Posted on 11/10/2013 7:00:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's the battle of the tablets. Just as Apple unveiled the ultrathin iPad Air with Retina Display, Microsoft officially released the Surface Pro 2.
Although both are excellent tablets for small businesses, each device has its own set of capabilities. Whereas the iPad Air is strictly an iOS tablet in form and function, the Surface Pro 2 is a versatile, Windows-powered hybrid machine that can be used as a tablet, laptop or desktop computer.
To help you choose which tablet is right for your business, we've compared the iPad Air and the Surface Pro 2.
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Don’t like Apple.
Never did.
Take a Windows box and install Linux on it.
Has anybody ever used the Apple competitor to Microsoft Office?
Apple’s suite of productivity apps, iWork— which includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote (Apple’s versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, respectively) — is free for new iOS 7 devices activated on or after Sept. 1, 2013.
I’d really be interested to see how it stacks up against the latest version of Microsoft Office.
People in an office environment can't/won't use Linux.
Just a fact.
If apple would adopt enterprise security and management controls they’d have a much higher acceptance in business.
Apple’s Pages doesn’t exactly take a Word document seamlessly. There are formatting and font inconsistencies. I would recommend not thinking iWork as an easy surrogate for Office. I’m an Apple adherent and simply install Office for Mac. This works fine 99% of the time, and Office for Mac has improved in functionality and stability over the past 5 years.
I’ll take Aerogel for $100, Alex.
Pen and paper. Folks should get off mobile devices, stop texting, stop tweeting, stop doing email and pay attention/focus/think in meetings.
And yes, I’m a technology guy.
Meeting attendees on computing devices: Is that why meetings are unproductive....or is that a response to boring meetings - ppl using the time to "get real work done."
ping
RE: Office for Mac
Well, does Apple have an iWork for Windows?
Apple thinks the enterprise should adapt the them, not the other way around.
It’s probably a combination of both. I have also noticed that some meetings are repeat meetings because no decisions were made in previous meetings ... a death spiral of boring, unproductive meetings, mostly because no one has a pair to make decisions.
Here is the problem with the Microsoft offering...
“It runs on a full version of Windows 8.1, so users can do just about anything on a Surface Pro 2 that they would on any other Windows laptop or desktop computer. “
Bloated code. That is a lot of useless programing. Tablets serve a different niche from desktop computing.
“does Apple have an iWork for Windows?”
Not an authority on this issue (as I’m fully divorced from Windows and PC), but I believe NOT. A quick Bing search revealed nothing on my end.
This thread is about tablets. Taking a “Windows box” and installing Linux on it - whatever that means - is not an option here.
“Take a Windows box and install Linux on it.”
Not possible to put Linux on any Surface device.
A cheap windows laptop with a touchscreen does not a tablet make.
Might as well actually buy a cheap windows laptop since it’s cheaper than a surface with practically all the functionality.
Windows doesn’t exactly take other windows programs seemlessly either. The author is assuming that all technology offerings in the office are on the latest bleeding edge version of Windiws.
Instead, most offices have older, middle aged and newer machines working side by side. This can cause a lot of compatability problems.
NONE of our work computeres are on Wndows 8 ‘whater’ yet. New company machones are still being purchased on Windows 7.
The rollout of Windows 8, whole not as bad as AFA rollout, stunk to high heaven. Still lookimg at Windows 8 versions with a cautious eye.
Integrating 8 machines into a 7 anfpd older environment will be time intensive...
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