Borders Going Bye Bye

[innerSpaceman]

Laptops have always been a bit too klunky for me. I don't really NEED portability; it's just something I think is groovy. So I'm waiting for a tablet that doesn't suck and that's a computer, and not just a big iPhone with no phone.

I really don't understand Alex's deal here. I never said that a computer must run MY software to be a "real" computer; only that it must be able to run the same software that any desktop or laptop computer is or was able to, whether that's now or 1993 or any year in between. As far as I know, the iPad can't do that. It's limited to whatever "Apps" are out there, and that's not the same thing.

I think iPads are sexay and i wants one. I just have to figure out what I would actually do with one. If it were a computer, I'd get one. And if laptops were half as sexay as an iPad, I'd get one of those instead.

My home computer is 6 years old, which makes it pretty obsolete (though not to me) and more likely than not to die within the next year or so. I'd like to transition to portable, since that's been the worldwide trend. But I don't want to give up any of my current computing power or capabilities.

In fact, I'd like to transition from PC to Mac - and since you can run Windows on a Mac, that might ease the transition - since I could use all my current software until I found suitable Mac equivalents. None of this is possible on the iPad - yet. So I'm still waiting. But if my PC dies before the perfect iPad is born, I'm likely to get a cool Mac computer.

No hurry, though. $$$$ and all that.