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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
Me? The only person in the office who already had an Apple product? When Apple announced the iPad and it had no expandable storage...I went out and bought a netbook.
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I wish I can use an iPad as working device, but I can't. 1st, need to run Microsoft Os, because I'm MS-SQL dba, which client runs on Microsoft only, of course.
2nd, I need to access my company's network via VPN. I can't do that with an iPad.
I also need a good keboard, so I can type fast enough via Office Communicator or write emails in Outlook. On screen keyboard is not good enough.
So, as DBA, the iPad won't fulfill my needs and I'm sure there are a lot of people like me out there on same situation. But my laptop does the job and very well, because it allows me to do everything I mentioned above and more.
I mentioned in another post that iPads are not for content creation work or jobs. So I started to visualize netbooks and PCs as a "niche" for people like me, maybe, who besides browsing and reading emails, need much more features than tablets can provide today. Unless that drastically change in 2012 with some kind of hybrid device, who knows.