Totally underwhelming

My “porn star” moment with the TSA this morning. I went throughout the scanner -to tell you the truth I just don’t get what the big deal is. The most depressing thing was that the girl behind the screen did not seem overly impressed with my manhood.

Maybe next time I will ask for a groping instead.

Now on to more important matters-using the I-Pad while on the road.

I had wanted to get the I-Pad because the way our IT works, I end up having to take two laptops with me if I want to do any personal things while on the road. I have to take my work computer for work-but our IT policies are so draconian that go to any of the places I like to go read, made the second laptop a necessity for my personal business.

So this week I just took the I-pad and the work laptop with me. It worked out fair enough-but there are some downsides to the I-pad as well as a lot of good things.

My set up is the full monty-I got the 3G 64GB model-because I want to take the I-Pad with me as “notebook” of sorts. Yes there are plenty of wifi spots-but not always. In that regard the device worked great. It was kind of neat to be able to eat my lunch, prop up the U-pad and surf the web while eat. A good way to catch up on your reading.

I like the display-but some of Apple’s ways of getting around take some getting used to-especially the way it does your history of visited web sites. For blogging it appears Word Press does not work as well as it should-for one thing it is hard to copy and paste HTML code with this thing.

I bought an additional key board and I am glad I did. For typing long e-mails or blog posts I am finding the key board to be easier to type off of-although the visual keypad is not too bad to use-just have to be gentle with your fingers.

Battery life is good-and it is really cool to read a book from the Kindle app and listen to music from your I-pod.

Things I don’t like. Apple’s aversion to flash embedded video is a big detractor. I don’t like that at all-you go to a web site and when you click the play button the video just goes black.

I am also not a fan of the case-mainly because to use the keyboard dock I have to remove the device from the case. The commenter who suggested the bluetooth keyboard brought up and option I did not consider. That said the keyboard dock stands the device up nicely while typing. I think I will look for a better case. I also need a film to put over the screen. I hate seeing the fingerprints on the screen when the device is dark.

The other thing I am not a fan of is the e-mail application. I miss Outlook.

So what’s the bottom line? Its a great augment to a laptop while on the road, but it is not a total replacement. It’s size and portability really make it a handy thing to have-especially while you are in transit.

All in all a great toy-now if the S.O. would just give me that “other” present I dream of…………..