Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Sun Nov 18 16:32:59 CST 2012
Hi Charlotte, Just be aware the Win8 comes in two flavours Windows Pro and Windows RT. The Pro version is probably the one you want as it will run existing and legacy windows software. The RT is a rather different beast and will only run Apps written for WinRT. Cheers Darryl -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2012 6:30 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] I got my Android Jellybean 4.2 update Sweet! I may have to get a new tablet, although I'm leaning toward Surface just for the experience and the ability to play with Win8 without mucking up my laptop. Charlotte On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:35 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > > So how is jellybean noticeably different from ice cream sandwich? > > Well.... > > I have ICS on my Nexus3 phone. For starters it does not have project > Butter which is the optimizations for speed. It also does not have > the new users stuff (which is pretty cool actually), although only the > 4.2 version of Jellybean has user, the previous version (4.1x) does > not. Jellybean is a fairly major update from ICS - 4.04 to 4.2. > > For a phone, users are probably pretty immaterial but for my Nexus 7 > tablet it is very nice to have. My son was constantly ordering stuff > "by mistake" because my user had my Google account hooked up with a > CC. Now he has his own user and can't download anything. I set up my > account on his user, "downloaded" all of his games, then deleted my Google account. > > Furthermore he was constantly complaining about my daughter Allie > playing his games and ruining his scores etc. With the users, each > child (user) has their own scores for the games. My wife as well. > > Kinda nice all in all. It really seems to work so far, though I have > only played with it for an hour or so. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 11/15/2012 11:19 PM, Charlotte Foust wrote: > >> So how is jellybean noticeably different from ice cream sandwich? >> >> Charlotte >> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM, jwcolby >> <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>** >> wrote: >> >> My original Nexus 7 got the update to Android 4.2 tonight. This >> update >>> allows users for the first time. I'm playing with that now. >>> -- >>> John W. Colby >>> Colby Consulting >>> >>> Reality is what refuses to go away >>> when you do not believe in it >>> >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/****mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://data >>> baseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd> >>> <http:**//databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://dat >>> abaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >>> > >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.****com<http://www.** >>> databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com>> >>> >>> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://database > advisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: > http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com