TOPIC: iPad

Which version? the one that came with the CTL pre installed software... stylus pro or something like that.  Tried to train to no avail... still spotty, and much faster to use the keypad

The CTL handwriting software takes some time to adjust to.  The training doesn't take that long (though it's got some crazy symbols that are just about impossible to input)...but...you need to take your time when writing on the screen. 

I like the fact that I can have the interior areas of a home pretty much done (doesn't work in Minnesota winters outside) before I walk out the door.  Saves mucho time!  Plus the durability and portability...

I can't believe I am hearing a supposed tech expert fall for the megahertz myth. A 1.6 GHz is not automatically 60% faster than a 1 GHz processor of a completely different architecture.

The iPad has also always had s way to import photos and frankly I don't see any tablet device being a practical camera regardless of operating sytem

Not sure who exactly you're addressing. Not that it matters but having a degree in Computer Science and spending years building over a thousand computers, build our own processors, administrating networks of more than a thousand machines and dozens of servers, taught computer systems & programming for a decade and more does give me a slight bit of tech knowledge

Putting it simply, yes, different processors do have different capabilities. The amount of L1/L2 cache, die size, bus size, GPU, hard drive speed, heck even the temperature of the processor has an effect. At the end of the day though the processor speed is measured in the amount of instructions (lets call it mathematical addition for simplicity) that the processor can do per second.

1 GHz processor is capable of doing approximately 1 billion cycles per second. Now how fast the computer ACTS depends heavily on the operating system and other factors, but this is what each processor is capable of. You mix in hyperthreading, multiple cores, pipelining and other technologies and that changes things up a bit. Apple's OS is more efficient than Windows. Because of this it makes programs run smoother with less processing speed. Unfortunately some of the processor manufacturers have moved away from simple processor speeds in their names which further confuses things.

iPad 1 is a content consumption device. Doesn't matter how you want to slice it. This has been repeated over and over even by Apple itself. When this conversation started we only had the iPad 1. Importing 150, 5 meg photos, automatically reducing their file size and importing them into Home Inspector Pro just didn't make sense. Remember it had 256 megs of ram NOT 2 gigs like the CTL2Go. Now as the iPad introduces dual core and other technology this is/will be changing.

No tablet will make a good camera until they can figure out a way to add optical zoom.

Dom,
I'm overwhelmed yet impressed! I'll stick w/my CTL 2go. Just had the screen replaced (under warranty) because I closed the tailgate on it. It has easily cut my 'admin' time to minutes.
Regards...

Awesome, glad to hear that Bob. Make sure to post that in the CTL thread here on the forums. Some people have a hard time getting over the handwriting recognition hump and hearing the benefit from others is a big help.

Make sure to check out the new HIP text messaging widget posted in the website section