On Sunday, I put all politics aside as well as all my ranting (I might post a few comments on political rants and raves, but I don't write any). Instead, I focus on raving about things I really think are cool or really like.
Today, by some coincidence is also my one-year anniversary of having gone completely iPad®. That's right, when my trusty Mac Powerbook® G4 titanium laptop was going to cost $300 to fix, I decided to invest that same money plus $199 more for the lowest level wi-fi 16GB iPad last April funding the purchase with my tax refund!
Since that day, I have never looked back and do absolutely everything I used to do and so much more on my iPad™. Last May, I was so keen on what I had already accomplished using the speedy, user-friendly, super intuitive touch-screen tablet computer, that I boldly predicted that everyone would own one by the end of the year. Whoops. Well, Apple, Inc. has to date sold over 30 million of them making them and their new spawn the iPad™ 2 the fastest selling consumer electronic product in history and also the one with the fastest produce permeation – so maybe by the end of this year?
What I use it for...
...web design.
...writing – half done with first screenplay and first novel is under final review.
...blogging.
...keeping the financial books in spreadsheets for my small business.
...watching movies, tv, and music videos.
...listening to music (iPod).
...reading books.
...playing loads of games (Angry Bird™ is the best).
...sharing Apps with friends and family (my favorite new one is a new prank app that let's you trick people into thinking you can track their cell phone...loads of fun to see a teenager's face).
...managing my dozen email accounts.
...calendar, address book, and phone numbers all organized into one place.
...graphic design and printing (the new iPad-ready HP printers are fantastic).
...ranting and raving.
...surfing the web almost anywhere almost anytime.
...graphic design.
...restaurant menu layout and design.
...record keeping.
...taxes.
...inventory control.
...conquering the world (playing Sid Meier's Civilization™).
...ordering products.
...reading the news.
...updating my Facebook® and Foursquare™ Pages.
...connecting with friends.
Basically everything I used to do with my lap top but so much more. I am going out on a bit of a limb, but I truly think it's the best invention since the wheel.
If you have an hesitations about buying a new iPad, I wouldn't. Mine is a year old, works like a dream, continues to deliver an amazing amount of work output, and has only ever crashed once –– that's once in one year!
If you have an hesitations about buying a new iPad, I wouldn't. Mine is a year old, works like a dream, continues to deliver an amazing amount of work output, and has only ever crashed once –– that's once in one year! It has no virus attacks, plays nice on the Internet (if you can live without your Adobe® Flash-based Facebook® games), and couldn't be more portable. I do recommend acquiring a keyboard either Bluetooth® or dock-based as this will save ours of touch-keypad learning curve.
Overall, I would say the iPad™ has revolutionized my live in countless positive ways as it has for the dozens of friends of mine who have jumped on the bandwagon along with me.
As a final note, a lot of people come to me with their technology problems and for advice as what kind of computer to buy or if they should get an iPad™ or a Kindle™. I always give people a brief oral questionnaire to determine their needs. In my years of supporting and helping people make this decision, there is literally almost nothing that most people ever use their computer for that one cannot do on the iPad™, and many, many things you can do on an iPad™ you cannot do on a traditional computer even a laptop – though opening the App Store™ to all their computers was another stroke of genius by Apple, Inc. and dissolved some of the differences. I whole-heartedly endorse the iPad™, and vs. the Kindle™ it's like the difference between buying a book vs. buying a computer – it's that simple.