Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Aug 15 10:10:55 CDT 2012
Well, a tablet is not a work machine. It is something you have so you can scan the internet, play songs, read books, listen to pod casts and checkout Facebook and your friends. If you are planning on using it to take lots of pictures, do programming or graphic editing on and a place to store documents, you are using the wrong type of computer. If you do require extra space you can always hook the tablet to your laptop through its USB connector. If your needs fit above description it is a perfect computer. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:34 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest MS Surface price leak For a tablet I don't see the cloud as a big negative. I wouldn't store my company data there or large docs, etc. Since you're not going to be doing any real development work on a tablet. But, AFAICT, and I'm not a tablet user, the stuff that Google holds for you is all pretty small but useful stuff - calendar, email, contacts, etc. The rest of its utility seems to be in the apps - GPS, web surfing for news and other info. So I'm wondering if the lack of SD is going to be a problem. I suppose if you want to take a couple of movies with you on a long flight. But you can store an awful lot of music and books in a couple of GB. R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:06 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest MS Surface price leak On 2012-08-14 11:29 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote: > My son just got himself a Nexus 7. $199 from Google. When it came it > was already synced with his Google account. When he turned it on for > the first time it said "Hello Noah". It is one slick piece of > hardware. But the hardware is just the medium for the total > integration of your life into everything Google. Right, any tablet running Android 4.0 gets you that kind of integration. Alas the Nexus has no microSD slot, so you must depend on the cloud. No thanks. PB ----- > > Microsoft is not going to win this one on price or even on hardware. > > R > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim > Lawrence > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:05 PM > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: [dba-Tech] The latest MS Surface price leak > > Surface tablets rumored to ship with $199 price tag > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/14/surface_199_price_tag/ > > That price point could change a lot of things. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com