From a real neophyte who is about to scrape the bucks together for a tablet - has anyone tried both iPad 2 and the Thrive? What are the pros and cons?
I've used Logos for years, BTW, on the notebook.
has anyone tried both iPad 2 and the Thrive? What are the pros and cons?
Gary - I don't know if anyone will chime in so I will give my thoughts... [full disclosure: I am a Mac only user].
The iPad is the Gold Standard of tablets. The Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple may have 75% of the Market by the end of the year. The rest of the market is highly fragmented among other OS, the majority being some flavor of Google's Android. According to the WSJ article, Toshiba does not make the top 10 in terms of sales, nor is it expected to through the end of next year.
In most cases, the iPad is superior to almost any other tablet in terms of hardware. A quick glance at the Thrive, some reviewers were raving about its specs. What they can't say is that the experience is as good. Nobody comes close to having the same amount of good/safe/quality apps like the Apple App Store for iOS.
In terms of running Logos, iOS is ahead of Android in terms of development. In my opinion, this will be true for a while, if for no other reason than the fragmentation of the market. Recently everyone was excited about the new Kindle Fire. As it turns out, the Fire has to be Jerry Rigged to run the app... You cannot download the Logos App from the Amazon Android store for the Amazon Kindle Fire... Logos can't be expected to make a special version of the mobile app for every version of Android, let alone every maker.
If you are more than a couple of months away from "scraping together" your pennies, I would wait until spring. Apple will probably come out with the iPad 3 by then. Even if you decide not to get the latest & greatest by Jobs & co, the iPad 2 will be available at a reduced cost. And if you make the decision to go with one of the "also rans," Apple will continue to drive down the price of the others as well (as they lose their shirts doing so).
From a real neophyte who is about to scrape the bucks together for a tablet - has anyone tried both iPad 2 and the Thrive? What are the pros and cons? I've used Logos for years, BTW, on the notebook.
Pro (iPad) – all apps pass through Apple and therefore are 'policed' I don't suppose that the system is foolproof but so far it is working well.
They used to argue that there were no viruses on the apple because it had too small a market share. The iPad market share is huge but we still find ourselves pretty much free of this particular curse. Sometimes 'vulnerabilities' are discovered but Apple seems to react quickly to them.
This seems to me to be a major point in favour of the iPad.
If you can - call in at an Apple store and have a play.
Many thanks. Apart from Logos, my (distant) second interest was that the Thrive had an HDMI port, while the iPod didn't. But, Logos comes first, so whatever runs it best is what I want.
Gary - You can connect an iPad to HDMI through the optional Digital AV Adapter. Better yet, with an Apple TV ($99), the iPad 2 can Mirror wirelessly.
Logos comes first, so whatever runs it best is what I want.
Gary,
I am not much of an Apple fan, though I use the iPad and I love it. I also use an iphone, so maybe I am more of an Apple fan than I thought. But I much prefer Windows to the Mac, so my laptop will always be a PC.
I suspect you are well aware of this, but the iPad does not run Logos 4, but the iPad Logos app. The iPad is not a replacement for a laptop, and the iPad app is by no means a replacement for the full Logos. Not even close. What the Logos iPad app will do for you is allow you to read much (not all) of your Logos library on the tablet.. That is a wonderful thing.
If you are looking for a tablet to run L4, the iPad will never be it. But it does what it does pretty well. It does crash at times, and is sometimes slow, as the Logos app is a work in progress. But overall, I am delighted with it.
Mike - I assume that on your side of the pond, "call in" means to "visit." Did I understand you right? In days gone by, especially in the South, "to call on" someone was to "pay them a visit," but this language has fallen out of use in the States.
If you can - call in at an Apple store and have a play. Mike - I assume that on your side of the pond, "call in" means to "visit." Did I understand you right? In days gone by, especially in the South, "to call on" someone was to "pay them a visit," but this language has fallen out of use in the States.
From the Concise Oxford English Dictionary... for 'Call'
■ noun
4 a brief visit.
Soanes, C., & Stevenson, A. (2004). Concise Oxford English dictionary (11th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strange how many Americans have given up speaking English!
Gary, for what it's worth, I've been looking at tablets for over a year and have decided to wait till the iPad 3 is released before jumping in. Rumor has it that the font resolution of the iPad 3 is going to be less pixelated than at present. I recently jumped into the smartphone pond with an iPhone 4S, and one of the primary considerations was the Retina display.
As for the PC/Mac laptop discussion, I may go with a Mac the next time, though I've had only PC's since I bought my first computer somewhere around 1990 (a Leading Edge Model D [;)]). I've had my current Lenovo ThinkPad T500 for two years and have just ordered two 4GB modules ($33 shipped--cannot believe how inexpensive RAM has become) to get me through another two or three years. I've never had a problem with my PC's, but there are things about the Apple ecosystem I like, particularly that it is not so fragmented. But who knows where the technology trail may lead in a few years?
But who knows where the technology trail may lead in a few years?
Astonishing Windows 8 tablets!
But who knows where the technology trail may lead in a few years? Astonishing Windows 8 tablets!
You may very well be right.
