Tis a foggy cool day. I made up a big pot of leftover veggie soup. While I was cleaning up the kitchen – I realized that my 3 favorite – actually only – kitchen gadgets were on the counter top drying. No matter how small the kitchen – I’ll find a place for these guys.
Why I Love Science. Sugar melts at 366° – I put a spoon of sugar in my oven and left it there for 15 minutes at 350° – nothing happened to the sugar. Pushed the temp up to 375° and 15 minutes later – caramelized sugar. So, I guess my oven is pretty well calibrated. (An oven thermometer is not one of my gadgets).
iPad ramblings…
Why I am going to stay with IOS for a tablet, vice Amazon Fire or Google Nexus 7/10
- I can afford to. Cost really isn’t an object. No more saving for that rainy day. I am totally into frivolous and superficial these days.
- At this uncertain time – one less thing to worry about is good. I am sure that I can get androids and macs to play nice – but at any time all of my little old lady brain power might be diverted to some health crisis or the other.
Maxi…pros
- would be better for at home use.
- I am at home more often than not.
- if it has a good cell plan – it will get around snail internet. Same as the mini – so no advantage here.
- It could pretend to be a computer more or less.
- I can have one TODAY.
Maxi…cons
- The airiness works fine at home. finer than an iPad in all honesty. The airiness doesn’t pretend to be a computer – it is a computer.
- I really like typing on a nice keyboard. The airiness has a nice keyboard. I am typing on it now
- A tablet is just a toy. Same con for mini iPad.
Mini…pros
- The size is sweet. Better for apps than the iPod/iPhone for old eyes. But not too big for a purse.
- My iPod is getting a little tired. The home button is going…
- I might be able to teach Carlton to use it – or not. I was able to teach the most techno-phobic nurses how to use the mini at work. But, this would be the same for the maxi as well.
Mini…cons
- It is just a big iPod.
- I love my kindle for reading.
- When traveling – would I take kindle, airiness and mini??? Don’t think I’d leave the kindle behind – battery life/works in sun. Could leave airiness behind. I did that on the Great North American Train Trip. But, I’d take all three to Hawai’i.
Might just order up a Mini –
Add a Bluetooth keyboard to the mini (or maxi), load Pages and/or Numbers and the iPad acts much more like the Airness. 🙂
Hi Peg,
I’m a PC/Windows man, and I own an iPad2 and two android phones (4.1 and 2.3) and I like the way the iPad2 is easy to use, without bug, smooth (oh, maybe less smooth with ios7), no force close… I never reboot it, never clean memory on task manager. I just keep it charged and use it when I want.
In the opposite my droid phones can be more customized, but sometimes unstable, sometimes force close, have to reboot them when they seem to be lazy… I always have a look to the battery performance, I’m hunting the app that are draining battery… I hate those app.
So your points n°1 (you have the money) and 2 (you want the quality of service) summarized all the problem. Ipad is a good choice 🙂
I own a Kindle non touch, and for me, it’s just a book. No problem to travel with an ipad plus a kindle, it’s like travelling with an ipad and a book.
(but my son is using the ipad for reading comics !)
Have a nice foggy day. (here it’s raining)
laurent