Apple Updates Pages, Keynote, and Numbers
Or you can get a Windows Mobile device and get Microsoft Office for free
Or if you want a true iPad killer the Dell Venue 8 Pro is an 8" tablet that runs full Windows 8, meaning you can install any desktop, laptop app and you are not stuck just to the app store. Plus it comes with Microsoft Office preloaded for $299.
With a Mac, the "hardware" is somewhat similar to a PC, but the unix-based software makes all of the difference in both programming apps and stability. Along with the fact that Windows 8's user interface is just garbage compared to MacOS for doing anything serious without it working and looking like a "toy"
It's super fast, easy to use, plenty powerful, and looks like anything but a toy. Although like all tablets, it is 🙄
No seriously, who cares?
I'm getting sick of this constant drive to make everything thinner.
Here we are in 2014 and yet mobile devices are limited to 16 or 32 GB of storage, the same as it was 10 years ago. This is a joke.
Every time Apple brags about their newest device being thinner I want to scream 'hey, morons, how about leaving it the same thickness and adding more memory?'
This is 2014, tablets and smartphones should have 250 GB or 500 GB in storage by now, the only reason they don't is the relentless drive to make everything thinner every year.
Enough!
Why don't tablets and smartphones have 250 or 500GB. Because that much storage on a flash card is extremely expensive. Have you seen the price of a 250 gb sd card? Wait...you haven't? They don't make them you say. hmmm. I wonder why.
A modern smartphone could easily hold far more memory than it does today, the only reason they don't is the relentless drive for making them smaller and thinner, a drive for which there is basically neither point nor purpose.
Today I can get a 64 GB microSD card or Flash Drive for under $50....
And yet Apple charges $100 for 16 GB....a price that hasn't moved one inch since 2007, despite the fact that price of memory has dropped dramatically in the mean time.
In 2007, a 250 MB flash drive cost $20.....today, I can get 32 GB for the same cost, and the drives are the exact same size. This is more th...
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MS Office isn't even fully integrated into the Windows 8 Metro interface, which I think speaks volumes about how terrible Windows 8 is. If you're already compromising on that front, QuickOffice or Google Drive for Android or iWork for iOS offer a much better exp...
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