Would you bring an iPad or Macbook Air on a business trip and why?
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Also the survey it's based on is a survey of developers that use one specific technology for building apps, and that technology is geared towards apps that interoperate between mobile devices, desktop computers and web services. So the people in the sample are probably unusally interested in business and productivity apps compared to the average developer.
I personally wouldn't consider an iPad to be a good device for getting serious work done, if it was going to be my only available device to use for a week on a business trip. It'd be great for reading, and light work like emailing or tweaking presentations, but not for writing anything of substance. For that I'd appreciate more screen real estate, a proper keyboard, and the ability to multitask.
I'm sure there will probably be specialised business applications for the iPad though, like there always have been for small devices used by salespeople, field engineers etc.
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M$The Mac AirBook is built on the same model as a laptop, so I have an idea of how it would feel to work on it. It's not clear to me how I would type on an iPad. Would I have to tilt it in my lap somehow so that the screen isn't at a funky angle? A lot of the work I do involves creating text content, so I'd need to do more than touch icons on a screen.
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It seems typing on a lap at an angle is what makes sense; however, I don't think that's really possible on a plane, without carrying the keyboard dock.
What I could see using it for is around the house. I could use it as a reading platform, and have a bracket in the kitchen so I can follow recipes while cooking instead of printing out recipes or running back and forth between the computer and the kitchen. That said, I'm not at a point where I can justify the expense.
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