Hi Fred,
I'm late to this party but my advice is DON'T DO IT.
You will gradually be sucked away from the umbilical of your desk top in
an insidious and frustrating manner until you will long for the simple
days when you could wait for your return home to get email, to order some part
online or get an answer to a vexing question while you are in a bar,
navigate to an address, find a restaurant or carry on any sort of activity
that can be expedited by connectivity. You will recall wistfully when
you could carry your 10 pound laptop in its own suitcase on your travels
through airport security.
Heres my sad history of addiction: it all started innocuously
enough. Anne got me an iPad 1 as a present, Xmas or bday a few years
ago. She knew I had NO interest in Apple, iPhones, 3G and all that
garbage that you have to buy subscriptions for so she left that out.
I enjoyed playing with it and soon discovered ForeFlight. Got a
Dual blue tooth GPS shortly thereafter and my short path to reliance in the
cockpit brought about shaking hands and a sweaty neck every time i failed to
bring the spaghetti ball of cords to hook all that up. Abstinence may
have saved me then, but I was too poor to afford the psychiatric help I
needed. There were no 12 step programs available in my community
for iPad junkies so that avenue to health was denied me. I did look for
some ii meetings but could find none.
Along came Square about a year and a half ago. This gave me an
excuse to feed my addiction by donating the iPad 1 to my dental business for
processing credit transactions and to buy a new iPad 2 with all the memory and
other features available. I got an identical unit for Anne so that the
awful disease she had saddled me with could be experienced by her as
well.
Now the iPad is like an appendage and goes everywhere with me.
Fortunately, unlike other malignancies it doesn't grow in size although
there does appear to be the threat of metastases on the horizon.
To summarize the clever ways Apple continues to guarantee an agonizing,
slow downward spiral into hell I offer the following observations:
1. the iPad looks like a small, very useful computer. IT
ISN'T. You want the keyboard to behave like your PC one does. No
such luck and it will quarantee mispelings and mistatements wehre you might
want to say one very intelligent thing in an eamil but instead you
insult the recipirnt in rahter graphic terms
2. Spreadsheet and word programs are only superficially like the ones you
know. You are tempted to use them so you do, but they fall short.
3. Attachments to email? forget it.
4. Your list of unread emails on your desktop will start to resemble a
backed up toilet and will only worsen over time.
5. This list is the tip of the iceberg.
The true picture of the problem with regards to flying is
epitomized by an experience the other day in the LIVP. I have a Garmin
430, two Chelton screens, and a Garmin 496 in the panel. I was putting
hours on the new Barrett TSIO 550 for break in and decided to run up to
Bellingham. I was frustrated in my attempts to get all the airport
information I wanted because I didn't have the iPad with me. That's
SICK!
So Fred, take it from one who has no chance for recovery. Avoid
that first step my friend or you'll wind up in a gutter somewhere like
me.
Anyone want to trade a new iPad 3 for a new iPhone or Mini iPad?
I'm going to start dealing so I can afford my habit.
John
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At our customary Monday morning coffee fest in my hangar this
AM (100 LL Java a specialty), one of the fellows brought in an
Ipad 3 with aviation apps and an ultrathin Logitech keyboard cover
which combined to overcome my buyers resistance.
My wife and I decided it was time to get a laptop with WiFi since
we are in each other's way a lot with our single desk top computer at
home. By shifting the problem statement to include aviation use
as well as alternate use at home, the shift from plain vanilla el
cheapo laptop to Ipad 3 plus keyboard became seamless.
So, before spending my money, I wanted to check with this group
for the latest advice on Ipad3 or is the dual core 4 worthwhile?)
configurations for aviation use. How much memory? (We
don't plan to use it for movies or a lot of photos).
Also want to confirm a review I read that the Ipad 3 has
appropriate stand alone GPS, gyros, and accelerometers to permit use
of aviation apps. One of the reviews showing comparisons
of various Ipads showed that Ipad 3 and 4 had GPS only in the 4 G
versions, but Australian 4G is different than US which created a flap
over here some time ago. I need to check to see if the 4G works
in Australia.
Open to suggestions, cautions, recommendations and such.
Fearless Fred, returning to Apple after many years on a MacIntosh
II, sadly abandoned over a decade ago..... |