iPads and desktops, a great combination

Posted by Mauricio Longo in General on Feb 10th, 2010 | 0 comments

For the past week I have considering the future of computing in my home.   I do most of my work on a white MacBook, plugged into a 22 inch display and a MyBook Western Digital 1 TB USB hard drive, while using an Asus 10 inch netbook most of the time when I’m on the go.

As I contemplated getting an iPad, I started to question why would I want a notebook.  It’s not like I prefer to use the notebook’s 13 inch screen… I keep it plugged in to the desktop monitor all the time when I’m home and I settle for the much less powerful Asus EEE PC with a 10 inch display when I’m on the move, so why not trade in the MacBook for a desktop Mac and the EEE PC for the iPad?

This scenario is looking more and more interesting to me as I consider the fact that a MacMini is more powerful and has more storage than my MacBook and it could drive my 22 inch screen just as well.  I don’t even need an iMac as 99% of my work revolves around writing. Either I’m doing books or blogs or a consulting report.  Whatever it is, the MacMini can handle it just fine and the latest models can even drive two monitors.

While I’m sure that an iPad would not cut it for a lot of people, if you add an Apple bluetooth keyboard and that small dock that comes with it, it would even take care of my needs when travelling, while presenting a lighter and quite compact package and a much better battery life than the rather respectable 4 hours my EEE PC affords me.

These thoughts returned to me just now as I stumbled upon an article whose author seems to be having similar thoughts.  Could a successful iPad mean a significant drop in the sales of notebooks and an increase in the sale of desktops?

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