“The iPad – and other tablets if we ever get some good ones – poses an existential threat to the laptop. But it might provide a new lease on life for the much-ignored desktop PC,” Steve Wildstrom writes for TechPinions.
“I’m starting from the increasingly uncontroversial premise that a good tablet is all the computer most people need,” Wildstrom writes. “The biggest weakness of tablets, the lack of local storage, is being solved in the cloud. For the times that you want to write more than is comfortable with the on-screen keyboard, a lightweight Bluetooth keyboard does the trick.”
Wildstrom writes, “For some of us, though, a full-featured PC remains very much a part of our everyday toolkit… a 27″ iMac… is my desktop workhorse. What I am finding however, is that is use my laptops less and less. I spent this past weekend at a family event in North Carolina. I took both an iPad and a 13″ MacBook Air and the MacBook never came out of my bag. Everything I wanted could be done more conveniently on the iPad. Even on business trips, I’m finding the laptop doesn’t get used unless I really need it.”
Read more in the full article here.
Not until they fix a few things:
1. The whole process of syncing pages and numbers docs is a PITA. It is very un-Apple-Like, way to manual. I want seamless, not different versions and overwriting and all that nonsense.
2. Local file manager. Data needs to be able to move between apps more easily.
Everything I wanted could be done more conveniently on the iPad.
Sorry, but there is no grand over-arching statement about iPads killing off or saving anything. Get this:
Lately, I’ve been beta-testing software on a desktop machine. I couldn’t do this on an iPad. But do I want to do it on the desktop machine? NO! Instead I find I prefer using Apple Remote Desktop via *drum roll* my laptop!
The iPad is too limiting for geekdom. The desktop is too limiting for geekdom. Give me my laptop or give me Paris Hilton! (yuck). 😉