I see the same with netbooks. When we do merit review meetings I am utterly amazed at how many reviewers struggle to get the same things done on those small underpowered systems (like loading up the gov't review page) that the rest do on a laptop and then winding up the next cycle bringing in a full sized laptop so they can keep up.
You also say that HD screens are horrible for e reading. What device have you seen has an HD screen and an e reader because I would like to see it for myself.
I don't disagree with you on some of your points, I just disagree if you was hoping for a heavy duty device.
KSig... say it "I HATE Apple!!" hehhehehehehehe!!!
j/k !
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