I have an iPad at work and I absolutely hate it. I also have an iMac at work and I absolutely hate it (typing this on the Windows PC that sits next to the idle iMac).
My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T61 with Xubuntu 12.04 and I love it, except that it's pretty bulky. I used to have an HP netbook and it was a generally positive experience, but the touchpad was terrible.
I am seriously considering a Chromebook (have been for a couple months now) as an ultra-portable machine.
Of course there's on obvious concession I have to make: I'm clearly not "normal". First, I hate OS X (most people love it) and the iPad (most people love it). Second, I don't own a smartphone (most geeks seem to). Third, I spend nearly all my time (when I'm not at work) in a web browser or a terminal emulator so I have no need for "apps" on a Chromebook.
What, you aren't allowed to dislike iPad's now? I have one that I use for work (facetime with other coworkers), but aside from facetime and a few sporadic games I don't really use it much.
So: I don't really like my iPad. Am I a raging Google fanboy too? (Hint: I'm not, I don't like the Chromebook and I don't really like Google that much either)
Hehe, that's kinda funny since I've recently been accused of being anti-Google for defending DDG and using it as my default search provider in Chrome :)
So no, I'm not a fanboy of any kind. I have products and companies that I prefer, but not to the point of fanboy-ism.
Actually, I do own one Mac product that I enjoy quite a bit: I have a Mac Mini plugged into my TV for casual web browsing and Hulu (it's the only device hooked up to the TV in fact).
Ah, I see your point. Maybe "absolutely hate" was too strong. I wrote that pretty quickly. The sentiment I was trying to express is that I really don't find the iPad useful at all, nor do I even enjoy using it as a toy.
I have a chromebook and a MacBook Air. Both are ultraportable and I use the macbook air because I can actually do something other than just run chrome in it all day. I heavily use google apps but my MacBook Air is much more useful. My brother has a chromebook and all he did was install ubuntu on it.
I have an iPad at work and I absolutely hate it. I also have an iMac at work and I absolutely hate it (typing this on the Windows PC that sits next to the idle iMac).
My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T61 with Xubuntu 12.04 and I love it, except that it's pretty bulky. I used to have an HP netbook and it was a generally positive experience, but the touchpad was terrible.
I am seriously considering a Chromebook (have been for a couple months now) as an ultra-portable machine.
Of course there's on obvious concession I have to make: I'm clearly not "normal". First, I hate OS X (most people love it) and the iPad (most people love it). Second, I don't own a smartphone (most geeks seem to). Third, I spend nearly all my time (when I'm not at work) in a web browser or a terminal emulator so I have no need for "apps" on a Chromebook.