iPad usefulness?
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From: Jochem Huhmann on 31 Mar 2010 07:45 peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) writes: > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> So you *really* think people who don't want the full panoply of a >> computer would want to do a (partial) backup by copying some files and >> folders to an USB-stick and to restore from that? > > Partial backups are plenty; I use a Firelite, and just back up my > mailbase, iTunes library, my text files and my picture files. Whatever > happens to the iG5 or Anne's MBP, they (and the system and app disks) > are perfectly sufficient to get me back to where I was. I do something like that as a secondary emergency backup, but for getting up and running again in a hurry you need a bit more than that. Or at least I need a bit more. The last time I had just such a partial backup and a HD went belly-up it took me days to get back to where I was. It's almost the same as discovering your house is on fire and being able to carry out the most valuable things and not having your house on fire in the first place. > I realise that other people have much more extensive requirements, but I > don't. And neither do most people- certainly not those who would be > using an iPad as a sole machine. People using the iPad as a sole machine are not the people who want to think about what and when and how they need to backup. Even people using a computer (which has everything you require from the iPad) often don't backup *anything*. Or if they do it at all discover that they've missed some important things. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 07:47 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > > but its unknown at the moment. > > That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. Well, there are some printing apps on the iPhone, but I would think printing is much more of an issue when you have something like an iPad, especially as you can get iWork for it. -- Woody
From: Jochem Huhmann on 31 Mar 2010 07:51 usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) writes: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > >> > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing >> > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown >> > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, >> > but its unknown at the moment. >> >> That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it >> doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. > > Well, there are some printing apps on the iPhone, but I would think > printing is much more of an issue when you have something like an iPad, > especially as you can get iWork for it. Printing is clearly a requirement here (and surely not rocket science). But I fear as with the iPhone getting copy&paste only later this will take a while. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 07:53 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > > but its unknown at the moment. > > That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. I have just been told that the Dock allows you to connect by USB, so presumably that *ought* to work. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 07:53
David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Not if they actually were good cooks... They are superb cooks. > Maybe they just need to read the instruction manual. As in 'If all else fails, RTFM'? -- Peter |