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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Will You Buy an Apple iPad? Post 302391003 by Corona688 on Friday 29th of January 2010 04:11:27 PM

01-29-2010

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pludi

...and the adapted iPhone OS still won't do multitasking.

Ouch... There's no excuse for a system with a 1GHz processor and multiple gigs of storage lacking multitasking.

Quote:

Originally Posted by andom

No usb? it has bluetooth, wifi and a dock connector. What do you need usb for?

Seriously? I was already eyerolling when Apple started making things that had only one USB port. My laptop has three and it's not enough. Let's see...

USB storage devices are utterly ubiquitous! Granted it has a USB add-on -- meaning Apple just shrank this with their usual tricks. Make the connector tiny and proprietary, then charge the customer extra to use something already built into their product. It also helps to reduce customer expectations -- a real USB port might be expected to support wireless devices and the like, but when they sell you the adapter that gives them the opportunity to warn you it only supports cameras. I suspect the speed might be questionable as well.
A Real Keyboard might be useful once in a while! Not whatever joke Apple wants to sell you -- a real keyboard, like you've always used.
How about a usb ethernet adapter? For those times when you must use a cable for whatever reason.
What if something breaks down? There are USB replacements for mice and any kind of wireless, none of which the ipad will likely ever support.

...Or something nobody's invented of yet. Wireless USB, ultra-wideband, or what have you. Normal PC's could support it through USB or add-on cards, but these wanna-be PC's never will. You might kick yourself for not waiting for the "newer" version.

Except there's always a newer version, that's how the Apple treadmill works. They make machines versatile and pretty enough to distract most customers from realizing they're only heart-stoppingly expensive disposables.

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NAME

       tracker-search - Search all content for keywords

SYNOPSIS

       tracker-search [OPTION...] EXPRESSION [EXPRESSION...]

DESCRIPTION

       tracker-search  searches all indexed content for EXPRESSION. The resource in which EXPRESSION matches must exist (see --all for more infor-
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