I’m not kinky, but my desire to purchase new technologies when they hit the market is quite organic. I know these objects will provide fulfillment in my life, even if it is only temporary, and I know I will forsake them when a newer, better, more attractive model hits the market, but that doesn’t stop the wanting.
Hi, my name’s Col and I’m a techno-holic.Fortunately my bank account places adequate restrictions on my compulsive urges to run out and buy technology willy-nilly, providing me with enough deterrant to take a few moments to analyse the object of my present covetousness.
The iPad 2.
Yep, I know you’ve been there and done that, but I’ve been vassilating over this purchase for, well, a while. I’ve supported Bill over Steve for many years now and that’s despite being the proud owner of an iPhone for the past 2 years, and an iPod for 5. No, you can’t have them!
I get hooked up on the barbed wires of compatability. So much of what I do relies on the exchange of ideas and documents with others, flipping between formats just makes my head spin.
A recent dinner party quenched my pusillanimous fears on this score. The iPad was our hosts portable of choice and had “changed their lives”. The work of a scholar, academic and tutor seamlessly blended every aspect of the multi-facetted roles through a versatile iPad which not only reduced the back strain but also the number of trees being hacked down for assignments which, once submitted and evaluated, would soon be forgotten. These were being submitted online, assessed on iPad and resent without a single leaf being shed. Administrivia, home financing, entertainment all neatly packaged into an attractive touch-sentitive screen.
Some logistics were identified re: online ‘office’ readers/converters, but the problems had been minimal and insignificant. Here were two champions of the cause.
Yes, Steve, it’s time.
