Thread: Why I bought an iPad
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2010-07-16 , 21:29
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Ok, if I'm getting this right, you mostly use the convertible in notebook mode until you absolutely need to take handwritten notes or make sketches? That's how I used my convertibles too when I had them. The ui was pretty aweful for 'normal' usage.
No, I actually only use it in notebook mode when writing longer texts (not even the best onscreen keyboard can compete with a former business student's 350 strokes per minute ). Most of the time it's in tablet mode.

What I was trying to say is that I almost never use the stylus, but do almost everything with my fingers alone. Works pretty well, though I have to admit that sometimes I'll just use the tip of my fingernail to hit the less prominent input widgets.

I'll have to try out win7 again to get an updated feel for it. Thanks for the tip!
I've never tried with Vista (couldn't even stand that one on the desktop PC, so I never even remotely thought about torturing my netbook by installing it), but I remember that XP had a lot of shortcomings when it comes to touch input. Quite a bit of functionality had to be added through native Asus applications, while with win7 I never even installed those, since everything worked out of the box.

I haven't tried the netbook UI of Ubuntu, but the standard interface is really touch-friendly, too. Again, getting a functional onscreen keyboard was a pain, but other than that working with it feels pretty comfortable, especially since the theme is pretty configurable. Right now my window bar is twice as large as that of my desktop PC, so it's rather comfortable to work with it.

I find the reality for win-based (convertibles) to be: "yes, it can do everything the iPad can do and more" ... But if you have to use it (away from your desktop or something), you'd probably not enjoy the experience. At least it was like that for me. This is the huge ui/ux difference that i've found.
To bet true, I spend a lot of time in hotels, so I can't even choose whether to use my netbook or my desktop PC - but other than the inability to render 3D images, run Photoshop and play high-end games, I never had the feeling that I missed anything.

But UI experience is terrible subjective feeling, so I don't expect everybody to feel the same way. Actually, I have to admit that I don't even care - as long as something works for me, I'm happy.

You know... Reading from that thread about android's web based app creator, I think this is actually a testament to apple's low barrier of entry to app development.

But yeah, unfortunately you can't have an appstore policy that censors 'bad sh*t'.

Lol, yeah I hear you. Many of the apps are just shallow shells. There are some gems to be found (even for games) but they're the exceptions.
And it's a shame that most people will never get to see those gems because they just can't find them amongst the 99.9% of useless stuff. And the rating system miserably fails thanks to the hype mentality, where gems are being voted down for being too complicated and fart apps are promoted thanks to being sooooo cool.