Thank you, Paul. As always super helpful & certainly put things into context.There's masses of value-add if you are plugged into the Apple ecosystem as it will act as a second screen for any other Apple device (like an iMac), you can handoff to it (so stop whatever it is you're doing on the computer and carry on while you walk around the house) and it can act as a HomeKit hub for home automation.
Since your predominant use sounds like you just want a small format laptop without a keyboard but with a touchscreen, I'd say no ...
Remind me, you've already got a Chromebook right? I'd say a (cheaper) Android tablet would be both more familiar and more use. Even without the rest of the Apple ecosystem around you, the iPad is a very excellent tablet but you're likely to underuse it significantly and/or get frustrated that the Apple apps will behave in ways that you're not used to.
Just checking ... email? Webmail or via an app? Not that it matters, just that the "everything in the browser" approach from ChromeOS is really sound for most people. I think you'd be a lot more at home with the Lenovo Duet.
If you were to go back towards a Microsoft machine, Surface is very nice to use and Windows 10 is quite mature now - you get the Edge browser (which is based on Chromium, the open source behind Chrome) and could easily do everything there. Windows is being left behind on the app front (nobody credible does old-style Win32 applications, it's iOS and Android for literally everything you buy now that you'd want to integrate and interface with from your portable computer), where a ChromeOS tablet will do the Android app (albeit from satisfactory to badly, in my experience of ChromeOS). If you were spending Surface money, I'd say go for an iPad instead.
Again, I think you'd be a lot more at home with the Lenovo Duet.
HTH.
Apple are classThank you, Paul. As always super helpful & certainly put things into context.
I have no other Apple products, so an Ipad wouldn't complement a wider ecosystem. If anything, I use Google products everyday. Gmail, photos and Youtube.
Although I dont have a Chromebook myself, I have tried my father in laws & I was really impressed. One of the main factors thats important for me is a good battery life. Chrome devices seems to have.
I love the Duet's form factor, and the reviews are generally very positive. Decision made!
That's right ... yeah, you were asking for FIL in previous posts. Clicked into the googlesphere, yes, ChromeOS is the way to go and there are many good options. But, chuff me! That Pixel Slate is expensive! Talk about asking Porsche price for a Vauxhall!Thank you, Paul. As always super helpful & certainly put things into context.
I have no other Apple products, so an Ipad wouldn't complement a wider ecosystem. If anything, I use Google products everyday. Gmail, photos and Youtube.
Although I dont have a Chromebook myself, I have tried my father in laws & I was really impressed. One of the main factors thats important for me is a good battery life. Chrome devices seems to have.
I love the Duet's form factor, and the reviews are generally very positive. Decision made!
I absolutely concur, being most definitely an "Apple first" kinda fellow who gets very frustrated at the lack of feature, polish and integration with other brands. Where I've picked a Chromebook, I know what it does and know why I wanted it. I'm typing on one now ... I picked a cheap device that is a screen and keyboard with a rigid hinge that just runs a browser. I picked that over an iPad as all I want it to do is browse. Ensuring your technologies are cloud and browser compliant is the key.Apple are class
some people love them some hate them but most of the haters haven’t had one.
Anyway the thing about apple is no anti virus software and the operating system will just be as fast in 10 years time.
ipads are super however iv your just browsing and emails & stuff then the samsung tablets are cheaper.
Ease of use on all apple products is brilliant
everything is so simple & remember apple were the first with these products so ever else is just a clone
yeah i think your rightI absolutely concur, being most definitely an "Apple first" kinda fellow who gets very frustrated at the lack of feature, polish and integration with other brands. Where I've picked a Chromebook, I know what it does and know why I wanted it. I'm typing on one now ... I picked a cheap device that is a screen and keyboard with a rigid hinge that just runs a browser. I picked that over an iPad as all I want it to do is browse. Ensuring your technologies are cloud and browser compliant is the key.
Computers are changing in a big way at the moment as traditional desktop operating systems are becoming less and less relevant. We do most things through our phones (apart from taking actual calls, oddly) from messaging to note taking to browsing to buying to setting up the latest home automation gizmo. Microsoft are very much lagging behind and I really can't see a need for Windows 10 above and beyond opening up a browser, as the apps are sorely lacking and/or retarded. Their cloud platform is available from everything else. They're ripe for a ChromeOS type release, but been there before with Windows S and RT.
Apple on the other hand are moving their operating systems closer together with each step yet retaining relevance and fitness for purpose, from watchOS to iOS to ipadOS to macOS. Monterey is sheer class!
Isn't this just an overly broad generalisation?The trick today is about getting the right cloud to support what it is that you do ... and it's about a LOT more than just online storage. iCloud, for example, offers integration with Apple Secure Video for home camera recordings processed on your home hub and encrypted up to the cloud. What happens in your home stays in your home, even if it's in the cloud. Other devices with their apps offload to clouds that you have no control or protection over. Just one example, unique to Apple.
You don't need to break the encryption, just steal the encryption keys from any of the devices they're on. Do they reside only on the devices the HomeKit hub is on?You can move the HomeKit hub around from device to device ... or have more than one, say, an AppleTV and a HomePod and an iPad. Encryption is by virtue of your iCloud identity ... just as Google do with encrypting Chromebooks. Yes, encryption can be broken; not least when some quantum leap in processing is made. All that encrypted traffic we thought was safe, all captured by intelligence spooks and squirrelled away for that very future moment will just be opened in seconds.
I'd also say, if it's connected (regardless of home/cloud wherever) ... connected, it's "in the cloud". Security is as strong as the weakest link in the chain, so getting in via a poorly configured random name camera with unofficial protocols running and then talking through that to, say, Alexa to then open up whatever the hacker wants ... it's all possible.
But yes, my point was about finding an ecosystem and cloud provision that suits what it is you do. I'm very little about actual files (although what I do have are all in the iCloud ecosystem either as files, but more likely as Apple Notes), big on photographs (Apple Photo ... again, iCloud), less so on music, even less so about movies ... a lot about home automation, for which HomeKit and iCloud really suits me. While I do have a Chromebook, I have literally nowt in Google Cloud but do serve out my SOTD pictures and other miscelleanous stuff for forums from Google Photos. For many folks, Facebook is ideal for communication, that gargantuan photo storage and for communication and collaboration, written, voice or video. Google have all that, too. Amazon do. Apple do, but iCloud+ is offering the next step beyond simple storage with some presently unique features.
What does "connected" actually mean in this context?I'd also say, if it's connected (regardless of home/cloud wherever) ... connected, it's "in the cloud".
Iv just bought an Alienware i7 for gaming only and i’ll use my Macbook for everything else.I have a laptop, an i7 plenty fast enough for most things except the most demanding games.
I also have a 10 inch Samsung android tablet, most of my time is spent on the tablet.
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