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Hi! That's me. I used to use my laptop all the time. Browsing the web, social web jerk-offery, entertainment on planes, whatever. The iPad has pretty much rep

Hi! That's me. I used to use my laptop all the time. Browsing the web, social web jerk-offery, entertainment on planes, whatever. The iPad has pretty much replaced my laptop entirely for casual computing. I barely use it these days. Mostly it gets dusted off for looking at porn, since Flash isn't coming to mobile. And even now, that's becoming less and less an issue as more content distribution – adult and otherwise – moves to H.264. Laptop is still good for designing things, for writing code, cutting video, whatever. But I'm quite impressed by how thoroughly the iPad has replaced it for the majority of use cases. And that's how it works. It doesn't happen overnight. It creeps. I didn't immediately stop wearing watches when the cell phone became ubiquitous. But eventually it was a no-brainer.

zalew 15y ago
> Laptop is still good for designing things, for writing code, cutting video, whatever. Oh, well, looks like you're stuck in that ol' pc era after all...
- scott_s 15y ago
  I think you're being disingenuous in not recognizing the spectrum of usages among different people, and even for a single person.
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- jshen 15y ago
  I think your definition is wrong. Post-pc is when most people do most of their computing on a tablet or phone. That time is near.
- freehunter 15y ago
  I still need a horse to check the fences without spooking the cattle or to control crowds in NYC. These automobile things will never catch on.
- danilocampos 15y ago
  Not sure if you didn't read the comment fully, didn't understand its content, or are just trolling. Bravo!
jkubicek 15y ago
+1 for the most part the only time I ever use my desktop at home is to manage images from my SLR and... That's about it. 90% of my non working computing time is spent in an iPad.
- danilocampos 15y ago
  I'm curious to see how the iPad comes together with photo management. The retina display makes photos gorgeous to explore. And you've got iPhoto now. The big problem is the workflow sucks – importing images to the iPad from an SD card can be pretty slow. And fiddly, since you need to hold onto an adaptor. Wonder if there's an iOS client for any of those WiFi-enabled SD cards. Wouldn't help with speed but maybe the ease-of-use would make up for that.
  - ghshephard 15y ago
    I'm with you - I'm an amateur shutterbug with about 100K photos in Aperture, and my house was recently burglarized - they got my EOS7D and a bunch of glass. I promised myself I would _not_ purchase a new camera until I could get something directly onto my iPad. I went to London a couple weeks ago with my (ancient) EOS-10D that the burglars couldn't be bothered to take, and I found, that even though I had a zoom 28-135 + fully charged EOS 10D with the Lens cap off in my hand - most of the pictures I took where with the iPhone 4S. I knew that they would seamlessly get into my photostream, and editing/sharing them into path could be done realtime. Part of the "Post PC" era, that I'm starting to grok, is also entering the "Cloud" era. Data that is not connected, or highly mobile, is much, much less valuable in that world than it used to be. Huge (HUGE!) opportunity for an SLR with dead simple and fast streaming into the cloud/photostream/iPad.

zalew 15y ago

> Laptop is still good for designing things, for writing code, cutting video, whatever. Oh, well, looks like you're stuck in that ol' pc era after all...

scott_s 15y ago
I think you're being disingenuous in not recognizing the spectrum of usages among different people, and even for a single person.
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jshen 15y ago
I think your definition is wrong. Post-pc is when most people do most of their computing on a tablet or phone. That time is near.
freehunter 15y ago
I still need a horse to check the fences without spooking the cattle or to control crowds in NYC. These automobile things will never catch on.
danilocampos 15y ago
Not sure if you didn't read the comment fully, didn't understand its content, or are just trolling. Bravo!

jkubicek 15y ago

+1 for the most part the only time I ever use my desktop at home is to manage images from my SLR and... That's about it. 90% of my non working computing time is spent in an iPad.

danilocampos 15y ago
I'm curious to see how the iPad comes together with photo management. The retina display makes photos gorgeous to explore. And you've got iPhoto now. The big problem is the workflow sucks – importing images to the iPad from an SD card can be pretty slow. And fiddly, since you need to hold onto an adaptor. Wonder if there's an iOS client for any of those WiFi-enabled SD cards. Wouldn't help with speed but maybe the ease-of-use would make up for that.
- ghshephard 15y ago
  I'm with you - I'm an amateur shutterbug with about 100K photos in Aperture, and my house was recently burglarized - they got my EOS7D and a bunch of glass. I promised myself I would _not_ purchase a new camera until I could get something directly onto my iPad. I went to London a couple weeks ago with my (ancient) EOS-10D that the burglars couldn't be bothered to take, and I found, that even though I had a zoom 28-135 + fully charged EOS 10D with the Lens cap off in my hand - most of the pictures I took where with the iPhone 4S. I knew that they would seamlessly get into my photostream, and editing/sharing them into path could be done realtime. Part of the "Post PC" era, that I'm starting to grok, is also entering the "Cloud" era. Data that is not connected, or highly mobile, is much, much less valuable in that world than it used to be. Huge (HUGE!) opportunity for an SLR with dead simple and fast streaming into the cloud/photostream/iPad.