The reason I bought it originally was to have lots of battery life at conferences. But I couldn\u2019t type with it. The screen keyboard is OK but not fast enough. The attachable keyboards weren\u2019t rigid and you never have a desk at these events. So I ended up buying an Ultrabook.<\/p>\n
So my iPad became dispensable. Even though it was an iPad 1, there were no shortage of buyers. And I didn\u2019t even have to advertise it. So it\u2019s not like I\u2019m claiming it\u2019s a dead platform or anything.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s my future on the device front? In my personal lab, it\u2019s a bunch of tower PCs. That\u2019s tied up for a while with work. <\/p>\n
My Ultrabook is going strong. It\u2019ll stay on Windows 7 until Windows 8 RTM, and maybe later depending on my work schedule. My work laptop (the Beast) is already running Windows 8 so I can have a mobile Hyper-V base for demos.<\/p>\n
My \u201ctablet\u201d for now is the Build slate, a revved up version of the Samsung slate that you can buy in retail at the moment. The Release Preview is running nicely on there. It\u2019s not ideal \u2013 it runs hot and the battery life is poor for a tablet style device. Maybe I\u2019ll sell it later in the year before I get a Windows 8 device. Or maybe I\u2019ll sell it as a collectible on Pawn Stars<\/a> I will look at design-for-Windows 8 devices later in the year. I work for a Sony and Toshiba distributor so obviously I\u2019ll look at what they have coming. I haven\u2019t seen anything about Sony\u2019s plans in that space yet. Toshiba have an interesting slider<\/a> in the but I\u2019d want to try it out. I\u2019m not sure about it as a machine for your lap.<\/p>\n The Asus Transformer<\/a> goes a more portable route. It\u2019s a laptop and a tablet with an i7 CPU. I like that as an iPad and Ultrabook replacement. <\/p>\n The one making the headlines is the Microsoft Surface. The problem is \u2026 what do I want? If I want a tablet, then either the Pro or the RT would suffice. The Pro would be great for things like Photoshop and be dock-able as a normal PC. But I can\u2019t let myself fall into the same trap as I did with the iPad. That keyboard isn\u2019t rigid \u2013 so it will suck at conferences and events, constantly flopping.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s why I will wait and see.<\/p>\n I found myself using my iPad really only for two things: Reading \u2013 but I since bought a more convenient smaller Kindle that I could read in a wildlife photography hide without scaring off the subject Watching a little bit of TV when I went to bed The reason I bought it originally was to … Continue reading “I Sold My iPad Today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,109],"class_list":["post-13015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Smile\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wlEmoticon-smile14.png\")
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