At the book convention I tried out the above 3 reading devices. There’s just no comparison with the iPad. As someone said earlier in the week, they seem like stone age compared to the iPad, which I’m writing this on now at the airport. It’s just phenomenal, the more I use it.
It’s an elegant store and it was mobbed (Monday afternoon). Throngs of people at the iPad tables. This pic is looking up at the bottom of the glass spiral staircase, shadows of people’s shoes. The 2nd shadows down from top right are high heels.
I bought a v. cool tiny set of speakers to run off the MacBook and iPad: iHome Model iHM79 Portable Rechargeable Speakers: https://www.ihomeaudio.com/
Right now listening to BB King’s Bluesville station on the internet through Sirius satellite radio. Am I tech savvy or what?
These little speakers put out big sound. Unique!
Today I’ve loaded about 90 photos from our forthcoming book on tiny houses on to the iPad. Do they look good! I’ll be showing these to people at the BEA (Book Expo America) convention next week in NYC.
You have to handle an iPad to realize its intuitive ease of use and elegance.
This is a quick shot of the iPad taken with my pocket camera just now. Depicted is a sauna in British Columbia,Canada.
Just ran across this again. No clue as to where it’s from. Looks like it’s signed “MS.”
This is exactly what happened when we got our first Mac in the late ’80s. Michael Rafferty, who was working for Shelter then, started doing everything on the Mac, while I was still using my Adler portable typewriter, and laying out pages with X-Actos and glue. Took me years to migrate over…
(Actually I still do initial layout manually.)
Boy, do I love it!
My old one was: 15″ MacBook Pro (2006 version)/2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor/1GB RAM/160GB SATA Hard Drive/Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger).
The new one is: 13″ MacBook Pro (Unibody; mid-2009 version)/2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (different generation of processor)/4GB RAM/500GB SATA Hard Drive/Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)
The keyboard is the same size as on the 15″ and it’s a pound lighter, and is it snappy! Apple continually improves things. The keyboard is backlit, v. big improvement; screen is brighter; it’s faster; don’t have to push button to open it…