Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[TheBoy]

overall reliability is better,   

In a bygone era (XP), yeah, thats the advantage of a closed system, is the vendor controls everything, compared to a open system which is a free for all.  With driver signing being more prominent (and enforced on 64bit - one of Windows 64bit few advanatges or 32bit), reliability is pretty solid on Windows now (ignoring XP shite, its old, it needs to go). When was the last Win7 crash you saw?

and down time , 

As per above. Its pretty solid.

and cost of ownership is actually lower......       

Disagree, although specifics can skew general figures. But look at lease+support contracts for both

AND they're elegantly designed....

Yup, fully agree, they certainly are well designed (visually) with ladyboys in mind

[MR MISTER]

I'm not joining in this discussion. It's going nowhere.
Mate of mine went to pc world this afternoon. There were two...yes, two...tower units on display.
Just saying.

[chrisgixer]

It is the way if things. One day we'll all be board of mobile devices and move on to the next big thing... ....Head mounted projectors, or summat daft.

[cnj]

I personally agree with mr gixer in that we'll all be using mobile devices a lot sooner that the older members perhaps would like. my personal favourites are the large gaming tower cases that you can get my bear paws inside and load up with fans to keep cool ! laptops are useful for portability and powerful enough for a decent sized screen for my tired old eyes to work with. tablets, I think will come eventually in all sizes, shapes and flavours, probably within the next 5-10yrs, eventually superceding both laptops and desktops of all shapes and flavours. !

[TheBoy]

Quick question for tablet owners...

Are you seriously thinking of upgrading your tablet (not just drooling over the latest one, but seriously considering laying down your wedge in before the year is out)? Or is your existing one "good enough" to not warrant the outlay?

TIA

[MR MISTER]

My tablet is just fine for my needs, but I don't do anything fancy. Bit of browsing/banking/email. So.....I will upgrade when it goes pop....not before.

[05omegav6]

Mine suits me only gripes are the lack of a car charger, and noone seems to do a hdmi/micro hdmi to 3 lead rca adapter 

[chrisgixer]

Quick question for tablet owners...

Are you seriously thinking of upgrading your tablet (not just drooling over the latest one, but seriously considering laying down your wedge in before the year is out)? Or is your existing one "good enough" to not warrant the outlay?

TIA

Mini is good enough for me.

Although if they upgrade the chip and screen... Nah, I'm happy with it.

(The ipad one was slow and crashed a lot. Actually, it just crashed a lot. Normal sized iPads are too big, IMO. Too heavy.)

So, no!