The
Best laid schemes o’ mice and men
Gang
aft agley
An’
lea’e us nought but grief and pain,
For
promised joy!
Burns,
To a Mouse
It
seems that with the dust settling after the successful launch of the Apple iPad
2 on Wednesday March 2nd 2011AD, Apple iPad Day, a few feathers
have been ruffled in various camps. This as PC makers, startled by the success
of the USA$999 Apple MacBook Air as chronicled in the Geezam Blog article entitled “MacBook Air and
FLASH-based Harddrives - The Quest for Instant On”, have yet to
begin to really respond.
This
product, originally debut in 2008 with a 64GB
SSD and a hefty US$3000 price tag, has apparently become a gift from the Tech
Gods to the regular Joe, with the dramatic price drop to the affordable US$999.
Respond
they must, to the coming onslaught of SSD (Solid State Drives) that the Apple
iPad and Tablets circus are now making popular and affordable that has the
potential to make them extinct as originally opined by a slew of articles so
numerous I have to put them in a numbered list:
1.
“Tablets will
displace PC units; Time to pick winners and losers”, published
November 29, 2010, 8:24am PST By Larry Dignan, Between the Lines - ZDNET
2.
“Gartner: Tablets, Economy
Taking Bite out of PC Sales”, published November 29, 2010 by PC Magazine
3.
“Tablets taking a
bite out of PC sales: Gartner”, published November 29, 2010 by AFP
4.
“Watch out, PC:
The Tablet cometh”, published November 29, 2010 by Ben Patterson,
Technology Writer, Yahoo! News
All
pointing to research by analyst Gartner, who appears to be on point for the
analysts in Silicon Valley!
It has also made the PC Makers such as Dell take note: people
demand better battery Life from their gadgets as opined in my blog article
entitled “Dell Inspiron
Duo and Solid State Drives - Charles Darwin and the Survival of the Fittest”
which can be achieved using SSD (Solid State Drives.
Thus
aside from my opinion, it is now heartening to see evidence now emerging in the
news of the acknowledgement of the PC and Laptop Makers such as Hewlett Packard
and Dell of the equation made famous in my blog articles: SSD’s =
Lower operating temperatures + better performance at lower processor speeds.
In
the article by CNET Blog Network Writer Brooke Crothers entitled “Laptops play
catch up to the iPad, Xoom”, published March 5, 2011 7:12 PM
PST by Brooke Crothers, Nanotech - The Circuits
Blog, CNET News, strong evidence
is presented by Gartner (again on point!) in a Research note released Wednesday
March 3rd, 2011AD, a day after the Apple iPad 2 launch on Wednesday
March 2nd, 2011AD suggesting that the Laptop and PC Market is behind
times as it relates to making Social Networking friendly, Internet-Anywhere
Streaming Media electronics devices.
Gartner
also was the one who highlighted, via mathematical projections, a coming
shortfall in the demand for PC’s in 2011 by about 5.4%, a possible herald to
the coming of the much hyped “Post-PC” era that Laptops were supposed to have
bought into the fore.
Customers,
realizing their power, have (possibly…hopefully?!) apparently chosen to punish
Silicon Valley for its lack of foresight and listening to them, the customer,
by turning up their collective noses at the current PC offerings in the future.
Vox
Populi, Vox Dei, Silicon Valley!
Indeed,
it would appear that this coincidental piece of research may, really, be only
spotting the tip of a larger iceberg of the insatiable demand for quality PC
performance that thus far, only Netbooks, Tablets, e-Readers and anything Apple
Inc made, seem to be able to deliver.
Suddenly,
the center of the universe is no longer the Windows-based machines made by
Dell et al , but Apple Inc, now the number three (3) PC maker
in the world, thanks to a technicality a la Apple iPad. Full
details of my opinions of the success of the Apple iPad 2 and its huge
potential come London Olympics
2012 can be perused in the Geezam Blog
article entitled “Apple iPad 2 -
Dual-Core Easy Skankin'”.
Even
venerable Tech giant Google Inc and the soon-to-debut-in-the Summer-of-2011,
the Google Chrome Cr-48 smartbook is ahead of the curve! Yes, that’s right
folks, the media- shy Google Chrome Cr-48 smartbook made by Acer, Samsung and
Intel for the processor (suggestion: Sandy Bridge and ThunderBolt et al Google?!).
The
Google Chrome Cr-48 smartbook, which apparently was modeled off the older
version Apple MacBook Pro plus SSD and cloud-based Google Chrome OS, are WAY,
WAY ahead of the dunces in the Silicon Valley classroom curve as stated
in my blog article
entitled “Google Chrome OS
and Open Source - Star Wars A New Hope” despite being merely a
rehash of an old idea, that being the NC (Network Computing).
Additional
suggestion for the Google Chrome Cr-48 smartbook: DMFC (Direct Methanol Fuel
Cells) as stated in my blog article
entitled “Chrome OS Cr-48
and the Mobion Fuel Cell Generator - Green Lantern”.
Now
the Apple iPad has brought the focus firmly where it should have been for
years: battery life. Sporting 12.6 hours of battery life while playing full HD
Video, the only Tablet on the market that even holds a candle to the Apple iPad
is the thicker 10” Motorola Xoom, ranging in at second with 9.3 hours of
battery life while playing full HD Video.
So
says CNET Editor Eric Franklin in a battery (pun intended!) of tests that CNET
Labs is now subjecting the various Tablets that are out in the wild as stated
in the article “CNET tests
Tablet Web speed, battery life”, published March 6, 2011 11:59 AM
PST by Eric Franklin, Crave - CNET News.
Hint
to CNET Editor Eric Franklin: please add a column for “weight” and a column for
“accessories” for the Tablet-phoebe, still on the fence as to whether the Apple
iPad can replace their Laptop or PC, a task the “accessories” would accomplish.
This
an opinion I even expressed to a bunch of Shurpower Engineers back in April of
2009, describing a device of similar design to the Apple iPad, effectively my
prediction (or design?) of the future. Ditto for the other Tablets, as their
names sound rather familiar……….hmm.
Expect
this rather short list to get really long by the end of 2011 and leading up to
2012, as the demand for streaming of media content from the London Olympics 2012 will create a
market space for all successful Tablet makers.
For
now, the Apple iPad has that potential space locked. What with its lighter
weight of 1.33lbs, 8.8mm of technology goodness for easier gripping as detailed
in my blog article
entitled “Apple iPad 2 and
the PC Future - Doomsday in the Battlefield”.
Great
for standing and viewing on the bus, in the car to keep the kids occupied; that
sort of “Streaming Anywhere” concept!
Doesn’t
matter if it is over a Telecom Providers 3G or 4G Network or Wi-Fi (IEEE
802.11n), the main thing is the battery life and the weight, as I have been
saying about Laptops and PC for years prior to the launch of the original Apple
iPad.
Plus
with Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n) roaming technology in the wings with research and
testing being conducted by Ruckus Wireless as stated in my blog article
entitled “Telecom
Providers, 4G and Wi-Fi Roaming - Ruckus Wireless and the FireStarter”,
the Network you are on, like the Qualcomm chipset enabled Apple iPad 2, may be
irrelevant in the future.
Looks
like the PC and Laptop Makers have heard the masses, based on the incredible
response to the Apple iPad 2, set to makes it US (and international?) debut on
Friday March 11th 2011.
Heck,
if you bought the First Generation Apple iPad within two (2) weeks of the
launch date, you can get a US$100 refund on your credit card purchase as stated
in the article “Apple cuts
original iPad price”, published Wednesday March 2, 2011 6:03 pm ET
by Molly McHugh, Digital Trends.
Expect a roaring trade-in business prior to Apple iPad Day Part II on Friday
March 11th 2011.
With
no pre-orders before the ominous date, debuting on both Telecom Provider
Verizon, a CDMA Network) and Telecom Provider AT&T (a GSM Network) and
Apple Inc. maintaining the same exact prices as when they launched this PC
Revolution on Saturday April 3rdand Sunday April 4th 2010,
expect too, VERY long lines, even in the cold!
The
PC Makers meanwhile appear Lost in Space
(1998), apparently unwilling stowaways on a journey to find a more
habitable planet to transplant humanity now addicted to the mantra of “better
battery life” and “improved performance” thanks to Apple and it’s usage of
SSD’s.
The
US of A and Internationals are now wanting another bite, The Apple Byte Style
………of the Apple!
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