The airport business lounge is a great place to compare tech with other business people.
What’s interesting is that as much as I travel I still commonly see only two predominant profiles of people:
- iPad users with a keyboard propped up in a case to simulate a laptop
- Traditional notebook users
Amongst these two types of people I immediate have the thought: “that’s not a computer, THIS is a computer” (refer Crocodile Dundee knife scene, or more recently The Simpsons with “knifey/spooney”).
The thing I find about the iPad is as most of the business and education communities are starting to come to – is that they are not a full computer. They are a consumption device with limited inputs and interactivity. There is only a certain amount you can do with them when compared against a full PC.
Conversely for those with normal notebooks I am alarmed at how many of them are GIGANTIC! Either their CFO is very tight, or their CIO doesn’t care for human comfort levels and is happy for them to cart around kilograms/pounds of equipment.
As a seasoned traveller I love the fact that the single device is both my entertainment / gaming unit as well as my full productivity machine. While at the lounge I am online (in Australia we do not have in-flight WiFi yet) synchronising, streaming, chatting, bopping away to music, and working. I don’t have to hunch over my device, or struggle with its limited capabilities.
While I wait in the lounge I enjoy my beer, some music and write this blog post. When I get in the air I’ll be offline but with access to my files, my OneNote files, cached email, and pretty much everything I still need to be productive.
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