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On that note, is the iPad + keyboard close enough to a laptop that it can replace it for students in college? Obviously not for engineering students, but possib
by drumdance 15y ago
On that note, is the iPad + keyboard close enough to a laptop that it can replace it for students in college? Obviously not for engineering students, but possibly good enough for liberal arts?
- ChrisLTD 15y agoWriting a paper would be an enormous pain. Typing text is fine, but editing is frustrating. Selecting text with your finger is imprecise, pasting is finicky, and jumping around a document quickly is pretty tough.
- dunham 15y agoI've had the same experience with editing text, it gets really frustrating at times. I often find it's faster to delete chunks of text and rewrite them rather than edit. (I type reasonably quickly on the iPad.) But now that I think about it, if you actually have a keyboard attached to the device this is a solved problem. Just port emacs or vi.
- schrieaj 15y agoWhy port? Just ssh to a terminal somewhere in your university. Pop open emacs/vim and typset with TeX. I did this with my netbook a couple times. Even let me print the paper.