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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 8, 2014 at 11:13 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Worth checking out the new HP Chromebook 14, too, which has had some
>very good reviews (4GB, 2 x USB 3.0, 9.5 hours battery life, 14” screen
>- available now). In the UK, selling for a very reasonable £250.
Thanks! Very interesting… That’s about half of what I’d spend on the iPad Air 32GB wifi + ZAGGKeys folio keyboard case…
Reviewers have been criticising the screen quality, but then what would you expect for that price… Also, apparently it’s got a fan to cool the processor, so it’s not perfectly silent, and one might have to be careful not to cover the vents. But otherwise it does sound like a serious option (other than the wacky colours it comes in).
Also, just read about the 12in Galaxy Note/TabPro coming out in a couple of months. Could be interesting in combination with this Logitech Pro keyboard case. But I wonder if there will be scaling issues with Android apps at that screen size:
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/logitech-pro/4505-3126_7-35833928.html
Posted by WSP
Jan 8, 2014 at 03:21 PM
I’ve recently begun using the iPad Air with a Logitech Ultrathin keyboard cover. It’s a pricey combination, but it seems to work well—much better than iPad keyboards I’ve used in the past.
Just a week or two ago I discovered what I suppose everyone else knew years ago, that in certain iOS apps (including Evernote), you can produce some kinds of simple formatting with the command key (e.g. command-i turns on italics). I hadn’t noticed this earlier because I come from the Windows world where the control key is used in such combinations.
Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 8, 2014 at 05:40 PM
RickFencer wrote:
>With the Nexus (or other Android tablets, I assume) you can also download
>Stylus Beta (by Vision Objects) which is a very capable handwriting
>recognition app that works in any program in which you would otherwise
>use a keyboard.
Many. thanks for this. lt is really great! (written in Stylus Beta.)
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 8, 2014 at 05:50 PM
I am increasingly despondent about Android - which I like, actually - because of the number of apps demanding access to system-level functions like creating new accounts, phoning out to whoever, monitoring everything you do etc. etc. And in Samsung’s case, enforcing user licensing agreements which appear to give them total access to all your data whenever they happen to feel like using it. Nobody appears to have picked up on this yet (possibly because the EULA is about 40 pages long), but it’s depressing.
Android itself is fine, more or less (except I am building up a significant distrust of Google, based on a very wide variety of criteria). My anxieties, however, are the main reason for my serious consideration of CyanogenMod.
Of course what applies to Android almost certainly applies to Google Chrome…
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 8, 2014 at 09:51 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Of course what applies to Android almost certainly applies to Google
>Chrome…
You say that now, after you’ve sweet-talked me into buying a Chromebook?! ;)
BTW, the HP Chromebook 14 is nowhere to be found in the UK, at least at that price. I presume it’s a supply chain problem or some clever marketing ploy to tease the customer…