So a MacBook Air with touchscreen and detachable, wireless keyboard? That's your dream machine? How about simply a MacBook Air with touchscreen? To me that invites thoughts of "gorilla arm" and not something practical. But I dunno I guess it could easily have its place. The problem I see is adding the touch UI elements to the OSX code base effectively and not ending up with the mess that is the surface where you click then touch then click then get lost and wonder why you click to get to a touch UI then click to complete the action. But. I do see having the ability to use a keyboard with iOS as a good thing. Like adding the current Bluetooth apple keyboard. But make it more like the iPad screen cover. Make it click in so its kinda attached. Or have it sit in a chassis bit I think that those things already exist. I don't see subtracting the mouse UI when you detach the keyboard on a MacBook Air as being practical. I don't see having both mouse UI and Touch UI as being simple. Unless you hobble both. In which case you get messy. And easy isn't good. And IME that's what surface is. Messy. That said I did see the kickstand and keyboard as being nice if you wanted to type a lot but in that case I'd say the solution is the ultralight MacBook Air.
And now I think I'm going in circles. =^)
~Kris M.
~Kris M.
\\ "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //
The iOS Apps on Macs would really hurt Surface and really bolster the Mac for productivity and gaming. So many more iOS apps than desktop apps any way.And every Mac machine able to run iOS apps - so many apps would be on the Mac then. I would rather run an app then the same thing in the browser. Pandora for example or CNN the Apps or better.A track pad and keyboard cover would be removable but standard with every sale.My dream machine is an iPad form factor running OS X.It would have the ability to run iOS apps that respond to touch or mouse. Mouse and trackpad support would be part of IOS.On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Ahh non pro. Possibly.
~Kris M.\\ "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //
Not if you compare the Surface (non-pro) to the iPad. They are targeting the same market. And that is what hurts the Surface non-pros. There are lots of holes in software coverage in the Windows Store which is the only place you can get software for it. Its biggest claim to fame is that it runs a nearly full version of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Notes. IOW, as an office suite tool, it is very useful. the iPad just isn't for that use imo.The Surface Pro line is directly aimed at the market the MBA and MBP are in. High dollar small units with plenty of 'juice'.LloydSent from Windows MailFrom: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 3:10 PM
To: iPad@yahoogroups.comAimed at different markets even.
~Kris M.\\ "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //I agree fully. Those who compare a Surface and an iPad, well, you cannot compare them as they are different products
From: "'Tom' tseals4@centurylink.net [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 31 October 2014 5:03 PM
Subject: RE: [iPad] Why Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 Sales Soared as Apple's iPad Sales Plunged (AAPL, MSFT)
Yes, I love my iPad at home but at work everyone is ditching their iPads for Surfaces including me. I'm not talking about just a few but almost everyone in our department as budgets allow. Nice and light and it has MS Office and Outlook. The Surface really is more of a laptop. I think that there are great uses for either one. It depends on what you want or need to do.I'm amazed at the uses for my iPad at home as I'm using it for a lot more things than I would have thought. I have a Kindle as well but I still prefer real books and magazines as opposed to e-readers.TomFrom: iPad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iPad@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [iPad] Why Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 Sales Soared as Apple's iPad Sales Plunged (AAPL, MSFT)But in all seriousness it is a very nice device. Its a laptop replacement, but the iPad is not a laptop replacement (although it may be for a minority).The iPad is a light, mainly consumption device, hence it has no full OS. Surface is the opposite. Id hate an iPad to have OSX, teeny screen, no mouse, no real keyboard, rather use a real laptop. But it fills a gap, small though that gap may be.Make a device to be everything? Or make a few devices to complement the needs of the day, and integrate them tightly so you can flip from one to the other?
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