Mark McDonald

Whenever I am moving through an airport I have to take three bins to get through the metal detector.  I need a bin for my shoes, toiletries, etc., one for my personal computer and one for my iPad.  More often than not I get a funny look from the others standing in line, first for using three bins and second for having two ‘computers’.  Now I am not alone in this and some security lines let you leave your iPad in your case, but the iPad and wireless keyboard combination throws them.

The other look I get is around the issue of having two computers.  While this is common with iPad’s and Kindles the addition of the wireless keyboard sends the signal that this is a business device.  So why do I need two computers?

Yesterday I found out as my iPad flew to the rescue as my new personal computer had a hard drive failure and left me without connectivity etc.   Sure email works on my smart phone, but I had to do more than just reply back to a message where the footer says, “pardon the typos as I am typing with my thumbs.”  I needed to alert tech support, respond to some serious emails, complete a document and basically appear fully capable to the outside world.

Well it worked great.  I knew it would as I have gone solo with the iPad for short trips in the past.  It is interesting that what I needed was good old hardware, not software, nor the cloud, nor other technologies just hardware, a wireless connection and email.   I will not feel silly carrying two computers, even one that I use more often than not to read books, listen to music, play games, watch videos, etc.

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Category: Personal Observation Technology     Tags: iPad, personal musing, Personal Observation, Technology

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