iPad 3 or 2(no apple haters)

[kitamesume]

i think... get an iphone and a monitor, that is if the iphone can support external screens.

[GoGeTa006]

i think... get an iphone and a monitor, that is if the iphone can support external screens.

the iPad has an app that can turn it into a wireless external monitor for laptops/desktops (PC/Mac)
I assume theres some app for the iPhone/iPad (I mean somehow they project their screens when they show them at the WWDC and stuff)

I might get it in the future once Im not on "super-saving" mode

[NaRu]

I never liked apple. Not because I troll but because I don't like how they try to force it's customers to do only certain things and force you to purchase accessories from them. Very little third parties is allowed in apple

[GoGeTa006]

I never liked apple. Not because I troll but because I don't like how they try to force it's customers to do only certain things and force you to purchase accessories from them. Very little third parties is allowed in apple

I wont argue there, thats one of the big things that lead to their demise in the past century. . .

from what I heard:

say you are developer X and you want to develop Y program for mac. you had to get a bunch of approvals and very strict stuff and show them that your software was "worth it" before they could give you source code and stuff. . .

Microsoft on the other hand was handing their code in cereal boxes (joke) so everyone developed every single app (retarded or cool) and therefore MS took 90% of the market

[NaRu]

I never liked apple. Not because I troll but because I don't like how they try to force it's customers to do only certain things and force you to purchase accessories from them. Very little third parties is allowed in apple

I wont argue there, thats one of the big things that lead to their demise in the past century. . .

from what I heard:

say you are developer X and you want to develop Y program for mac. you had to get a bunch of approvals and very strict stuff and show them that your software was "worth it" before they could give you source code and stuff. . .

Microsoft on the other hand was handing their code in cereal boxes (joke) so everyone developed every single app (retarded or cool) and therefore MS took 90% of the market

Apple charges software developers for the rights to design a software and at anytime apple feels it's not worth it for them they can remove their support.

[lapa321]

I never liked apple. Not because I troll but because I don't like how they try to force it's customers to do only certain things and force you to purchase accessories from them. Very little third parties is allowed in apple

Once bought a Video cable for the iPod, and was wondering why it wouldn't work. The video displays fine for a couple of seconds before turning itself off so i know that the output is fine. Turns out that it needed the more expensive newer generation one. The extra circuitry on the plug that made it expensive has nothing at all to do with the video output, there's no decoder or converter since it clearly works on the basic cable. It's simply a way for the iPod to detect if the cable was an apple product and refuses to let third party cables (they apparently worked with the earlier gen iPods) to work at all.

One of the tricks i found when i looked it up, is that when you plug in an Apple cable, and then quickly swap it with the third party cable. The video will output to the TV just fine, showing that there's nothing special about the apple one.

I was rather perplexed when i found this out, who the heck puts a DRM chip on a video cable???

PS: In comparison, i bought a cheap HDMI cable and successfully plugged in the Transformer to the monitor. No special cable needed.

[GoGeTa006]

I must say I own:
1 desktop
1 laptop
1 netbook
1 iPad 3


and I'll say for efficiency purposes the iPad has been MVP (after my desktop)

heres my points:

laptop:
Pro: can do more things, well. . . MS Office, Photoshop, Chrome browsing and I can play DOTA2 on it. . .
Con: Battery life, weight

netbook:
Pro: longer battery life (6 hours or so) light weight, MS office, Chrome browsing
Con: cant play DOTA2, I have to wait like 2 minutes to boot up or like 30 secs to wake up, I have to take it out of its case (i know this is a lame point but it counts

iPad:
Pro: longer battery life (8 hours) light weight, Office suite (not MS), Safari browsing, Photoshop, Adobe reader works wonders for many of my classes that I used to print readings (cause I had to highlight, make notes and stuff) now I just read them on the iPad and highlight/note in the iPad itself, I just slide the switch and I can use it instantly,
Con: I cant play DOTA2

now if you compare iPad3 with other tablets:
at least in the software part, many of the tablet apps are giant smartphone apps (the exact same thing but on a bigger screen) the iPad developers developed new stuff on the iPad apps (you can easily see the change on Social apps (facebook/twitter)
I cant really compare much since I've only used an Android tablet once, but that was my impression

[lapa321]

This is how i transfer files on Android.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOB5rk_5yY

Granted, for really big transfers i fall back to either a cable or a memory card swap. But for artbooks, MP3's, comic books, PDF's, ebooks, word documents, etc. i find this more straightforward than transfering over cables.

I'm still looking for a way to do the same on the iPod (The camera i'm using is an iPod4G). The iPod apps i've tried does allow you to move files to the iPod without relying on itunes via ftp, but those files are isolated from the rest of the apps so you can't open a CBZ from a comic reader, nor add uploaded MP3's to your playlist. It's been months since i've last used the iPod tho, so there may be apps that can finally do this. If you know of one, please let me know.

[kitamesume]

i find it lame that you couldn't just plug a cable or just use the wifi and transfer files through it... like a regular lan connection.