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RE: "I wouldn't want to be in the "PC business"."

Posted by rick_m (A) on August 7, 2014 at 14:53:35

In Reply to: RE: "I wouldn't want to be in the "PC business"." posted by AbeCollins on August 7, 2014 at 10:24:18:

"Apple is hardly just a 'toy' maker today but some folks like to believe that's the case. And that's fine."

Toy is good. From my experience all great tools also have a high toy factor and the converse is also frequently true. I find the iPad to be a lot more living-room friendly than a laptop is. Really to a fault, I'll sometimes spend a lot of time doing something that would take minutes if I walked downstairs and used a PC.

They are perfect retirement computers / digitoys IMHO. Have I mentioned more than a thousand times how much I like not having moving parts?

And just to make you gloat, I totally screwed up my PC last week by innocently buying a 32GB USB Flash drive as an interim backup whilst scanning photos. Apparently it loaded some driver that was incompatible with my oldish system and I bet that my effective clock rate is now a historic 4.7MHz. Maybe not even that... Sigh. Fighting computers no longer holds much appeal for me. Maybe laziness or senility settling in. Maybe rationality...

I now do essentially all of my "computering" on a fondleslab and it's almost a perfect fit for what I do these days. In return for not being able to do PCBs, compile code or run FEA it's cute, cool and quiet. After 3 1/2 years of at least four hours a day of use the battery life is virtually the same as new and I've had no fan or hard drive failures... And the color convergence is still great, the yolk hasn't shifted a bit even though it's been dropped any number of times.

My new one has VPN capabilities so maybe, if I can get my driver? problem resolved, I'll be able to use it as a client and do fancier computing on my PC from the comfort of the deck.

Back to the toy issue, it seemed clear to me when I bought this device that Apple regarded it as just a puffed-up iPod (that's also what my local Apple specialist store told me.) and expected people to use it for music, movies, books, i.e. consummables from the iTune store and light email. I think they were blown away that so many people were trying to do real work on it. So they essentially created a whole new device class almost accidentally. Now of course it has evolved into that which folks thought it was in the first place.

And you know, it works pretty good as a terminal wirelessly SSHing into my RPi. A lot more comfy on the lap than a VT-100... Or if you'e really old, a model 33.

73, Rick

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