Well said...
Also you can get an Air with 8gb of ram and run VMWare Fusion or Parallels (or dual boot) and it can ALSO run window 8 if needed....
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And how many time have you ever needed to touch the screen with the excellent built in track pad????
I have had Macbooks for about 5 years now and never felt the need to touch the screen...
I personally think that Apple will developers some type of hybrid laptop/tablet. My guess is that look like an Air with a detachable screen that becomes a standard iPad. It would have a trackpad and keyboard in the base. It might have extra batteries, processors and peripheral in the base...
This seems reasonable and I would probably buy one....
However, this surface thing reminds me of a fish and ski boat. People buy them, and hate them. They are horrible fishing boats and horrible ski boats....
What a ridiculous (and not necessarily correct) thing to say.
“There are more blowhards in tech and media than there are at a carnival.” Bob Lefsetz
“There are more blowhards in tech and media than there are at a carnival.” Bob Lefsetz
Originally Posted by stelligent
I'd like to point out that your original premise was that iOS fingerpainting was inadequate. It sounds that you are either no longer espousing that extreme view or have at least agreed that more than adequate art can be and has been created using iOS.
That's my original premise, that finger painting is severely limited compared to using a pressure-sensitive pen.
I am happy to hear that there are pressure-sensitive pens available for the iPad. It does put the iPad and the Surface Pro on a more equal footing for me.
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- Pollock was not using the most efficient tool. He was using the tool that felt right, artistically and emotionally.
That is the most efficient tool for Pollock.
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- It is simply not true that, whatever brush effects you tweak (line weight, etc.), Wacom pen tools can replicate finger painting. A finger on glass (or canvas) is a different tool than a brush in hand. Brushes (and digital pens) are more versatile. But the tactile and kinesthetic feedback of a finger are different than those of a pressure sensitive pen and will lead to a different painting.
It is simply not true that:
As a mac loyalist, I thought I'd try the surface pro for work. First off, Outlook via Exchange doesn't easily set up on the Surface, the metro app connected to my exchange server but not outlook, its a known issue? What, Outlook can't connect to exchange on a surface but on all my apple devices it works fine, are you kidding. The screen on the surface is nice, but its to heavy compared to the ipad mini and not as useful as my macbook pro. I had a motion computing l1200 tablet in 2002 and that's what this is, 10 years later, the surface is trying to be everything and can't be anything.
What? That statement doesn't make any since, there isn't one thing that can't be done on Windows that can be done on OSX and Windows PC's still out sell Apple computers by a very large margin. Tablets are another story.
Cool deal glad your happy. I found the Surface to be a little on the thick side though and the battery life is to low for my needs. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2, I don't need the power of the i5 as I use the Lenovo as a tablet and not a workstation. I have a Macbook Pro for that but I'm glad you like Windows 8. I find it to be a very useful and enjoyable OS despite what most on this board say. It's a much better tablet OS for me then iOS. iOS in my opinion is just to technically stripped, i.e. no file-manager, no command line, worst codec support of any device I have ever owned, no SD card, no USB, can't load files simply by plugging it in, can't connect to any SAMBA server or any server for that matter. no DLNA, no NFC, no customization, multitasking is almost none existent, list goes on and on. Apple left a lot of that out to force users in using the iTunes store and that never sat well with me. I understand the appeal though, it's a simple device to use and their are a lot of useful apps. I'm happy that Windows 8 is out though, it's not perfect and the Metro apps are few but so far it does what I need it to do very well. It's so nice when I see a missing plug-in message to have the ability to actually install that plug-in. I know a lot of people are frustrated with the mixture of Metro and Desktop but I find it to be very useful and easily to navigate, not to mention the custom finger gestures, I have a gesture to start all of my programs and favorite commands, so cool. The thing also boots up in like 10 seconds, so much faster then any tablet or computer that I have ever owned.
