[olug] Contemplating an iPad.

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Second hand info, but a friend of mine ended up selling hers because she was tired of fighting with trying to do things we take forgranted, ie: printing, flash-based apps,etc. She gave a list of things it can't do (I don't remember them all), so is now just going to wait for iPad 2.0.  Food for thought...

Patrick
---- "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote: 
> http://www.amazon.com/Asus-T91SA-VU1X-BK-8-9-Inch-Netbook-Computer/dp/B002GCR04Y
> 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Asus-T91SA-VU1X-BK-8-9-Inch-Netbook-Computer/dp/B002GCR04Y>$369
> for a netbook that converts into a tablet. You have a physical keyboard. You
> can run Windows. You can run Linux. You do anything you want.
> 
> Asus has a whole line of convertible tablet/netbooks.
> 
> -- T. J.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking about an iPad to replace my dead PDA. I want the screen
> > size so I can use it as my always available eBook reader and Google
> > answer-retriever
> >
> > From a business perspective how well does it work? Guess what I'm
> > asking is if it plays well with Outlook, connect to a Microsoft PPTP
> > VPN server, etc?  I know it has an SSH/telnet app so that will help.
> > And if I really need a keyboard the are bluetooth keyboards for $60.
> >
> > Does it play well with Linux?  Or will I need to have a system running
> > iTunes to put files on it?
> >
> > DanL
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