Help Does it HAVE to be an ipad?

[Moriath]

Can you swap your ipad battery out?

how many batteries do you own for your laptop ?3 , 4 ? that what you need to use it longer than my tablet.

And its just saying you take your choice smaller functionality all be it not that much smaller unless you going alien ware laptop in which case your battery will last an hour or so and you need more swaps.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/06/12/windows_81_to_give_pc_sales_a_shot_in_arm_nah/

The predicted decline in laptop sales and rise in tablets over the next years

You are a dying breed.

 

[megadave]

When I was at junior school, the only computer in the school was a BBC micro (and it even had the turtle!), and at secondary school they had Acorn Archimedes. In my final year, they got their first PC, with a CD ROM drive and the Encarta encyclopedia...
Hmm, now I'm sounding like an old moaner... bah, I'll be going on about kids these days with their loud music and pants round their ankles before you know it...

Hah, the laptops we got caused all sorts of problems. The best was how much porn you saw being traded about at lunch time via blue-tooth

 

[soze]

So what do kids need tablets in school for? Genuinely curious.

At that ages laptops are bad enough. When i was in about year 8 of secondary school they introduced laptops for every kid in my year (one of the first trials in the county) Fucking terrible idea!

My cousin's kid is at a special needs school in Scotland and they have a iPad app that according to my cousin runs a help application. So if the kids get stuck they can press a button and see it explained again. He likes it by all accounts and it means the classes flow better than before and they don't need as assistant for each child. I think it was a trail for a national scheme but I have no idea if it is wide spread. The app also had all his activities for the next day so my cousin could see what he was doing and make sure he took in anything special he needed.

 

[Bodhi]

how many batteries do you own for your laptop ?3 , 4 ? that what you need to use it longer than my tablet.

And its just saying you take your choice smaller functionality all be it not that much smaller unless you going alien ware laptop in which case your battery will last an hour or so and you need more swaps.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/06/12/windows_81_to_give_pc_sales_a_shot_in_arm_nah/

The predicted decline in laptop sales and rise in tablets over the next years

You are a dying breed.

Hate to agree with Scouse here, but you are wrong. I have an iPad 2 and a laptop through work, and in terms of getting anything done, the laptop takes a shit on the iPad from a great height. Even simple things like composing an email takes half as long on the laptop, I would dread to think what putting slides together or demonstrating an ERP system would be like on it.

Where the toy tablets are replacing laptops are for casual users, who send the odd email and browse the web. But business / power users? Not a chance. To paraphrase Lock Stock, tablets for show, laptops for a pro.

 

[Tom]

Obviously you have a Sony laptop?

 

[Bodhi]

No it's a Dell. I'm trying to talk my boss into sorting me a Vaio Pro tho

 

[TdC]

I have the previous model Vaio Z (and the one before that actually) and it's awesome. With the extended battery I get like 8 hours full on use out of it. They're not called Z's any more (this previous one had no badges at all actually, but it's a custom model) but the new one (the Pro? shit name tbh) is pretty. I recently specced one up to a level I would consider usable and it was about 800 euros cheaper than my current lappy too 0o

first Z - 1400 euros
second Z - 2500 euros
current "Z" specced to second Z level - 1700 euros

 

[DaGaffer]

Worth a look if its a tab for school: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/18/microsoft_flogs_rts_to_students/

 

[TdC]

tbh I really can't justify that for myself or even udder peepoles. I'd say that buying an OS of that calibur in a package that is NOT for the x86/x64, is a major blunder and you will never be rid of it again, but hey ho that's me. clearly I am not alone if MS is pulling that radical of price stunts to shift RT's

 

[soze]

It's a brilliant move. Make owning an RT a no brainier and get the next generation of App Developers on your platform. That will hopefully lead to a whole host of new apps coming out on both surface devices.

 

[TdC]

windows for the ARM? well, there was a windows NT for RISC so hey ho what do I know

 

[Tom]

Well Bodhi would be proud

 

[Bodhi]

Well Bodhi would be proud

Good lad, I am immensely jealous. Thoughts so far?

 

[Tom]

Very nice indeed. Fast, nice bright and sharp display, lovely design. The edges of the case are a little bit "sharp" but it's ok to hold for an hour, easily.

My only real complaint is that the security unlock pattern dots are too closely spaced for diagonal lines, but that's not a big issue. The micro USB port is a little bit fiddly but meh. Swiftkey's tablet keyboard isn't anywhere near as nicely laid out as on a phone, but that's hardly Sony's fault. Speakers are pretty damn loud. The screen and back is a fingerprint magnet but there's no way around that. I've ordered a case from Amazon.

 

[Bodhi]

Very nice indeed. Fast, nice bright and sharp display, lovely design. The edges of the case are a little bit "sharp" but it's ok to hold for an hour, easily.

My only real complaint is that the security unlock pattern dots are too closely spaced for diagonal lines, but that's not a big issue. The micro USB port is a little bit fiddly but meh. Swiftkey's tablet keyboard isn't anywhere near as nicely laid out as on a phone, but that's hardly Sony's fault. Speakers are pretty damn loud. The screen and back is a fingerprint magnet but there's no way around that. I've ordered a case from Amazon.

That's the only real complaint I have with my Xperia Z is the constant battle to keep it clean. I normally just wash it under the tap to be honest, works a treat Brasso Gadget Polish is useful too if you're not up for dunking it.

Good to hear you're enjoying it tho, if I hadn't just spent 300 quid on a new driver I'd be all over one of these.