So our heroine did not buy an ipad2.
Sep. 10th, 2011 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithI really really wanted to. Really a lot. I want to play angry birds. I want to read books while travelling without carrying more weight in paper than in clothes. I want to watch movies or TV episodes while travelling. I want internet access when I visit my folks [1], and indeed, when I travel.
But, you know, it is pretty expensive, and I won't use most of the features (games? no, make my own movies? no, photoshop pictures I have just taken with the cameras? no, skype people? no - and all the other things that I don't even know that are there, so I wouldn't even know to try them). For what I wanted, it would have been about $1400.00 CND after tax - and then I would have to buy internet for it, for about $35.00 per month.
That's a lot of money for something that will be superceded in a year.
And I'm not happy that I can't plug a USB into it, and that, while they sell a wireless keyboard for it, there is no mouse available. I'm not fond of touch mouses - the dragging of the finger on the pad gives me the shudders, so I am worried that the whole concept of the entire screen being driven by touch will be physically unpleasant.
And, you know, I have a laptop that I never take anywhere because it is too heavy, and such a pain in the neck to set up. And I have a portable DVD player, which I never take when I travel because it is too heavy and such a pain to set up. I really really wanted both of those things - a lot - but that didn't acutally make me use them when they were inconvenient (which is always).
For the same amount of money, I can buy a Kobo, some ebooks for it, a new (better) mattress for our guest bed, and a holiday. So. I bought a Kobo, and an adapter cord for the laptop so that it can be plugged in for internet (it is wireless, but in the future we plan to vacation at a place that only offers plugged in internet).
But I still really really want one.
[1] - getting sufficient access to their home computer is just not possible.
But, you know, it is pretty expensive, and I won't use most of the features (games? no, make my own movies? no, photoshop pictures I have just taken with the cameras? no, skype people? no - and all the other things that I don't even know that are there, so I wouldn't even know to try them). For what I wanted, it would have been about $1400.00 CND after tax - and then I would have to buy internet for it, for about $35.00 per month.
That's a lot of money for something that will be superceded in a year.
And I'm not happy that I can't plug a USB into it, and that, while they sell a wireless keyboard for it, there is no mouse available. I'm not fond of touch mouses - the dragging of the finger on the pad gives me the shudders, so I am worried that the whole concept of the entire screen being driven by touch will be physically unpleasant.
And, you know, I have a laptop that I never take anywhere because it is too heavy, and such a pain in the neck to set up. And I have a portable DVD player, which I never take when I travel because it is too heavy and such a pain to set up. I really really wanted both of those things - a lot - but that didn't acutally make me use them when they were inconvenient (which is always).
For the same amount of money, I can buy a Kobo, some ebooks for it, a new (better) mattress for our guest bed, and a holiday. So. I bought a Kobo, and an adapter cord for the laptop so that it can be plugged in for internet (it is wireless, but in the future we plan to vacation at a place that only offers plugged in internet).
But I still really really want one.
[1] - getting sufficient access to their home computer is just not possible.
