I mean, my last post was about the 2012 baseball playoffs. That’s over a year ago. In the intervening time, we’ve had a playoff year by the Skins; the end of the hockey lockout, followed by a short season in which the Caps started slow and finished strong; another Wizards season (noting to really talk about here); another whole baseball season (The Nats, while achieving another winning season, “disappointed” in their follow-up to last year’s great run); the disappointing start (halfway through) of another Skins season; a Caps season that started a little slow but has been picking up steam; and the beginning of a Wizards season that looks like they can find ways to compete. So a lot has happened, at least in the sports world.
In other news, I’ve also upgraded my tablet to an ASUS TF700 and have passed the TF301 on to my wife, who wanted a bigger tablet than her Nook. I continue to use my tablet every day, frankly much to my surprise. It’s very convenient for the simple Internet tasks that seem to pop up many times a day, and it’s great for reading books, magazines and manga. It hasn’t caused me to stop buying actual books in favor of eBooks, but I have upped my use of eBooks because of it.
It definitely hasn’t replaced my computer, though, and after using one for over a year, I’ve retrenched my position that people who think that these things really are replacements for desktops and laptops are either crazy or don’t seriously use computers. Like I said above, these things are great for any number of small tasks that you do several times a day, so there’s definitely a place for them and they can probably provide all of the functionality that a light user needs. However, beyond my purely professional needs, I can’t ever see a tablet replacing my computer.
Let me know what you think.