Should I Buy an iPad ?

[antongould]

I have now had an iPad for 15+ months and when Santa bought it I thought, expensive toy I'll never use it - I find I would now miss it terribly if it was taken away. It has all I need in terms of music, books, free apps and Internet access and its portability is possibly its main benefit. I have no desire for a iPhone, when I leave the house a battered old Nokia is all I needs, but around the house or in hotels the iPad rarely leaves me.
Yes it is expensive but it is IMHO almost the complete package and for a man who can send his iPod for a boil wash its, like the iPod, seems very hard wearing.
But then I was good all year and Santa rewarded me - would I have paid 400 quid? No!!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

BOM = Bill of Materials

[Don Petter]

I wouldn't say so, just the normal to and fro!

I got the impression that a certain someone was stomping around in high dudgeon and threatening to leave, but if you say it was all tongue in cheek, then so be it. I couldn't follow the argument that was going on, anymore than I could understand a single word of #55 in this thread. Perhaps it's me losing what grip I had.

[Flosshilde]

LOL! A reasonable definition of Total Cost of Ownership can be found here http://operationstech.about.com/od/glossary/g/TCO.htm.

I did look up an explanation. The one I found said that it's a term that was current in (or developed by - I can't remember exactly) the IT community in the 1980s. Which just about sums it up

[teamsaint]

I got the impression that a certain someone was stomping around in high dudgeon and threatening to leave, but if you say it was all tongue in cheek, then so be it. I couldn't follow the argument that was going on, anymore than I could understand a single word of #55 in this thread. Perhaps it's me losing what grip I had.

I rather assumed that post #55 was a post structuralist critique of the text of "buying an ipad". It seems to me that CdaJ has identified important discontinuities in the narrative, and used these to show the inherent flaws in our basic assumptions on the whole business.

[Don Petter]

I rather assumed that post #55 was a post structuralist critique of the text of "buying an ipad". It seems to me that CdaJ has identified important discontinuities in the narrative, and used these to show the inherent flaws in our basic assumptions on the whole business.

So I have lost it ...

[teamsaint]

So I have lost it ...

what, your ipad?

[Don Petter]

what, your ipad?

No. My grip!

[Flosshilde]

Has the discussion helped you come to a decision, Gamba?

[MrGongGong]

Can you do this on a cheap PC ?

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/12/slap-your-laptop-open-source-lets-you-play-macbook-by-hitting-it/

[cloughie]

I got the impression that a certain someone was stomping around in high dudgeon and threatening to leave, but if you say it was all tongue in cheek, then so be it. I couldn't follow the argument that was going on, anymore than I could understand a single word of #55 in this thread. Perhaps it's me losing what grip I had.

Nor me, I had been away from AA for some time when it erupted - as i say the normal to and fro, to be honest there are frequently multiple possible answers via google but as far as I am concernrned it is what is on the setters card that is correct. Strange that this discussion is taking place on a board which is trying to help the decision on the purchase of an ipad.

[Flosshilde]

Can you do this on a cheap PC ?

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/12/slap-your-laptop-open-source-lets-you-play-macbook-by-hitting-it/

Shouldn't the date on it be April 1st?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apple are not the only ones but they are cash rich to the tune of $100bn or thereabouts ... and Samsung Lenovo Sony Acer etc are not quite so well off but they all do it .... so do we it is impossible to buy clothing or electronics without doing it ... the act of buying is now densely problematic ...

[gamba]

Has the discussion helped you come to a decision, Gamba?

Would that it had, Flosshilde. I'll see if my son will lend me his for a day or so. I could have a word or two with him, trouble is, he's too 'clever by half' as they say. I don't understand a word he's saying - comes from him having spent years at the Turing Institute in Glasgow. All theory, new languages & all that stuff, away up in the clouds, weird really. We worried about his future when he was a youngster at school, no good at English & other subjects. Seems he was just waiting for the computer age to arrive & new languages upon which he could thrive.

[Don Petter]

Perhaps you could ask him to explain our #55?