Semi-OT: Apple iPad

[Zane H. Healy]

I'm not in a hurry either.  It was an idea that popped into my head, and I
wanted to now how well it would work.  While it would be nice to use a
device of its formfactor for this purpose, this thread has pretty much
convinced me against this.  I'll be looking into setting up either the SGI
O2, or a Sun Workstation for this purpose assuming my remaining SVGA CRT
still works.  If not I might start looking locally for a used LCD (I'm
likely going to do that anyway as I could use one or two).

Zane




On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Ian King wrote:

> I checked out the Nook from Barnes & Noble, and it didn't impress me with
> its PDF rendering.  Of course, I can't check out a Kindle since they don't
> have a store, but that device doesn't have an SD slot (the Nook does). 
> Some of the devices demo'ed at CES sound interesting, and since I'm not in
> a burning-down-the-house hurry I'll just wait to see which of them
> actually makes it into the world.  That way I don't have to deal with the
> [deleted for reasons of good taste] at the Apple Store.  -- Ian

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> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Thiemann [joachim.thiemann at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Apple iPad
>
> Why all this discussion about the iPad?  For the stated purpose
> (reading PDFs) would not a similar-form-factor _designed specifically
> for that purpose_ serve much better?  By now there are a bunch of
> "e-readers" with e-ink displays - which one of those is currently best
> for scanned PDFs (which is what in this context is the primary
> application!)?
>
> I know that many of the current ones have (fairly) low pixel density
> (thus bad for scanned text even if adequate for OCR'd documents) and
> many suffer from bad PDF support; but I'd expect that at this stage
> _someone_ has made one that is of a good size with high resolution.
>
> At least most of these now support slapping an SD card full of files
> into them, right?  This way you're not tied to a network (wireless or
> wired).
>
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> Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
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