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School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads
Barence writes "A school swapped all its staff laptops for iPads — and now wants to switch them back. 'Most staff are IT illiterate and jumped at the chance of exchanging their laptop for an iPad,' a teacher from the school told PC Pro. Now, however: 'the staff room is full of regret.' Difficulties editing old Word and PowerPoint documents, transferring work to and from the device without USB sticks, and problems with projecting the iPad's display to the classroom — bizarrely, using an Apple TV — have led to staff once again reaching for their Windows laptops."
chose Android, you dumb bitches.
Tablets make a great spoon and terrible kitchen tool. They're good for consuming, but not much else.
There may be no "I" in team, but there's also no "F" in way.
Should have gotten them Android tablets with keyboard docks.
Tablets make a great spoon and terrible kitchen tool. They're good for consuming, but not much else.
They do, however, make an excellent cutting board.
There may be no "I" in team, but there's also no "F" in way.
>> ...how they would accomplish their day to day work with an iPad...
I can browse /. on an iPad just fine, thanks very much.
Fart apps changed the world. True story.
Yeah, but typing more than a sentence or two will make me go bald.
Based to your UID, you're probably already bald.
But they are Apple products. They are not supposed to be a "training issue".
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
And if you want a knife to use with that fancy new cutting board, you'll need to buy a MacBook Air.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
I wondered why that should be, so I clicked on the page and the first thing I saw was this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3099809&cid=41255213
Yes, I can see why the person who would post that might find his karma in the dumps. Most comments are actually quite reasonable. Others, not so much.
Sorry, you have violated the groupthink by posting that people are creating content with tablets. You will now be modded down for telling the truth.
Assuming any tablet users are able to actuate the moderation widget.
So basically, he's holding it wrong.
You wrote this post on an iPad, didn't you?
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
OOO look I am -1 flamebait now. I think that is the first time that has happened to me. I shall treasure it like the day I got perfect karma. :)
No the moderation to my post doesn't bother me. Franky I think there are too many moderation types. I think there should be only two: this adds to the conversation/this detracts from the conversation. After that there should be some tags you can apply: troll, funny, rathole, ontopic, etc.
Then I could could ask to see all ontopic, not funny (because they never are actually funny), posts rated 3 or above. /. would seem like a much more interesting place that way.
That being said, I probably still would have been downvoted, because /.'ers are still /.'ers :D
What do you know I wrote a novel
Interesting thought I just had... if someone held up an ipad in front of me at a concert to record the concert, i would consider it my civil duty to mosh harder with the intent of making them either drop and smash it, or at least put it away so i can see again. Sucks to be short...
... wait, what?
"Because for about a year now I haven't taken my laptop out of the house, and mostly using it for programming, and photo editing. I have spent all this time writing fiction, poetry, outlines, technical documentation, etc;"
;-)
Maybe if you had used a laptop it wouldn't have taken you all year.