A week without a desktop
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2:55AM I have to spend the next few days without access to my Mac. It’s a long story, but we are having a new kitchen and the room next door needs to be used by our builder to put everything together before he installs. My iMac resides in that room, but he is a builder and so it will be hidden as far away from him as possible while he does what he needs to do.
I will be left with an iPhone, a Kindle and an iPad and so the site and everything else I need to do will be done on just those devices. Obviously the Kindle is out because it doesn’t really do anything creative and the iPhone is too small for most tasks so the iPad will be my desktop for a week.
I am expecting a week of frustration, much head scratching and a lot less productivity. I shouldn’t pre-judge what will happen and I may even be surprised at how useful it becomes, but until I can write some more about the experience, wish me luck. I should also add that a week without a desktop feels much less frightening than a week without a smartphone.
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You could save yourself a lot of unnecessary stress and plug it in somewhere else... unless you're doing another experiment. I used to do as much as I could on my pda and later my phone because it was fun and a challenge. The Psion 5mx was great for this. But these days I just kinda want to get things done and I will waste a few extra moments for my netbook to start up, rather than waste even more time and comfort trying to do something on my phone.
Still, if it's an experiment, it'll be interesting to see how you fare this time around... though really, have things in the tablet world matured enough to be able to do the things you need to get done?
There really is nowhere else to plug it in with the kids and everything.
If you could get hold of a Transformer Prime for a week it'd be an interesting comparison. I haven't used Polaris Office much on mine but it seems fairly useful, and of course you can plug a mouse in too (not sure if the iPad supports that).
Agree with Bug - we already use our transformer as desltop replacement. Polaris is great for some things and not to good with others, fortunately between it, google docs and docs to go there really isn't anything you can't do that MS Office or Office Docs will do for you.