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Every few months I go and read this series over again: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/1223
by freehunter 8y ago
Every few months I go and read this series over again: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
For me it's basically pornography: a beautiful fantasy that I love pretending is real but is actually completely unrealistic (at least in my case). The idea of ditching my laptop and traveling the city with a thin client, not caring if it breaks or gets corrupted because all the data is sitting somewhere up in the cloud, backed up and taken care of. No fans, no worries of processor power or RAM, incredibly flexible form factor, instant-on and everything full screen by default, notifications that just work and work in a unified and consistent way. No distractions, just zen working in a park with a fountain and a chocolate croissant.
Problem is I do web development and app development, neither of which are terribly feasible on a tablet. A man can dream though. A man can dream.
- komali2 8y agoI mean, it just comes down to OS at that point, yea? Why not get a turbo-thin ultra book and throw Ubuntu on it, then use cloud storage for everything? Could just SSH in as well. You could even install ubuntu on an android tablet. If what you want is the form factor and speedyness of solid state everything, you could get a tablet that isn't an ipad. Lenovo makes some that would be trivial to swap out for Ubuntu or whatever https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/c/TABLETS https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/c/TABLETS
- freehunter 8y agoA big part of it is the zen. I love Linux and it powers my entire career as a server OS but it is anything but zen and I would never use it as a desktop OS.