Comments on: “I’m a Tablet PC. I’m a Mac.”

By: Zing

Zing — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:50:41 +0000

Yes Ron, I’m sure everyone wants to carry around a laptop *and* a tablet, so that they can do some note taking on their Mac laptops.

By: blEQ

blEQ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:27:32 +0000

Compaq tablet pc 1100 is probably the slowest computer I ever tried. Waste of cash. I have clamshell mac 300Mhz, and it works awesome – i wouldn’t change it for ANY pc

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:46:43 +0000

Yes Mat for Inkwell,

But 2.36 Kg for the Mackook Intel and 750 G for a A5 Wacom is equal to 3 Kg. I prefer my 780 g Samsung Q1 with interactivity direct on screen !

For those with a six months live for their fresh WIndows XP installed. Put “My documents” on another partition (via Properties) and…Try whole backup system after important softwares (for you) installed ((backup with DriveImage, Ghost….). Just 15 mn for your whole system ready to go at the next install !

Astounding, isn’t it ?

By: Ron Evry

Ron Evry — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:52:34 +0000

Oh yeah, Wacom also makes a bluetooth tablet — you know, bluetooth comes with all shipping Macs (except the high end Mac Pro, where it’s a $29 option). Of course, I’m certain all the “business” PCs from Dell, etc., come with Bluetooth built-in, right?

By: Fahad Fateh

Fahad Fateh — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:47:01 +0000

I was a fan of windows tablets. But when I started reading about Apple products I knew what I wanted.

I side with those who want an Apple tablet.

My two cents, Apple will launch a tablet when they know that they are really way ahead of the others. And don’t think thats to far because of their hard work on Newton.

Infact I am hoping for one on the 25 of september.

Hail Apple.

; )

By: Ron Evry

Ron Evry — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:46:29 +0000

It’s not a big deal. Pop a Wacom on your Mac, and “Inkwell” becomes active. Works like a charm.

Is it possible that this spoof ad was produced by people who know nothing about Macs?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:14:39 +0000

Hmmm… that’s not too hard. Let’s see — my TabletPC is almost a year old. Still running the same (albeit heavily patched) version of WinXP it came with. It’s starting to get “gummed up,” so time between reboots is getting shorter. I noted the other day that it took about twice as long to come out of hibernation on my Tablet as it did to cold boot my Mac Mini and get to work (yes, same amount of memory… let’s not go into how the 1.42GHz Mini with 512 feels substantially faster than the 1.2GHz/512 Tablet). Don’t get me wrong — I love my Tablet’s form factor and the things I can do with it, but I tell folks interested in it that the main thing wrong with it is it runs Windows.
Not looking forward to the forthcoming rebuild of Windows I’m going to have to do to clean the machine up; let’s just say I’ve never had to do that on my Macs, so the idea of wasting a few days on this doesn’t strike me as “productivity enhancing.” Hopefully nothing goes wrong…

By: Tablet PC User

Tablet PC User — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:58:47 +0000

KCT,

Nice video. I love it! 100% true. XD

What did you do with your avatar? It’s HIDEOUS! You look like a hippie! UGGHH!! :’(

By: justfred

justfred — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:37:29 +0000

I don’t understand people who say the Mac can’t be used for work. I’m far more productive on the Mac than I ever am under Windows or Linux. No configuration or virus issues, the machine just runs. And I can pop up a terminal and run perl, or ssh, or rsync – all the fun unix tools are native.

I spend most of my time on the windows side trying to get the machine to keep working. I work with the virus spam malware service of the month more than I actually get work done.

I do need SQL server and MS Access support (because that’s what we use here), so I’m stuck with Windows for that. And I run outlook because it works better with Exchange Server – even tho that’s a whole other nightmare.

I owned several Newtons. I would buy a powerpad the day it was released. Especially if it was around the size of a Newton.

By: mc

mc — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:35:16 +0000

Just to toss this one out… I have an Apple Tablet, but it runs an OS that doesn’t really exist on many machines anymore. As I write, it’s connecting to the desktop OS X machine via bluetooth, upgrading some software so that I can send OPML files (readable in any well-respected outlining program) back and forth. It’s a Newton. I still use mine every day, but will ditch it the instant Apple brings out a REAL tablet computer. Sigh.