Netbook or Ipad?

[BaldEagl]

Good for you.  Next time you have to deal with a city on building out a commercial property, see how far that will get you.  Commercial/Interior design firms are required to provide drawings and source code for the drawings, to a city for approval.  Or maybe when you sit in on a meeting discussing what materials to use for the flooring, walls, and so on, and see how far that electronic display will impress you.

Try making a display board for a commercial client on an electronic device.  And when they ask what the texture of the material is like, you can whip out a sample from your briefcase.  Then they will want to know what how reflective and durable the flooring is.  And so on and so forth.  Walk into that meeting with an eletronic device and you will lose that business.  People want to see it and feel it.  Interior designers make boards with all the samples on it.  This is the best way to win a client.

My Wife is incredbily successful at her job.  She knows how to win business.  She is one of the most sought after interior designers in the D/FW area.  She also loves technology and uses it where it makes sense.  Try to get a job with her without a physical portfolio is not ever going to happen.


I stand by my assessment of the iPad.  It is a worthless piece of technology that Apple zealots are desparately trying to find a use for.  It is a joke.

My, aren't we touchy today.

None of those things are ever going to happen in my life.  Someone said that a creative portfolio could be shown electronically.  In my world that means artwork and I agree, it can.  I don't need to touch or feel a graphic to know if it's going to work in an ad or a piece of marketing collateral.  I need to see it to determin if it will appeal to my target audience and whether or not it fits within a larger ad and/or a brand campaign.

Frankly I think we're talking about diferent things.  I was, as I said, focused on a creative portfolio, not an archetectural presentation nor was I endorsing the IPad.  Rather, I was suggesting that an electronic portfolio would suffice for the purpose of making a hiring decision for a graphic designer.  When the rubber meets the road though I want paper copies of art concepts so I can spread them out in front of me to make final decisions/revisions.

[Chalenge]

Israel has blocked them from entering the country because they say the Wi-Fi is 'too strong' and overpowers local Wi-Fi. I dont get it but that shouldnt be a surprise being the tech noob that I am. I thought Wi-Fi was mostly a passive thing in receiving equipment? Not that I plan on visiting Israel but I guess there will be other countries that follow if this is true.

[Vulcan]

only an idiot would go to a meeting and then print stuff out/burn a DVD/copy files to a flash drive while the client is sitting there drumming his fingers.

Oh really? I've been to plenty of meetings where clients have deviated significantly from they 'what we thought we wanted' and been able to give them whitepapers, technical documents, and other stuff on a USB key.

[Ack-Ack]

Israel has blocked them from entering the country because they say the Wi-Fi is 'too strong' and overpowers local Wi-Fi. I dont get it but that shouldnt be a surprise being the tech noob that I am. I thought Wi-Fi was mostly a passive thing in receiving equipment? Not that I plan on visiting Israel but I guess there will be other countries that follow if this is true.

Kind of funny in the light of Apple admitting that there is an issue with the iPad's Wi-Fi being too weak.


ack-ack

[gpwurzel]

Ah, but they've bought out a way of fixing all the issues with the Ipad already.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/apple-to-fix-malfunctioning-ipad-customers-201004092628/

Totally safe, convenient and utterly foolproof.
 

Wurzel

[Vulcan]

Kind of funny in the light of Apple admitting that there is an issue with the iPad's Wi-Fi being too weak.


ack-ack

Yeah it's very odd, the USA has the one of the lower consumer power levels for wifi, plus one of the most limited ranges of frequencies.

[Kazaa]

[Chalenge]

Yes Apple has admitted to a problem with wifi losing connection and not automatically reconnecting. This is just another reason to go for second generation on devices. Laporte is reporting that he is now doing everything he did on his laptop on his ipad. Pacific Defense and a few apps that I saw looked interesting but not worth buying an ipad for.

[Vulcan]

LOL the apple zealots were telling me there is an app (you can buy LOL) to print from an Ipad (native printing is a nice NETBOOK feature). So I thought ok, and read up on the app. Of course to print from the Ipad you need a PC (or netbook LOL) or Mac to act as a print server LOL.... WTF is the point?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

LOL the apple zealots were telling me there is an app (you can buy LOL) to print from an Ipad (native printing is a nice NETBOOK feature). So I thought ok, and read up on the app. Of course to print from the Ipad you need a PC (or netbook LOL) or Mac to act as a print server LOL.... WTF is the point?

The question is why would you want to print directly from an ipad anyway? iPad is a novelty toy best used for casual home consumer stuff.

[Vulcan]

That's not the way apple are pitching it. All of the major apps it's pitched at have printing requirements... presentations, ebook, photo media, email, web browsing, iwork ....

[Chalenge]

No they really are pitching it as a laptop replacement. It seems it should be possible to print from it since it has wi-fi and there are print servers that have wi-fi also (not that I use one so I dont really know how it works). Come to think of it I spend MUCH more on PCs and usually replace them long before they have paid for themselves so an iPad wouldnt be much different.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

No they really are pitching it as a laptop replacement. It seems it should be possible to print from it since it has wi-fi and there are print servers that have wi-fi also (not that I use one so I dont really know how it works). Come to think of it I spend MUCH more on PCs and usually replace them long before they have paid for themselves so an iPad wouldnt be much different.

Apple Time Capsule wireless access point hosts a print server and 1Tb hdd. Maybe Apple planned to use that for printing?

[Vulcan]

No they really are pitching it as a laptop replacement.

They're pitching it as everything and nothing simultaneously. Apple are the snake-oil masters of the 21st century. At the end of the day a netbook with similar features and more can be had for the same price or less. So anyone who buys an ipad is a sucker for apple marketing.

[Chalenge]

I dont think I would go that far. The iPad has got a unique approach to consumption of entertainment and one I dont really see as being in my future but since I have heard of several very intelligent people (not your typical gadget loons) say they absolutely love the iPad I have to conclude it has appeal outside of your run of the mill apple lap dogs.

Feynman always said that computers are a disease to which humans are extremely vulnerable and the less productive a program or system the more infectious it is. The computers he was talking about were programmed by switches so I guess touch screen could make it worse.