Apple (my favourite brand of all time) introduced iPad this week. My initial opinions of the device where basically why?! But I am now seeing more and more reasons to get one. 1) I don’t like taking my netbook everywhere with me, it is actually as Steve Jobs would say “clunky”, with an iPad I could just stick it in my bag along with my other pads, books etc. I came to my conclusion after realising that actually for most things my iPhone is just fine, and I only really need a laptop when I’m going on long journeys or away on holiday. At the moment I use a netbook to bridge that cap. But it’s slow, the keyboard is terrible (constantly hit the wrong keys) and the screen size isn’t desirable for a standard operating system (particularly vertically). iPad fixes all of this, and it also has the added benefit of all the features of the iPhone (bar the phone) IE touch screen and motion sensor mainly.
Add to wish list: 1 iPad.
I’m (coming) to a point where I really need to max out the memory and space on my iMac – and a few copies of Snow Leopard wouldn’t hurt either. Now if I still had a Mac Pro I could slip another hard drive in and some extra ram – no probs and no need to replace, could add to what I have. With an iMac – I have to replace them (so that means backing up and restoring a lot of data) – and then I’ve reached the maximum capacity of the machine so no future upgrade available.
So at the moment I’ve decided to shuffle with external drives until I can afford my next Mac which will come with what I need for now standard. The dilemma then is firstly which one to get and whether to get it sooner or later when a newer model comes out :/ It seems I might be just about on the right timeline for the next generation iMac – but should I invest in a better lappy first?
This is a mini book that I did for my final project in Media and Visual Communication in 2008. Click to view or download (Large PDF).
